what are you using to stream your movie media on your big screen???

[saywhat]

I use Plex (a free program on my mac with drobos attached) I also use a roku running plex in other rooms.
Was just curious what others were using to stream and host their media.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Front end client: OpenElec Ion build x64 on Asus Eee Box EB1033
Backend server - custom built Nas running ubuntu server (6.3TB zfs)

 

[panteragstk]

Front end is SageTV for movies and recording TV. Roku for amazon, netflix, other stuff.
Backend is windows 7 server for sagetv duties and a Windows 2012 essentials server for everything else.

 

[adk highlander]

Front end for BR movies: Popcornhour C-200
Backed for movies: Windows Server 2003 RAID 5 8TB

Music Front end: Orange Squeeze (Android app for controlling Logitech Music Server Players)
Music Back end: VortexBox 2.2 running Logitech Music Server 7.7 - 5 zones

 

[Grador]

Back end: acer revo for SMB file sharing and mySQL database

front end(s): [All XBMC]
i7 desktop (ridiculously overpowers, but it was given to me for free) - main TV
shuttle ION2 system - secondary large screen
Nexus Q (hacked to run cyanogenmod) - bedroom
Raspberry Pi - formerly bedroom, now in a closet

 

[Lulimet]

Xbmc on an Intel NUC. Movies and music are on 2 NAS drives.

 

[panteragstk]

Back end: acer revo for SMB file sharing and mySQL database

front end(s): [All XBMC]
i7 desktop (ridiculously overpowers, but it was given to me for free) - main TV
shuttle ION2 system - secondary large screen
Nexus Q (hacked to run cyanogenmod) - bedroom
Raspberry Pi - formerly bedroom, now in a closet

Did you pay full price for the Q?

 

[Adam]

PS3 Media Server (on either my Mac or PC) streaming to my PS3 or (nowadays) my Sony blu-ray player.

 

[Grador]

Did you pay full price for the Q?

Kinda. No one ever paid "full price" for it, but I bought it off ebay for near what full price would have been.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Back end: acer revo for SMB file sharing and mySQL database

front end(s): [All XBMC]
i7 desktop (ridiculously overpowers, but it was given to me for free) - main TV
shuttle ION2 system - secondary large screen
Nexus Q (hacked to run cyanogenmod) - bedroom
Raspberry Pi - formerly bedroom, now in a closet

Me and you gotta talk about xbmc and mySql stuff
I would love to move the library and it's updates back to nas

 

[Mopkins]

I've tried a few different options. Years ago I tried to leverage my Xbox 360 using Media center. This works ok for pics and things like that, but I never had a good experience with streaming full HD Movies. After I purchased a PS3 I started using PS3 media server and that mostly worked well. There were a few stutters here and there and occasionally the movie would freeze. I streamed both over powerline and then directly via ethernet. My most recent move was to upgrade my video card t one with HDMI out and I run it directly to my receiver from my PC. I now use VLC media player and it works wonderfully and plays everything.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I just used an $80 Micca EP250 via Ethernet & HDMI. The menus don't look very nice. They look basic and simple like desktop icons/folders. But I streamed full 40GB BD ISO files from my 30TB NAS perfectly and got 1080p & Dolby TrueHD & DTS-HD MA. It also plays all MKV, MP4, AVI, and every single video format.

The ISO disc menus don't always work. Most of the time it seems to work, but on some movies (Spartacus Season 4) I cannot get the menu at all. So I had to rip just the title, instead of full disc.

But on some BD full disc ISO like Life, Earth Biography, Dave Mathews & Tim Reynolds Live at Radio City Hall, etc., the menus worked fine.

 

[jinjuku]

I have a Windows 7 computer with Radeon 5XXX series. Use MCE with the My Movies Plug-in. Awesome Movie Juke Box.

 

[Ponzio]

Oppo BDP-105 in the main room. Samsung LED TV Smart Hub in the office and Sony LCD TV built-in (?) in the Winter Quarters.

 

[panteragstk]

I have a Windows 7 computer with Radeon 5XXX series. Use MCE with the My Movies Plug-in. Awesome Movie Juke Box.

My movies is a pretty fantastic system. I use it with SageTV. Pretty similar to MCE, but with a bit more customization.

 

[jliedeka]

I recently got UPnP streaming working with my Oppo BDP-93. I'm currently using MediaTomb but also had good luck with Serviio.

Jim

 

[Lulimet]

I streamed full 40GB BD ISO files from my 30TB NAS perfectly and got 1080p & Dolby TrueHD & DTS-HD MA.

That's got more to do with your network connection than anything else. Gigabit network router/switcher will allow you to stream full rip bluray with little CPU power.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

That's got more to do with your network connection than anything else. Gigabit network router/switcher will allow you to stream full rip bluray with little CPU power.

Not quite correct. I streamed full BD ISOs using 100mbs network and unless the video playback is hardware/dsp accelerated, one would need one heck of the CPU - aka for 1080p software decode roughly Core 2 Duo at minimum. But using some sort of hardware acceleration (in my case - nvidia GPU) even my humble atom client can do same job

Same goes for ADTG small client - it has build-in hardware decode of H.264 & Mpeg streams

 

[2WYCE]

Front end: 3 Windows 7 HTPCs running XBMC at 3 locations in the house.
Back end: A Windows 7 machine that presents regular Windows Shares of my content folders, and syncs the XBMC library and states via a mySQL database.

I try Plex like every 3 months because I want to like it, but for some reason I just never have good luck with it...

 

[michaeltrottar]

I use my external device for streaming up the movie for a big screen. I generally use it for iphone to other.