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General => Technology & Hardware => Topic started by: swindle on April 17, 2014, 05:06:32 pm

Title: Lets throw some ideas around.
Post by: swindle on April 17, 2014, 05:06:32 pm

Let's say I wanted to mount a PC to the back of my TV. Mostly for playing media, but maybe a little web browsing etc.

Now, we want a silent PC to do this with.

This is cheap, and would work, I assume?

http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview.asp?partid=19636 (http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview.asp?partid=19636)

But then there is something like this, which would be fucking baller.

http://store.apple.com/nz/buy-mac/mac-mini (http://store.apple.com/nz/buy-mac/mac-mini)

Oooor throw me an alternate idea?

EDIT: Or just use a dedicated NAS drive like this? Sure I suffer no web browsing on the TV but media playback should be pretty good?

http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview.asp?partid=19309 (http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview.asp?partid=19309)

Title: Re: Lets throw some ideas around.
Post by: Growler on April 17, 2014, 06:29:52 pm

Apple TV + plex.

and if you have ipad/iphone you get the plex app and it's fucking awesome!

Title: Re: Lets throw some ideas around.
Post by: swindle on April 17, 2014, 07:10:09 pm

Quote from Growler: April 17, 2014, 06:29:52 pm

Apple TV + plex.

and if you have ipad/iphone you get the plex app and it's fucking awesome!

Does the Apple TV need to be jailbroken to work with Plex? I already have Twonky, and that works with everything really well.

Title: Re: Lets throw some ideas around.
Post by: Growler on April 17, 2014, 07:52:50 pm

no, no jail breaking, it's just changing the ips etc, you could for all I know get twonky to work with it too

Title: Re: Lets throw some ideas around.
Post by: Growler on April 17, 2014, 07:54:09 pm

twonky says it supports ATV

http://twonky.com/devices/ (http://twonky.com/devices/)

Title: Re: Lets throw some ideas around.
Post by: Growler on April 17, 2014, 07:57:30 pm

so how I do it on my ATV + plex is, I have the plex server running on my PC etc.

turn on ATV, open plex app on my ipad, browse my metric fuckton of shows n movies, click what i want and it airplays to the TV, use ipad for whatever I like while it's playing.

I do not know if twonky works the same, but I imagine it would be similar, I can't see it tying the ipad up for the duration of the show/movie.

It really is fucking awesome, ATV has constant support with iOS etc, and plex has constant rolling updates!

Title: Re: Lets throw some ideas around.
Post by: Growler on April 17, 2014, 08:01:26 pm

It reads like it's sort of the same as plex, you change the ATV dns ip to your twonky server and run a connect script that catches it.

Title: Re: Lets throw some ideas around.
Post by: Growler on April 17, 2014, 08:01:39 pm

STRIVE FOR FIVE!