Old 'newbie' needs advice...

[bilbat 0]

I was using Media Browser half a decade ago - with mixed success. I have a dedicated 'kick-booty' HTPC (ssd boot drive, two Hauppauge 2250's, Silicon Dust networked tuners in both ATSC and CableCard flavors, 4Tb of RAID'd recording storage) for my elderly TV-addicted father, an Xbox 360 in his bedroom for a satellite source, and watch TV on my four screen engineering workstation - and have a fourteen TB Windows Home Server with roughly eleven hundred movies on it, as well as a large number of entire TV series...  My problem is that y'all didn't see fit to do the server software to accommodate the original (XP tech-based) home server!  There are a number of reasons I wasn't, and am still not willing to stray from the original WHS - pretty much the same reasons a quarter of commercial users are still on Xp: it "akes a lickin' 'n keeps on tickin'!"  The drive dupe stuff is done without messing with RAID; the backup stuff just works; and I'm not sure how, in any case, to switch OS without putting my data at risk... As an aside, I'm a manic-depressive, and recently did some prison time due to actions in a psychotic fugue state - and for twenty-seven months the server never missed a tick - or a backup of the three other machines in the house!

My question is this: can I use another 7 machine here (My dad's - doesn't get much use, has huge icons & text, but could be purposed to run 24/7...), map the movie & TV shares from my server to it, and run the server that way? Or, alternatively, could I somehow get source for the server & try to coax it on my own to run under XP so I could run it on my server? Or, barring the first two, can someone make available to me the last (&, assumedly best functioning version of the old architecture Media Browser (I have a couple purchased keys for it) to do things the 'old way', and hope for the best??

 

Thanks, anyway, for anyone's kind attention - I know I ask a lot;)

 

 

Bill Bathke

(bilbat) 

 

 

 

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[knuta 16]

There should be no problems storing the data on the WHS machine and running Emby server on the 7 machine. Is the HTPC and the 7 machine one and the same? If not it could run on the HTPC too if that is on 24/7.

 

Don't need to map the drives either. Can add sources using UNC path. E.g. "\\WHS\MEDIA\MOVIES"  

Edited June 13, 2015 by knuta

[bilbat 0]

Ahhh!

 

You are BRILLIANT! Never occurred to me to run client & server on one system:

 

- the HTPC is on 24/7 - my dad is technologically cursed, if there's some ultimately destructive function that can only be called up by win/alt/shift'B', he could toss his wallet accidentally onto the keyboard and get that very combination - if the HTPC is never downed, all he has to know to get TV in the morning is to grab the TV (NOT the htpc) remote, and push ONLY the orange "ON' button, it prevents endless difficulties...

 

-the HTPC has lots of excess horsepower, has 8 gig of RAM, 4 cores, and, should I need more, it's the ONLY system in the house that's not currently OC'd...

 

-the only real 'traffic' on my net is the tuner stuff - the backups all happen at two in the morning...

 

I'll probably do a 'run thru' install on my Dad's system, just to familiarize myself - and then stay up one night in the near future to move it to the HTPC - he's, as I said, an addict, and if I have the HTPC down for any amount of time (as I've tried to explain to him endlessly!) the Xbox link in his bedroom is obviously down, too.

 

Any pointers I should know about when running client & server on same system??

 

Thank you beyond description

Bill

[knuta 16]

I can't think of anything special you need to know about running client and server on the same machine. I've done both and it makes no difference to the client application :-)

 

Which client do you plan on trying/using? If you guys only consume local files and not live tv I would recommend Kodi at this point, since Emby Home Theater is a work in progress. You should be able to serve at least DLNA to the xbox from Emby server.

[bilbat 0]

Both of my systems are running Windows Media Center...

[knuta 16]

If you are satisfied with that client you should of course keep using it :-)