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THAT'S WHAT I FUCKING SAID.

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:11, 1 reply, 13 years ago)
You seem like you know what you're doing
but if you want a hand putting a media PC together, drop me a gaz.

Or the rest of the stuff. Home theatre is a hobby of mine.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:12, Reply)
You never offered me any help :(

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:13, Reply)
I didn't need an aneurysm.

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:14, Reply)
I would have bought you some wine and cheese for your trouble

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:16, Reply)
Aneurysms are quite often fatal.
Even if I didn't die, I'd just dribble the wine and cheese right back out of the paralysed side of my mouth.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:17, Reply)
everyone's a winner
I get a super home theatre system, the dog gets to eat some semi masticated cheese off the floor and you can go back to Slough happy that you did a good job.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:19, Reply)
I'm just stuck on what to get as the desktop.
I've my laptop, xbox, tv, amp, record and cd players and that all hooked up together. But I need a decent set of wireless speakers and a computer for all the film and music stuff to stream from. That also needs to go in the study for ladypig to use for work stuff. Nothing strenuous, she's in publishing.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:19, Reply)
You see this is my issue, i want something that does all of these things in one
without the need for lots of wires and shit
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:20, Reply)
Doesn't yet exist, but give it a few months...

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:25, Reply)
what does the word wireless mean in nakersville?

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:26, Reply)
I mean, all together in one box, ready to plug into the electricity, go, movies, music, internet etc
done
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:28, Reply)
media centre pc and an xbox

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:31, Reply)
it seems that a secondary PC is the answer really

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:32, Reply)
"Why haven't you given me as much as the previous time?"

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:29, Reply)
Wireless speakers I'm not so hot on, mine are all cabled hifi speakers.
Your main issue's going to be bandwidth, since you're streaming. Depending on how you've wired it up, your laptop and amp will handle any processing/reproduction.

If Mrs Pig is going to be working on it at the same time, you'll need a decent chunk of RAM. If you're going to be hooking the media PC directly to the amp and running some AV software at the same time, you'll need a lot.

Don't try and stream film over wireless. It won't work.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:25, Reply)
What does RAM do? Genuinely I'm interested

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:26, Reply)
Fucks EWE?

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:28, Reply)
It's basically where your computer puts data it's going to be working on shortly
but not quite yet. It's an intermediate stage between your processor's memory (really fucking quick, but tiny) and the HDD (really fucking slow, but cavernous). The more RAM you have, the more stuff the machine can store there, meaning less time waiting for the HDD and so quicker loading/response times.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:29, Reply)
Got that Nakers?

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:30, Reply)
bit like having a double clutch gearbox

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:30, Reply)

gearbox handbag
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:33, Reply)
No, not really.

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:35, Reply)
oh
What i meant, is it's holding the next gear/bit of data ready to be used so that changes are "instantaneous"
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:36, Reply)
OK, I see what you mean.
That's kind of the idea, yes.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:43, Reply)
\o/
TECH WIZARD!
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:56, Reply)
Its a bit like Vishnu
If you imagine a PC like the hindu god... The CPU is the brain and the RAM is the arms... i.e. the more arms you have, the more tasks you can do.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:49, Reply)
probably not at the same time I'd have thought.
I might just get 2 small units then. One with all my gear and just run my media through the xbox, the other for her indoors.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:30, Reply)
Don't bother with the Xbox, you don't need it.
If you're going to have a PC, use that. Better software available, for one thing.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:31, Reply)
fair,
Is there anything decent on the market that is exclusively designed to run media? If I have 2 units one will just be that, I've got the laptop for surfing on the sofa. I'm sure I could Google all of this though, sorry.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:37, Reply)
I guess this is where tablets come in
you have a big powerful base unit to deal with music and movies and photos etc and small lightweight tablet for interneting on the sofa
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:39, Reply)
Since I discovered you could download comics
I have finally identified a use for a tablet reader.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:40, Reply)
this is the way I'm leaning I think.
One basic unit for the Doris, and something media specialised for me downstairs.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:41, Reply)
If you absolutely have to only have one PC
You can stream from a base unit to the Xbox, but once you see what XBMC can do, you won't want to.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:45, Reply)
What's XBMC?

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:46, Reply)

xbmc.org/about/
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:47, Reply)
It's a front end, basically.
But a very good one. Makes it look like you've got some pro set up in your living room, rather than seeing your anime desktop and a shit load of files. Kind of ironically, it's developed from an XBox platform.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:48, Reply)
hu huh, front end
Can i use it instead of i-tunes? i hate i-tunes
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:52, Reply)
Why does everybody hate iTunes? I've never had a single issue with it.

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:53, Reply)
It once deleted every other song
i have music that will play on i-tunes but not on my ipod, getting rid of duplicates is a fuckin hassle etc etc etc
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:55, Reply)
Can you not just tell iTunes to refresh its library?

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:59, Reply)
i dunno, it has a about a million menus and options
i want it to do 2 things only, play music and put music on my ipod.

I loved my Rio, that had good software
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 17:00, Reply)
I wasn't really asking you a question.

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 17:02, Reply)
I don't think I like you today

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 17:06, Reply)
Haha sorry
I'm working at the same time, so I have game-face on.

I'll have a look at iTunes tonight, if I get time, but I'm pretty sure there's a way of telling it to forget everything and rescan.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 17:08, Reply)
iTunes fingers kids

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:59, Reply)
Software or hardware?
Hardware not really, there are a few "media" PCs knocking around, but they're just standard components in a pretty case. You don't really need any particularly advanced gear to run media. A graphics card with an HDMI out is nice, but not essential. A soundcard with a COAX and/or TOSLINK outs for 5.1 sound (otherwise you have to fuck about with the multiple analogue jacks on the card, which is shit), both for flexibility's sake.

Software-wise, XBMC is the best I've found so far.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:41, Reply)
cool.
I'll have a shop about. You cool if I gaz you questions if any come up? I know the basics, and should be alright, but you seem to know your shit.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:43, Reply)
Yeah, no worries.
Happy to help.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:46, Reply)
:(

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:48, Reply)
ANEURYSM
I can feel one building just looking at you.
(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:50, Reply)
:((((((

(, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:52, Reply)

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