Hi guys.

Planning to make a XBMC + NAS (one or separate solution) for my new home. Most probably will go for RPi for XBMC and my old PC for NAS.

Any idea on how's the performance of RPi XBMC streaming 1080p from a NAS?

That is what I am planning to do. But can we implement some sort of a raid setup using RPi? I doubt it as you can only attached a USB storage device on the one and only USB port provided on the RPi. Unless there's a way of doing a raid on RPi, a NAS server made out of a PC is required. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Yeah. I checked a few online discussion regarding RPi NAS. The best thing about RPi NAS is that it consumes very little amount of power. Some even say USD 5 per year. But the worse thing about RPi NAS is the capability of making a NAS Raid, due to the reason you gave above.

Most probably I'll go for 2 RPi with one as a Single HD NAS RPi for the time being. Then when I have enough budget, I'll go for a Green NAS setup. Gotta keep the electricity bill low. Haha

Old PC can support 1080p media streaming? IIRC, my GC is NVidia 9600GT

Nope. My 9600GT doesn't have HDMI port at the back. Probably can use converter no?

That's too slow

Do you have the link where to buy the new model B+ with that 4 usb ports? And do your RPi also served as NAS? How good is the r/w speed?

~answered already

This post has been edited by alien9: Nov 17 2014, 11:21 AM

Hi, I'm using MediaElch to scrape my movie. Is it normal that it took quite a while to complete scraping one movie? And there are some movies that unable to download the poster, and even if I download it manually, it just failed.

Guys, correct me if I'm wrong here. One Live TV m3u for example B.B.T.S. requires its own PVR client. If I want to add Malaysia Channel m3u, I would need to use another PVR Client. Kinda weird no?

p/s: I'm testing out BBTS IPTV Simple Client

This post has been edited by alien9: Nov 18 2014, 05:17 PM

What I've read is that you can only put one livetv m3u in one IPTV Simple Client. Somehow a good news is that you can add another IPTV Simple Client dubbed IPTV Simple Client 2

Guys, I have a question here. I'm using MediaElch as my movie scrapper. So in Kodi, I would choose a folder as type movie and local information scrapper and it will read all my movies in that folder along with the Arts.

Sometimes, a movie failed to be scrapped properly by MediaElch making it have empty art when browsing the movie. What's the easiest way for me to make Kodi to reload to movie + the arts?

What I've did is
1. Change the content of the folder to none and clean the library.
2. Re-set the folder as type movie and load all the movie back.

These are the recommended steps I've found and honestly it is a bit too much

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Found the answer.

Refresh individually
Select the item in file view and either press I on the keyboard, or bring up the contextual menu (press C).
Select "Movie information" or "TV show information".
Then select "Refresh".
When refreshing individually you can also choose to just refresh or manually select images for various views (cover art, fanart, thumbnails, etc).


This post has been edited by alien9: Nov 26 2014, 08:10 PM

Do share if you are able to create your Media Center with low power consumption capability with me ya!