RE: Movie server

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depends on what your criteria are for your system ... if I was
starting out
myself and I could afford it I'd go for a Kaleidescape.

As a file server the Mac Mini with a load of firewire drives does
exceptionally well as a way of holding data on a network in a format that
is
reasonably rugged, reasonably reliable and easy to expand but don't expect
to just buy one and have an install-and-go solution. I have a few bits of
code that I run on the Mac to make it present stuff to the outside world as
I want it to and I also have a little front end GUI that I ended up writing
on the PC for the movies because all the ones I tried that I'd downloaded
were too complex, too demanding of resources, too slow or some combination
thereof.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Chris Hunter
> Sent: 03 September 2007 10:21
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Movie server
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> Phil -
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> your set-up seems to work pretty well ... if you were starting out
> today, what would you go-for, for say 1000 DVDs worth of material ...
> a 'MiniMac with OSX plus a bank of 1Tb SATA 'drives, I guess ... or
> maybe not ... and what juke-box software would you use to drive the
> selection process & play the movies ... plus, how would you route
it
> around the house ... ??? !
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> Chris
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