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XBMC and NV+ question.
Hi all, I know from reading this forum that the NV+ cannot handle Plex. But can it handle XBMC? Right now I am using the NV+ to serve up videos to my xbox 360 over DLNA. However this is not a ...
you have it quite backwards.
its smb for which xmbc will 'scrape' metadata for, not dlna.
in xmbc, add a source to the smb network media share (or wherever your media is stored), choose a tv or movie scraper as applicable have xbmc scan the media to its library.
You will of course need to have your media organized in matter which xbmc scan scrape if you want proper metadata.
More information regarding that can be found on the xbmc website.
as far as dlna, while the readynas can serve your media via dlna, it will not have all the extra metadata that doing it by smb and xbmc's media library will provide.
For what is worth, I have running xbmc both on an apple tv1, an appletv 2, and several pc's and laptops, all connecting to my shared media collection on readynas's via smb.
while it may have some other uses, dlna is pointless for xbmc, in my opinion.
its smb for which xmbc will 'scrape' metadata for, not dlna.
in xmbc, add a source to the smb network media share (or wherever your media is stored), choose a tv or movie scraper as applicable have xbmc scan the media to its library.
You will of course need to have your media organized in matter which xbmc scan scrape if you want proper metadata.
More information regarding that can be found on the xbmc website.
as far as dlna, while the readynas can serve your media via dlna, it will not have all the extra metadata that doing it by smb and xbmc's media library will provide.
For what is worth, I have running xbmc both on an apple tv1, an appletv 2, and several pc's and laptops, all connecting to my shared media collection on readynas's via smb.
while it may have some other uses, dlna is pointless for xbmc, in my opinion.
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