virtuality
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First of all, the whole HTPC/smart TV/stream boxes topic is a big mess for me. So many approaches, but which one is for me?
Here's my simple use case: I find some interesting videos during the day, I bookmark them, I want to save them for the end of the day to see in digest on the big screen.
Some are HTML5, easy to download (YouTube, Vimeo, etc), some (old media houses in particular, such as the Wall Street Journal) still use Flash, with which I cannot do much on a computer, but they might already offer HTML videos if I pretend I am watching from a mobile device or something.
What's the easy way to I just add the playlist to the HTPC, it fetches and pre-caches the content for me to show on the big screen. Or maybe I have to manually download them, which I can (HTML5 video vs Flash), create a playlist and watch?
I may not need a full blown PC (the name, HTPC), just a mobile device for some tasks. But in the future we will have more servers (maybe they still remain x86/amc64 PCs rather than ARM devices) and clients (mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets) than desktop PCs.
Here's my simple use case: I find some interesting videos during the day, I bookmark them, I want to save them for the end of the day to see in digest on the big screen.
Some are HTML5, easy to download (YouTube, Vimeo, etc), some (old media houses in particular, such as the Wall Street Journal) still use Flash, with which I cannot do much on a computer, but they might already offer HTML videos if I pretend I am watching from a mobile device or something.
What's the easy way to I just add the playlist to the HTPC, it fetches and pre-caches the content for me to show on the big screen. Or maybe I have to manually download them, which I can (HTML5 video vs Flash), create a playlist and watch?
I may not need a full blown PC (the name, HTPC), just a mobile device for some tasks. But in the future we will have more servers (maybe they still remain x86/amc64 PCs rather than ARM devices) and clients (mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets) than desktop PCs.
