- Dec 20, 2000
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My HTPC hardware is about ten years old. (An ATI 780G based motherboard with ddr2 ram, it will decode about any 1080P content so it's ok)
I used to run SageTV and DVR everything with my Nvidia DualTV capture card and a HDHomerun.
More recently it has been running Win7 with Kodi to watch ripped movies.
AfterI got netflix I setup my logitech remote to switch to WMC with a button press...just for netflix.
The past couple of years i've been having issues. the hard drives would sometimes disappear from the bios. bootldr messages, things like that. A few months ago we got a fireTV stick and have been using that for everything. With kids we mostly watch netflix/ amazon prime.
Sometimes I would get asked about the movies I had ripped on the HTPC, it annoyed me it wouldn't reliably work. I can't afford to get new hardware at this time though.
I put OpenELEC on an old 4GB thumb drive and told the HTPC to boot from that...AMAZING. It plays ALL my movies. It has samba setup properly so I can see my drives on the network. Yes I don't think my blu-ray drive will work but it's been years since I used that anyways.
It's really nice when something....just works.
I just thought I'd share my thoughts. If you are thinking of trying it. grab 2 thumb drives and put the installer on and and then reboot and install it on the second thumb drive.
I used to run SageTV and DVR everything with my Nvidia DualTV capture card and a HDHomerun.
More recently it has been running Win7 with Kodi to watch ripped movies.
AfterI got netflix I setup my logitech remote to switch to WMC with a button press...just for netflix.
The past couple of years i've been having issues. the hard drives would sometimes disappear from the bios. bootldr messages, things like that. A few months ago we got a fireTV stick and have been using that for everything. With kids we mostly watch netflix/ amazon prime.
Sometimes I would get asked about the movies I had ripped on the HTPC, it annoyed me it wouldn't reliably work. I can't afford to get new hardware at this time though.
I put OpenELEC on an old 4GB thumb drive and told the HTPC to boot from that...AMAZING. It plays ALL my movies. It has samba setup properly so I can see my drives on the network. Yes I don't think my blu-ray drive will work but it's been years since I used that anyways.
It's really nice when something....just works.
I just thought I'd share my thoughts. If you are thinking of trying it. grab 2 thumb drives and put the installer on and and then reboot and install it on the second thumb drive.