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Originally Posted by brainanator
Brian, I think I like the looks of that TV live. I would probably run my media HDD plugged directly to it. Though there is a different one with 1TB integrated, will have to look at that a little closer.
For the streaming from a PC on the network, do you just have to share the folder to allow the TV Live to access it? This is how I had my old school xbox (soft moddded) to run back in the day, would be neat to have a similar setup again.
Thanks!
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Yeah, the WD TV
Hub has the internal drive, and is a bit larger and more expensive. IIRC, it's only 1TB of space, so it should be fine if all your media will fit (which is around 200 standard DVDs). If not, then maybe the regular WD TV Live with an external 2TB or 3TB drive would be a better choice (but I would look online to make sure the device works with that size drive first, and you'll have to format it as GPT to be able to see the full drive amount if it's a 3TB or higher drive).
For the WD TV Live to access content from another computer, it's just a matter of sharing it via a Windows or Linux share. Usually, it's just a matter of sharing the folder either with a user/password combo, or just allow the "everyone" user group access to that shared folder.
However, you might want to think a little about security and who will be using it. For instance, my family also uses these devices on other computers/devices, so I set the shared folders so that the "everyone" user has read and write access - but
NOT delete access (requires the use of the "special permissions") - to the media files. This allows devices/anyone to read the media files and any devices to store their specific media library meta files, but does NOT allow anything other than the server's admin account to delete media files.
So, while the TV Live is pretty easy to set up for basic setups, it can get a little complicated when you start looking into the more advanced stuff.
