[ale] Streaming video via MediaTomb

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Aug 14 21:38:09 EDT 2013


On 08/14/2013 08:57 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> You want to stream *from* the RPi running XBMC?  That doesn't make 
> sense to me.  The RPi is the perfect device to be connected to your 
> TV.  You can share media over the network using SMB or other file 
> sharing protocols.  The only sticking point might be that the RPi 
> supports h264 encoded video in hardware (so that will decode just 
> fine), but other formats might not.  Maybe it can stream from 
> MediaTomb using a plugin.


No.  I want to stream to the device from my desktop.

It supports MediaTomb and I have that working.

What I'm looking for is a device I can purchase that will work 99% of 
the time.


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