![]() ![]() Please remember, I am trying to give people a way to solve their problems for little or no money. Now please before anybody leaves comments saying, ‘a Buffalo NAS will do all that out of the box’, or ‘Windows Home Server does all that seamlessly’. ![]() Just think, instead of that you could take an old computer that you probably have lying around, (or hell come grab one of the many lying around my house) and use it to solve all those issues in one fail sweep. Like going to those crappy low def DVDs you get from Red Box. That works, but what happens when that device fills up? How long does it take to copy the media from one device to the next? As you can see this could all get to be frustrating and time-consuming and might even drive you to do something stupid. Only to find out that you can only watch them on the computer you downloaded them on, or even worse you have to copy them to a USB device and plug that into whatever you want to view it on. You have recently become aware that you can not only download music but movies and TV episodes as well. ![]() I am sure there are many of you facing the same problems as we speak. Now I am gonna explain how to use an old computer to store and serve your multimedia files to any network enabled device on your home network including that media center you just got setup. In my last tutorial I went over how to use an old computer as a Linux media center for home entertainment. Using Linux and old computers to do cool stuff. ![]()
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