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On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:02:38 +0000, Richard Brown <wildwoodslosty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Guys > > I now have the HP running with Ubuntu Desktop. I now need to configure it > to allow me to connect to it to run movies and view photos. Would I do this > using ssh or some other way please? Also when I connect a photo card is it > possible to Ubuntu to automatically pull in the photos to a particular > location and store by date please? > > Many thanks While I'm not sure about the photo card (IIRC udev can detect the insertion of a card and run commands), I can possibly give a couple of suggestions on the video bits. When you say you want to connect to it? Do you mean you want to connect from a remote machine or view anything on the Microserver itself? My Microserver runs Debian and has an NVidia Gefore 210 card in it (was about 25 quid) which fits in the low profile PCI Express slot which is connected to my TV via HDMI. I've got a basic install of X which I can then run XBMC on for playing videos and viewing photos on the TV. XBMC supports uPNP so devices like the PS3 (and I think XBOX360) can access the server and pick up media. Other than that I've configured a couple of Samba shares to share the media across the network (mainly for other XBMC installations, it works reasonably well on a Raspberry Pi). Our two Nook HD tablets are running XBMC (13 Alpha 11) too (only just looked at it on Android this weekend). You'll not find it in the Play Store but you can side-load the app if you download it and have other sources enabled (I gather it works on phones too but I've not tried it, I think the screen would be a bit too small for my liking, 7 inches is about the smallest I can see without squinting). They too can pick up the Samba shares on the server and play videos and music. I've also now got SuperSonic (a fork of Subsonic) installed on the server which can stream music (FLAC, OGG, MP3 etc) and video too our Android phones. It will even do it over the Internet too (well the music streaming works, not tried video streaming over the Internet). It means I can rip all my CDs to FLAC format and access them from my phone (or the kids can access it from their phones) and it transcodes into MP3 on the fly and streams and caches on the phone. Also works for video on the tablet too, transcoding into FLV format and playing in XBMC. For Android I've been using the client DSub. I gather that there are various clients for other phones too (IOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone) and it also has a built in web client/player. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq