Howdy!
Interested on this thread!!
I'm putting together a media center where I want to store my movies (DVDs and personal movies), musics (around 800 CDs), photos, etc.
I got a 300Gb SATA HDD but it seems I'll need more space.
Anyways... any of you have downloaded your stuff to the computer?
I'm looking not only for good software to rip the DVDs and CDs but also organize them with menus, etc. in my PC. Any recommendations?
The other question regards the interface for my sound system and TV. The motherboard I bought has the optical digital audio out, THX and Dolby 7.1 sound and a PCI Express slot already filled with an ATI board with DVI output. I also got a dual-layer Pioneer DVD burner/reader that will be appropriately hacked to read my disks from other regions.
However, the problem is controlling the stuff. One way is buying a wireless keyboard and mouse. But that will be clumsy in the living room. Other way is getting a box such as D-Link's MediaLounge DSM-520 Wireless HD Media Player. So the next question here is: anybody has it or recommends something else?
And the last but not least question. I currently have Windows XP loaded there but consider seriously to change for Linux. However, despite much more reliable, I heard that Linux can be a pain to configure correctly for heavy media management. Any experience or recommendations here?
Cheers!