Completely new, Need some help

[David 4 Pet Minded]

I don't know how but My Media ended up in my Channel list today. I
have read some about your system and I am excited to set this up so I
can play video from my own network to the Roku.

My questions are more about the system requirements of the PC that you
need to have Python running on. I have plenty of old boxes that I
could build up and set as a dedicated media server. But they are old,
you know old, as in old?

Next question, we all know system requirements just 'get you by'. What
would I really need (hardware) to get this done considering my tight
budget?

Last question, would it be ok to run this on a system that is not a
dedicated server? My better hardware is used in our more day-to-day
machines for our home business and my strongest PC's are laptops.

Woof!

[Brian Taylor]

If by old you mean pentium 2 or better (anything in the 2000's) then I'd say you're good to go. The demands of My Media are very minimal. Mine has been running for 2 months with no reboots on my linux desktop that I use for everything. It's taking up 14 megs of ram and only uses the CPU when somebody starts playing something on the roku (and then it uses very little CPU.) I've run my media just as well on my netbook.

My Media requires so little power that it wouldn't really know what to do with more power. I'd say any computer made in 2000 will give it everything it wants. The only real requirement is that the computer have access to enough drive space (locally or remotely) to store your music/video collection.

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[David 4 Pet Minded]

I have an old PIII that is a work horse with 768MB of ram, right now
it is running Tiny XP. That will be enough because your linux box I
would have to assume is more efficent then the my PIII Tiny XP box?

Also I guess Im a little confused. So Python is a platform and then
MyMedia run's on top of that, or is Python the OS language that
MyMedia uses? I have note written code since I was in college and that
was on FourTran77!!

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[witmar]

Python is a language that is platform independent akin to Java
MyMedia is written in python so that it works for
everybody(llinux,unix,mac,microsoft etc);

if you are not using the xp portion for anything but running it as an
over sized nas drive, i would switch to linux. Other then power
outages, mine runs 24/7 and have had no problems with it. That is what
i use, you just need to set up the share with samba and you are good
to go.