So I’m going to try my hand at writing a tutorial series. I’ve done some small things before but this one will span 7 or more posts. See how you like it.
If you’re like me, and you have a huge collection of DVDs, you don’t want to have to keep finding the DVD you want to watch each time you feel like watching a flick. You also don’t want the kids to have to keep putting them in and out of the player and risk scratching them up. You can easily convert your movies to a digital format and store them on your computer, which is great, but then how do you organize them and view them on your big screen TV?
Enter XBMC…
(So as not to have this post be many pages long, I will be breaking this up into a bunch of smaller posts. One will post each day. Read them all in order, or skip ahead to just an area you are having trouble with.)
So what is XBMC?
Originally made for the first generation Xbox, XBMC stood for XBox Media Center. These days XBMC can run on the old Xbox, a PC, Raspberry Pi, Apple TV, Linux, and more. It gives you a fantastic interface for viewing your digital movies, TV shows, pictures, etc right on your TV or computer. It can be used with a remote control or with a keyboard and mouse. It also supports hundreds of add-ons to further enhance the power of the system.
And best of all, it’s TOTALLY FREE!
Helpful Links
Main Page: http://www.xbmc.org
Wiki Page: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Support Forum: http://forum.xbmc.org
There are many walkthroughs and guides for installing XBMC that you can find on Youtube and other places. In the next few posts, I’m going to go through a high level overview of how XBMC works and some things you can do with it.
Here is a pretty nice Overview video that shows a lot of the various parts of XBMC:
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