You can access 'LMCE media' from a windows box, but you woun't get the UI (atleast not yet).
You could use mediaportal or something like that for that particular box.

Thanks. I understand I can access my media from whatever computer on the netowrk, regardless of the OS. However, I'm interested in keeping the features of LMCE, especially the central media info database. My interest would be more for audio both on the computer or to sync my IPod with my latest podcasts. Any chance such a feature will come? 

Thanks to both of you. This Nokia N800 is indeed the solution. It's cheaper than touch screen and mobile. perfect.

Thanks for this comprehensive information.
The more time I spend on this forum, the more I want to switch to LMCE.

I have been using a diskless MD as my day to day computer for a couple months now.
Just select kde desktop from menu, You have a full kubuntu desktop complete with web browsing open office and can pretty much install anything that runs on linux.

Great... Unfortunately not everything run on Linux. For instance, I'm using google sketchup a lot and it's only window or mac. Too bad:I still need a direct access to my media from a windows PC.

Hi,
I have a vaguely related question:
I have a number of PCs on my boat network (mostly Linux, a couple XP Pro & Pocket PC). I need to run other applications on them such as office tools, engineering apps & navigation software, etc. I would like to be able to launch a MCE client application (similar to Mythfrontend) that can run alongside my other apps. Is this likely to be possible in the near future? It would really be a hassle to have to re-boot into a Kubuntu MCE environment just to access my media - then back to Ubuntu or XP for everything else.

Thanks in advance for your wisdom!

Thanks Labview_guy. It is indeed one of my other concern with LMCE. Indeed, my day-to-day desktop and laptop are WinXP-based and will stay so for various reasons. I still want to be able to get straightforward access to all my media from my server though. Is there a LMCE front end available for XP? It is not clear to me.

Regarding network booting: my mistake. I though it was the cause of the slow booting. The good news is that since LMCE can boot from the HD, I can use my old MB to build a MD and not worry about not shutting it down every night. Just have to find the right graphic card... and the right case.

Regarding hardware encoding, I will need more information to understand what is possible. Any advice welcome.

Thanks to all for your input.

As I leave between Europe and the US, I have DVDs from the two regions. I want to be able to read both on my HTPC. The simplest way is to have two DVD drives, one for each region. However, there are under MSWindows some applications that allow reading multiple region DVDs with one drive. Is there any similar applications with Linux and, if yes, how does this fit with LMCE?
Thanks

Hi,

Well if you add the 'Libdvdcss' add on software when you install LinuxMCE then you can happily play DVD from any region without needing two region locked drives in your system.

Andrew

Great. This is the information I was looking for. One last question though. For this to work, does that mean that the DVD should not already be locked, i.e. before the fifth change of region code? Or is it indifferent to the region coding of the DVD drive?
Other question: does this app require additional CPU resource?

Thanks again.

This is too bad. I would like to use a small touch screen on the MD to avoid having to switch on the plasma just to get access to music or radio. Any idea whether this feature is planned for addition?

As I leave between Europe and the US, I have DVDs from the two regions. I want to be able to read both on my HTPC. The simplest way is to have two DVD drives, one for each region. However, there are under MSWindows some applications that allow reading multiple region DVDs with one drive. Is there any similar applications with Linux and, if yes, how does this fit with LMCE?
Thanks

I want to test LMCE as it looks great on paper. However I am a Linux newbie and I want to use my old system. (see title)
I am not sure how best to use it.

For a MD, it could be OK with the right graphic card... but for network booting. Actually, i'm not sure about the point of going diskless. Fine for new MBs (provided we never shut the MD down not to loose too much time booting) but bad for old ones or old laptops (I want to use my old one in the kitchen to watch news, listen to radio or read emails). I hope regular HD booting will be available pretty soon. (I have an old 4GB HD to use!)

For the core, I am not sure. the problem, if I understand well, is with video encoding. Is all encoding made on the core? What about if one has a good tuner card with hardwired encoding? This should limit the load on the CPU.

I will be happy to hear any advice on those.

Thanks

This hibernation feature seems essential to me. No reason to waste money and energy if we can do without.

Hi - I am new to linuxmce and am starting to learn more about it.  Before I found Linuxmce I came across an interesting approach to Internet TV: Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/). 

I'm not quite sure what the long term strategy is for Linuxmce (is it meant to replace DVD players, cable boxes, my alarm system box, all of the above) but I thought an interesting strategy would be to support some form of Internet TV.  This would differentiate LinuxMCE from all the other things I've seen because it could do all the things it does now and provide a platform to watch Internet TV on my big screen. 

(I'm not a developer so I can't do this myself

I fully second this. I use Miro on my current desktop to catchup on news and this is a great feature. I hope LMCE will support it very soon.

I really think that it is the way to go. For me to turn to LinuxMCE, the core should also serve for file/printer/resource sharing as well as backups.
What are teh current limitations of LinuxMCE on this front?