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Improved support for H.264 videos on some renderers.Improved detection of Windows Media Player.

Added support for Samsung F5900 Blu-ray Disc players.Added support for Panasonic SC-BTT Blu-ray Disc Home Theater Sound Systems.Fixed special characters in folder names not displaying correctly.Fontconfig caches are not generated if subtitles are disabled.Re-added 'Force default renderer' option to the GUI.Increased speed of FFmpeg transcoding to H.264.Ubuntu is certainly worth a try if you have a spare PC lying around.

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The most common newbie problems with Linux is with the graphics card, and most of these problems are associated with proprietary drivers, so it is worth using the open source drivers (with only 2D driver support) if you don't need 3D (as in the case of a media server which is going to be viewed from other machines).įor help, try the Ubuntu documentation and forums If you want to try a wlan card on the supported list then see: WLan is a bit more difficult to configure and certain cards may be unsupported on Linux, so you may want to consider a wireless bridge plugged into the ethernet port rather than a wireless card in the media PC. if there is only one wired ethernet card, then it will be eth0. In the command line to get a list of the network interfaces, and corresponding MAC addresses, and configured IP addresses on your PC. To start the media server program, and then follow the rest of the media server howto.

Then type the following lines one at a time (or copy and paste them into the shell window)įind the file fuppes.cfg on Midnight Commander, click on edit, and edit it as shown on the media server howto link, and click on save. Type the following in the command shell to get a root shell

Get a command line shell using Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal You can then follow the instructions in the media server howto link above.

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In the command line prompt and then type your password to get a root command line, and then type mc. To run mc as root (administrative privileges) you need to type You can get a command line window using Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal and then type mc to get Midnight Commander to run. It is an essential tool for newbies for reading and editing configuration files.

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This will install Midnight Commander which is a text file manager, a command line shell substitute and editor combined. You will get a list, and mark the package mc on the list for installation if it isn't already installed, then click on apply. Once the network is working, click system -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager, and search for a package called mc.

There is a newbie installation guide here:Īfter installing it, click on system -> Administration -> Network, and configure your network card. You can download a Ubuntu 8.04 ISO for the appropriate architecture at and use it to burn a bootable install CD. On cheap PCs with onboard graphics and network card auto-detection usually works flawlessly since they use common hardware.Īnyway, it doesn't cost anything to try. Installing Ubuntu is actually easier than installing Windows, but because the PC does not come preloaded on the hardware, Ubuntu may not auto detect and auto-configure the appropriate drivers in the case of less common hardware. If you want to try Ubuntu as a media server, then rather than buying an expensive new media PC, you should perhaps consider using a redundant existing PC with sufficient hard drive space as a storage device, and view the streamed media on other devices like a PS3, XBox360 or even another PC.

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