VMT...

I have neither the time, inclination, or techinal nouse to mess about installing all that. I literally bought my Chrome Cast at about 1.30 yesterday, and was in the pub by 4:30 having set it all up, and watched an episode of the Killing on Netflix.

It really could not be simpler, no brainer for someone like me who could barely get XBMC to do what I wanted.

Posted By: avid_canary on June 2nd 2014 at 11:48:51

Message Thread

Google Chromecast is fantastic folks. Get one! (n/m) (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 09:20:34
- XBMC is free (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 10:51:34
  - Raspberry Pi not much more than ?30. (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Jun 2, 11:15:24
  - The PC to run XMBC on is considerably > ?30 though. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 10:58:49
    - Raspberrypi is less and better (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 11:07:02
      - Nerd fight....... (General Chat) - usacanary, Jun 2, 12:02:12
      - Oh, Larrald. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 2, 11:13:26
      - lol (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:12:04
        
        Can do loads more with a Raspberry Pi (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 11:55:21
        
        And chromecast just plugs in and takes about 30 minutes to set up from scratch. (n/m) (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 12:04:23
        
        Pi only takes about an hour and it does lots more (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 12:17:49
      - I thought the Raspberry Pi was just a circuit board. (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 2, 11:10:53
        
        Easy........................ (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 12:10:28
        
        ↓ ↓ ↓ is this the start of a wroth heavyweight pens gayoff? (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 2, 11:25:39
        
        He's right about RaspPi being "better". (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:32:22
        
        VMT... (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 11:48:51
        
        Can we talk about boxing again instead? (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Jun 2, 11:32:01
        
        Well, it's a little more than a circuit board. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:18:42
        
        I think Larrald's opinion holds more weight. He's proven himself time and again to .... (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 11:27:13
        
        This is a good point. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:33:19
        
        Install raspbmc (which is really easy from an SD Card) and plug it in (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Jun 2, 11:16:14
        
        Might give that a go. (n/m) (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 2, 11:45:16
        
        Yep (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 11:29:28
        
        He gets his friend Bill Gates to do it for him (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 2, 11:13:57
        
        lol! (n/m) (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 2, 11:19:24
- Im tempted to get one. Can you watch 4od, and ITV player stuff on it? (n/m) (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 2, 10:40:12
  - Nope only IPlayer, it does integrate really well with youtube/iplayer on an iPad though. (n/m) (General Chat) - Meh, Jun 2, 10:54:08
- Other than You Tube and IPlayer what use have you found for it? (General Chat) - Meh, Jun 2, 09:55:41
  - netflix, any videos stored anywhere on a connected pc via... (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 10:34:33
    - For streaming via pc, how do you select and control the programme? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 2, 10:46:43
      - Realplayer Cloud app. Install it on pc and phone, sign in on both and they link. (n/m) (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 10:58:06
        
        There do seem other server typ apps such as Plex, but I just found Real Player Cloud.... (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 11:13:08
        
        Does it allow streaming outside of your LAN, i.e over the Internet? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 2, 11:16:04
        
        Only if you upload files to the cloud. I think Plex does allow external streaming though.. (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 11:24:13
        
        Cheers (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 2, 11:43:49
- Is it like Apple TV? (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jun 2, 09:51:16
  - use mine all the time, great piece of kit (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Jun 2, 10:13:53
- ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jun 2, 09:36:09
  - ? (n/m) (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 10:36:04
  - ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jun 2, 09:36:24
- Google what in the what now? (n/m) (General Chat) - Duck, Jun 2, 09:33:16

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