[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
Differences
This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
Both sides previous revisionPrevious revisionNext revision | Previous revision | ||
howtos:multimedia:htpc [2012/10/29 00:33 (UTC)] – Fixed the tags, formatting, missing links etc. This should also fix that "start" page alienbob | howtos:multimedia:htpc [2016/07/18 23:55 (UTC)] (current) – updated for kodi klaatu | ||
---|---|---|---|
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
- | <!-- Add your text below. We strongly advise to start with a Headline (see button | + | <!-- Reviewed 2013-10-16 by mfillpot --> |
- | ====== Build A Slackware Mediacenter (HTPC) With XBMC ====== | + | <!-- Reviewed 2013-01-23 by hazel --> |
+ | <!-- Add your text below. We strongly advise to start with a Headline (see butto | ||
+ | n bar above). --> | ||
+ | ====== | ||
====== My Situation ====== | ====== My Situation ====== | ||
- | I wanted a **stand alone** media center and everything pointed to XBMC. I tried the various LiveCD versions of XBMC but each had problems that either | + | I wanted a **stand alone** media center and everything pointed to XBMC. I tried |
+ | the various LiveCD versions of XBMC but each had problems that either | ||
+ | the system | ||
+ | lackware | ||
====== Here's What I Did ====== | ====== Here's What I Did ====== | ||
- | - Install Slackware | + | - Install Slackware. Optionally, use an old PC; you might be surprised at how powerful even an older PC can be for media playback. |
- | - Set the default windows manager to TWM. | + | - Install [[https:// |
- | - Create user xbmc and login as user xbmc. | + | - To keep the install as light as possible, use a lightweight GUI environment. You probably don't need a traditional desktop; copy ''/ |
- | - Copy ''/ | + | - Create a user named '' |
- | - Edit '' | + | - Edit '' |
/ | / | ||
/ | / | ||
Line 18: | Line 24: | ||
/ | / | ||
exec / | exec / | ||
- | </ | + | </ |
/ | / | ||
#/ | #/ | ||
Line 26: | Line 32: | ||
exec / | exec / | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | | + | - Edit / |
- | - Install FFMPEG, XBMC and their dependencies via [[http:// | + | |
- | | + | After you reboot the machine, it should boot right into kodi, and you should have |
- | sudo -u xbmc startx | + | a working media center/ |
- | </ | + | |
- | After you reboot the machine, it should boot right into XBMC and you should have a working media center/ | ||
====== Some Other Things to Configure ===== | ====== Some Other Things to Configure ===== | ||
- | If you keep your media files on other machines and they are accessible via Samba or NFS, make sure you: | + | If you keep your media files on other machines and they are accessible via Samba |
+ | or NFS, make sure you enable file sharing: | ||
* To enable Samba file sharing: < | * To enable Samba file sharing: < | ||
Line 45: | Line 50: | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | For NFS, you'll have to do some other configuration but all that is explained in the [[howtos: | + | For NFS, you'll have to do some other configuration but all that is explained in |
+ | the [[howtos: | ||