Ciccone Youth. Carpet Musics. This blog currently runs on PyBlosxom. It is maintained using the following tools:. I've been interested in something like this for quite a while. Like many people, I've invested a fair amount of time and effort storing audiovisual content on my home computer network.
I have tens soon to be hundreds of gigabytes of legally licensed, mostly music, video, and digital photographs stored on my network. I have media organizing tools on my workstation that I can use to store, categorize, archive, and share this content.
All of these tools are centered around the computer, the "dogital hub", as it were. That happens to be the problem. Watching a movie, listening to music, or viewing digital vacation snapshots on a computer means sitting at a desk, in a straightbacked chair, two feet or so from a small screen and small, cheap computer speakers.
Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy this content while relaxing in a den or family room setting, reclining on a couch or a comfy chair or even in bed, while looking at a large screen and listening via decent speakers? Wouldn't it be great to make use of another paid-for piece of equipment to do this? My thoughts exactly. I already owned a PS2 with a sadly underutilized network adapter , attached to a decent television and an OK stereo in my bedroom.
In practice, it's a flawed but largely worthwhile product that I can recommend, if not unequivocably, to people who already have a PS2 and a lot of digitized media.
Tested configuration GSMP v. The initial setup was pretty simple. The package includes 2 CDs: a server disc for the computer and a client disc for the PS2. The server disc simply contains a zip file which you uncompress on the machine you plan to use as your stream server. You invoke the installer depending on your platform and JVM by double-clicking the installer or running it from the command line. The installer prompts you for a CD Key and an email address, connects to BroadQ's servers, and downloads the latest version of the server application.
BroadQ mails an unlock code for the application to you at this point, so you need to use a real address. This leads into my first concern about the product -- it does a whole lot of "phoning home", connecting back to BroadQ's servers for many functions. More on this later. After you enter the unlock code, the installer sets up the server software, then prompts you to set up a local user account and create network media shares which can be optionally passworded -- I didn't bother.
This setup tool then launches the server software itself. The PS2 client piece requires that you have kb free on a memory card. Presumably this is where your network configuration and any diffs between the CD-based playback software and the current, updated code are stored. On first boot, the software reads your PS2 network settings assuming you already configured the adapter to work previously with your game software from your memory card.
Sure enough, GSMP had no problems talking to the network and quickly showed me a list of available media servers on my LAN I wonder what they're using as a discovery protocol? There was only one, the Mac I'd set up above, but it appears the client can talk to any number of media servers on a given network, which might be fun in a dorm setting. The only real negative in the console setup problem was the boot disc itself, which made the most unpleasant series of noisy seeking noises to emit from my PS2.
It sounds like the console was really struggling to load the disc, which worries me more on this later. Apparently you can import. I didn't have any photos shared yet, so I went directly to the Video and Music option. The next menu presents you with a list of your shares, which you can navigate to using the PS2 controller or the cool little remote Selecting a share causes the software to present you with a list of subdirectories and a filtered list of files based on extension, apparently to choose from.
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