A couple months back I upgraded my HTPC from 19 to 21. As things were, my HTPC was standalone used primarily to play music. I found JRiver's TV functionality to be greatly improved in version 21 and began recording OTA movies way past my bedtime.
One day, I wanted to play a movie in another room on our big TV. Rather then copying the movie, as I had done in the past, I installed JRiver on an old netbook with a atom processor. I fired up the library manger, unlike in the past, I paid attention and selected the library on the main htpc in the other room. Low and behold everything works flawlessly. Best of all, any tag maintenance done on the HTPC is automatically reflected on the netbook. Good Job guys!
I have a couple questions about my setup:
1) Is there any trans-coding going on between my two systems; is dlna involved in anyway? I am particularly worried about my flac (redbook) music files NOT being trans-coded.
2) Since the netbook is so underpowered, can I expect a cheap of cheap NUC to deliver the same performance? Specifically, Dell sells a NUC size box with win10 installed for under $200. I'm thinking it would make a great JRiver client.
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-3050-micro-desktop/pd.aspx
