Media Solution #2

Since last time, I have learned a bit more, and refined what I have started.

It turns out that the front USB port on my DVD player can accept any FAT32 formatted volume, including a large HDD. It works pretty well to dump video files onto my 2GB memory stick or the HDD for viewing.

I found a better way to DAAP from linux, even with Apple Lossless. Reading this how-to I found a good way to run mt-daap on Ubuntu without running a frontend like Banshee or Rhythmbox. This way iTunes buffers the stream, as directly playing the files over the network in the previous setup wirelessly was skippy too often. Only part that threw me off was configuring the firewall in Ubuntu. I am now using Firestarter, but even when I configure it to what seems to be correctly, it only lets avahi (bonjour) broadcast over my LAN if the firewall is completely off.

Maybe someone has a suggestion?