BYOB Episode 17 Out Now

The guys over at BYOB, including our very own Tim Daleo, have just released the BYOB podcast, episode number 17.

Here is what they say about this weeks show:

This week on BYOB is all about media streaming. The BYOB crew along with special guest John Zajdler, from The Home Server Show, discuss all types of media playback devices from HTPCs, streaming boxes, OTA, the cable/satellite dilemma and more.  We also have a brief discussion various file formats and containers.

MEDIA APPLIANCE/DEVICES

Roku
http://www.roku.com/

WDTV Live +
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=832

Apple TV
http://www.apple.com/appletv/

Logitech Revue
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/smartTV/revue

Popcorn hour
http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/index.php?pluginoption=catalog

Xbox 360
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/

Sage
http://www.sage.tv/index.html

HTPC BUILDS AND SOFTWARE

Builds

Michael’s HTPC build

Mike’s HTPC

HTPC Software

MediaBrowser Frontend for ripped media

Haali Media Splitter For playback of .mkv container files

Virtual CloneDrive Virtual drive for mounting .iso disk image container files

AnyDVD HD DRM enhancement software

Meta<browser/> for metadata collection

Media Scout for TV metadata collection

hulu Desktop for watching TV shows available through this service and the integration tool to get it into WMC

MyMovies 3 an all in one frontend & backend (client/server) software package.

MICHAEL’S FOLDER STRUCTURE & NAMING CONVENTIONS

I have separate folders in a video share for HD movies, SD movies, and TV Shows. Recorded TV is kept in a separate share. I also have a specific way of naming my files. This aids in both file and folder management, but also helps the metadata scrapers.

This is my HD folder. I keep them in .mkv format and use a this convention \\server\share\Blu Ray\Movie Title – (year)\ActualMovie.mkv

This is my DVD folder. I keep them in .iso format and use a this convention \\server\share\DVD\Movie Title – (year)\ActualMovie.iso

This is my TV Show folder. I keep them in .mkv format and use a this convention \\server\share\TV\Show Title\Season#\Show SxEE – Episode Name.mkv

S=Season# and EE= Episode#

DirecTV whole home DVR service

Here is the link to get the whole home DVR service from DirecTV that Mike, and Michael, are using.

DirecTV Whole-Home DVR

***Update***

There was some debate on the show if would actually stream content from a home server. Tim purchased and tested the Roku box and his final answer is that it would not stream from a WHS or HTPC. Sorry folks!

And as usual you can listen to the show here.