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Mike
I recently gave away a $40 Amazon voucher so now it is time for another HTPC Guides giveaway. One of the benefits of running this blog is I get to test and benchmark sweet new hardware. I already have an Orange Pi Mini for my collection so I am giving away … I'm curious
My previous unRAR and PAR2 benchmarks only included ARM devices. Somebody on reddit requested additional data comparing the devices to more modern and powerful hardware. I have added an old 32-bit machine and a relatively modern 64-bit machine to the tests. Hopefully these tests help you decide if switching to … I'm curious
Plex Media Server can finally run natively on ARMv7 devices. We use the Synology package and make some modifications thanks to uglymagoo on the Plex forum to get it to work. Direct play works beautifully but transcoding is very limited. This guide was tested on the ODROID-C1 but should work on … I'm curious
OpenMediaVault is an excellent NAS software solution. It sports a beautiful web interface to manage all of your services, hard drives, users and more. There is a great plugin system which allows you to install software for usenet, torrent and media management. For the Raspberry Pi 2 there is even … I'm curious
Plex Media Server, the beloved DLNA software for home media servers is finally on the Banana Pi without a chroot. There was a guide referenced which showed you how to install the Plex Media Server package from the Drobo NAS Server in a chroot jail on the Banana Pi. … I'm curious
The awesome Plex Media Server can now finally be installed on the Raspberry Pi 2 without a chroot. The chroot method broke when using upstart scripts and had metadata issues, those are no longer a problem! Using a Synology package compiled for an ARMv7 processor we can use it on … I'm curious
