I've been playing around with ushare and GeeXboX for some time to setup a HTPC in my room.

I start with my old AMD Duron 950, with 256MB RAM, a DVD drive, small 6GB HDD, and a 14" LCD. I installed GeeXboX 1.1 on it, which is small and easy to install. Most important, it gets the job done.

Then, I installed ushare on my server. I setup a directory to store the UPnP media I want to share.



The end result is great, it just work. Now, I can watch my recorded TV directly from my server (which has a TV capture card).

The PC is a bit noisy because of the fan and missing a remote, but it will do for now. GeeXboX is not able to show filename in Chinese, and the file open interface a bit low tech. I hope it will get better in the future.

Ok, next step is to get a TV real-time streaming (via a 2nd capture card on my server) on this setup.

[update Oct 19, 2007]
Update to the progress
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