I'm currently running XLobby on my main server downstairs with a Delta 410 soundcard which is connectet to a multizone amp. I'm controlling it using XLobby2sd clients that are on the network. If I want to play videos in my bedroom, do I need to use 2 instances of XLobby on my system - a regular installation and a xlobby2sd client for selecting music, or is that what a fat client is for - selecting music on my downstairs server and playing movies locally?
The fat client is a full version of xlobby running on a local machine but getting its databases from the main xlobby server.
In your case (and mine), probably the xlobby server is the mulitroom music server controlled by PPC and the HTPCserver is in the veiwing room with its own version of xlobby but getting its databases from the multiroom machine. This is how you would play movies or music using the local soundcard.
The PPC client can have two instances with differnt server text files to point at either xlobby machine.
So the fat client is getting the database AND music from the server. It IS streaming the mp3:s over the network and the fat client doesn't have to have its own mp3 files on the harddrive???
Thats right, in fact the server machine doesn't need the files on its drive either, they can be anywhere on the network, its just the database compiled from the media files that is being shared.
by 90c4 on Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:31 pm