help setting up ums and xbmc!?!?!?

[rjevon77]

Hi to all this is my first post so forgive my noob state of mind. First off I would like to say this is kinda new territory for me as I've been completely indulged in rooting android devices for the past several years. Now that I've switched gears and my digital collection has grown I've been researching for weeks now on how to get the perfect setup for my home media center use. With that said I will detail as clear as I possibly can what I'm looking to do. I have a custom built PC running Windows 7 ultimate capable running most stuff with windows media center built-in. A ps3 on one tv, an android tablet, and two non smart tvs, one tv has my pc and the other my ps3. I just switched from ps3ms to ums both offer seamless playback through ps3. I prefer ums to be my backbend server because of great playback with no buffer. All files r mp4 HD quality. Now for the frontend which would involve my PC that's attached to my other TV I like both xbmc and plex for their own separate reasons. Problem is I prefer not to have 3 different things running when I only see the need for 2, ums being my backend support. For the frontend I prefer xbmc. So my question is how to config the 2 properly so that xbmc pulls files from ums with all proper meta art for when I'm viewing my other TV without the PlayStation but my PC. Hope this makes some sense. I'm not worried about integrating my tablet I'm sure I can figure that out myself I suppose. Thanks for any help or direction.

[rjevon77]

Hi to all this is my first post so forgive my noob state of mind. First off I would like to say this is kinda new territory for me as I've been completely indulged in rooting android devices for the past several years. Now that I've switched gears and my digital collection has grown I've been researching for weeks now on how to get the perfect setup for my home media center use. With that said I will detail as clear as I possibly can what I'm looking to do. I have a custom built PC running Windows 7 ultimate capable running most stuff with windows media center built-in. A ps3 on one tv, an android tablet, and two non smart tvs, one tv has my pc and the other my ps3. I just switched from ps3ms to ums both offer seamless playback through ps3. I prefer ums to be my backbend server because of great playback with no buffer. All files r mp4 HD quality. Now for the frontend which would involve my PC that's attached to my other TV I like both xbmc and plex for their own separate reasons. Problem is I prefer not to have 3 different things running when I only see the need for 2, ums being my backend support. For the frontend I prefer xbmc. So my question is how to config the 2 properly so that xbmc pulls files from ums with all proper meta art for when I'm viewing my other TV without the PlayStation but my PC. Hope this makes some sense. I'm not worried about integrating my tablet I'm sure I can figure that out myself I suppose. Thanks for any help or direction.

Well after consulting mother earth on this conundrum I currently have everything running as envisioned at this entry level stage of the game. All of my files from my ext. hd are fed into UMS then passed on to Plex, plex does what does and makes everything look pretty, auto updates from central location of files, and last but not least shares with my s3 and tab3. Plex then shares with xbmc and of course this is where the magic happens!! Think Im bout ready to make that call. Thumbs up to mother earth and Devs of the land : )