Originally Posted by shri:
What sort of NAS do you have?
I have a Synology which has uPnP built in. It also exports the media folders via NFS and SMB shares.
The XBMC (Raspberry PI) connects to the media shares and can stream anything that is shared. Additionally, the XBMC has a couple of radio plugins for internet radio stations.
XBMC can handle airplay etc ... so, if required, my son can interrupt my video watching time, with his funny video of the day, streamed from youtube and pushed to the XBMC (via uPNP or something like that ... it just worked, have not investigated why and how).
The XBMC has an HDMI connection to the receiver. DTS and advanced audio formats are handled by the receiver, so yes, we can get 7.1 out of the RaspPi / XBMC combo.
The Mrs often watches some of the TV shows on her tablet using DS Video or uPnP based app on an android tablet.
Son has a computer which can access the NFS / SMB shares.
Just added the Amazon Fire for Hulu / Netflix and Amazon Prime videos.
Yes, we've taken the whole couch potato lifestyle very very very seriously.
Check if your android box has XBMC on it ... it may be possible to turn into a media center as opposed to a video player.