My home theater setup: ASRock ION-330HT-BD with XBMC

After purchasing new TV, I considered several options for playing media over LAN. I thought about PS3 and Popcorn Hour, but I’m happy that couple of my friends talked me over to get ASRock ION-330HT Home theater PC. It integrated perfectly to my LAN setup and with XBMC installed on it plays almost every video and audio format there is.

My installation instructions are based on the great blog posts ASRock ION-330HT with XBMC and to get BluRay working by Glitch. I also used Mini-itx’s instructions to create the usb installation media. One comment to the BluRay link: On the first time I did ’sudo apt-get upgrade’ and that broke my installation somehow. Next time I left that out and everything worked perfectly.

Basic install

1. Download XBMC live
2. Create bootable usb installation media with unetbootin
3. Boot your HTPC from usb and select ‘Install XBMC live to hard drive’
4. Create user xbmc with password xbmc
5. Remove media and boot to XBMC

Remote controller

1. ssh into your box
2. sudo -s
3. wget http://tinyurl.com/cir-driver-ion330ht
4. dpkg -i ir-driver-ion330ht.deb
5. reboot

BluRay

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install build-essential libc6-dev libssl-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libqt4-dev
3. wget http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv_v1.5.6_beta_bin.tar.gz
4. wget http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv_v1.5.6_beta_oss.tar.gz
5. tar -xvf makemkv_v1.5.6_beta_bin.tar.gz
6. tar -xvf makemkv_v1.5.6_beta_oss.tar.gz
7. cd makemkv_v1.5.6_beta_oss
8. sudo make -f makefile.linux
9. sudo make -f makefile.linux install
10. cd ..
11. cd makemkv_v1.5.6_beta_bin
12. sudo make -f makefile.linux
13. sudo make -f makefile.linux install
14. Download the BluRay plugin for XBMC
15. Extract it to plugins/video

More precise instructions can be found from bloggingabout.com and XBMC forums.

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