Technology, video, phone & computer questions

[Angrboda]

PS3 Media Server is just the name of some free software that does DLNA media serving, you don't need a PS3 to use it.

I stand corrected. I'll add that back into the mix.

I already agreed to buy her a Playon+Playlater license, and they're on sale for $50 right now, so that much is almost a forgone conclusion. Since it requires computing horsepower to transcode, the better hardware platform is also then pretty much settled. And since Playon / Playlater handles the bulk of tasks needing to be handled, the rest is probably details, additions, and fine tuning. Sadly, the E7400 doesn't have the virtualization bit, so the only oses efficient enough to run inside "whatever" would need to be paravirtualized. That ultimately probably means, if I use virtualization, it would be linux on top of, or inside, Windows, rather than the other way around.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, StuW, Wolf, and Moros Syn. I've just got a lot of reading and figuring stuff out ahead of me. The only real big question remaining is whether replacing the video card has resulted in a stable system; the hard resets were intermittent, so I have no way of reproducing conditions which would be expected to cause a reset.