Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box
On Friday 29 July 2005 07.49, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey Guys, I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless keyboard and mouse. I am in quite the same situation. I have an AMD 1700+, 1 gig ram, as TV-out. As a window manager I´m running xfce 4. It does not eat memory and it worked fine with both 256 and 512 meg ram. As player I´m useing kmplayer with support for both mplayer and xine so I can use both engines. Works perfect. Though I do not have any experience of MythTV, I´ve recon I don´t need it as my video card only have TV-out. The only problem I had was the infamous blue borders when playing movies in fullscreen, but putting this '/usr/bin/xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 66048' in .xinitrc did the trick. First you must emerge xvattr. Oh, and yes ofcurse, it is running Gentoo. :) Best regards, Andreas Karlsson pgpGnlb3d4O43.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box
Tom, This is designed for cell phones and pdas but it might be worth your time to have a look at http://www.rasterman.com/files/eem.avi On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:49 +1200, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey Guys, I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless keyboard and mouse. Sounds great so far, doesn't it? But what shall I do with it? It has good TV out capability but no TV in. I have freevo running at the moment, but not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience). So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an older computer with a TV output? What do people think would make a nice window manager? It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing or email up and running. I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such. As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a TV screen. So what do people think? At the moment its primary function is to grab movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure there is potential for it to be so much more! Inspire me! ;-) Tom -- Luke Albers Electrical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box
Hey Guys, I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless keyboard and mouse. Sounds great so far, doesn't it? But what shall I do with it? It has good TV out capability but no TV in. I have freevo running at the moment, but not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience). So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an older computer with a TV output? What do people think would make a nice window manager? It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing or email up and running. I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such. As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a TV screen. So what do people think? At the moment its primary function is to grab movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure there is potential for it to be so much more! Inspire me! ;-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
