Jon Phillips wrote: > sit on a couch with my laptop and play downloaded videos from my computer > and then have them magically appear on a big tv across the room that also > has speakers attached to it,
Hmm, so you've downloaded them to the laptop and want the laptop to display them on the TV ? Or are they on some other PC or media center ? Or maybe you're streaming them from the Internet ? Each scenario has different properties. E.g., in the first case, you would have to keep the laptop running all the time and it would do battery-hungry work. Also, what access barriers would exist for the video material ? E.g., DRM, authentication, proprietary codecs, ... ? > How can the milkymist help me? With its present feature set, I think it won't be overly useful for this. It doesn't have wireless communication as common denominator out of the box. It currently doesn't have any significant video decoding capabilities. Also, the current VGA resolution is quite low for many "TV" uses. If I wanted quick and dirty video sharing between laptop and TV, basically using the laptop as a fancy remote control, I would connect a small WLAN-capable PC to the TV, download the video material to some WLAN-connected PC, which could be the same PC as the one on the TV, and stream to my laptop over NFS and WLAN. When I want to "switch", I would connect from the laptop to the TV PC via SSH over WLAN and fire up mplayer with the path name of the video. Maybe also with the current position. After that, the two playbacks would be independent. E.g., pausing what's playing on the TV would not affect the laptop and vice versa. Doing the same when streaming from Internet sites like YouTube would be more difficult, though. - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
