On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:00:21PM -0400, Shane Crosby wrote: > Hi, > > Pentium 4 2GHz > 256MB RAM .... > What are your suggestions for TV Card, Video Out card, DVD Drive, RS232 > remote, and anything else I'll need?
I have created a very cheap freevo box based on a Celeron 350MHz, with 256Mb ram I use a cheap ATI card (~45 euro) for TV out (composite, not S-Video) but I am pretty happy with it (my TV is also low quality) you need though to install XFree86 server 3.0 (Debian fortunately has it in experimental) and the Nvidia propertary driver (the free one does not have 3D acceleration and TV out) (and read the instruction for setting the XF86config) I can play games: tuxkart, tuxracer and even chromium are quite smooth when I play DVD it skips some frames when the camera is panning or zooming: the Nvidia package contains a library for XV motion conpensation, but it seems that Xine does not use it; nontheless the quality is good the ATI card has a big plus that I did not ever see in other cards: it enables TV-out at boot, so that you can see everything on TV; my freevo box is below my TV , and I manage it using only the TV (not computer monitor attached): BIOS, O.S. ... everything is on TV. And the text on the TV-out is quite readable. Only catch: I cannot use the kernel framebuffer for displaying fancy text resolutions and fonts: only standard vga works. no tv card... sorry (it would cost more than all the rest together!) my DVD is an LG: it is noisy at full speed, but quite silent when freevo runs it slower > Also, will 256MB be enough memory? for me, it is; and I do not use swap > My ideal setup will be a machine with remote control, DVD playback support > and a huge Mp3 collection mounted over samba. samba? a. -- Andrea Mennucc "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
