rbw wrote: [snip] > I haven't dealt with making a TV image show up on a monitor for years > and when I did it was with those old ATI All-In-Wonder cards that did > video capture. They came with an app that would run cable TV in a box. > Is there anything like that for Linux? > > It would be nice to dispense with a separate TV altogether and just get > a big computer flat panel monitor that will display the X desktop along > with a resizeable app running TV that can be manipulated at will. Has > anyone don this?
MythTV will run in a window on a desktop. You can also get mplayer to read the output of a video capture card directly. I think the real problem is finding a decent large monitor. All the ones I've looked at so far suck when viewed at normal (18-24 inches) distances. They might seem OK for a TV, but by the time you sit far enough away, they have brightness problems. A computer monitor typically has a brightness of around 250-300 NITS, while a TV has a brightness starting around 1000 NITS and goes up from there. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
