>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/16/2005 11:45:44 AM >>> >If it's just for one person, I use my Dell Axim, but you want to >show it to a few people on a portable dvd player, thats different.
Yeah, that's what I need to do. 4 TVs. 1 DVD player. I'm sure not everyone will like everything, but they will watch what ever I put in, because they aren't allowed to bring video players or boom boxes on the trip. Walkmen (?) and cameras are the only things allowed. >> Not for me...I'd rip the DVDs and make them available for >> me in my family room where I don't have a DVD player, >> but I do have a mythtv frontend... > >Thats a good idea. Is there a way to play a DVD right from the drive on >the backend and view it on the front end then? Or does it need to be >ripped first? Not to my knowledge - you need to rip the DVD first. Or, make an ISO of it and then the frontend can NFS mount it using xine or something. >> I'd rather give the money I would have spent on a commercial, >> non-expandable, closed source PVR to the developers here, >> in the community I enjoy being a part of. > >I would too. I'd rather see a project like this get better and better, >rather than sink a bunch of cash into a closed unit. Yep. Just the comment about buying the PVR and burning a DVD caught me off guard. Those units are still in the $400 range. I'm sure someone would rather write a program that integrates nicely with myth for that amount. That would definitely be cool to have. Then again, the playlist feature is really neat, and I've already used it about 10 times to push stuff off to video tapes to send to my mom. The picture she gets from HGTV is really crappy, so I tape stuff for her and send it down. She only has a VCR and no desire for a DVD player. I figure it's ok because she's paid for the programming, and it's not her fault the stupid cable company can't get the signal for the upper channels into her house clearly... Paul
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