On Wednesday 28 June 2006 19:17, Dieter wrote: > > Another option is the "pizza box" form factor. If your display is a > desktop monitor, set the pizza box on the desk and the monitor on the > pizza box. If the monitor is a CRT, then the box needs to be quite > strong. If the monitor is the living room TV, stack the pizza box > with the other AV components or add rack ears and bolt it into a rack > with the other AV components.
Waitaminute...what if we forget about X and make this a low-power low-cost VLC box? The main reason for having a TV-Out on your PC is to play movies on a big screen. There already is an open source solution to broadcasting video all around your house. But you still need some kind of PC to grab the broadcast off the LAN and play it on the TV. What if we could replace that with your pizza box? VLC is available on multiple platforms, and can cross-code and stream in a variety of codecs. The pizza box itself could be a Theora (or some other chip, but if VLC is going to transcode anyway it might as well do it into Theora) decoding chip plus an OGC to generate the video signal, with maybe some extra logic in the decoding chip to do an OSD and process remote control commands. Perhaps we could even put everything in a single chip, reusing the needed parts from the OGC design. And if you really really wanted to have a desktop on your PC, you could use Xvfb and stream the result as a video stream... Lourens
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