Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Video out on the Touch is now out of the question, so where do I go now?

2012-11-17 Thread Mike Sargent
Mike Sargent wrote: ... but sort of suffers if you try to play back high resolution mutli-channel audio. It does work, but there's a lot of noise like it's not buffering enough (which makes some sense). It seems to work better when I use the real Microsoft micro-HDMI to HDMI adapter cable.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Video out on the Touch is now out of the question, so where do I go now?

2012-11-16 Thread Mike Sargent
I'm looking at using a tablet. I got a Microsoft Surface RT which has HDMI output. I can connect that to my Denon AVR and put the display up on my projector. It even supports multiple screens so you can have different things displayed on the tablet and the projectors. The built in Music app

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Video out on the Touch is now out of the question, so where do I go now?

2012-11-15 Thread JohnSwenson
JJZolx wrote: USB displays exist. Could software run on the Touch send video out of the USB port? I looked into this a while back, they work by having a driver which hooks into the graphics system that is writing to the frame buffer, compresses the data and sends it out over the USB port in a

[SlimDevices: Touch] Video out on the Touch is now out of the question, so where do I go now?

2012-11-14 Thread myvinyl333
I hit the forum this weekend to see if there was any discussion about SBT adding a video out in the future and of course read the news of its demise. I wanted to see if the video display capabilities would allow to be viewed externally. So now I am looking into other display alternatives. I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Video out on the Touch is now out of the question, so where do I go now?

2012-11-14 Thread JohnSwenson
Are you looking for a now playing display or do you also want the menus etc on the external display? If you just want the now playing Erland has a nice Android app (Squeeze Display) designed for Android tablets. Some tablets even have HDMI out which could go to a LARGE display. John S.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Video out on the Touch is now out of the question, so where do I go now?

2012-11-14 Thread bpa
A raspberry Pi running Squeezeplay as a controller - composite video out or HDMI. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97254