[plug] TV Outs and Linux as an Entertainment Box

[chris]

Theres a couple of sourceforge proggies (nvtv for starters) that run
with the nvidia tv-out stuff. I use them to play DVD's on the TV through
my linux box, works a treat. It can take command line parameters I
think, so you should just be able to file a script. It handles all the
tv refresh stuff (I havent seen it do silly things to my tv yet) and it
also lets me run dual-view without any issues (even though I'm only
running a GF2 GTS - not a dual-head video card, but it can output to
both at the same time) 

and theres some good juke-box web-driven devices (my favourite, run a
web-server as the interface, anyone who comes over, like in LAN
sessions, can vote for music etc). 

Plenty of good ideas and working implementations at sourceforge :P


On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 11:26, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 June 2002 10:33, Mark Nold wrote:
> > 5. (Just a general one) Anyone else using Linux as an Entertainment box?
> > Any suggestions, hints or experiences to share?
> 
> One workplace runs a headless Linux box, with a keyboard, as a jukebox. It 
> uses nice Yamaha-744-based soundcards and has no probs streaming MP3 on 3 
> cards at once. The queue is a bash script and cron job, they've numbered the 
> tunes, printed the list, and requests are keyed in on a numeric keypad. No TV 
> out but it may get a LED array on a parport soon.
> 
> Cheers; Leon
>