[plug] TV Outs and Linux as an Entertainment Box

[John Knight]

DVD output? Does htis avoid Macrovision protection by any chance (hoping in 
glee, so that I can whack stuff on tape)?

anarchist tomato


>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
> >
>
>


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