[plug] rute.sourceforge.net

[James Elliott]

Chris

You  mentioned sourceforge in your e-mail (below).  I have been reading
sections of it on the Internet and have been thinking of buying the book.  I
would be interested in hearing what you and others think about it - in
particular, how recent/up-to-date is it?

Kind regards

James Elliott
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----- Original Message -----
From: "chris" <choypoy at bigpond.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] TV Outs and Linux as an Entertainment Box


> 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
> >
>
>
>