Re: [SLUG] Projector & home theater pc

From: michael hast (evylrobot19@cox.net)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2007 - 13:12:51 EST


Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 1/21/07, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
>> On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:54, michael hast wrote:
>> > Well, guys, I think I'm going to haul off and do it. I'm getting
>> tired
>> > of watching TV and movies on an itty bitty TV. I've pretty well
>> decided
>> > that a projector is going to do well for my purposes, and that I'd
>> like
>> > to run it with a PC. Do any of you know what tuner cards work well
>> with
>> > Linux? Also, if any of you have advice on projectors, I'd love to
>> hear
>> > it. For that matter, Steve, do you think Sabayon might be a viable OS
>> > for the machine? I'm open to advice there too. (In fact, I think
>> I've
>> > discussed that here before...) Thanks!
>> >
>> > --Michael
>>
>> I was just going to say that Sabayon seems a good solution with the
>> built in
>> mediacenter s/w. It will even boot into Freevo. I've not had a chance
>> to try
>> the Freevo setup yet but it sure has all one could ask for when it
>> comes to
>> multimedia.
>>
>> --
> There is Knoppix live CD that is set up for MythTV. You can burn the ISO
> and in many cases it will run direct from the LIve CD, that way you
> can test
> HW and software.
>
> That one is discussed in the KNoppix Hacks O'Rielly book.
>
>
...or boot toram and have the drives free, maybe... I'll have to check
that out as well!
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