[huskerlug] Re: TV-out

The reason why I asked is that, of lately, I've been finding small form factor
computers everywhere on the internet.  These things are so cute, but pack a
punch.  There is the Panda PC (http://www.norhtec.com/products/panda/index.html)
which is my favourite.  1Ghz processor with 256 MB DDR RAM DVD/CDRW and can run
of AC or DC power.  It's got TV out, ethernet card and some other goodies.  A
close second is the Shuttle (http://www.directron.com/sk41g.html).  The Shuttle
can run a regular Athlon or P4 chip but, I think, that the panda consumes less
power due to the VIA chip.  And, on either of the 2, install Gentoo and it'll
boot up in no time, =). (I bet debian also boot up quick but I don't know.  I
just know that I was blown away by the boot time of Gentoo)

I just think it would be kewl to be able to watch DVDs on my TV, listen to MP3s
through my soudns system as well as be able to watch AVI/MWA/DIVX;)/DIVX/etc all
on the same machine.  I can just donwload everything to that machine and have it
be my little jukebox in my living room.  Of course it comes with a price tag
that makes me think twice about it, and is the reason why I haven't dished out
the cash yet.  But having a cheap DVD player with an el-cheapo PC to play MP3s
still doesn't let me play all the other fun video formats that are out on the
net these days.

-Cesar

Quoting Paul Andrews <dean255@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I have a TNT2 32mb Nvidia card that I had working in
> both windoze 98 & Redhat 7.2 & 8.0...  I found some
> proggy someone made that utilized the TV-out function
> for Linux.  the only problem I had with it was I had
> to run that proggy as 'su' but it didn't bother me
> cause I was the only one using that comp.
> 
> Oh, one thing to note.  With my TNT2 in win98, I had
> no visual on the monitor when I switched over to TV
> mode.  BUT, in Linux, I had 640-480 resolution that
> basically zoomed into the upper left corner of my
> desktop (which was the same thing it projected on the
> TV... My reaction to this was "I can see... it's a
> miracle!!!")
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> --- Jake Churchill <j.churchill@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a laptop with a Gforce2 Go card in it and
> > S-Video out that I
> > would hook up to the system in the living room to
> > play mp3's and stuff
> > from the network.  It worked great.  I once hooked
> > it up and played
> > Unreal Tournament over the network and my screen was
> > the TV.  It works
> > pretty cool.  I would definitely suggest the S-Video
> > connection.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 13:27, Jeff Ives wrote:
> > > Same here I use the TV out on my Shuttle SN41G2
> > with XP, for movies it's
> > > fine can't read PC text at all.  But so far the
> > only card I ever got to work
> > > under Linux with TV out was a ATI Rage 128 and it
> > only worked if I didn't
> > > have a monitor hooked up to it just a TV and I had
> > to keep the res set at
> > > 640x480 other wise it disabled the output.
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Ryan Minert" <rminert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 12:56 PM
> > > Subject: [huskerlug] Re: TV-out
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > I do it all the time in WinXP with my GeForce4
> > Ti4200...  I love it...
> > > > Works quite well (using either RCA or S-video). 
> > I use it primarily to
> > > > watch downloaded episodes of Six Feet Under, but
> > works well with DVD's
> > > > too.  Very easy to do with an Nvidia card as the
> > drivers handle it very
> > > > well.  Haven't had a chance to mess with it in
> > Linux though.
> > > >
> > > > Ryan
> > > >
> > > > On 6/25/2003 12:58 PM, Cesar Delgado wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Has anyone ever tried connecting their computer
> > to their TV with a video
> > > > >card that has TV-out?  In any OS.  Is the
> > quality good?  Is it worth it?
> > > > >I was thinking it would be cool to build a
> > cheap computer to play DVDs
> > > > >on my TV as well as have it play MP3s from the
> > network, etc.  But is the
> > > > >quality of the TV-out is bad, then I don't
> > think it's worth the hassle.
> > > > >
> > > > >-Cesar Delgado
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