Linux Movie Box

[MaJ]

Hey guys, I remember seeing something a while back. Somebody was lookin for something like this.

Check it out.

http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html

[Icefire]

HAHA

thats fkn sick.... if only my movie box idea was still feasable :(

[Brainless]

good find, if only it supported more codecs

edit: does any1 know what the 1 they had on the atomic mag disk used,

from memory it was knoppix with an addon but i dunno what it is and have lost the damn disk :(

[jimmythekidd]

my copy of xandros desktop came with all that stuff
plays MP3's and most of my movies too

but then I realised that I could just watch them on my main PC with a good soundcard & screen n that so Xandros is no more!

[James]

lol

or if you want something that does TV...


http://www.mythtv.org/


MythTV has a number of capabilities. The television portion allows you to do the following:

* ** You may pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television.
* ** You may install multiple video capture cards to record more than one program at a time.
* ** You can have multiple servers, each with multiple capture cards in them. All servers are centrally managed and all programs are scheduled by the Master backend.
* ** You can have multiple clients (called \"frontends\" in MythTV parlance), each with a common view of all available programs. Any client can watch any program that was recorded by any of the servers. Clients can be diskless and controlled entirely by a remote control.
* ** You may use any combination of standard analog capture card, MPEG-2, MJPEG, DVB or HDTV capture devices. With appropriate hardware, MythTV can control set top boxes, often found in digital cable and satellite TV systems.
* ** Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from Zap2It.com, a subsidiary of Tribune Media Services. This free service is called DataDirect, and provides MythTV almost two weeks of scheduling information. Program Guide Data in other countries is obtained using XMLTV. MythTV uses this information to create a schedule that maximizes the number of programs that can be recorded if you don't have enough tuners.

Other modules in MythTV include:

* ** MythGallery, a picture-viewing application
* ** MythVideo, a media-viewer for content not created within MythTV
* ** MythDVD, a DVD viewer / ripper
* ** MythMusic, a music playing / ripping application which supports MP3 and FLAC
* ** MythGame
* ** MythWeather
* ** MythNews, a RSS news grabber
* ** MythBrowser, a web browser
* ** MythWeb, which allows you to control your MythTV system using a web browser. With MythWeb, you can schedule recordings, delete files, change keybindings and more. With proper security, you may even schedule a program over the Internet and have it immediately acted on by the scheduler.





how good's that!


check out what the menus look like -

http://mythtv.sourceforge.net/mc/gamefour.png

http://mythtv.sourceforge.net/mc/mpf2.png

http://mythtv.sourceforge.net/mc/bluetvmenu.png




i guess you could say its pretty versatile


linux too

[linux_inside v2]

mythtv is what the atomic cd used from my memory, or atleast ive seen it somewhere else before