RE: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-11 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- On Behalf Of Drew Tomlinson Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-11 Thread Dieter
[ This discussion is probably better suited for -multimedia@ than -questions@ ] I can pick up really high quality, large, old-style video monitors from a computer surplus place near here for next to nothing. If these were for workstations rather than pee-cees, they might be composite sync or

RE: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Almberg Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 3:38 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on creating a video server On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Ted

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but the prices on them are still way, way way

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-09 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 22:09 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? mplayer play video files fine. no idea about HDTV tunes Mplayer works great, so does

Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but the prices on them are still way, way way out of my budget (I just

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread prad
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:40:26 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? we found it awkward to do it on freebsd so used kubuntu. we tried lifeview

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? Look up MythTV. it's the opensource alternative to Windows Media Center and has a lot of nice functionality. It is in FreeBSD ports too. -Sean

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 11/08/08 11:14, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get o and what software works with it? Look up MythTV. it's the opensource alternative to Windows Media Center and has a lot of nice

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? mplayer play video files fine. no idea about HDTV tunes PREFERABLY cheap - since ultimately we likely will get a big screen TV set once the prices

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread John Almberg
On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but the prices

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-08 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 10:40 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but