Yah, I was looking for something tiny. I have this nice little 750meg 2.5" drive that I pulled out of an old mac that works okay. Figured a nice small linux dist. and mount my big drive off the server for all the videos/mp3s that way I could fit it in a nice tiny case and keep it quiet.
Is Freevo it's own player or is it just a frontend. I've seen pics of the interface but how is it to navigate? Would you use it as a settop box? > The two that I have checked out freevo and mythtv. Myth seemed more > geared towards tv/recording if I recall correctly. I thought freevo did > not have many issues regarding performance unless there was recording > involved, then you would want some beefier hardware. > > Derek Doucette > http://derek.homeunix.org > > Travis Roy said: > > I was messing with a cool project called Geexbox (www.geexbox.org). > > It's basically a mini-linux dist. that lets you play stuff on your TV. > > I was having issues with Geexbox (it let me play audio CDs. If I tried > > mpegs, DVDs, or MP3s it would just freeze) so I was wondering if > > anybody knew of any other projects like this? I also looked at Movix > > and Movix2 but they didn't seem as nice a Geexbox. Freevo is way to > > intensive for my little mini-itx board and I don't need recording, > > mostly playback. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss