[SLUG] VLC to TV

[Ben Donohue]

Hi all,

I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to 
play video files. Sort of like home theatre.


or video files over a lan connection from a server.

recording tv is not necessary but may be good.

Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware 
appliance?


Thanks
Ben



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Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

[Dean Hamstead]

mythtv in all its flavours, but i recommend the popcorn a-110

i put a review of it at

http://rantage.com.au/item/1229558115/

Dean

Ben Donohue wrote:

Hi all,

I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to 
play video files. Sort of like home theatre.


or video files over a lan connection from a server.

recording tv is not necessary but may be good.

Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware 
appliance?


Thanks
Ben




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Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:35:02PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to  
> play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
>
> or video files over a lan connection from a server.
>
> recording tv is not necessary but may be good.
>
> Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware  
> appliance?

I have a mac mini with plex on it.  PLex is a fork of Xboc Media Center
- originally for the xbox, it has bee ported to linux, great for filing
  tv shows and movies and pictures and music, doesn't do TV recording
:(.  If you don't care about the later I would recommend having a look
at XBMC

Alex

>
> Thanks
> Ben
>
>
>
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Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

[Jake Anderson]

Ben Donohue wrote:

Hi all,

I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to 
play video files. Sort of like home theatre.


or video files over a lan connection from a server.

recording tv is not necessary but may be good.

Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware 
appliance?


Thanks
Ben



mythbuntu will do most stuff out of the box, add vlc for reliable 
playback of weird format videos.

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Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

[Jake Anderson]

Sonia Hamilton wrote:

Ben wrote:

I'm using a Gigabyte motherboard with 4x1TB SATA drives,and 2x 200MB
IDE drives. I could give you the model number but it's out of date, so
wouldn't be of any use.
  
Thanks Ben, that's a wicked setup you've got. Someone mentioned 
http://www.freenas.org/ in a later post - I think I'll have a play 
with that, just expand an old mobo I've got lying around.

Oh, and you misspelt pr0n. ;-)
  

Thanks for the correction :-p

Sonia.
Just noticed that office works is selling 1TB western digital external 
drives for $178.

seems to be ~ $10 more than the cheapest bare drive I could find.
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Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

[ishwor]

Hi Jake and all,

Jake Anderson wrote:

> Just noticed that office works is selling 1TB western digital external
> drives for $178.
> seems to be ~ $10 more than the cheapest bare drive I could find.

Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive
but I bought it last month from OW and it blew up on me [the board got
fried] :(


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Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

[Jake Anderson]

ishwor wrote:

Hi Jake and all,

Jake Anderson wrote:

  

Just noticed that office works is selling 1TB western digital external
drives for $178.
seems to be ~ $10 more than the cheapest bare drive I could find.



Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive
but I bought it last month from OW and it blew up on me [the board got
fried] :(


Regards
  

don't spose you know the model of the drive inside?
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Re: [SLUG] Linux Traineeships?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Blindraven wrote:

Is there such a thing as a job that'd be willing to put someone
through the starter ropes with Linux in a Junior SysAdmin role and
whiz them of to places for certifications? (or not?)
Is this more of a dream then a reality?


there is this program:




I've heard time and time again people say employers prefer attitude
and willingness to learn then a piece of paper, But is this just
elitist fluff?
One of the Junior roles I tried for quite some time ago in the city
was one of the most depressing wank-shop's I've ever had the
misfortune of embarrassing myself in, since this interview I've just
been to self concious to bother applying for anything else.

Does anybody have any advice on good places to look for these types of roles?
I'm talking novice/intermediate every.day administration, comfortable
with bare CLI etc.

Appreciated,
T.











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Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

[jam]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
> play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
>
> or video files over a lan connection from a server.
>
> recording tv is not necessary but may be good.
>
> Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware
> appliance?

As others have enthused, mythtv on your choice of distro.
I'd never go without myth either HOWEVER the actual graphics performance is 
aweful. Even on high end nvidea cards the display jitters, movies are 'OK' 
footy or Motor  Racing etc is terrid. 
Even modest hardware is distinctly better and high end hardware eg sony bravia 
is much smoother.

We've tried Core2, AMD-X2, Intel and Nvidia graphics: Mobo, 8500, 8600 without 
significant -aaah's

James
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Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

[Owen Townend]

2009/1/8 jam :
> On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
>> I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
>> play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
>>
>> or video files over a lan connection from a server.
>>
>> recording tv is not necessary but may be good.
>>
>> Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware
>> appliance?
>
> As others have enthused, mythtv on your choice of distro.
> I'd never go without myth either HOWEVER the actual graphics performance is
> aweful. Even on high end nvidea cards the display jitters, movies are 'OK'
> footy or Motor  Racing etc is terrid.
> Even modest hardware is distinctly better and high end hardware eg sony bravia
> is much smoother.
>
> We've tried Core2, AMD-X2, Intel and Nvidia graphics: Mobo, 8500, 8600 without
> significant -aaah's
>
> James

Hey,

Sounds like you're doing something wrong in the setup...
My combined front/backend has an AMD 780G chipset mobo with onboard
HD3200 graphics and an AMD 4850e CPU (45W, low power dual core 2.5GHz)
and outputs to a 1080p display without issue [0] including audio over
HDMI.
MythTV is crisp, clear and smooth, including motorsports (E.g. F1 on TenHD).

It may be worth starting a thread and comparing configurations.

cheers,
Owen.

[0] Almost. One remaining display driver bug.
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Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

[Dean Hamstead]

are you installing the nvidia drivers? or just the out of the box open 
source ones?





Dean

jam wrote:

On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:

I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
play video files. Sort of like home theatre.

or video files over a lan connection from a server.

recording tv is not necessary but may be good.

Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware
appliance?


As others have enthused, mythtv on your choice of distro.
I'd never go without myth either HOWEVER the actual graphics performance is 
aweful. Even on high end nvidea cards the display jitters, movies are 'OK' 
footy or Motor  Racing etc is terrid. 
Even modest hardware is distinctly better and high end hardware eg sony bravia 
is much smoother.


We've tried Core2, AMD-X2, Intel and Nvidia graphics: Mobo, 8500, 8600 without 
significant -aaah's


James

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Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV

[Morgan Storey]

Definately sounds like a setup issue my myth box is probably the least
powerful here p3 1ghz, 1gb of ram, geforce 4, and I can watch and record
digital, (not and true hd 1080p), and hd Xvids no problems.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Dean Hamstead  wrote:

> are you installing the nvidia drivers? or just the out of the box open
> source ones?
>
>
>
>
> Dean
>
>
> jam wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
>>> play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
>>>
>>> or video files over a lan connection from a server.
>>>
>>> recording tv is not necessary but may be good.
>>>
>>> Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware
>>> appliance?
>>>
>>
>> As others have enthused, mythtv on your choice of distro.
>> I'd never go without myth either HOWEVER the actual graphics performance
>> is aweful. Even on high end nvidea cards the display jitters, movies are
>> 'OK' footy or Motor  Racing etc is terrid. Even modest hardware is
>> distinctly better and high end hardware eg sony bravia is much smoother.
>>
>> We've tried Core2, AMD-X2, Intel and Nvidia graphics: Mobo, 8500, 8600
>> without significant -aaah's
>>
>> James
>>
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[SLUG] .ssh/config and setting user names for hosts

[Mark Walkom]

I know I can set a per host user or a default global username, but what if I
want to set a global default and then have specific usernames for a handful
of hosts?

eg;
User mark

Host host1
Host host2
Host host3
Host host4
Host host5
user dummy
Host host6
Host host7
user sysop


I have this sort of setup at the moment but it seems the per host user's are
being overwritten by the top user entry.
Am I right in this assumption or is there a way around it?

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [SLUG] .ssh/config and setting user names for hosts

[Jeff Waugh]

> I know I can set a per host user or a default global username, but what if I
> want to set a global default and then have specific usernames for a handful
> of hosts?
> 
> eg;
> User mark
> 
> Host host1
> Host host5
> user dummy

Try this:

Host host5
User dummy

Host *
User mark

- Jeff

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