Re: [Hampshire] DVB-T dongle for Asus EEE ?

2009-02-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:21:48AM +, Bob Dunlop wrote: Can anyone recommend a USB DVB-T dongle that'll work with the minimum of pain on an Asus EEE 901 with the original Xandros distro ? It's for someone at work and I really don't want to get into compiling kernels and the like for

Re: [Hampshire] DVB-T dongle for Asus EEE ?

2009-02-17 Thread Bond, Peter
Can anyone recommend a USB DVB-T dongle that'll work with the minimum of pain on an Asus EEE 901 with the original Xandros distro ? The Asus Eee ready My Cinema U3100 works readily with the Eee 901 under Xandro; the supplied Linux app functions, but is very primitive in comparison to something

[Hampshire] DVB-T dongle for Asus EEE ?

2009-02-17 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, Can anyone recommend a USB DVB-T dongle that'll work with the minimum of pain on an Asus EEE 901 with the original Xandros distro ? It's for someone at work and I really don't want to get into compiling kernels and the like for them. -- Bob Dunlop -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] DVB-T dongle for Asus EEE ?

2009-02-17 Thread Alan Pope
2009/2/17 Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk: Can anyone recommend a USB DVB-T dongle that'll work with the minimum of pain on an Asus EEE 901 with the original Xandros distro ? If you have access to the device then I'd have a look at what firmwares they supply in /lib/firmware for dtt cards.

[Hampshire] HDMI output from linux

2009-02-17 Thread Stephen Rowles
All, I would like to use HDMI output to get my Linux media centre working on an LCD TV. (I don't have the TV yet though!). What I want to do is to do away with my expensive and small media centre PC and have a high powered PC which can sit in the understairs cupboard, using nice big low noise

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

2009-02-17 Thread Imran Chaudhry
I've currently got a Freecom MediaGate MG-35 sat next to my telly, and it does a reasonable job of playing MPEG2s that I've recorded off DVB-T. However, I've recently tried re-encoding some things as various forms of MPEG4. With XviD or FFMPEG, I get unacceptable (to me) encoding

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

2009-02-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:05:24PM +, Imran Chaudhry wrote: Take a look at Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/ I think that will satisfy your tech requirements regarding video but unsure of NFS support. I recall the reviews praising it's lack of noise. Can't vouch for it's

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

2009-02-17 Thread Charlie de Courcy
Does anyone have any suggestions? The current front-runner is this one[1], or one of its friends, but that has a 40mm fan in the back, which says to me that it'll make noise. Hugo. Have you considered a Playstation 3? It generates a bit of noise (but you won't hear it over

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

2009-02-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:25:44PM +, Charlie de Courcy wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? The current front-runner is this one[1], or one of its friends, but that has a 40mm fan in the back, which says to me that it'll make noise. Hugo. Have you

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

2009-02-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:11:17PM +, Sean Gibbins wrote: Hugo Mills wrote: PS. Sony. E. We are on our third 40GB PS3 - the first one died after 4 months (optical drive refusing to read discs), and the replacement has just died (miscellaneous lockups that seem to be disc-related).

Re: [Hampshire] Media players

2009-02-17 Thread Vic
My main objection to Sony is not the quality of their kit It is mine. Older Sony kit was top-notch, but a few years ago, they started getting ever so conscious of their costs. As a result, they became just another kit manufacturer - the old Sony quality being entirely absent :-( but more

[Hampshire] Anyone played with Aurora Linux?

2009-02-17 Thread Vic
Hi All. I'm trying to bring some of my old Sparcs into operation. I'm having trouble gett Aurora onto an Ultra 10 - it complains of being unable to find any devices of the type needed from this installation type. Anyone seen this before? Thanks! Vic. -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone played with Aurora Linux?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I saw a similar issue with Gentoo on my laptop because the supplied kernel didn't have the correct drivers needed to access the DVD drive. The solution there was to roll your own kernel with the correct driver on another machine then rebuild the install media. I just couldn't be bothered.

[Hampshire] Book Reviews

2009-02-17 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, This week I received an email from book publisher APress, they are willing to give books away in exchange for reviews. I have confirmed that they will send them to the UK (the initial email was not clear). You don't get a free book for two lines on your blog, but if anyone is serious the