Re: [Nolug] Media extender functionality under Linux

From: Petri Laihonen <pietu_at_weblizards.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:03:09 -0600
Message-ID: <45773E1D.3000102@weblizards.net>

Most video cards these days have at least S-video output.
That would be the simplest setup to get whatever you have on the desktop
to your TV.

I'm using currently one of my extra laptops as "media center" to display
movies and such via S-cable, however I'll be setting up a machine at
some point to digitize as well....

Petri

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> All,
>
> I was curious if anyone can recommend a solution to this problem.
> Looking to view videos from my desktop (ideally streamed from web
> pages; think news and television web sites, not youtube, etc). Is
> there something like a media center extender that doesn't need a media
> center (windows) PC?
>
> (If not, can I somehow pipe video output down the unused coax in my
> house that is left over from Cox? I know my TV can take that as an
> input...)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jonathan
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