Re: [Nolug] Media extender functionality under Linux

If your looking to watch online videos on your pc...I would install the
mplayer plugin for mozilla. That works beautifully with firefox.

On 12/7/06, Jonathan Roberts <gremln007@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Petri. This is helpful.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 12/6/06, Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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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