[mythtv-users] Making a video server

[Jeff Williams]

Radio Shack sells TV modulators (if that's what they're actually called, but I know what you're trying to do) - they cost about $4.  I bought one for use with a couple of my old game consoles a while back.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Edwards [mailto:mark at edwards.homelinux.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:57 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Making a video server
> 
> 
> charlie,
> 
> you don't need Myth to do this. You simply need the following:
> 
> 1. Mplayer or xine and a directory full of movies. Then a 
> small script to
> pick up each movie and play it through your chosen player.
> 2. A Graphics card with composite or SVIDEO out
> 3. A simple TV Modulator - like what I used to have in the 
> back of my old
> Apple ][+
> 4. A length of Coax.
> 5. another TV to plug it into.
> 
> The trick really is the TV modulator. They used to be all the 
> rage when TV's
> didn't have composite or SVideo inputs, but now they all do, so TV
> modulators aren't really in demand any more - but I guess you can hunt
> around a components store and probably pick one up.
> 
> Pre-empting my own question, I am guessing you need the 
> modulator because
> the TV you have in mind doesn't have composite or SVideo inputs?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie kind" <charlie at needpaint.co.uk>
> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:17 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Making a video server
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to create a video server. This server needs to 
> play looped
> movies
> > (queued in some fashion) from a linux server down coaxial cable to a
> > particular AV channel so that the TV at the other end can 
> tune the channel
> > in.
> >
> > Can I do this with Myth?
> > Any hints?
> > Can I play a movie down coax with sound and everything?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> 
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