Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:36:45 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Gary Hartl <ghartl@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Media Center Message-ID: <4922EF1D.2030907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000e01c94999$a7532dc0$f5f98940$@com> References: <000e01c94999$a7532dc0$f5f98940$@com>
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Gary Hartl wrote: > Hi all; > > > > I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. > > > > I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or > something like that feeding to my tv. > > > > Anyone with any feedback on this. > I believe it will work in this respect, though it will probably be unable to run high bit rate movies. It should play the average DivX though. I would go with a minimal X environment and mplayer (the command line version) which I feel is the best in decoding media files (vlc is also a good choice). > > > Or is there a FBSD Media Center project out either in alpha or beta? > > > > Thanks > > > > Gary > Well, mythtv is in the ports tree, and is the first that comes to mind. I've never used it myself and as I understand it is going to be kind of an overkill for this machine of yours.
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