Multimedia support forum - Home Made Media Manager

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Home Made Media Manager

radware

2005-02-22, 11:22 pm

Hi!

maybe this is FAQ, but i looked around a lot without good results.

I have a old but still good Notebook PC with DVD player and video
composite TV out and i would like to turn it into a Media Manager.

I would like to connect it to my home network (cable or wireless) and
to the TV, browse my network to play on the TV my movies, mp3, clips,
pictures and so on, with the help of a IR remote control.
I have a RS232 IR receiver and a remote control coming from the
Pinnacle PC TV Pro tuner card.

I can find a lot of digital media receiver (Pinnacle Show Center,
D-Link DSM-320, iCube Play@TV and so on...) but why not use the old
but still good notebook instead ?

What i am looking for is a friendly user GUI, controlled by the remote
control to browse and play multimedia on my network.

Can you help me?

Thanks

Bill Davidsen

2005-02-25, 4:28 am

radware wrote:
> Hi!
>
> maybe this is FAQ, but i looked around a lot without good results.
>
> I have a old but still good Notebook PC with DVD player and video
> composite TV out and i would like to turn it into a Media Manager.
>
> I would like to connect it to my home network (cable or wireless) and
> to the TV, browse my network to play on the TV my movies, mp3, clips,
> pictures and so on, with the help of a IR remote control.
> I have a RS232 IR receiver and a remote control coming from the
> Pinnacle PC TV Pro tuner card.
>
> I can find a lot of digital media receiver (Pinnacle Show Center,
> D-Link DSM-320, iCube Play@TV and so on...) but why not use the old
> but still good notebook instead ?
>
> What i am looking for is a friendly user GUI, controlled by the remote
> control to browse and play multimedia on my network.
>
> Can you help me?

Probably not, but look for a software called MovieX (or very similar).
It's a whole bootable CD with a configured Linux ready to go.

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bill davidsen (davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com)
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manini.sharma@gmail.com

2005-02-28, 6:38 pm

Why dont you try TV out! Easy and simple solution!

bobo2295@duskmail.com

2005-03-22, 6:47 pm

manini.sharma@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:
> Why dont you try TV out! Easy and simple solution!

Thanks

bobo2295@duskmail.com

bobo2295@duskmail.com

2005-04-20, 12:54 pm

manini.sharma@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:
> Why dont you try TV out! Easy and simple solution!

Thanks

bobo2295@duskmail.com