[Leaplist] TV Top based Linux distro

[Randall Perry]

xbox with Gentoo and MythTV.
You can play all kinds of media (although I never setup time-shifting
or recording).
The menu is great (for music, movies, weather, etc)
You can also use the xbox remote.
a couple years ago, I setup one of mine with my Logitech dinovo
bluetooth keyboard (so I didn't have to have line-of-site).
You can hookup svideo, rgb, composite and even dolby 5.1.
Throw in a 300gig drive and you have quite the data store.

Throw on a custom paint job, and voila.
Actually, Phil has the first case I used on a Linux xbox a couple years back!


On 11/3/06, David Simmons <dave at dgnal.net> wrote:
>
>
> I'm researching recommendations for 'TV Top' based Linux distros. Am
> hoping to free my parents from MSN-TV, so the system will have to boot
> into a MythTV/FREEVO type menu system. I'd use MythTV and/or Freevo
> - but they don't support email or web browsing that well. So in a
> nutshell, do you have any Linux distro suggestions for an OS that can:
>
> 1) have a menuing based GUI simliar to MythTV/windows Media
> Center Edition
> 2) have correct resolution / sizing for s-video
> connection to standard TV's (not HD)
> 3) easily support
> web-surfing (one that might attempt resizing/resampling web pictures/pages
> so that they are 'somewhat' properly fitted to the a TV resolution would
> be GREAT)
> 4) easily support email
> 5) be able to play
> various media (video, songs, pictures) from email/optical disk/compact
> flash/etc
>
> Thanks in advance! - dave
>
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