[mythtv-users] OT:Portable Media Player

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Tue May 1 21:04:32 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 16:22 -0400, Dan Wilga wrote:
> At 10:17 AM -0400 5/1/07, James Pifer wrote:
> >We occasionally go on road trips so I've been looking for something that
> >would allow me to take along my kids mythvideos and recordings and be
> >able to play them on other monitors, like a TV in a minivan or at
> >grandma's house. I found the following device.
> 
> Its probably overkill for what you intend to do, but personally I 
> just use my Mac laptop. I have MySQL and MythFrontend running on it 
> and copy programs over to it before heading out on the road.

Maybe overkill, but buying a car adapter for my laptop (running Linux)
is pretty expensive. Since I don't need a car adapter the money could be
used toward something like a media player. 

Besides, while staying at our destination, I would not want my laptop
being used like a TV. 

James



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