[mythtv-users] Why cant we make a STB?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Rod <Rod at rods.id.au> wrote:
> Jon Bishop wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 23, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Jacob Steenhagen wrote:
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>>> Yeechang Lee wrote:
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>>>> Jon Bishop <jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com> says:
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>>>>> (I have a fishtank video that we often run when we're not watching
>>>>> TV)
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to hear more about this. I have xscreensaver set up
>>>> (including the atlantis "whales" module) on my frontend, and it works
>>>> extremely well, but a fishtank sounds neat. Is it a looped video of a
>>>> real tank? If so, how have you rigged your system to play it via
>>>> mplayer?
>>>>
>>> I would also like to hear more about this. After seeing some of the
>>> Windows fish tank screen savers, Atlantis leaves a bit to be desired :(.
>>
>> The fish tank is about 15 minutes of video, looped, on a DVD. There are 4
>> chapters, which results in a saltwater reef tank, a freshwater community
>> tank, a freshwater tank with less hospitable fish (rarely used) and a dark
>> blue lit tank that we almost never play. It's just a DVD iso in the videos
>> folder, and appears to be actual fish tanks. I believe we just use the
>> internal player to run it.
>>
>> ~Jon
>
>   Here in Melbourne Australia, we have a TV show called "FishTV"
>
>   Its just a camera infront of a fish tank and televised.

An acquaintance of mine in ChCh NZ runs a licensed small private tv
transmitter, community based so nothing commercial. People post their
home movies etc on there, and anyone who tunes in can watch. He's got
a swath of playback devices (VCR, DVD vidcams etc).

Sometimes its just the camera pointing out his window at the view.

Sometimes if someone wants to advertise a party or something similar,
they stick a handwritten notice on the wall in front of the camera,
its extremely low tech but of course it works fine.