Hello,<br>
<br>
I'm new to the mailing list but I've been interested in building a box
for a while now. I've tried to search the list if this has been
brought up before but I couldn't find any mention of it.<br>
<br>
I'm currently thinking about what I want to put in my box but I have
one question. I want the box to be headless, and so I can use and
operate it all remotely. I saw that you can bring up the program
listings via a web browser but that's half of what I want. Is
there a way that I can view recordings and live TV remotely too, like
in a VideoLAN window? My idea for how to get this to work is to
specify a starting port (any convenient port) on the box to play video
on, ports at that number or the next available sequential port can be
used. When I want to watch a movie or live TV, I can go to the
web browser where it has live TV listings or a list of recordings,
click play on what I want and it streams the video over the first
available port. A bigger feature of this is that it lets some
people play different things (by mixing live TV or recordings)
simultaneously. Perhaps John can watch TV on tuner 1, a recording
can be occuring on tuner 2 with the option of someone watching the
recording as it happens, Billy can watch a different recorded show,
etc... Maybe other ports play other things like a port to display
weather or to display information from installed modules. As for
playing, you can also have the option of delaying a playback of a
recording for a couple minutes for some reason, maybe you can display a
"this show will start in 1 minute, 37 seconds." to indicate the show is
about to begin, maybe the latest news headlines or whatever.<br>
<br>
Again, I hope this hasn't been asked before so I don't repeat a common
question. DVD's and videos are much more convenient for me to
watch in a window on my desktop while I work on a PC than it is to
watch on a TV/monitor plugged into the box itself. Thanks for
your time, Nathan.<br>