[mythtv-users] Making a video server

[Mark Edwards]

charlie,

you don't need Myth to do this. You simply need the following:

1. Mplayer or xine and a directory full of movies. Then a small script to
pick up each movie and play it through your chosen player.
2. A Graphics card with composite or SVIDEO out
3. A simple TV Modulator - like what I used to have in the back of my old
Apple ][+
4. A length of Coax.
5. another TV to plug it into.

The trick really is the TV modulator. They used to be all the rage when TV's
didn't have composite or SVideo inputs, but now they all do, so TV
modulators aren't really in demand any more - but I guess you can hunt
around a components store and probably pick one up.

Pre-empting my own question, I am guessing you need the modulator because
the TV you have in mind doesn't have composite or SVideo inputs?

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie kind" <charlie at needpaint.co.uk>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Making a video server


> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to create a video server. This server needs to play looped
movies
> (queued in some fashion) from a linux server down coaxial cable to a
> particular AV channel so that the TV at the other end can tune the channel
> in.
>
> Can I do this with Myth?
> Any hints?
> Can I play a movie down coax with sound and everything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie
>


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