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Introducing The Dave/Dina Multimedia Distro
thomasvs writes "The Dave/Dina project is a small enthusiastic group of developers working on a complete open-sourced distribution for home entertainment systems. You can record and watch TV, watch DVD's, grab and listen to CD's, rate your music, videochat with other people, watch pictures, and all this on your TV set in the living room, with a remote control.
The first .iso set has just been released. This is a beta release meant to attract new developers, testers, and hackers, who want to work towards a similar goal. It works fine for us, but it might need fixing on other hardware, which is our next goal. On a related note, Happy New Year to everyone !"
This sounds similar to the VideoLAN project.
A great idea tho, tried it out a few years back to much success.
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That's so nice I mirrored it! But 800+Megs seems a bit much for a PVR system. In case you can't see the pic, it's a shot of the install screen with a pic of Dina Tersago, listed as the source of inspiration and a Miss Belgium.
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I completely agree with you... two of my favorite specialized distributions are:
E-Smith - Small business server/gateway. Allows VERY easy setup of samba shares and a few other things through a web based control panel.
and
IPCop - Firewall distro that is only 20MB!
hey dipshit.
.... GASP.... discontinued and not possible to get outside of used on ebay...
the dxr3 is
Nvidia has crap for video out. ATI isnt well supported but much better in regards to video out. and ITX boards have nasty-crappy Tv out and XV support.
why dont you actually try to make one of these things instead of talking out your ass..
I agree with lumpy... without XV you cant play a divx cleanly on a 1Ghz machine. so most SIS chipsets that are motherboard integrated and have a decent tv out cxhipset behind them that dont need some stupid driver to get working have crap XV support and CANT play VIDEO FULL SCREEN DECENTLY.
think you fool.... think!
Try out KnoppMyth which is a Knoppix bootable CD customized to do just MythTV
do we really need another one?
Just yesterday I posted an informal announcement that MPlayer has hardware MPEG1/2 acceleration (primarily) on Geforce4 videocards (there's some talk about hardware-assisted MPEG4, but I'm not holding my breath). The Geforce4 cards also happen to commonly have SVideo outputs.
What the hell? I've heard of people playing-back Divx video on 133MHz systems (framedrops of course). I know a 400MHz system is more power than video playback will ever need.
What are you talking about?
That's the greatest thing about using computers... You don't need one set of hardware do do what you want. Any soundcard! Any videocard! Any capture card! The results should be pretty-much the same, and prices are much lower because you aren't locked-in to a single hardware vendor.
Now that I've said that, there are many choices you could make. Maybe: WinTV-PVR250 +Nvidia GF4 MX +Audigy2? It would work perfectly, and you'll certainly be able to get them for more than 30 minutes.
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Actually, they 'Dina' comes from Dina Tersago. A Computer Science student that becomes miss belgium is not something you see everyday :)
I know about this stuff, because I was one of the first that heared the name of the project years ago from Thomas.
Anyway, time are gone.. memories..
Will the distro support de100c (also de200c's) that were discontinued and fire-saled by HP about a year ago?
These are cool units that look like a consumer "stackable" A/V unit, have video out, IR with remote control, networking, internal hard disk, etc. They were intended for storing digital audio, but enterprising folks have tried running Linux video apps.
How would this distro fare?
see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/de100c for more info.
anyway, a first mirror is up at http://zandbak.zoo.apestaart.org/davedina-0.0/