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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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For new servers.
They are down now.
10. Run it on a distro dedicated to multimedia playback and post it on /.
The rest is up to you
No sig for you!!
And lawyers and RIAA and MPAA who don't, oh my!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
... that highly specialized distros of Linux like these are going to be what gets it into households. Bonus points of they make it CD bootable like Knoppix.
Man I'd love to have a mail server distro. Just run the install, then get a little wizard thing that asks the questions it needs to know to be configured, then boom, you have a mail server.
Make another for web server, office workstation, game distro, artist distro, PDA distro, etc. If focus is given to suit these needs, people will be less shy about trying them out. I know I would be. It's rather daunting to set up Linux, then have NFI what you want to do next, then when you do get an idea it's a PITA to find out what you need to do it.
"Derp de derp."
So does this make ivtv, lirc, etc... much easier to install. I bought a PVR-350 (tv tuner and tv-out) and a 160 GB hd to setup a multimedia center. The server (my primary computer) has the 160 GB hd, MySQL, and master mythtv backend. The client is a 450 MHz computer with the PVR-350. If it works well, I will buy another PVR-350 and put it in an extra 400 MHz computer. Quite scalable. The current problem is getting ivtv to compile properly.
Of course we can install all this software ourselves. But my mother can't.
The reason for using any Linux distribution is to have a maximum of useful and well configured software with minimum efforts.
My Red Hat 9, before I had done manual installations of many extra software or newer or different versions, couldn't play neither mp3s, mpgs, avis, nor movs.
We can do all this with any distribution just like we can program a complete database system in assembler, or we can have a perfectly secure network if we don't let default settings on OSes, etc.
Being able to do something is one thing, but being able to do this easily is another one.
In the future, when you get /. to pump your new distro, make sure that your servers can handle the load first.
Morons.
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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Try out KnoppMyth which is a Knoppix bootable CD customized to do just MythTV
I've been considering a client/server solution which places a low power (fanless) client PC near your home theater. This client would do things like announce incoming calls (vgetty), news, etc. The client would also be able to serve audio and possibly video content from the server.
Anyway.. for this to work effectively, I'd need a means to overlay graphics on the existing video signal to my TV/monitor. Does anyone know of an inexpensive means of doing this? Maintaining video quality is key. Many audio receivers do this w/ volume display, input selection, etc.
The only devices I've found that do this are "overlay/genlock" devices and cost hundreds of dollars.
TIA
A Google Search (dina tersago belgium) on a supermodel babe yields as it's first result, not a bunch of spam/pron sites, but a new Linux project ? WTF ? hehehe...
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Great. Now I can have many more hours and channels of TV I don't want to watch.
These projects fail in the PVR stakes, at least for me, in that they don't have consistant, reliable sources of TV listings. Even if they do, they're often US-based. WebTV (remember that?!) and so on don't really work properly due to the fact they aren't supported worldwide. Unless you're going to pay somebody to provide your listings, they are probably going to just dry up. In Sky + I've got a reliable, if closed-source solution. But the developers are proactive and working on it, so its not all bad. For a project like this to be totally successful as a PVR it needs either a community willing to edit these listings (some are available anyway for free) or another method, like using DigiGuide or a similar system. Some of the PC-TV cards out there like the Black Gold use DigiGuide for PVR features. Trouble is, its currently Windows only.
Yes, we do, until one of them gets it right.
Evolution in action.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
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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Like KnoppMyth?
Knoppix with MythTV preconfigured...
Installable, or will boot from CD as a frontend given a network Myth setup.
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.