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aboutmedia-box is a program to watch all kind of multimedia files using a computer. It suports playing DVD video, VideoCD, various movie files, Audio CD, various music files and watching various still pictures. Main goal of this project is to have a dedicated computer in your living room by replacing your Hi-Fi component (DVD-player, CD-player). media-box runs in a linux environment so the need for computer power is very low. Prefered system is a computer with at least 466MHz Celeron with 128MB of ram. Disk space is minimal, it works on 1GB partition but it can sure fit on a partition of 150MB or even less. As it considers the sound output it is considered to have a sound card with digital out capabilities, so you can easily connect your computer with a dedicated external Dolby Digital receiver, but this is optional. Graphics card should have a TV-Out feature, so you can watch your media content on TV. For getting the remote control over the whole program, you should make a hardware receiver or you can even buy one. Just make sure it is lirc compatible. Supported hardware that was tested Intel Celeron 800MHz with 128MB ram ATI 3D Xpresion+PC2TV - RageII chip ATI Rage Fury TVOut - Rage128 chip Creative Sound Blaster Live! Player 1024 Home brew infrared receiver compatible with lirc Software used to make this hardware work debian - linux distribution xine-lib - library to play media content ati.2 - ATI drivers for XFree86 4.2.1 - to get TVOut working alsa - SB Live! drivers to get digital out sound lirc - remote control software |
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