Connecting your PC to your TV Whether you want to browse your computer on your TV screen and watch movies stored in your computer on your TV, or you want to do the opposite (like watching your favorite TV shows on your PC), this article discusses the how-to as well as the benefits and the problems of each option (and what you can do to get around them). You may also want to do both (record your favorite shows on your PC but watch them on your TV). Whichever of these you're trying to do, the intention of this article is to provide a concise explanation of how to converge your TV with your PC. There are many different ways of connecting your PC to your TV. This article explores the many ways. computermonitor in Computing > HTPCwith bootbootablecentrecomputingconnectionshomehtpcmediamusicoutproprietarysambastreamingtelevisiontheatretv
EPG Data Sources for Australia Many programs have some form of Electronic Programme Guide, or EPG. They need to get the data for the guide from somewhere, and because the data comes from different sources in different geographical locations, people have separated the uses of the data from the gathering of the data. XMLTV is a format for transferring EPG data. This page lists programs that gather EPG data for Australian TV channels. Programs that use XMLTV (see description below) need to get their data from somewhere. Some companies will sell you a direct XMLTV data feed. Other people use a program known as a grabber or scraper to gather data from the web and convert it into the XMLTV format. in Computing > HTPCwith audiocomputercomputingdataepgfreehomehtpcmedianotproprietarysourcetheatrevideo
GeeXboX Project GeeXboX is a media center software suite for personal computers, based on Linux and MPlayer, and implemented as a Live CD. As such, the system does not need to be permanently installed to a hard drive, as most modern operating systems would; instead, the computer can be rebooted with the GeeXboX CD when media playback is desired. This is a reasonable approach for who do not need media playback services while performing other tasks with the same computer, for users who wish to repurpose older computers as media centers, and for those seeking a free alternative to Windows XP Media Center Edition. GeeXboX Homepage : a free software media center for Linux audiocentercomputerdistributionembeddedhomehtpclinuxlivecdmediamoviemplayermultimediastandalonetheatervideo in Computing > HTPCwith bootbootablecentrecomputinghomehtpcmediamusicsambastreamingtheatretvby 7 users
Pizza Stones - About.com My fondness for pizza stones began many years ago. Like many people, I thought it would be fun to create my own pizzas at home. I began my homemade pizza adventure using a cookie sheet to lay out the dough. But I found that the pizza cooked unevenly, leading to dried-out toppings with unevenly cooked crusts. Then I learned about pizza stones, also known as baking stones. Pizza stones are flat, heavy, unglazed stones that usually come in either round or rectangular shapes. Their main advantage is that they help to distribute the heat of the oven evenly to your pizza or other baked good, and their porous nature helps to absorb excess moisture creating a crisper crust. Description of the use and design of baking/pizza stones, one of my favorite kitchen gadgets when entertaining. bakingpizzastones in Lifestyle > Food and Beveragewith cookcookingfoodgreasegreasyhomehomemadejellylifestyleoiloilyovenpizzastonestones
StreamBOX-LiveCD What is StreamBOX-LiveCD? StreamBOX-LiveCD is a selfmade, KNOPPIX based Boot-CD, which is specially designed to stream MP3. Also there are some programs to stream in the OGG-Vorbis-Format. If you ask, why I reinvented the wheel, because you know of the very nice dyne:bolic project, please read my Dyne:bolic page. Concrete the following programs should help to get the streaming working...: * Dstream (selfmade, Dialog based script to stream with Freestream) * Tstream (selfmade, like Dstream, but with dump to the harddrive) * OGGstream (building the configfiles for darkice or ices...) * Freestream * Icecast Server I + II * Darkice * Ices2 * xmms-crossfade in Computing > HTPCwith bootablecdcontainedhomeknoppixlinuxlivemademusicnetworkselfstreamboxstreamingwirelessby 3 users Note: Also I wrote a detailled streaming-howto, which should teach people to stream over the internet very easily. You can grab this document as a postscript-file to print.