http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/proprietary?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "proprietary" on Netvouz http://sewelldirect.com/connecting-your-pc-to-your-tv.asp 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. Computing > HTPC narky Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:04:41 GMT http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/index.html 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. Computing > HTPC narky Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:02:34 GMT http://eric.extremeboredom.net/2005/12/29/243 Having trouble playing DVDs, MP3s, DiVX, AAC/MP4, XViD or WMV audio/video files on your Ubuntu Breezy system? Since these fomats are all proprietary, the companies that invented them require that developers purchase a (very expensive) license to legally decode (play back) files in these formats (with the exception of XViD which has had a completely different set of licence/patent-related problems), so Ubuntu cannot legally include these codecs in the base install. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:57:33 GMT