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Media Player Box for my TV

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clanggedin:
You could get a mac mini and run FrontRow.

crashwg:
I second the XBMC suggestion.  You can get a used XBOX on craigslist or something for like $50, mod it for free (just did my first softmod last night! yay!) and do everything you're looking for and then some.  You won't be sorry.

SirPeale:
Yes, but I already have this PC (which has proven to me it can play videos just fine).  It was free, works, and did I mention free?  I'm currently putting my cash towards Christmas presents, so even $50 for a used XBox is out of the question.  So let's concentrate on the hardware I already own.

Came with a video card with S-Video out (which really is no big deal, except I didn't have one previously), a Soundblaster LIVE! card, DVD-ROM.

I can always put more RAM in it.  When I found it it had none.  I just stuck 64M in there because it was the first SIMM I found.

NiN^_^NiN:
Peale

All you need is VLC to be running on your home server and on the Media PC connected to your TV

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

You can have it all setup on the TV Pc where it just recieves the streams from the main computer and the main computer just loads up a avi/mpeg/dvd/dvd iso etc and broadcasts it.

You can leave it as is with win98 if you like no need to change anything

I havent streamed like this for ages but there are 3 ways to load a file from the TV Pc you have telnet, HTML and Commandline

You can setup a whole HTML Intranet with all the movies/tv shows and all u have to do is click a link then VLC loads up an goes to fullscreen.

There are many options

Here is a How-to
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch05.html

If you need any specific help with it just post back here

ChadTower:

Videolan doesn't officially support 98... that would make me to go linux if they support that.  Going to linux would definitely fix his ram shortage.

I would think getting the amount of ram XP needs would cost the same as a used Xbox unless he has a cheap source.

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