What is GeeXboX ? ( Make Home Theater System Using OLD PC )

[pasanlaksiri]

Do u wanna make Hi Quality Home Theater System for extremly less money

If answer is YES read below

GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.

Despite his tiny ISO image size, the distribution comes with a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of audio/video and image files and all known codecs and containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or Internet.

GeeXboX also comes with a complete toolchain that allows developers adding easily extra packages and features but that might also be used to give birth to many dedicated embedded Linux systems.

If u r interested to try it plz go here>> http://geexbox.org

 

[lasanka]

hehe tnx for the info dude.. !

 

[tckrockz]

thanxx macho i ll try dis diffi

 

[chamithal]

Ha ha!!! Linux ne... Habai I still preffer Microsoft Media Centre to this...

 

[system_v]

ela ela... NEXT TIME BALAMU SALAKALA.. RA UNA. mama yanawooooo

 

[pasanlaksiri]

Ha ha!!! Linux ne... Habai I still preffer Microsoft Media Centre to this...

Errrr... Windows MC is a crap.

Can u even think to RUN Windows MC on pentium II with 32MB of RAM?

Ok now what do u think. What is the best?

 

[Anusha]

Errrr... Windows MC is a crap.

Can u even think to RUN Windows MC on pentium II with 32MB of RAM?

Ok now what do u think. What is the best?

But Windows Media Center has a lot of cool effects, which are essential for a HTPC. Not only that, a media center application should also be able to record TV shows, and you can't record TV shows with a Pentium II

 

[pasanlaksiri]

But Windows Media Center has a lot of cool effects, which are essential for a HTPC. Not only that, a media center application should also be able to record TV shows, and you can't record TV shows with a Pentium II

Ok then how much do u have to pay for buy Windows MC pc. not Windows MC os.

I can build this HTPC less than 5000/= bucks

 

[Anusha]

Ok then how much do u have to pay for buy Windows MC pc. not Windows MC os.

I can build this HTPC less than 5000/= bucks

You get what you pay for.

And minimum requirements = minimum requirements. They are the requirements to get that thing just running. Just because XP can work with 64MB RAM doesn't mean you can actually work like that.

Besides, you can't keep a shabby PC in the living room, can you?

 

[pasanlaksiri]

You get what you pay for.

And minimum requirements = minimum requirements. They are the requirements to get that thing just running. Just because XP can work with 64MB RAM doesn't mean you can actually work like that.

Besides, you can't keep a shabby PC in the living room, can you?

Hey Did u see that Car PC projects. Every car PC is LIKE MC. It doesn't take that much space.

Ah... I fogot u can add a REMOTE CONTROLLER for this GeeXboX. ( any remote. i'll tell u latter how to do it. I dident test it yet.. )

Example

 

[amila325]

wow thanx machan downloading

 

[amila325]

But Windows Media Center has a lot of cool effects, which are essential for a HTPC. Not only that, a media center application should also be able to record TV shows, and you can't record TV shows with a Pentium II

wht cummon machan it's not true when i had PII machine i use to record tv shows and even videos from my video cam

 

[amila325]

Well this was my PII
Intel Mother Board
Intel Pentium II 300MHz
256MB SD Ram
32MB AGP Vga
80GB & 40GB Hard
Samsung CD Writer
Yahamaha Sound Card

and the TV card i borrowed it from one of my friends i dn't remember the name of it

 

[pasanlaksiri]

wht cummon machan it's not true when i had PII machine i use to record tv shows and even videos from my video cam

wow. i didn't know that.

 

[amila325]

wow. i didn't know that.

yeah man i even played NFS 6 in that machine. true it was bit slow but not that slow

 

[pasanlaksiri]

yeah man i even played NFS 6 in that machine. true it was bit slow but not that slow

Wow its nice

 

[Anusha]

wht cummon machan it's not true when i had PII machine i use to record tv shows and even videos from my video cam

But only in VCD quality at best.

 

[chamithal]

Errrr... Windows MC is a crap.

Can u even think to RUN Windows MC on pentium II with 32MB of RAM?

Ok now what do u think. What is the best?

Eka nam aththa... I'm not talking about PII2 with 32MB RAM... Even b4 5 years I had a far better PC... (PIII 1GHz 256RAM)... So I don't take care of those trash PCs...

 

[pasanlaksiri]

Did any one use this. Its Working perfectly.

 

[zCexVe]

thx machan.I'll try this on a DELL optiplex GX1..[Intel P2 350, box type,128SDRAM,4MB onboard VGA,Intel mobo]