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MediaMVP

Paul Westbrook | 02 July, 2004 21:29

The MediaMVP is a little device that allows music, photos and video to be streamed from a PC to a TV. It looks like it is based on an enhanced version of VNC, with some media streaming support. It looks like it cost about $100. It does look like the only server is for Windows.

It does looks like there is an open source project that is working on making a server for the MediaMVP. I downloaded the source, and tried building it on my Mac OS X, and it didn't work. It looks like there are some dependancies on some libraries. They should create a configure script to test for these dependancies. (More)

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Quiet linux server

Paul Westbrook | 02 July, 2004 20:43

Right now this my linux server is running in my garage. I would love to put it somewhere in the house, where I can control the dust, but the main problem with this is the noise of running the server in the house. I don't have any areas that are unreachable by our son, or where we wouldn't mind the noise. (Currently there are 4 fans in the case, as well as two drives.)

A while ago I had a G4 Cube, which was great because it was quiet. Something like that would be great, then I could keep the server in the house some where. Even thought the G4 Cube would be perfect in design elements. I did run a server on a PPC computer, with Yellow Dog Linux, and the main problem was getting installing new software. I had to build most of the software myself, and that was a pain. One major requirement is that I can install all software with rpms, so I want to stick with a Fedora installation.
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iPod and Alpine

Paul Westbrook | 02 July, 2004 20:23

ipodIn an earlier post, I mentioned that Alpine was working on a interface to use the iPod with their Ai-Net system bus. This will allow the ipod to be used with Alpine car head units. It looks like the iPod interface will be displayed on the head units display, including the track and album titles. Here is an MacCentral's article on the latest announcement. It looks like it is coming out this fall.

This looks like a very cool product, especially if you already have a Alpine head unit.

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