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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

You can watch many TV stations over the web without a TV tuner card. 
Broadband would be helpful since most streams are 200K+ but Brazil and 
Mexico webcast educational TV at 45K and 40Kbps.

Does the Mplayer compiled for BL handle streaming video?

XFree86 4 can send output to four Screen devices - can Xfree86 3?
Apparently it can control four different video cards, presumably sending 
the same output to each one, and you would use a virtual screen and 
display upper left on Screen0, lower right on Screen3, etc.  This would of 
course put 2" of opaque plastic case in between the four screens.


On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> I tried to give away a basiclinux computer (200MHz) to the local Freecycle
> group but the only person interested in it (who understood it was not
> suitable for their kids to do homework on) wants to use linux on a desktop
> computer to distribute video signals to four 19" monitors to make a 'large
> screen TV'.  He has a 2GHz laptop and wants to send the signal from it to
> a linux desktop, which I think would need a Matrox quad G200 PCI card,
> which puts out signals to four monitors.  It is available with TV tuner
> and 64MB RAM for $250, so I suggested he invest $50 in a 2.4MHz
> motherboard with cpu from ebay and skip the laptop.  My neighbor says he
> needs at least 1GHz for TV.  (I am playing DVDs on 600MHz though).
>
> Only $60 for a dual-monitor Matrox without the tuner.  And I have a
> Millenium that can be used with another VGA card for dual-monitor.
>
> Would basiclinux (on his 100GB drive) handle X with four Screen devices?
> I found a sample of how to do this with Redhat but it might not be using
> XF86Config.  Screen0 Screen1 etc.
>
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