Just some stuff...

[Travis Roy]

I've been working on some stuff that I'll tell you about in a second 
but I wanted to know what you all thought of it. Once I get it totally 
finished I was also wonder what you thought of a workshop on it. One 
thing is that it would have to be at my apartment so if there is a 
large interest (more then 15 people want to go) I may have to do it 
twice but anyway... It's basically entertainment with linux. here's the 
two main projects I've been working on involving linux and home 
entertainment.

The first is my M.A.M.E. arcade box. 
http://www.scootz.net/gallery/MAMECab (yes, some of the pics show a 
windows desktop, but it's running linux now). Basically go into some of 
the specialized hardware. Stuff needed to convert the machine and all 
that fun stuff.

The second one is kinda cool.. Basically it's this. I have a server 
running RH9. I also have a FM tuner card in it. What it does is record 
radio shows, rips CDs to MP3s and rips DVDs to Divx files. That's not 
all that exciting in itself but when you set it up to netboot a 
mini-itx computer that's sitting in the living room connected to your 
DVD and home stereo then it starts to get kinda cool. So I figured I 
could go into the software and other stuff to make that possible and 
why I decided to do it the way I did. I guess it could be used to 
record TV to, but I have a TiVo for that already.

But like I said, it would have to be at my apartment (located in 
Manchester, NH.. Elliot Hospital area) since I wouldn't really want to 
have to lug an arcade machine around, along with a server, a small 
computer, and a TV :)

If you all thought doing something would be a good idea we're looking 
at about a month or two away. Between some finish tweaking on my end 
and some stuff we want to do to the apartment then it will have to wait 
that long.