Re: [tlug] linuxdevices for display on a tv

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 10:29:40PM +0900, Nikolay Elenkov wrote:
> On 10/05/2013 06:22 PM, Christian Horn wrote:
> >
> 
> I don't know how things are in displayport land, but some HDMI
> resolutions don't support audio. Did you try different resolutions?
> At least 1280x720@60 should both be supported by your TV and have
> audio.

Did not think of this before.. but also no audio with reduced
resolution.


> > I am looking for advice, considering the following requirements:
> >
> > - I want to control the device myself, install and run Linux etc.
> > - HDMI output should be provided, including audio
> > - taking all of the above into account I would take a raspberry pi,
> >    a beagleboard or such.  Yet besides playing media with mplayer,
> >    I would like to see Japanese ドラマ directly with a webbrowser.
> >    For streaming only Adobe flash is used.. this seems to prevent
> >    ARM from beeing used.
> 
> Get a small size x86 barebones kit and build on that? Like an Intel
>   NUC or similar form Gigabyte, etc.

Nice, this is the most promising small Intel based box I have
seen so far.  So only downside would be that I wont get my hands
to play with an ARM.. but the requirement for streaming from web-
sites is anyway in the way of ARM.

cheers,
Christian