[Cialug] Computer to TV

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Sun Apr 4 21:25:40 CDT 2010


My samsung bluray player can play divx formatted (and other types)
media from a windows/samba share on the network. The $100 one has
ethernet but there's a more expensive one with wifi.

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the easiest way to see the media I have on my computer on my TV screen?
>
> I don't have a "media center" set up, and my computer doesn't have a
> TV card in it.  Though maybe that's what I need, that and a really
> long set of RCA cables.  I have a Roku, and I love being able to
> stream Netflix to my television.  I've seen this thing called xbmc,
> which is media center software for Linux.  It'd be nice if I could use
> media center software on my computer to be a server, and have a
> channel on Roku that pulled from it.
>
> --
> Todd
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