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Most folks buy their TV's at places like Sears or Best Buy, and there's a lot to be said for plunking your credit card down and driving home with a functional television set. But that's not my style. I've been using a Commodore 64 color monitor hooked up to a VCR since the late 80's and it's worked great. On the other hand, VCR's are going the way of the dodo and a 13" television with weak mono sound isn't much fun so I should probably upgrade.

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I had to add a link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd and make sure that your user is in the cdrom group, but other than that it just works. Cool!

2003-10-18 - I bought an infrared receiver from ebay for $10, my second ebay purchase. It plugs into the serial port and has a little box with a red window in front. I spent about an hour trying to get it to work before realizing that the serial port on the machine I was using was disabled by the BIOS. Duh!

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2003-11-01 - caveat emptor. turns out that the infrared receiver (a Silitek SM-1000) only works with the remote that's supposed to come with it, despite the seller's claim that it works with any remote. I picked up a set with the receiver and remote for $30.

To play DVD's standalone you can mplayer dvd:// -vo xv. The -vo xv part is important, without that it skips a lot.

The infrared setup is pretty hokey; there's one daemon to read the device, then another program (irxevent) to translate from the remote control events to keystrokes.

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