Hi everybody.
I'm trying to enter the digital media world. The task is simple - I have a collection of ogm, mp4 (and some avi) files and I want to play them on my HDTV. I intend to build a dedicated headless box which has to boot into some sort of media center software and play files from a local NFS server. Every function (shutdown incl) has to be controlled with a remote control. Since I have never been interested in that TV-out thing and in all this mess with different resulutions I'm having hard time getting started. First thing I stumbled across was GeeXboX. I learned it uses framebuffer and due to VESA limitations cannot do HDTV resulotions. Then I found Freevo. I cannot find any reference to HDTV in its docs.
Can somebody recommend me a good solution? Is MythTV for me? Seems like a monster compared to my needs.
TIA

You could easily use mythtv for what you want to do. But you would only be using the mythtv menus to play your media files with mplayer (or your chosen application). You wouldn't be using 95% of what mythTV can do for you.

But mythtv is "easy" to configure for connecting to a HDTV. Just find the correct modeline for the X server and a cable from your video card to the TV and you are there.

If you have the components avaiable. I suggest installing knoppmyth and trying it out.

Thanks for reply. I think I'm going to try it with my Thinkpad.