[beagleboard] Use Beagleboard xM As Media Server

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My wife wants to display her flower pictures (of which she has
thousands) on our TV and I have thought to myself that the Beagleboard
xM can do this job easily. Has anyone tried doing this with an LCD TV?
The idea is to take RAW or JPG images and display them, one by one, on
the TV screen. I'm wondering if this can be done at 720p or better
resolution.

Thanks for any tips.

Bob Cochran

Hi Bob,
Your TV would need to have the HDMI input plugged into the DVID output
on beagle, using svideo instead results in a pretty low quality
display. If you set up the screensaver on Ubuntu to slideshow, it
could then just display your wife's pics on by one.
Brett.

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I would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions with this. I will likely put Ubuntu on the Beagle, and see if I can fetch the pictures from her external Network Attached Storage hard drive. The TV has an HDMI input and the Beagle can just be connected to the network on one end, the TV on the other, and a power cable.

I will start testing this later this week since I promised it by Christmas.

Bob

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My wife wants to display her flower pictures (of which she has

thousands) on our TV and I have thought to myself that the Beagleboard
xM can do this job easily. Has anyone tried doing this with an LCD TV?
The idea is to take RAW or JPG images and display them, one by one, on
the TV screen. I'm wondering if this can be done at 720p or better
resolution.

Thanks for any tips.

Bob Cochran

Hi Bob,
Your TV would need to have the HDMI input plugged into the DVID output
on beagle, using svideo instead results in a pretty low quality
display. If you set up the screensaver on Ubuntu to slideshow, it
could then just display your wife's pics on by one.

Hi,

I have finally taken out, connected, and used my BeagleBoard xM Revision A2 for the very first time tonight.

I did a few parts of the validation test and things look good. I have not tested sound, svideo, USB OTG or any of the 4 USB host ports. But the other tests with the validation image seem to work.

I am going to buy a class 6 Micro SDHC card as Maxim suggests in another thread.

I should get a DogHouse from Sparkfun tomorrow.

At this point I can just get Ubuntu and install it on a new card from here, right?

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu

Thanks

Bob Cochran

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Bob - yes, that should do the trick. I highly recommend using the pre-installed image for Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10) linked from that page.