Dreambox and Home Cinema
This evening I managed to watch my Dreambox 7020s through a projector and home cinema.
Ingredients
Dreambox 7020s
Dell Dimension 2400 P4 2.8ghz 1gb
Panasonic AE500 Projector
Method
To do this I connected a Dell Dimension 2400 with 1gb of RAM to a Panasonic AE projector (720p), using the DVI output from an N-Vidia 6200 graphics card (it's the best old school pci graphics card available).
The Dell has a wireless dongle to connect it to my home network and I opened Firefox, pointing at the IP address of my Dreambox. I clicked on the VLC button in the Enigma Web Interface to open the stream from my Dreambox using VLC.
The soundcard in the Dell was connected to my AV Amp using an optical cable.
The attachments below show the picture on the projector screen above a 32" CRT TV.
So, what was it like?
Pros
Easy to setup
Worked with a small amount of tweaking
Cons
Sound quality was awful- not sure if this was a limitation of VLC or the sound card.
Using Dual View on the graphics card caused the picture to freeze.
Conclusion
The PC settings need more careful tweaking to optimise the sound and picture quality but the results were pretty good given the low spec of the PC and graphics card.
Ingredients
Dreambox 7020s
Dell Dimension 2400 P4 2.8ghz 1gb
Panasonic AE500 Projector
Method
To do this I connected a Dell Dimension 2400 with 1gb of RAM to a Panasonic AE projector (720p), using the DVI output from an N-Vidia 6200 graphics card (it's the best old school pci graphics card available).
The Dell has a wireless dongle to connect it to my home network and I opened Firefox, pointing at the IP address of my Dreambox. I clicked on the VLC button in the Enigma Web Interface to open the stream from my Dreambox using VLC.
The soundcard in the Dell was connected to my AV Amp using an optical cable.
The attachments below show the picture on the projector screen above a 32" CRT TV.
So, what was it like?
Pros
Easy to setup
Worked with a small amount of tweaking
Cons
Sound quality was awful- not sure if this was a limitation of VLC or the sound card.
Using Dual View on the graphics card caused the picture to freeze.
Conclusion
The PC settings need more careful tweaking to optimise the sound and picture quality but the results were pretty good given the low spec of the PC and graphics card.
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You seem to be an expert with the dream box7020? I have recently got one and struggling to get started. Some sats have been loaded in quite a few actuall, but i cant seem to get many good channels. I have a diablo cam light 2.3 was hoping this would help but in know further forward. Any chance of pointing me in the right directionPosted 01-07-2008 at 08:55 AM by add1711
Updated 01-07-2008 at 09:38 AM by mhku
