WL-500qP as set top box?

[MvAngel]

Hello all,

I am wandering is anybody has tried or even succeeded in using an external USB video card and USB sound card to output video from the Asus to TV / projector and get of course the sound also working? Would the little Asus box have enough power to achieve such tasks?

http://www.amazon.com/Iogear-USB-External-Video-Card/dp/B000NJFJJK

My long term objective is to have a device like the media player from http://www.kiss-technology.com/
so I am wandering if with some tweaking and customization the Asus can actually achieve outputting at least some type to the TV?

BR

[raas]

I've read about audio in this forum, people using it as an mp3 player with a web interface to control it,

but never heard of / read of video,

although, being a nice thought, I don't think it will work.

with its 266mhz processor and 32mb of ram and no hardware video decoding it simply doesn't have the power to play the modern video-formats.

not to mention, how do you control it? you must have some kind of input device.

Thinking of it, when you spend the money on router, that usb-video card, an external harddisk, you can get a network media player (when all bought new)



Nevertheless, the asus router is still a wonderfull piece of hardware which can serve many purposes, only not this one.

HTH

[Zapt]

Won't work very good because of the lack of power...
Try searching for a device like the D-Box 2 or Dreambox...