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streaming box for a CRT TV? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an old school boob tube tv in my room, currently with a firestick running through a converter. It's fine i guess, but i want something else because 1, the aspect ratio is off since it expects to be hooked up to a flatscreen, and 2 the privacy problem of running something from amazon. Is there something that could work here?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You could do something pretty cost efficiently with a Raspberry Pi that has composite video out: https://www.blakecarpenter.dev/using-a-raspberry-pi-with-a-crt-television/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh that's dope as hell, I didn't even realize Pis had composite video output at all!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was actually new to me that the recent models have it, I haven't tried the instructions from this blog, but it seems about right. I only used the original Pi and gave some life to spare CRT TVs like 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm curious what retropie would look like on a CRT. Would it need the overlays still or look like the original?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Imagine if the CRT filter on an actual CRT turns it into HD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the main Problem with raspberry pi is the video encoding and that it doesn't have enough power to do it properly depending on the codec.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I'm unfamiliar with the state of doing encoding with a pi, I have seen that newer models have a dedicated encoder chip for h.264 but I've personally never used it. Even with the first model of the raspberry pi, it included a hardware decoder, and was able to run as a media player hooked up to HDMI. I'm assuming OP wants something like that, just a media player for the CRT, and not a full fledged media server which can power everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This solved it, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Awesome glad to hear it worked out for you!!