Looking for a solution to bridge between modern and the past

[PuTaTuo]

Hi guys, not sure if this is right section, but my question is NAS involved. Here is my story.

 

I have a tube TV and I watch old anime on it. Now I'm using a $30 video player which has an AV jack. I bassically copy my media to a USB drive or an SD card, then plug it to the player. 

 

But after I built my NAS, The process of unplug-copy-plug just starts to bother me. I wish to have something that can play the media stored in my NAS, while also being able to directly output composite video.

 

To simplify the setup, I don't want to use any video converting module. The first solution pop up in my mind is raspeberry pi, but the price just doesn't make sense now. 

[Blue4130]

36 minutes ago, PuTaTuo said:

Hi guys, not sure if this is right section, but my question is NAS involved. Here is my story.

 

I have a tube TV and I watch old anime on it. Now I'm using a $30 video player which has an AV jack. I bassically copy my media to a USB drive or an SD card, then plug it to the player. 

 

But after I built my NAS, The process of unplug-copy-plug just starts to bother me. I wish to have something that can play the media stored in my NAS, while also being able to directly output composite video.

 

To simplify the setup, I don't want to use any video converting module. The first solution pop up in my mind is raspeberry pi, but the price just doesn't make sense now. 

Toss an old video card in your pc and stream from that. Should be pretty cheap/easy to find a GPU with the outputs needed. (ati all in wonder comes to mind) 

[Zando_]

34 minutes ago, PuTaTuo said:

To simplify the setup, I don't want to use any video converting module.

From my bit of google-fu, you'd need to get an old GPU with S-Video out, you can get a passive S-Video -> Composite cable easily from there. Otherwise you need an active adapter (converter module). Some variants of the HD48xx cards have them, you can get them for $30-80 off eBay, depending on tier card and variant. 

[Needfuldoer]

Streaming boxes like older Rokus had native analog SD outputs.