[ale] Linux in the Living Room

[Tejus Parikh]

I'm looking for cool multi-media-ish  stuff to do with a linux box I've 
got sitting in my living room.  The box's only display is a regularTV 
so whatever it is has to look good on 640x480 ;)

Currently, I use gthumb for pictures, gxine for playing movies, and bmp 
or rhythmbox for music.  I'd like a neat audio visualization program. 
Perferably one that can run separate from a music player since a TV 
screen is way to small for effective playlist management.  It seems 
like libvisual and it's plugins would do the trick, but I was unable to 
find a way to run it outside of bmp or xmms.

I thought about MythTV, but since I hardly ever watch TV, it would be 
rather pointless.

What are the cool "show-off" type linux apps that are suitable in this 
environment?

Thanks in advance,
Tejus