[aclug-L] Re: Ideas for June Meeting?

[ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks James.  I miss you at the meetings.  Tom was there and the 
conversation was enlightening. 
~Anne

James Lancaster wrote:

>I'd suggest for both of you, the same thing I usually suggest for media: 
>mplayer.
>
>Mplayer handles Http quite well, All that would be needed would be for your 
>browser to be associated with the file, so that it opens the file like 
>"mplayer http://server/path/to/file.mpeg"; instead of downloading it. 
>
>This works quite well, I've streamed an MPEG1 file over the internet -> cable 
>-> wireless -> zaurus, and that played it perfectly fine. Admittedly most 
>good quality media is slightly more bitrate hungry than mpeg1. The drawbacks 
>are a lack of ability to seek backwards, (and possibly forward.) 
>
>CPU is not an issue unless the bitrate is very high, or you want to filter it 
>as you view it. A Pentium 233MMX is capable of playing 320x240 mpeg4/divx + 
>mp3 to a Linux vesafb framebuffer with mplayer. (VIA C3s seem to be a slight 
>exception due to their 1/2 speed fpu on all but the newest ones to this 
>according to some people, but as I've not used them I can't say for certain.)
>
>You both might try setting up apache, and then testing it via copying the link 
>to a command line as "mplayer http://...."; and testing that. (Or, depedinging 
>on default config "mplayer -cache 65535 http://..."; for a 64MB cache. If 
>either works, then it saves you from having to write another random thing. 
>
>More specifically, for the photos and such, mythtv and freevo seem to aim to 
>do what you want. 
>
>If you want more control, (such as the ability to delete programs remotely if 
>not using dedicated PVR programs) NFS, FTP, SFTP or SMB sharing can be set up 
>very easily the standard way.
>
>James L. 
>
>On Monday 13 June 2005 12:20 am, ironrose wrote:
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>
>>I want something simular.  Just the programs that I want to watch and 
>>stream music, _my_music_ not downloaded music.  Video streaming won't 
>>work on a real cheap cpu.  I don't know how cheap that you are talking 
>>about.  I'm interested in perl and shell scripts, I'll pass on java.
>>
>>I heard from a customer that Chrisitian Demention is selling custom 
>>computers that are a PVR and run X10 technology.  I don't know if they 
>>are running windows apps (probably) or linux(hoping, but very slim 
>>chance).  Has anyone in group heard about this?  I was going to call 
>>them to find out more about what kind of setup that they are using. ~Anne
>>
>>michael holmes wrote:
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>>>This is just for me, when my wife and I record a show, it would be nice
>>>to beam it to the laptop plugged in the bedroom tv.  I would eventually
>>>like to have the computer sit in the basement with a  300Gig hard drive
>>>and be totally controlled by a java interface on a web browser - any in
>>>my house.  Other people can buy their on stuff.  This is just for my
>>>family.  To watch what was recorded.  It just seems that other people
>>>would be interested in doingthe same.  Put a cheap cpu with a web
>>>browser in a TV set and beam recorded tv shows from a basement server.
>>>Family photos, music......
>>>
>>>
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