[K12OSN] Retrieve DVD Player via Yum
Steve Wright
paua at quicksilver.net.nz
Wed Mar 3 15:36:03 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:18, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> I am assuming I should take your point based off of the repetitive
> pasting :-) I will check it out. Thanks
8-) please excuse my passion.. I just love mythtv.. 8-)
/steve
>
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> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Retrieve DVD Player via Yum
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>
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 07:15, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> > I thought I would quick give you guys an idea of what I was thinking
> > with the DVD distribution from the server. Right now our campus has a
>
> > Dynacom/Safari Video Distribution system running from a head end with
> > fiber to all classrooms. Our workstations in the classroom have
> > projectors hooked up with a program on each machine called Mac/Win
> > Remote. The head end has 6 DVD players and 30 VCR's along with some
> > 12 cable tuners a couple digital radio recievers and so on. The
> > teachers are able to select any input from the head end display it
> > remotely on their projectors in the classroom or just simply listen to
>
> > the radio feeds. Movies are dropped off in a box in the morning and I
>
> > program them up for access for whatever duration they want. This is a
>
> > pretty cool way to share a few resources from a central location to
> > our buildings around campus and on the other end of town. Downside is
>
> > the system was installed with a Grant for about $500,000 in 1996 and
> > is starting to fail without money to fix it.
>
> MythTV!! MythTV!! MythTV!! MythTV!! MythTV!!
>
> MythTV is a client-server system that plays DVDs, VCDs, (etc, other
> video), Television, Music CDs, and is a Video Recorder (can record
> programs of Television.)
>
> You can assemble a number of DVD drives and TV Tuner cards in a "server"
> and run "mythbackend" and then run the very tidy GUI "mythfrontend"
> elsewhere. This frontend is a completely integrated menu-driven system
> that is basically a complete multimedia home-entertainment package.
>
> You can also use diskless VIA EPIA M1000's to build remote
> dhcpd/tftp-booting clients viz LTSP if you would like a dedicated unit.
>
>
> > I thought this idea was a good start to figuring out how Linux could
> > be used to provide a lower dollar solution to K12 or even Colleges. I
>
> > am not really thinking of using this locally in the same lab but more
> > for a campus wide distribution (otherwise a local projector would be
> > far better than sending to clients). I don't know if you could build
> > a box with multiple source inputs and let users select from them
> > through a terminal and display them remotely or not with some sort of
> > gui with dropdowns. It just got the wheels turning. Someone with far
>
> > more knowledge than myself could probably make pretty good money if
> > they could package such a system.
>
> It's already done. http://mythtv.org/
>
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