Making Bootable Movies with eMoviX

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 5/8/06, Styma, Robert E (Robert) <stymar at lucent.com> wrote:
> >
> > Making Bootable Movies with eMoviX
> >
> > If you are like me and do all your video recording in Linux, you may
> > wonder how you can share the TV shows, personal videos, and other
> > multimedia content with friends and family who don't use
> > Linux. How can
> > you get the video from your hard disk to the people you care
> > about in a
> > way that you know they can play it?
> >
> > Full article at,
> >
> > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1957953,00.asp
> >
> > taharka
>
> There is something I don't quite understand here.  When I make
> a video I plan to send to non-technically adept people, I burn
> it onto DVD-R or DVD+R in the format used by DVD players.  Most
> people who have a computer also have a non-computer DVD player and
> non-techies know how to watch a DVD on their TV.
>
> While I find the techniques described both inovative and clever,
> I could still be in the situation of having to describe how to
> change to bios to boot from CD/DVD instead of the hard drive.  Those
> old 32 MB Ram machines mentioned in the article quite often are
> unable to boot from CD anyway.
>
> The bottom line is, "Why would I want to do this instead of creating
> a normal DVD?"

this was my thought as well when I read that article.  it seems like a
solution in search of a problem.


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