[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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> From: k12osn-admin at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf
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> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Retrieve DVD Player via Yum
> 
> 
> 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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