[K12OSN] Retrieve DVD Player via Yum

Jim Kronebusch jim at winonacotter.org
Wed Mar 3 15:16:06 UTC 2004


I am assuming I should take your point based off of the repetitive
pasting :-)  I will check it out.  Thanks

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Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:03 PM
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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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