[K12OSN] Multimedia on Thin Clients
Shawn Powers
spowers at inlandlakes.org
Wed Mar 8 13:36:08 UTC 2006
On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:56 PM, Carl Keil wrote:
> what k12ltsp version
4.0.1 -- I didn't upgrade last summer. I took the, "if it works,
don't fix it" approach. I'll be upgrading this coming summer, but we
have 4.0.1 until then.
> what window manager/desktop environment
IceWM. I was concerned about server load and network speed. I have
about 125-150 thin client booting from one server, and I didn't want
to waste bandwidth and CPU cycles on KDE or Gnome. Plus, IceWM looks
really nice!
> what video player and version
mplayer. I think a pre-1 version, but I'm not positive. (I just
checked, it's: MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.2)
> what audio settings
esd sound, specified in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf (ao=esd)
> what video settings
in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf (vo=xvidix,xv,x11)
> what format are the videos
Pretty much any format. I had to download a special "codec set" in
order to play things like Apple Quicktime Trailers. I think it was
called w32codecs or something. I downloaded it from the mplayer
website, and had to install it in the /usr/lib/win32. That location
may be arbitrary, I don't remember.
> any special tricks you did to make it work.
I did have to complile it in order to get esd support. Also, I
installed (via compile again I think... maybe I got an rpm somewhere)
mplayerplug-in so that embedded video works in firefox.
It's awesome. Seriously. With long video clips, the audio can lag a
bit behind the video, but it's possible that could be fixed with
tweaking, I dunno.
-Shawn
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