[K12OSN] Playing CD's and DVD's on Clients

[Carl Keil]

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>     * /From/: Les Mikesell <les futuresource com>
>     * /To/: "Support list for open source software in schools."
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>     * /Subject/: Re: [K12OSN] Playing CD's and DVD's on Clients
>     * /Date/: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:14:16 -0500
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>On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:57 -0500, Petre Scheie wrote:
>> I put the same question to Jim McQuillan and Scott Balneaves a
>> while back, and the short answer is no, music CDs just don't
>> work that way, at least as far as LDA is concerned.
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>The best approach to doing this might be to run the player as
>a local app on the client.  I thought the new muekow approach
>would make this easier but haven't had a chance to look at
>how it works yet.  The other thing that would be interesting
>is videolan-client as a local app with multicast streaming to
>all the displays.
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>  Les Mikesell
>   les futuresource com
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Whoops.  I sorta thought I was asking a rhetorical question. 

Local apps always sounded tricky to me, but maybe I'll try it. 

Has it gotten any more turnkey in 5.0? 

Thanks for all the info and suggestions.  Truly appreciated.

ck