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

[Petre Scheie]

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. 
My recollection was that it is a problem that ultimately can be solved, but the feeling 
was that it was a lesser priority than other things like getting sound working 
consistently and reliably (it mostly works now, but the architecture is not unified and 
applications are notoriously unpredictable as to whether they will work or not; the good 
news is the major desktops are saying they want to do whatever it takes to fix sound so 
it works flawlessly with LTSP.)

Petre

Carl Keil wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  Can't the script/program/parameter that allows 
> data disks to appear be hacked to allow audio disks as well?   Does 
> anyone know where this is controlled from?  It looks like FC5 supports 
> this.  I tried the FC5 control panel, but changing the settings had no 
> affect on the terminals.
> Most of my audio is already ripped to a server, but I'd actually like to 
> be able to listen/rip audio CD's from a thin client to add to the stuff 
> that's there.
> 
> ck
> 
> 
>> // You can't play music CDs on clients as they are not considered 
>> 'data' disks. Local Device Access only supports data disks. Not sure 
>> if DVDs are regarded the same or not. You could rip the CDs and put 
>> the songs into a world-readable directory, and then people don't even 
>> need the CDs.
>>
>> Petre
>>
>> Carl Keil wrote:
>>  
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>>   
>>     Does anyone know a user friendly way to do this? Pop a CD/DVD in
>>     the clients drive and listen/watch it right there? I've tried
>>     popping CD's into a few clients (I thought I'd start with CD's)
>>     and, basically, nothing happens. The CD's don't show up on the
>>     desktop or in "Drives". I can't find them, or play them.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>>
>> ck
>>
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