Re: [SLUG] Video Servers

2003-10-15 Thread Simon Bryan
Anthony Wood said: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:27:28PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. www.videolan.org Now that seems

[SLUG] Video Servers

2003-10-14 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open Source solution?

Re: [SLUG] Video Servers

2003-10-14 Thread Anthony Wood
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:27:28PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. www.videolan.org opensource, linux/windows/others,

Re: [SLUG] Video Servers

2003-10-14 Thread Kevin Saenz
You could try vls/vlc, from what I have tested it works pretty well. the only problem I see is that the client can not truly interact with the server. ie: if you have a DVD playing on the server the client side cannot stop, fast forward, rewind. Other than that it will deliver video output to

Re: [SLUG] Video Servers

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Deigan
It is said that Simon Bryan wrote: I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop / TV. There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open