On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:51:19AM -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 08:23, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > ... > > Enter MythTV, Knoppix, MPlayer+EDL, and Filmwatch. The whole thing > > could be called ``Linfilm'' or something. Imagine a CD that > > transforms a PC into a content-filtering general media player. When > > it's time for the family to sit down to watch a movie, they pop the CD > > into the drive, reboot, pop the DVD into the drive, select their > > content filtering preferences, and push `Play'. > > I love the idea, but don't most people have only one drive? I do. Combo > drives are usually a bad idea, but the big guys (Dell, HP, etc.) sell a > lot of combo drives.
That can be worked around, given enough RAM in the target machine. In
fact, MPlayer can use a framebuffer to send the video without X, in
which case Gnome/KDE can be cut entirely out of the picture, and the
entire root environment can go in a <100MB RAM disk.
Mike
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