RE: GoVideo Network DVD Player

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

> On Nov 7, 2003, at 6:52 AM, Phil Harris wrote:
> > Wirless streaming of DVD bitrates across 802.11b *DOESN'T* work
at all
> > ...
> > across 54g it does. (I do this on my lappy.)
>
> Since I'm hoping to have wireless LCDs access points for watching
> video, do you mind if I ask what tech you are using to stream video
> from a server to a client wirelessly?
>
> (You're not doing some Thin Client thing, right? I'm assuming you have
> a powerful-CPU laptop and are streaming compressed video data, and
> having the laptop render it.)

Oh it's all a very low tech "brute force and ignorance" approach
I'm afraid
... Bloody big server (10 x 160Gb drives with another 6 x 160Gb drives to
go
in when I find a way of housing the feckers) holding bit-for-bit ISO images
of the original DVDs at roughly 6.5Gb each.

I use DaemonTools to mount whichever movie ISO I want to play as a
"virtual"
drive and then point either a software player (such as WinDVD or PowerDVD)
or a hardware player (such as the RealMagic XCard or Hollywood Plus card)
at
the virtual drive.

Phil