:) Good answer. I guess I'm asking, what would it take to make milkymist work for normal people to get media (audio and video) from a computer to a tv, with the milkymist being at the endpoint connected to a LCD panel with a ethernet cable.
Jon On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Werner Almesberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon Phillips wrote: >> sit on a couch with my laptop and play downloaded videos from my computer >> and then have them magically appear on a big tv across the room that also >> has speakers attached to it, > > Hmm, so you've downloaded them to the laptop and want the laptop > to display them on the TV ? Or are they on some other PC or media > center ? Or maybe you're streaming them from the Internet ? > > Each scenario has different properties. E.g., in the first case, > you would have to keep the laptop running all the time and it > would do battery-hungry work. > > Also, what access barriers would exist for the video material ? > E.g., DRM, authentication, proprietary codecs, ... ? > >> How can the milkymist help me? > > With its present feature set, I think it won't be overly useful > for this. It doesn't have wireless communication as common > denominator out of the box. It currently doesn't have any > significant video decoding capabilities. Also, the current VGA > resolution is quite low for many "TV" uses. > > If I wanted quick and dirty video sharing between laptop and TV, > basically using the laptop as a fancy remote control, I would > connect a small WLAN-capable PC to the TV, download the video > material to some WLAN-connected PC, which could be the same PC > as the one on the TV, and stream to my laptop over NFS and > WLAN. > > When I want to "switch", I would connect from the laptop to the > TV PC via SSH over WLAN and fire up mplayer with the path name > of the video. Maybe also with the current position. After that, > the two playbacks would be independent. E.g., pausing what's > playing on the TV would not affect the laptop and vice versa. > > Doing the same when streaming from Internet sites like YouTube > would be more difficult, though. > > - Werner > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org > IRC: #milkymist@Freenode > -- Jon Phillips ✳ http://fabricatorz.com/ chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
