DK- When I needed it, the MPEGs were soundless as were the clients. Even if you could get a player to redirect the sound to the workstation, the lag would probably be intolerable. I would run Xmovie locally on the station to eliminate the lag problem. If you can get sound and local apps working, I don't see why xmovie wouldn't work.
According to the Changelog, version 1.9: "Migrated to GCC-3.0, Linux 2.4.7, libc-2.2." SuSE 7.2 and 7.3 both come with version 1.5.4, so I think this version is recent and stable enough. As for distortion of the picture, if you are running the app remotely, you have to expect this. Xmovie is generating the frames on the server and then they are being sent over an already busy LAN to be displayed on the client. I wouldn't expect any good performance with this setup. If your clients are fast (you mentioned PIII), then running the movie softare locally would probably improve the situation dramatically. There's also XAnim: http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html "XAnim is a program for playing a wide variety of animation, video and audio formats under X11. Supports Unix, VMS, Amiga, and W95/NT. Formats include AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Animated GIF, SGI Movie, Replay, IFF, FLI, FLC, DL, Amiga MovieSetter, and JFIF." Unlike Xmovie, XAnim seems to provide the option of specifying the sound device on the command line. So, if you absolutely must run it on the LTSP server, you could tell it to use a device that redirects sound to the client. I would still expect problems with video quality when running XAnim remotely, though. Jason PS: A quick search for 'VCD' on freshmeat.net found "Nonton VCD" at http://oss.mdamt.net/vcd/ which claims the following: * VCD seek * Full Screen * Multiple Video size * Sound level control * i18n support vcare wrote: > I used the latest version of Xmovie but it gives me problem of lib > files so i downloaded the older version , but it is enable to give me > sound on diskless client as well as the picture quality is also > distorted _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
