<quote who="Rick Welykochy"> > I have googled for something in the Open Source world that provides > a "black box" for multimedia storage and retrieval.
> The purpose of such would be a complete self-contained software unit that > can be plugged into applications that wish to manage multimedia content > without worrying about how to do it. The black box itself may use a file > system, SAN or a database to manage its storage. > > The black box would be network based, and provide an application service > perhaps through SOAP or similar to web and other apps for multimedia > content management. What you're looking for is 'DLNA', which you can find in some proprietary NAS boxes, some relatively Open Source NAS boxes, and implemented by some Open Source projects. MythTV apparently comes with one implementation and Fluendo have created a Python/Twisted implementation for Elisa. http://www.dlna.org/ It is unfortunately related to UPnP, which is odious, but what it ends up providing via DLNA turns out to be the cat's pyjamas from the Normal Human point of view. - Jeff -- OSCON 2007: Portland OR, USA http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon/ It's not just a song! It's a document of my life! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
