On 7/30/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > I'm probably missing some info here because I just skimmed the thread, but > I would think that a good plan would be to have a central server that > smaller computers can read files from. I can't envision one server > sending out many video and audio outputs simultaneously, but I can see it > serving many files at once to smaller machines that then display the files > on their default audio and video outputs. > > I ripped all my CDs to MP3 and put them on one machine, then I put a small > computer on my stereo system, and I have several other computers. When I > want to play a song, I can play it from where I am (computer or stereo) by > grabbing the file from the server. I can also connect remotely from out > of town and download MP3s. A couple of weeks ago I was out of town with a > rental car. I had forgotten to bring some CDs, so from the hotel room, I > downloaded some of my songs, burned a CD and listened to it in the car the > next day. > > Mike > One of my design goals is to avoid having a computer in every room where I want to listen to music or watch video. I would much rather run A/V cables from a central server out to various wall jacks, where I can simply plug in speakers and/or a TV. -- Dave Sherman MCSA, MCSE, CCNA Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060731/ee75a621/attachment.htm