 Re: Transcoding Network Media Player Solution?, anyone doing this with an old PC? |
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 Nov 26 2005, 05:05 AM
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Hi all,
I have setup my brother with my old machine, which is a capable 1.5GHZ athlon with 512MB and 200GB of storage spread over three harddrives and running winxp. My dad also has a computer which is a 166MHZ / 200MHZ pentium with 64meg of ram and running windows 2000... My brothers machine is filled with movies in divx / xvid and I will shortly be setting it up with a MPEG2 encoding card to record from our sky box... I would really like a solution where I could transcode the divx files into mpeg 1 and play them on my dads computer over the network on our TV downstairs. The 1.5gig should easily be able to realtime transcode to mpeg 1? I think so... I'm looking for a software solution to let me do this. I will be looking into VLC as I know it supports streaming with transcoding. Ideally I would like to be remotely able to select the film I wanted to view and have the powerful computer automatically transcode it... Any ideas or suggestions? |
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Nov 27 2005, 06:05 PM
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QUOTE(omega @ Nov 26 2005, 01:05 PM) Any ideas or suggestions? As you said yourself, VLC should do the job. I've used to it to transcode DVDs to watch on the Zaurus in bed. |
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Nov 28 2005, 04:35 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 626 Joined: 13-April 04 From: Ireland Member No.: 2,825 |
Have the streaming / transcoding part working now with VLC... Is there an easy way to have the client VNC control the streaming VLC?
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