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General Forums => Off Topic forum => Topic started by: omega on November 26, 2005, 08:05:52 am

Title: Re: Transcoding Network Media Player Solution?
Post by: omega on November 26, 2005, 08:05:52 am

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?

Title: Re: Transcoding Network Media Player Solution?
Post by: Fromwithin on November 27, 2005, 09:05:07 pm

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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.

Title: Re: Transcoding Network Media Player Solution?
Post by: omega on November 28, 2005, 07:35:26 am

Have the streaming / transcoding part working now with VLC...  Is there an easy way to have the client VNC control the streaming VLC?