On Monday 08 July 2002 03.22, Dylan wrote:
B) With a DVD drive in a server, watching DVD video on a remote client. Can something like xine access the content over a network, or would I need to stream it with something like ogg-vorbis?
ogg is a collection of codecs. vorbis is its audio codec that is a direct competitor with mp3. tarkin - its video codec - doesn't have that funcionality yet. A short while ago it was announced that a company is going to "jump start" the development of tarkin by donating a streaming video codec to the open source world, but it's very early days yet. Read more about it on http://www.xiph.org/ogg/index.html Meanwhile, you may want to take a look at VideoLAN (http://www.videolan.org). They have a client/server setup that seems to do just what you want.
What speed Ethernet would be needed to make it practical? Is 10BASE-T enough, or would you need 100?
Depends on the other usage on the net. If you're alone or almost alone, 10mbps should be enough. //Anders