[NMLUG] PC Resurrection with Debian

[timothyemerick at yahoo.com (Tim Emerick)]

I have not had the pleasure of ripping anything on this machine yet.  

I will tell you though that a friend of mine has modded his xbox to run
linux.  He rips all of his DVD's and puts them on a network drive.  He can
then play them from either of his 2 xbox/linux systems.

I've seen articles talking about the $150 PC (xbox/linux) and how MS hates
seeing their xboxes turned into linux PC's.

Here's a website if you would like to do a little checking around.

In the meantime though, I do have some DVD-rips on my server that I will try
playing.  I'll let you know how the performance is.  I don't have a fancy
video card in this machine so I'm thinking that the playback will be choppy
at best.

Tim

--- havoc <havoc@harrisdev.com> wrote:
> Okay, next question:
> 
> Is it fast enough with 400 MHz + 128 MB to play DVDs or ripped movies 
> from the hard drive (or network)?
> 
> I've been thinking about making a media box, lately. It would be nice, 
> with two young boys (it's nice to have transitioned from "small 
> children" to "young boys"), to be able to rip the DVDs and put them away 
> for safe keeping. I know the Recording Nazis would have a fit about 
> this, but hey, I paid for them, and I'm not doing anything illegal with 
> them.
> 
> So far none of the PII 350s I've tested have been able to hold up under 
> the strain of mpeg decoding, but that testing has been done with heavier 
> desktops.
> 
> jody
> 
> Tim Emerick wrote:
> > The desktop is pre-configured with xdm/xfce.  The package is either a
> livecd
> > which you can burn to CD and run knoppix-style or you can install the
> entire
> > thing to your hard drive using apt-get.
> > 
> > I found it to be a quick and easy way to get a small and relatively fast
> > desktop running on an older machine.  Fast performance (given the CPU
> it's
> > running on) and a small footprint is a nice combo not to mention using
> > apt-get to install and maintain the whole thing.
> > 
> > Tim
> 
> 
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