[wellylug] Mobile Multimedia Machine (MMM!)

Francois Prowse fp at prowse.co.nz
Tue Sep 30 12:43:59 NZST 2003


Well a good 1-2U system would be good, if you could find rack mount cases 
for relistic prices :( 

Francois

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, jamie wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I'm planning on building the ultimate linux mobile multimedia machine.
> Basically I want to build a portable/laptop that handles audio and video 
> *really* well. It doesn't neccessarily need to be a laptop, as these tend to 
> have relatively poor quality sound cards, and a reduced video card....but I 
> wouldn't discount these entirely....And If I can find a 1 / 2 ru rackmount 
> that does sound stuff, I'd be happy to entertain that.
> 
> Anyway, I'm also thinking that Redhat might not be the best way either - for 
> 2 reasons - 1. They've dropped support for MP3 (and I *am* using MP3 in an 
> legitimate way), 2. I prefer debian.
> 
> I'm interested if anyone else has been down this path, and what if any 
> hassles they came up against (driver support etc). 
> 
> I suppose MP3 is not essential when you've got OGG, so if anyone has some war 
> stories about OGG streaming I'd be a keen listener.....
> 
> If anyone is doing MPEG4 video - what were the hard parts?
> 
> I'm also interested if anyone has messed around with the agnula/demudi debian 
> audio distro's http://www.demudi.org/main/main.php3  (though things do seem 
> pretty stale there)
> 
> I am happy to receive "boy have I got a deal for you!" emails, but please 
> email me off list as commercial traffic should not clog the lug.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> jamie
> 
> 

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