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-====== Movie Night '06-'07 ======
+====== Movie Night ======
 To quote from the original Movie Night charter:
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     spirit always lives on.
-This year, Movie Night is being organized by [[wiki:user:amiller|Adam Miller]] (''amiller@astro.berkeley.edu''). It takes place every **Monday at 6:30 PM in Campbell 544**, barring announced exceptions. Each week's selection is announced in advance; contact Adam to find out what it is.
-Movie Night is coordinated via an email list. You can subscribe either by asking Adam to put you on or by visiting [[https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/astro-movie-night@lists.berkeley.edu|this page]]. The only traffic should be the movie announcements and reminder emails on Wednesdays.
-Movie Night has a standing offer that anyone who's willing to arrange the showing for a given week gets to pick the movie. Arranging things is just a matter of sending out an announcement, getting food, and of course obtaining the movie. Not too hard, so take advantage!
 ===== Those Who Forget History are Condemned to Repeat It =====
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 ^  ^ Fall ^ Spring ^ Summer ^
+^ 2010/11 | [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072251/|The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)]] \\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070215/|My Name is Nobody]] \\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/|Death Race 2000]] \\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/|M]] | [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116367/|From Dusk Till Dawn]] \\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103644/|Alien 3]] \\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/|Unstoppable]] \\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/|In Bruges]] \\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/|Caché (Hidden)]] \\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/|Repo Man]] | |
 ^ 2009/10 |[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/|Marathon Man]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091722/|Adventureland]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130988/|JCVD]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073440/|Nashville]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800241/|Transsiberian]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844286/|The Brother's Bloom]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/|12 Angry Men]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892782/|Monsters vs. Aliens]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465538/|MIchael Clayton]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292963/|Before The Devil Knows You're Dead]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047445/|Sansho the Bailiff]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058756/|The World of Henry Orient]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/|District B-13]]\\ | [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/|The Shining]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/|The Hurt Locker]]\\ | |
 ^ 2008/9 | [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/|The Player]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071877/|Murder on the Orient Express]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/|Burn After Reading (opening night Berkeley cinema)]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468565/|Tsotsi]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/|Dirty Hairy]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106880/|Fear of a Black Hat]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059037/|The Cincinnati Kid]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052561/|Anatomy of a Murder]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088275/|The Times of Harvey Milk]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462504/|Rescue Dawn]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498380/|Letters From Iwo Jima]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060921/|The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming]]\\ |[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/|The World's Fastest Indian]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079336/|The In-Laws]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071249/|Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070334/|The Long Goodbye]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109348/|Bullets Over Broadway]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025452/|The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/|The City of Lost Children]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061578/|The Dirty Dozen]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050783/|Nights of Cabiria]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/|The Wrestler]]\\ | [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/|Vertigo]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/|The Conversation]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411477/|Hellboy II]]\\ [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/|FrostNixon]]\\ |
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   * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110057/|Hoop Dreams]] (basketball season)
   * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118147/|When We Were Kings]]
-  * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/|Repo Man]]
   * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025878/|The Thin Man]]
   * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047445/|Sansho the Bailiff]] / Sansho dayu : "I have seen 'Sansho' only once, a decade ago, emerging from the cinema a broken man but calm in my conviction that I had never seen anything better; I have not dared watch it again, reluctant to ruin the spell, but also because the human heart was not designed to weather such an ordeal." -- Anthony Lane, //The New Yorker//, 9/11/06.
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   * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064/|The Fly]] (1986)
   * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/|The Last Temptation of Christ]] (last screened 2000)
-  * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/|Hidden]] / Caché
   * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/|The Fog of War]]
   * [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475276/|United 93]]
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 Movie Night also occationally gets taken over by its evil twin, Bad Movie Night, for screenings of such gems as [[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0104418/|Highway to Hell]], [[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102422|McBain]], [[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/|Maximum Overdrive]], or [[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/|The Warriors]].  These screenings usually involve a more select announcement list, a big living room, and beer.
+====== Watching movies on the 9-panel display ======
+On the third floor of Campbell Hall we have an awesome (and under-utilized) 9-panel wall display with speakers attached.  Unfortunately, using this display is not straightforward - you can't just plug into the back of it.  There are two ways to interface:
+  - Connect over wifi with [[http://www.mirrorop.com/|MirrorOP]]
+  - Connect to the Mac computer that is directly plugged in to the display
+The first is great for presentations, but much too slow/buggy for watching a movie.  The second works great, but we do not have access to the physical computer, so we have to improvise.
+**Any movie accessible with a browser is easy (i.e. NetFlix).**  Just fire up chrome/firefox/whatever and go watch it.
+**DVDs (or movies on a hard drive) are hard** but totally possible.
+===== How to stream a DVD to the 9-panel display =====
+**CAUTION:** the movie-streaming system described below is fragile, at best. \\
+When has the difficulty of a task ever dissuaded UCB grad students?  (Ok, actually a lot.  But ignore that for now.)  Let's watch a goddamn DVD on that 9-panel display! \\
+**PLAN:** we will use a desktop computer to play the DVD and stream it over the network to the Mac 9-panel computer.
+**Set up the stream server**
+  - Locate a Linux computer in Campbell with a DVD drive (preferably plugged into Ethernet rather than on WiFi). It needs to be running an SSH server that you can log in to.
+  - Confirm that you can play your DVD using [[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html|VLC]]
+    - Note that you may need to [[http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/04/enable-dvd-playback-ubuntu-14-04/
+|enable DVD playback on Linux machines]]
+    - Set up the [[http://www.howtogeek.com/117261/how-to-activate-vlcs-web-interface-control-vlc-from-a-browser-use-any-smartphone-as-a-remote/|web interface]] for VLC
+      - You may want to set a web password.  By default the user name field is blank.
+      - We'll set up port forwarding over SSH from the other computer, so don't worry about firewall issues or anything
+  - Log in to the 9-panel computer
+    - The mouse and keyboard are stored in the 5th floor office
+      - You must have the correct mouse and keyboard, and you should confirm that the batteries aren't dead
+      - The login password to the computer is printed on the keyboard
+  - Open up two SSH tunnels to the streaming server from the 9-panel computer
+    - You need to [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/PortForwarding|forward]] ports 8080 (the web interface to VLC) and 8081 (where we'll stream the movie itself)
+      - port 8080: <code> ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080 your_name@your_server </code>
+      - port 8081: <code> ssh -L 8081:localhost:8081 your_name@your_server </code>
+      - Sometimes these tunnels will be shut down if there's no activity.  You can run the following command in those SSH tunnels to prevent that: <code> watch -n 30 echo 'hello i am alive' </code>
+  - Run VLC on the server and stream the output to port 8081 (I usually just do this within one of the SSH instances above).
+    - command: <code> vlc -vvv dvdsimple:///dev/cdrom --disc-caching=30000 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=3000,ab=256,deinterlace}:standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:8081}' </code>
+    - Some parameters you may like to change:
+      - Location of dvd drive: <code>/dev/cdrom</code>
+      - Size of disk-read buffer in milliseconds: <code> --disc-caching=30000 </code>
+      - Bitrate of video stream: <code>vb=3000</code>
+      - Bitrate of audio stream: <code>ab=256</code>
+      - Port you're streaming to: <code>dst=:8081</code>
+      - [[https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples/|Other examples]]
+      - [[https://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch03.html|full guide to streaming]]
+  - Open VLC on the 9-panel computer (should be on the desktop) and the remote control
+    - In VLC, open a Network location and go to <code> http://localhost:8081 </code>
+    - In a browser, go to <code> localhost:8080 </code>
+  - Enjoy.

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