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movie_night [2015/11/19 23:00] – [Set up the stream server] ishivversmovie_night [2015/11/30 21:29] – [How to stream a DVD to the 9-panel display] ishivvers
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 ===== How to stream a DVD to the 9-panel display ===== ===== How to stream a DVD to the 9-panel display =====
  
-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!+\\**CAUTION:** the system described below is fragile, at best. \\ 
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 +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. **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 ====+**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.   - 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.
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       - port 8080: <code> ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080 your_name@your_server </code>       - 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>       - 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 to prevent that: <code> watch -n 30 echo 'hello i am alive' </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).   - 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>     - 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>

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