RE: Accessable media devices

RE: Accessable media devices

[Sina Bahram]

Have you looked into media application server, or mas, for short?

Take care,
Sina 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Shane
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:39 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Accessable media devices

Hello all,

I am looking for a device which is able to stream audio and video from a
central server to a home theatre with a minimum of quality loss.  There
appear to be devices which do this via ethernet or wlan but all seem to
require a piece of software on the server side to export the content which
wouldn't work in the case of a Linux server. 
Further, the audio output on these things seem to be all rca lr where I'd be
looking for spdif or optical capable of transmitting ac3 directly for 5.1
output and lossless stereo.

I toyed with putting a pc into the home theatre room but it's too big and
won't fit into the stereo cabinet.  My latest idea is a laptop with a
wireless network running Linux with a bluetooth keyboard and software
speech.  The laptop should be thin enough to fit into the stereo stand. 
I'm just not sure whether Linux will be able to support the spdif and
s/video outputs on the notebook and there's also the noise of the hard drive
to consider.

Have others undertaken the computer integration project. 
Perhapse there is a wireless media receiver out there I don't know about
which can stream from a Samba or nfs share.

Best,
Shane


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Re: Accessable media devices

[Luke Davis]

I'm seeing this late, but why not use a MiniITX system for this, instead 
of a laptop?

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Shane wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am looking for a device which is able to stream audio and
> video from a central server to a home theatre with a
> minimum of quality loss.  There appear to be devices which
> do this via ethernet or wlan but all seem to require a
> piece of software on the server side to export the content
> which wouldn't work in the case of a Linux server. 
> Further, the audio output on these things seem to be all
> rca lr where I'd be looking for spdif or optical capable of
> transmitting ac3 directly for 5.1 output and lossless
> stereo.
> 
> I toyed with putting a pc into the home theatre room but
> it's too big and won't fit into the stereo cabinet.  My
> latest idea is a laptop with a wireless network running
> Linux with a bluetooth keyboard and software speech.  The
> laptop should be thin enough to fit into the stereo stand. 
> I'm just not sure whether Linux will be able to support the
> spdif and s/video outputs on the notebook and there's also
> the noise of the hard drive to consider.
> 
> Have others undertaken the computer integration project. 
> Perhapse there is a wireless media receiver out there I
> don't know about which can stream from a Samba or nfs
> share.
> 
> Best,
> Shane
> 
> 
> 

Apollo2 synth and speakup!

[Paul Traynor]

Hi Please can someone send me instructions for getting the apollo2 synth
working with speakup!. Bill if you are monitoring the list, could you help
me out.
Many thanks,

Paul.

Re: Apollo2 synth and speakup!

[Kirk Reiser]

Hello Paul:  At the boot prompt type:

linux speakup_synth=apollo

It should come up talking after that.

  Kirk

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RE: Accessable media devices

[Sina Bahram]

Oh, I'm sorry: I misunderstood. You want a physical hardware device. Sorry
about that.

Take care,
Sina 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Shane
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:27 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Accessable media devices

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 05:14:48PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote:
> Have you looked into media application server, or mas, for short?

Hmm, no it didn't come up in my research.  From looking at the website, it's
a protocol to extend X-windows over the network.  Is there hardware
involved?

The closest I've come thus far is a Media player such as the Zensonic Z500.
It's typical in that it supports the wireless ethernet stuff but unique in
that it supports playing media from servers via upnp which I gather is fully
supported under Linux.  The problem I saw from reading the manual though is
the file navigation is all menu driven and I doubt that would be speech
friendly.

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