Re: RFC: I need coax in every room vs. distribute TV via network

["Paul" <paul.britton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Hilton" <hilton.jon@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] RFC: I need coax in every room vs. distribute TV via
network


> Any chance of an explanation of some of those terms (for the
uninitiated!)
>
> VDR?
> VLC?
> multiswitch?
>

VDR - Video Disk Recorder - a Linux program that implements a..... digital
video recorder (see http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ for more
info) also available
as a prebuilt linux image such as LinVDR ,c't VDR, Mulimidix ,  Gen2VDR ,
GeexBox , VDR inside , VDR4You , MiniVDR.

VLC - Video LAN Client http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - VLC
media player is a
highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats
(MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and
various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in
unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

multiswitch -  used to switch LNB inputs and outputs about
(see http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=55509
and
http://www.satelliteonline.co.uk/commercial_systems.htm
for more info)

HTH

PaulB




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