[THIN] Re: MPeg2 on XPe Thin

  • From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:08:11 +0100

Well as to the codec thing, VLC should play the DVD - it's what I use,
the odd time when I actually look at DVDs on my PC (normally, just very
briefly before decrypting, and re-encoding to other formats).

Neil 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk
> Sent: 06 October 2005 17:03
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: MPeg2 on XPe Thin
> 
> I think he means running it directly from the thin client itself (DVD
> attached)
> 
> Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:51 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: MPeg2 on XPe Thin
> 
> Bitrate for commercial or DVD quality mpeg video I would have 
> thought would be largely untenable over the wire to a thin 
> client session.
> 
> Neil 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Jameson
> > Sent: 05 October 2005 23:27
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] MPeg2 on XPe Thin
> > 
> > Has anyone ever tried and successfully gotten a DVD movie 
> to play from 
> > an external DVD on a thin client?  We have tried a neoware 
> running Xpe 
> > but WMP 8 is the latest version and when we tried to run 
> other MPEG2 
> > codecs - it just cannot play a DVD movie/mpeg2 from XPe.  Have also 
> > tried to load up VLC with no success either.
> > 
> > Wyse also says "no go" on a standard Xpe but it may be 
> hacked to work.
> > We are tying to use a thin client connected to a projector 
> in a conf 
> > room to be able to do it all.  Any success stories out 
> there before we 
> > resort to a slim dell fat pc in the ceiling?



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