Running a Liteon LVD-2010 Net Player with OS/2 as a server
Trevor Hemsley
operating system to host a server that can be used from a Liteon LVD-2010 Net
Player DVD machine. I had to hack some things around to make it work but what
you need is the following:
Apache/2 2.0.53
PHP 4.3.10
MySQL 4.1.7
SwissCenter (http://www.swisscenter.co.uk)
I see no reason why the above little lot shouldn't also function with a Pinnacle
Showcenter or any of the other 'Net' DVD players on the market. The LVD-2010 is
just the one that's easiest to get hold of in the UK at the moment (mine came
from Microdirect and cost UK£83 including P&P). For those of you who don't know
what these things are, they're a standard DVD player which can also handle MPEG4
(xvid, divx etc), MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, MP3, JPG etc files if burned to a
disk. They also have an ethernet network connection and can link up to your
computer and play the files from there - that's what you need SwissCenter for.
The LVD-2010 comes with a WLAN 802.11g ethernet bridge but I'm not using mine,
it's wired up using ordinary CAT5 cable. I can't say if it would also work using
the WLAN connection as I can't be bothered to check - probably would since that
really has nothing to do with OS/2.
I've made some minor changes to the PHP code in about 6 files and have
volunteered to send patch files back to the author of SwissCenter but as he's
just gone on holiday for 3 weeks, I have no idea if he'll accept them (probably
will but...). If anyone wants to try this out I can supply a zip file containing
the files I've changed - just email me - until the changes get included in the
next release of SwissCenter.
I have had to run Apache using "nice -t bin\httpd -d ." to increase it to time
critical or the video streaming stops if the foreground app tries to use 100%
cpu.
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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
Trevor-Hemsley at dsl dot pipex dot com
john...@nospam.com.au
>Just thought I'd post to let everyone know that they can use their favorite
>operating system to host a server that can be used from a Liteon LVD-2010 Net
>Player DVD machine. I had to hack some things around to make it work but what
>you need is the following:
>
>Apache/2 2.0.53
>PHP 4.3.10
>MySQL 4.1.7
>SwissCenter (http://www.swisscenter.co.uk)
Are you telling us that the Net DVD player is effectively Network Attached
Storage on a single DVD disk, instead of hard disk, for the Apache server?
Are the PHP, SQL and Swisscenter for the purpose of getting and streaming files
from the DVD in response to a mouse click from a client of your web page?
Trevor Hemsley
wrote:
> In <gjxI70UYBlcC-p...@trevor2.dsl.pipex.com>, "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-...@mytrousers.dsl.pipex.com> writes:
> >Just thought I'd post to let everyone know that they can use their favorite
> >operating system to host a server that can be used from a Liteon LVD-2010 Net
> >Player DVD machine. I had to hack some things around to make it work but what
> >you need is the following:
> >
> >Apache/2 2.0.53
> >PHP 4.3.10
> >MySQL 4.1.7
> >SwissCenter (http://www.swisscenter.co.uk)
>
> Are you telling us that the Net DVD player is effectively Network Attached
> Storage on a single DVD disk, instead of hard disk, for the Apache server?
No, other way around, the DVD player is able to see and stream video files from
the PC and display them on the TV.
William L. Hartzell
RSVP Did you run the RSVP server to control the data flow (prevent
dropped packets)? Are either SwissCenter or the DVD player RSVP enabled?
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Bill
Thanks a Million!