Hi Reiner, I hope you don't mind me CCing the list. You might get some other useful responses from them.
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Reiner Schmid wrote: > Could you tell me if you have sucess with these ...... > > >I'm thinking of ways we could perhaps expand on this. Perhaps: > > - a DVD player kiosk > > - add a multimedia player plugin to the existing firefox kiosk > > - make a simple application kiosk usable with data or even home > > directory stored on USB key. I haven't tried any of these yet, sorry I've been kind of busy with other things. > ..and could you send me a good working-ltsp5plugin for gutsy? I've only used the web-kiosks with feisty (I can verify they do work). It's possible with recent changes to gutsy ltsp that it might be broken just now. If that's the case, I'd suggest you email the edubuntu-devel list with details of your problems or better yet report a bug against ltsp in launchpad. Then hopefully people will be aware of the problem and can try to fix it. Based on feisty, what you should (I think) be able to do is: 1. Get the web kiosk working https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuFAQ#head-1160489d41f8199cc1c7fcd9850bb5c60863f12b 2. chroot into the web kiosk root with something like chroot /opt/ltsp-kiosk/i386 or whatever directory you put it in. 3. In the web kiosk root do sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc 4. In the kiosk root modify /home/kiosk/.xsession, changing the firefox command (which starts the web browser) to run vlc instead (with the direct address of your stream) This is all made up off the top of my head though and I haven't tested it. There may be several problems in the above. If you haven't done so already, I'd have a look at the vlc manuals multicast section. Multicast will enable you to "multicast" one copy of the video to all clients and have every client view it (as opposed to unicast, where you must sent the video once to each client, using much more bandwidth). Good luck with it, Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
