<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Yan Seiner <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Ignacio Valdes<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I work in a mental hospital. We frequently have very agitated, upset<br>
> people in the hospital that sometimes have to wait for what can be a<br>
> lengthy admissions process. We have had great success in calming<br>
> things down with good G-rated type DVD movies on a Panasonic 5 disc<br>
> DVD player. The problem is that it is semi-automatic, you still have<br>
> to press change DVD and the play button several times to get past the<br>
> main menu and other stuff. When things are really hopping, it is a<br>
> pain to tend the machine.<br>
><br>
> 1) Is there a player such as MythTV that we could simply load our<br>
> 10-15 original store bought DVD's and play them without intervention<br>
> for days at a time?<br>
> 2) Is this something that MythTV or others that can handle this in a<br>
> fully-automatic way?<br>
> 3) Does someone have something like this for sale so that I don't have<br>
> to configure much? If so, where?<br>
<br>
</div>Build a box with a pile of USB DVD players. Since you play one at a time,<br>
you could hang 4 from a hub with no problems.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>That's too expensive, power hungry, and complicated to build. I have a Windows 2003 server with a shared 750GB disc loaded with ISO rips of DVDs. I rip all my movies in Windows using either DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink or Ripit4me.<br>
<br>I play the DVDs over Samba using XBMC for Linux (still pre-alpha) and XBMC for Xbox, MythTV's Video Manager, as well as VLC media player in Windows. XBMC enables you to build playlists that you could then loop. I have XBMC for Linux installed on my MythTV box, so if you're already running Myth there's no reason to buy more hardware.<br>
<br>You don't need a separate server to hold your DVD images, just a big enough disk in the computer you plan on playing the DVDs on.<br></div></div><br>