superjer2000
Well-known member
I have been playing around with @fstark 's awesome MacFlim (now with audio) and it struck me how great it would be to watch non-pre-prepped content on my SE/30.
Stealing @tashtari 's Elevator Pitch proposal style...
Elevator Pitch:
It's a hardware/software solution that allows full screen video (with audio) to be transcoded in real time for display on a compact Mac.
Hardware: Something similar to @saybur's ScuzNet or RaSCSI that would allow a SCSI volume to be mounted which would house the file being transcoded on the fly. This might operate similar to the EtherDFS client/server that I use on my vintage IBM PC (EtherDFS is an 'installable filesystem' TSR for DOS that maps from a remote computer (typically Linux-based) to a local drive letter, using raw ethernet frames to communicate.) Note that something like this might be useful in general to essentially add a networked drive via SCSI/Ethernet instead of AppleShare. (You would have a disk image on your linux box which your ScuzNet would point to as a datasource (rather than the SD card) so it essentially becomes SCSI over Ethernet.
Software: When a flim is selected for viewing, the MacFlim transcoder on the linux box would stream the video to a file on the disk image (hfs image mounted in linux) which would then be played back by the Mac's MacFlim client.
Not sure how much of the above is possible (i.e. MacFlim transcoding on the fly and having both the linux box writing to the streaming file and the Mac reading from an earlier point in the same file.
Stealing @tashtari 's Elevator Pitch proposal style...
Elevator Pitch:
It's a hardware/software solution that allows full screen video (with audio) to be transcoded in real time for display on a compact Mac.
Hardware: Something similar to @saybur's ScuzNet or RaSCSI that would allow a SCSI volume to be mounted which would house the file being transcoded on the fly. This might operate similar to the EtherDFS client/server that I use on my vintage IBM PC (EtherDFS is an 'installable filesystem' TSR for DOS that maps from a remote computer (typically Linux-based) to a local drive letter, using raw ethernet frames to communicate.) Note that something like this might be useful in general to essentially add a networked drive via SCSI/Ethernet instead of AppleShare. (You would have a disk image on your linux box which your ScuzNet would point to as a datasource (rather than the SD card) so it essentially becomes SCSI over Ethernet.
Software: When a flim is selected for viewing, the MacFlim transcoder on the linux box would stream the video to a file on the disk image (hfs image mounted in linux) which would then be played back by the Mac's MacFlim client.
Not sure how much of the above is possible (i.e. MacFlim transcoding on the fly and having both the linux box writing to the streaming file and the Mac reading from an earlier point in the same file.