Live TV and Beyond--On the Local Network | Linux Today

Live TV and Beyond–On the Local Network

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 27, 2007

[ Thanks to Eddy
Nigg
for this link. ]

“In many households there are more TV sets than persons living
in it. In my house it’s the same with computers. Almost in any room
is one–and of course because of me, this is a Linux world proper.
But nobody is missing out TV either since the day I installed
VideoLAN on all of them. The amazing thing about the VLC Media
Player is, that it takes care of almost anything, from playing
Video/TV streams, playing DVDs or MP3 music to acting as a
streaming server itself, the options and possibilities are
immense…!”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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