Network DVD Player

Discussion in 'Other video questions' started by geds123, Jul 16, 2002.

  1. geds123

    geds123 Guest

    I have 2 PC's networked together, 1 of these has a dvd drive, I would like to be able to watch films on the the pc without the DVD drive from the other pc over the network.

    I have tried sharing the DVD drive on the network but no playback software will recognise this.... any ideas ????
     
  2. jnihil

    jnihil Moderator Staff Member

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    I think CSS must be network-drive-unfriendly some how. Others seem to also be having the same problem as yourself. You could try ripping the DVD to the HDD (it's a bit of a pain, huh?).

    Anyway, the folks at VideoLAN have a solution for doing exactly what you want to do, and they have a Win32 client/server as well, AND it's all free:

    http://www.videolan.org/

    Oh, and make sure you're using 100Mb ethernet, not 10Mb (you probably are anyway, right?).

     
  3. geds123

    geds123 Guest

    Cheers for that, I'll give it a try.
     

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