Multimedia LiNUX distros (CD-live)

micmic · 13th August 2003, 19:29

Hi:

what about MoviX, GeeXboX or Womp!?

Do you know this? I want to burn a CD bootable with one of those distros and a video file

Sorry my english.

Ups... I put this post here by mistake

ultimatebilly · 14th August 2003, 00:31

I only tried MoviX and MoviX2 - both are life cds to boot your system with and replace them with the movie for playback.
MoviX is text-based, and MoviX2 is with a gui.
They both worked great.
What you are looking for is probably eMoviX, you burn it with the media file onto the cd and boot directly with it (or rather generate a bootable cd with your media file on it using eMoviX)...
It requires about 8 MB on the disk...

http://movix.sourceforge.net/

dimzon · 2nd April 2004, 10:09

i tried eMoviX 9.01 RC today - it's fine

avih · 2nd April 2004, 13:47

tried geexBox just yesterday actually. quite nice and basic. it can play from cd (the same drive u booted from!), local HD or lan. detects windows shares automatically. has a nice gui, although somewhat awkeward for the non-techie. it DOES play automatically when putting a cd at the drive.

u can't control the refresh-rate when on a monitor. on tv-out it's naturally a fixed refresh rate. u can't specify aspect ratio manuyally (there's an option, but it didn't perform to my liking).

but overall, quite nice as a basic divx/xvid living room machine.
and the iso image is less than 5M

dimzon · 2nd April 2004, 13:51

Quote:

Originally posted by avih
tried geexBox just yesterday actually. quite nice and basic.

Can't download from geexBox site at all

avih · 2nd April 2004, 15:00

yup, seems to be down atm. i guess it'll get back soon though.

shevegen · 30th May 2004, 12:40

GeeXboX 0.97 : Birthday Edition (05/16/04)

http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html

They explain why the site was down for some time.

Mug Funky · 22nd November 2004, 15:48

holy thread resurrection, batman!

i just tried ByzantineOS. it's a ~30mb distro, designed to be put on an 8cm disc.

it comes with mplayer, mozilla, gaim (instant messenger) and xmms. autodetected my cable modem easily, and mozilla worked nicely.

i'm a 'nix n00b though, so i couldn't figure how to mount my hard drives and play off them.

btw, is it possible to boot off a USB flash disk? i just got one with a gig on it, and figured it's just perfect for putting on a fully-fledged OS plus have enough room to store over a CD worth of whatever. would be good to demo stuff on without having to worry about whether people's machines can play what i've got.

[edited: i moved a comma]

[edit 2]

i found this link for getting USB flash disks as primary boot volumes. this should be good (i haven't tried it yet).

Joe Fenton · 23rd November 2004, 01:56

A link would have been nice.

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micmic Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2	Multimedia LiNUX distros (CD-live) Hi: what about MoviX, GeeXboX or Womp!? Do you know this? I want to burn a CD bootable with one of those distros and a video file Sorry my english. Ups... I put this post here by mistake __________________ .---ooo---O~---ooo---.

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dimzon BeHappy/MeGUI developer Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 1,727	i tried eMoviX 9.01 RC today - it's fine __________________ BeHappy - AviSynth-based audio transcoding tool Audio encoding via AviSynth On2 VP7 is great in quality but it is unusable for long-term video backup puposes! Sincerely Yours, MCPD/MCTS

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avih Capture, Deinterlace Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Right there Posts: 1,971	tried geexBox just yesterday actually. quite nice and basic. it can play from cd (the same drive u booted from!), local HD or lan. detects windows shares automatically. has a nice gui, although somewhat awkeward for the non-techie. it DOES play automatically when putting a cd at the drive. u can't control the refresh-rate when on a monitor. on tv-out it's naturally a fixed refresh rate. u can't specify aspect ratio manuyally (there's an option, but it didn't perform to my liking). but overall, quite nice as a basic divx/xvid living room machine. and the iso image is less than 5M Last edited by avih; 2nd April 2004 at 13:50.

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shevegen Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 420	GeeXboX 0.97 : Birthday Edition (05/16/04) http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html They explain why the site was down for some time. __________________ OS: Paldo (Linux) AviSynth for Linux, go go go!

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Mug Funky interlace this! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: i'm in ur transfers, addin noise Posts: 4,555	holy thread resurrection, batman! i just tried ByzantineOS. it's a ~30mb distro, designed to be put on an 8cm disc. it comes with mplayer, mozilla, gaim (instant messenger) and xmms. autodetected my cable modem easily, and mozilla worked nicely. i'm a 'nix n00b though, so i couldn't figure how to mount my hard drives and play off them. btw, is it possible to boot off a USB flash disk? i just got one with a gig on it, and figured it's just perfect for putting on a fully-fledged OS plus have enough room to store over a CD worth of whatever. would be good to demo stuff on without having to worry about whether people's machines can play what i've got. [edited: i moved a comma] [edit 2] i found this link for getting USB flash disks as primary boot volumes. this should be good (i haven't tried it yet). __________________ sucking the life out of your videos since 2004 Last edited by Mug Funky; 25th November 2004 at 06:29.

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ultimatebilly Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 366	I only tried MoviX and MoviX2 - both are life cds to boot your system with and replace them with the movie for playback. MoviX is text-based, and MoviX2 is with a gui. They both worked great. What you are looking for is probably eMoviX, you burn it with the media file onto the cd and boot directly with it (or rather generate a bootable cd with your media file on it using eMoviX)... It requires about 8 MB on the disk... http://movix.sourceforge.net/

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avih Capture, Deinterlace Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Right there Posts: 1,971	yup, seems to be down atm. i guess it'll get back soon though.

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Joe Fenton Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a house. Posts: 663	A link would have been nice.