Media Streaming for Dummies?

Jon writes "Back in grade school, one of the things I helped the school set up/run was a in-school broadcasting system based on a few simple switches that went between a HyperCard stack with cool animations and the kids that would tell the news for the day. It's a great way to get kids involved in school, and my mother who is now a principal at another school is wanting to get something similar set up again. However, they don't have cable outlets in all the classrooms, and so I've been pondering streaming the content over their network. All the rooms are running Mac OS X. So, I turn here to Slashdot to ask, if you had 26 classrooms how would you approach the problem of getting video to them in an inexpensive way?"

Comments

OS X mplayer with Tivo support?

[mccalli]

Whilst we're at it, does anyone have a compiled binary for OS X of mplayer with Tivo support?

I've hacked the Tivo to do streaming, but can't currently watch the streams on an OS X box. Which is a shame, because that's exactly where I'd like to watch them from.

All help or comments appreciated. Well, within Slashdot norms obviously...

Cheers,
Ian

Re:Windows Media Encoder 7/9

[jgaynor]

However, I do appreciate the information on WMP.

Thanks :) If the guy below had read my post maybe he wouldn't have had to troll himself. Good luck to you!

Run coax?

[Arcady13]

Really, how hard would it be to string some coax to each room and plug in a TV?