Building a Simple Streaming Media Server?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday February 26, 2005 @11:59AM from the on-demand-tunes-remotely dept.

neomage86 asks: "I'm looking for a simple Network Jukebox. I want to be able to stream media from a Windows (it has to be Windows for other school work) server to remote machines over a LAN (only 1-2 clients at a time). I want to be able to choose the song that's playing from the remote machine, video would be nice, but not necessary, and it should be free (as in beer, I'm a student). Any ideas?" "For some quick background, I'm an undergrad with a desktop PVR with several hundred gigs of media on it. I also have a laptop, and use computer labs fairly often. Anywhere on campus, I can expect to get a minimum of 10 megabits/s between my current machine and the PVR. My first thought was just Windows file sharing, but it breaks often (I'm not sure why, I have an Apache web server, and FileZilla ftp server running on the same machine that never go down) and I can't install Samba on the Solaris lab machines. Ideally the client should be web based, so I don't need to download anything to receive, but that is optional."

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Hmmm... by Hugecocks+Analthrust · 2005-02-26 21:07 · Score: -1, Troll

If you're a student, shouldn't you be, uh, studying? Maybe I'm just old, but seeing a bunch of kids running around with thousands of dollars of computer equipment to watch movies in the bathroom, when there's diseases to cure, makes me think university is just a playground to park our kids in to keep them in debt and out of the power structures.
Why the hell are there so many kids in university? Don't they realize they're wasting the best years of their lives? It's not at 75 you'll take up skydiving... Assuming at 75 you're done paying off your debts and can still move after your corporate masters have squeezed you drier than a rock on Mars.