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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Streaming SopCast from Linux Box to Playstation 3 or any other DLNA/UPnP-Client
SopCast is quite a popular P2P video streaming client.It is very similar to TVU, PPLive, PPStream and others. One good thing about SopCast is, that a fully supported client for Linux exists, that is somewhat stable and performs well.Since you generally stream TV-Programs with SopCast it is desireable to watch them an an actual TV-Set as opposed to a monitor or a laptop screen. Of course the easiest way to watch the streams on TV would be to hook up your computer or laptop to your TV using HDMI or DVI-Ports but the procedure of connecting and disconnecting your computer to your TV is really uncomfortable. However, many of us either have a DLNA-Client of some kind either integrated into a TV (most newer Samsung
, Panasonic
and Philips
have) or hooked up to the TV in form of a streaming box (WD TV Live HD
, AC Ryan Playon
) or a gaming console, like the Sony PlayStation 3
. So in many cases it is safe to assume that your multimedia equipment and your computers can communicate with each other via LAN or WIFI. Since you can't run a SopCast client directly on your DLNA-Clients you need to run it on a computer and stream the content using DLNA-Protocol to your DLNA-Clients. Now, there are plenty of ways to accomplish this using a Linux box and free software, here's the way i found to be the most convenient for me:
, Panasonic and Philips have) or hooked up to the TV in form of a streaming box (WD TV Live HD, AC Ryan Playon) or a gaming console, like the Sony PlayStation 3. So in many cases it is safe to assume that your multimedia equipment and your computers can communicate with each other via LAN or WIFI. Since you can't run a SopCast client directly on your DLNA-Clients you need to run it on a computer and stream the content using DLNA-Protocol to your DLNA-Clients. Now, there are plenty of ways to accomplish this using a Linux box and free software, here's the way i found to be the most convenient for me:Thursday, July 24, 2008
Microtouch Touchscreen configuration and calibration
Since i had to deal with a few touchscreens at work, i'd like to summarize my experiences with linux' touchscreen capabilities, or better yet Xorg's touchpad support.
The latest touchscreen i got my hands on was integrated into a terminal-pc of the company ict, which is a german company that is specialized on these kinds of terminals. All i could tell from the looking inside the machine's designer case was that it's touchscreen was connected vie RS232 on Com2 and that the touchscreen's manifacturer was propably Microtouch Systems, a company that (at least by now) belongs to 3M. Since the terminal came with Windows 2000 preinstalled and preconfigured, i was able to check further information on the touchscreen form its Windows driver. The Touchscreen was indeed a serially connected Microtouch device with firmware version 6.0. Another quite important fact was the serial port configutation for the touchscreen, namely the baudrate of 19200.
The latest touchscreen i got my hands on was integrated into a terminal-pc of the company ict, which is a german company that is specialized on these kinds of terminals. All i could tell from the looking inside the machine's designer case was that it's touchscreen was connected vie RS232 on Com2 and that the touchscreen's manifacturer was propably Microtouch Systems, a company that (at least by now) belongs to 3M. Since the terminal came with Windows 2000 preinstalled and preconfigured, i was able to check further information on the touchscreen form its Windows driver. The Touchscreen was indeed a serially connected Microtouch device with firmware version 6.0. Another quite important fact was the serial port configutation for the touchscreen, namely the baudrate of 19200.
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