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On 06/22/2017 01:52 PM, JD wrote:
Maybe NUCs are not cheap, but it all depends on what bells and whistles you buy with them. One thing everyone agrees on, is: you can mount them a good deal less obtrusively in a home-theater setup, and they consume far less power. I'm thinking of pairing one of them with an already-smart TV. That way, I can have access to full Internet anytime I want to. I'm also thinking of tying in an external optical drive--specifically a DVD. (Linux does not do Blu-ray yet, more's the pity. Anyone have any idea when that will happen?) If I can somehow manage to get a fresh copy of the old libdvdcss package, then maybe I can build a device that can act as a regionless DVD player. Living as I do in the USA, I have mostly Region 1 DVDs and Region A Blu-rays. But I just happen to have a collection of an old 1980s TV series from Australia--issued in Germany. That, of course, is in Region 2. Now I can get a regionless DVD and Blu-ray player, or I can get a NUC, equip it with an HDD and a DVD/CD player, install Fedora, and somehow find my libdvdcss.rpm and libdvdcss2.rpm files, transfer them over, and install them. (Anyone who can help me find a no-longer-distributed package on one machine for transfer to another, would be doing me a really big favor.) The second alternative would likely cost the same amount of money--but would get me more bang for my buck. Though I do have one other alternative--maybe. A wild idea. Could I disassemble this desktop, take the HDD, mount that in a NUC, and get an external DVD to go with it? Just gathering information. Temlakos |
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