[Malvern] Video Networking

[Ian Pascoe]

Evening all

Following on from the conversations at Geoff's on Wednesday - apple cake and
quiche very much up to standard thanks Geoff.

A question for those of you involved with networks.

If you have a LAN with a server and a number of PCs off of it, what is the
limitation to how many people could view the same video source if stored on
the servers HD?  Would this be limited by the server's hardware, network
bandwidth or something completely different.  The source would be fall blown
DVD material.

I presume that within any network the Tx and Rx have a small buffer on the
network cards that once filled is downloaded into the PC?

Does anyone know what the transfer rate is for data coming off of a DVD data
file?  ie CD Audio is something like 128k/bps.

Why am I asking - for no other reason than would it work at home - ie you
load your DVD onto a HD and you can take your laptop / PC in which ever room
to watch your favorite film whilst someelse is doing the same in another and
so on.

Ian
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