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I had never heard of Squeezebox before. Is there a similar produce for streaming video wirelessly from PC to AV system ?
I'm not familiar with anything as "polished" for video. There are some open source projects dealing with this, but there are lots of issues:

  • Legal ways to rip DVDs (there are none in the U.S. at least),
  • Massive disk space to store a library of DVDs (a typical DVD has 6-8GB of material),
  • The "model" of use for video is different. With music, it's common (indeed, typical) for me to create playlists of material, switching from album to album on a song by song basis (indeed, that's what "Shuffle: Songs" does in the Slim Server software). But you don't really do this with video (i.e. how many people watch 3-4 minutes of a DVD, then shift to a new DVD).
Since I tend to watch DVDs by sitting down and spending the 1.5-2.5 hours to watch it, it seems pointless (to me, anyway) to have a device to do this. Just get up and change the DVD, saving yourself a boatload of cash for the terribytes of disk space that it would take to store a reasonable DVD library.

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