[IAEP] play dvds

[Ken Hargesheimer]

The multi-millions of people I am interested in helping do not have access
to the internet.  I can give them a 35¢ DVD with thousands of books on it
or 2 hours of video and they can play it on a old, used computer.  Study
for hours. Library for schools, etc.   The material is not copyrighted but
some which is, I have permission to put on DVDs.   I wrote about the XO in
order to expend the use of thousands of DVDs for children.

I am not an expert [two friends are] on computers, etc but I am an expert
on using them.  In simple language, is there a way to make the XO play
DVDs?

Ken Hargesheimer

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
>  Are there any licensing restrictions on the material? If not, it could be
> converted to an XO friendly format (say OOG'ish) and made available via the
> internet* (I'd suggest in chapters or short clips) so deployments could
> download, evaluate, and distribute if they thought it valuable for their
> local community. Is it available online already? Perhaps somewhere like
> Dailymotion would be good:
>
>    http://www.dailymotion.com/sugarlabs
>
> ...as they support XO/Sugar friendly formats.
>
> --Gary
>
> * I know you're trying to target folks off grid, but making the material
> available online would allow others to easily evaluate and distribute it to
> their local community themselves.
>
> > There are hundreds, if not thousands, of children's dvds available.
> >
> > ken Hargesheimer
> >
> >
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