Are there any current videostream-player-type 32-bit distros in 2019?
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I have these thin clients that are not in use I think they’d do perfect for a security camera video wall—just feed them an RTSP/RTMP URL and be done, GUI not needed.
I’ve been lazily looking for candidates between projects but I can only find stuff for Raspberry Pie devices, furthermore, the clients are rather constrained and upgrading a *single* component in **one** of them probably costs more than **all** of them. They can’t be donated either because it’s hard to find an OS without expired system root CAs, up-to-date or able to be up-to-date with current cryptography, it’d do more harm than good.
**What I’ve done & specs**
They all have only 1GB of mem, 2GB of storage space but it can’t be used “too much” because they have some sort of RAM disk trickery. The only current-ish OSes I’ve managed to install are Porteus and Lubuntu on a USB stick-maybe I could even modify this to clear out some resources so the video player is able to keep playing smoothly for days. The original image is an embedded version of Windows-2009 I believe-with great tools for kiosk deployment from HP but I’d still need a player and the certificate thing is a real issue.
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BTW, the CPU is actually a i586 processor; this is a big part of the reason why I’ve had such a hard time finding something.
Asked by Vita
(310 rep)
Mar 3, 2019, 02:10 PM
Last activity: Mar 3, 2019, 05:48 PM
Last activity: Mar 3, 2019, 05:48 PM