I've got (or will have) a room with 72 student PCs, and one Teacher PC.
What they want is for the teacher to be able to start a video, and have it play on all 72 student pcs, weather it is off his HD, dvd, or vhs (via capture card).
I see that the multicast in VideoLAN would serve me well here. My question is hot to control the student pcs. I see that there is an http server with a web interface, but is that any good for controlling 72 pcs?
I also see that you can connect a client pc to a stream via the command line, so I could write some sort of script to start VLC.
I don't mind if it is always running, and I just bring to the front or something. I also have a feeling this might work better if the clients were running Linux, but I'm not sure if I'll be allowed to do that.
Ideas, helpful pointers appreciated.