Self-Hosting Movies with MoviX (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal steps through
the process of building a live Linux CD for watching movies. "
...a few months ago I looked on the Net for a Linux CD mini-distribution that is able to boot and play automatically all audio/video files on the CD. I was very surprised to find none. Therefore, my only chance to get one was to develop it myself, and so I started working on MoviX. Now, I am not a Linux guru and I know close to zero about multimedia playback, but the beauty of open source is you can put together tools developed by people who know much more than you and still create something new and useful. I put together my knowledge of Slackware management (I've been fond of Slackware since 1994) and the MPlayer ("the" multimedia player) and IsoLinux (an easy-to-use Linux CD bootloader) package I had recently found out on the Net and began building my distribution."