[Tfug] Video Kiosk

[George Cohn]

I've been asked by a friend who works at a hospital if it would be 
possible to create a stand alone computer system that would play some 
patient education videos.

I'm thinking along the lines of a Linux box, maybe Ubuntu?

The videos would be short 10 - 15 minute bits played from the hard drive 
with something like mplayer.  Between the videos, the machine would show 
a slide show presentation of information, something like a power point 
presentation.

Audio during the slide show would be something royalty free and innocuous.

The only difficult part of putting this together is a front end that 
would allow the staff to program the times that the videos played, IE: 
Play video one at 8 AM, when it ends, switch to the slide presentation 
until 8:30 AM, play second video, etc.

Sounds like a viable commercial application here.  ;-)

Anyone have any thoughts on GNU software that could be cobbled together 
to do this?  Preferably Debian or Ubuntu as that's what I'm most 
familiar with.  Or anyone want to develop this as a commercial product?

George Cohn