[Tfug] Video Kiosk

[Jeffry Johnston]

Don't forget to lock everything down so that other bored geeks at the
hospital can't mess it up :)

Jeff

On 9/21/07, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/21/07, George Cohn <gwcohn at simplybits.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
>
> What else would you use?
>
> 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.
>
>
> What about a web-based frontend, where front-end sets cron jobs.  One for
> playing the
> movie every x minutes, maybe create another video with just slides, a
> video
> that loops
> the hospital logo, 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?
>
>
> A couple scripts + Ubuntu + a geek with an open weekend?  :)
>
>     - Chris
>
>
> --
> Chris Robbins
> Systems Programmer
> Department of English - University of Arizona
> http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net
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