[Tfug] Video Kiosk

[Tim Ottinger]

Sound right to me.  I think you can script the players easily enough.  Any
good streaming video servers out there? PPT or Impress to video converters?
I bet this would not be too bad.  It would be fun to try to work it out.


On 9/22/07, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
>
> I've been using Inferno to build simple kiosks.
> Biggest problem has been getting "donated" hardware
> to work with ??? software (e.g., when you don't have
> control over drivers, etc.)
>
> You could probably hack something together to parse
> a simple "schedule" file that users could set up with
> a text editor, etc.
>
> Inferno's *hosted* (Linux, Solaris, WindBlows, etc.)
> performance isn't spectacular but you'r just looking
> for a simple "scripting" application.
>
> www.vitanuova.com (IIRC)
>
> HTH,
> --don
>
>
>
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