[Tfug] Video Kiosk

[Sean Warburton]

I forgot, two more things: I would almost suggest Windows, due to the fact
that most people are comfortable with it. Does IT really need a call every
time somebody wants to add a video clip? Another plus to Windows (a feature
I am not aware of in PC-BSD, if there is, be sure to let me know of it) is
scheduled tasks. I can have World In Conflict load every Tuesday and
Thursday at 9:30 PM, which happens to be the exact time I come back from
classes. I am sure you could have VLC load every day, week, hour, whatever
and scrip it to play a premade play list until it ends, then schedule a task
of  opening Open Office with sideshows, whatever.

One more thing:Bexley mentioned donated parts. Why not get a bare bones
system? They save unbelievable amounts of money. I could get you a quad core
Intel chip, a decent motherboard, two gigs of DDR2 800 MHz RAM, and a tera
SATA2 hard rive and DVD burner for like 700 bucks. That system would almost
kick butt, except you wouldn't have those essential $650 video cards or a
liquid cooling system yet:)
     Sean

On 9/27/07, Sean Warburton <hl2addict at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think VLC player works wonders. I know it works over LANs, because I
> made a simple music (and even video) server out of an old computer and all
> the computers on the network could open VLC and pick up the stream. I am not
> sure about over the internet, but maybe the hospital would let you use .001%
> of their big servers (you know they have them, somewhere...) to host these
> videos. Just a thought...
>      Sean
>
> On 9/26/07, Tim Ottinger <tottinge at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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FreeBSD v.1.4 (beta)
ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo 6600
dual eVGA 7900 GT OCs (full x16 SLI)
2 gigs DDR2 PC2-6400 (OCd to 866MHz)
250 gig RAID 1 (mirroring)
custom Liquid cooling :)
four 17" CRTs (uber widescreen)
7.1 surround sound (296 watts)
one happy gamer