From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 6:14:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134EE37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.49.190.34] (fireout.mbakercorp.com [209.49.190.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FFC043E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JWRIGHT@mbakercorp.com) Received: from no.name.available by [209.49.190.34] via smtpd (for mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 13:14:28 UT Received: from mbakercorp.com (admin_4.mbakercorp.com) by mailsweeper.mbakercorp.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.10) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:15:46 -0400 Received: from gatedom-MTA by mbakercorp.com with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:14:24 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.1 Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:14:17 -0400 From: "Joseph Wright" To: Subject: Can this be done without a lot of custimization in FreeBSD. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to see if the following can be done and if so what is the best way to tackle it. I need to have a FreeBSD server that acts as the "video player" behind a small advertisement screen. I have tested several applications on FreeBSD through X and have had really good results on video playback. The issue I am running into is the advertisement will be controlled remotely and I need a way for the video or X desktop to be blacked out or not displaying when someone remotely chooses another video. I do not what anyone looking at the advertisement to see a X desktop while the video is stopped or changing. Also what would be a good command line driven mpeg player to use in this situation. The only thing I could think of was to somehow have a second video or tv-out card that would only be used to output the mpeg video from the mpeg player.(not sure if this is all possible) thanks joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message