Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 16:26:42 +0200 From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de> To: Joseph Wright <JWRIGHT@mbakercorp.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can this be done without a lot of custimization in FreeBSD. Message-ID: <3D2309A2.800@porsche.de> References: <sd22c070.032@mbakercorp.com>
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Joseph Wright wrote: >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 > Hi Joseph, I can not help you on the issue on which player to use, but You could use a web-server with some PHP/Perl/<your favorite script language of the week> script to upload the files to that machine. Then via a small script called from the web-server you could stop and start the video player. As for the X desktop: You should not install KDE/GNOME or similar for this - a small windowmanager will be ok. Set it that it does not run any application at startup and that the background is black - done. Every viedo player started will use the local viedo output (since you don't change it via DISPLAY=yourhost:0.0). Hope that helps Marc > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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