From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 7:25: 3 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 B269C37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate21.fw.porsche.de (gate23.fw.porsche.de [193.174.9.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53EF943E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perisa@porsche.de) Received: (qmail 21734 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2002 14:29:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wuxin011.ibd.porsche.de) (141.36.65.1) by 193.197.149.150 with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 14:29:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 14072 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2002 14:24:55 -0000 Received: from wuxws007.ibd.porsche.de (HELO porsche.de) (141.36.2.178) by smtp4cli.ibd.porsche.de with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 14:24:54 -0000 Message-ID: <3D2309A2.800@porsche.de> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 16:26:42 +0200 From: Marc Perisa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en, de-de, es-es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Wright Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can this be done without a lot of custimization in FreeBSD. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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/ 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