From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 8: 7:11 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 66A0B37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from correo.servidoresdns.net (correo.servidoresdns.net [217.76.128.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC74F43E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rafa@artenet-cb.es) Received: from artenet-cb.es [213.98.90.229] by correo.servidoresdns.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A3106E52002A; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:06:56 +0200 Message-ID: <3D23128E.BAFA9BEF@artenet-cb.es> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:04:46 +0200 From: Rafael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Grim=E1n?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [es] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can this be done without a lot of custimization in FreeBSD. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Hi :) >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 I'm new to FreeBSD, but have been a long time into Linux. I don't know if mplayer has been ported to FreeBSD. If it has, I suggest you check it out because it lets you play all types of video format except for .mov and it supports a great deal of outputs, for example svga or vesa which means you DON'T need X :) HTH Rafa -- rafa@artenet-cb.es http://www.suse.de/es rafael.griman@hispalinux.es http://www.suse.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message