<div dir="ltr"><blockquote>I know mythtv is a little too high end for this, but its going to be a distributed system where everything would be much easier if the content was all in one place (and we already have a system similar with a central media server). but yes it is low-rent digital signage<br>
hope all is well!<br>-J<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:43:32PM -0400, J wrote:<br>
> Does anybody have any ideas for a way to make mythtv playback<br>
> automated so that it plays back certain files at certain times....<br>
> kind of like a digital sign, or at the very least queue up items to<br>
> be played? I'm thinking this might be possible to do through the<br>
> slideshow of mythpicutres or something........ any ideas welcome<br><br>
In you are in fact trying to just do low-rent digital signage, look<br>
into mplayer and playlists. MythTV is way too high-end for that.<br><br>
Cheers,<br>
-- jra<br></blockquote></blockquote>
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