[mythtv-users] Digital Sign

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Aug 15 18:46:33 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:43:32PM -0400, J wrote:
>    Does anybody have any ideas for a way to make mythtv playback
>    automated so that it plays back certain files at certain times....
>    kind of like a digital sign, or at the very least queue up items to
>    be played? I'm thinking this might be possible to do through the
>    slideshow of mythpicutres or something........ any ideas welcome

In you are in fact trying to just do low-rent digital signage, look
into mplayer and playlists.  MythTV is way too high-end for that.

Cheers,
-- jra
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