[mythtv-users] Digital Sign

J jsweepstakes at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 19:07:41 UTC 2008


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
hope all is well!
-J

> 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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