[mythtv-users] Digital Sign

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:07:41PM -0400, J wrote:
>      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

No problem with that: Linux supports lots of distributed filesystems.
Building a stripped down standalone sign-player distribution with the
location of the fileserver media and playlist directories burned in
is probably not all that complicated.

Cheers,
-- jra
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