We did a first test of a video screening solution for our waiting area at the planetarium. The idea is to have videos playing on the screen, with some onscreen text indicating the probable time of the next show. Raspberry Pis to play out on old surplus VGA or TV screens. After a bit of trial and error, the method used was to play videos using VLC called from a script,
cvlc -I http --http-port 43210 --http-password MyPassword --fullscreen --no-video-title --sub-source="marq{file=/pathto/marq.txt,position=
Documentation for the marq subfilter is at https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/marq
and the idea came from this discussion.
Auto starting using a .desktop file put in .config/autostart directory as described at
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17051
with the contents of the .desktop file being
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/path/to/my/shellscript.sh
Modifying the marq.txt is currently by ssh, need to make some better solution, perhaps using a web server and PHP or something like that. Some images below of our test setup -
cvlc -I http --http-port 43210 --http-password MyPassword --fullscreen --no-video-title --sub-source="marq{file=/pathto/marq.txt,position=
Documentation for the marq subfilter is at https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/marq
and the idea came from this discussion.
Auto starting using a .desktop file put in .config/autostart directory as described at
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17051
with the contents of the .desktop file being
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/path/to/my/shellscript.sh
Modifying the marq.txt is currently by ssh, need to make some better solution, perhaps using a web server and PHP or something like that. Some images below of our test setup -
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