I am having a new years party, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to use XBMC for my new years countdown. Has anyone ever written a plugin or have good ideas on how to achieve this?
2010-12-30, 23:54
Play a movie with Times Square countdown...
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2010-12-31, 01:44
Just turn the TV on and watch the countdown for real.
Either that or just download an avi file of a countdown, but then you have to mess around for 10 seconds of a countdown.
Just seems a bit too nerdy
Either that or just download an avi file of a countdown, but then you have to mess around for 10 seconds of a countdown.
Just seems a bit too nerdy
2010-12-31, 13:44
What I meant really, is I will be using XBMC to play music for most of the party. I want xbmc to automatically do something when we are getting close and then start a countdown.
I guess I could try writing a script but I dont really have enough time now. Ah well never mind, I guess everyone else thinks this is a stupid idea
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I guess I could try writing a script but I dont really have enough time now. Ah well never mind, I guess everyone else thinks this is a stupid idea
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2010-12-31, 20:01
Honestly, I think it's a pretty cool idea, but undoubtedly so time intensive that you'd really have to want it. Seems like it might actually be easier to come up with an hour long playlist of music videos, then create a one minute long music video at the end that does an exciting count down. Doing something like that would need zero code at all. Of course, you'd actually have to make the one minute countdown movie and acquire an hour's worth of music videos, but the first one probably wouldn't be impossible, and the second could be done using iLife.
2010-12-31, 21:14
natethomas Wrote:Honestly, I think it's a pretty cool idea, but undoubtedly so time intensive that you'd really have to want it. Seems like it might actually be easier to come up with an hour long playlist of music videos, then create a one minute long music video at the end that does an exciting count down. Doing something like that would need zero code at all. Of course, you'd actually have to make the one minute countdown movie and acquire an hour's worth of music videos, but the first one probably wouldn't be impossible, and the second could be done using iLife.
Well I was thinking probably the simplest way (well under linux at least) would be to set a cron job to play a video via the API. Then find some kind of cool countdown video and set it to run at X minutes. However my guests will be arriving in about 45 minutes and I dont think they would think it was much of a party if I spent it writing a bash script.
Well maybe for next year.
Glad at least one other person gets what I am after here anyway, Happy new year everyone!
