2005-03-24, 10:12
hi all - i'm looking to use xbmc to drive a storefront display. my requirements (above normal xbmc functionality) are:
- system should boot directly into xbmc and the screenshow mode
- system should play files out of a particular directory
- order should be according to a playlist or alphabetical order of files (whatever is easiest/makes the most sense)
- support for the playlist mixing mpeg, jpg (as a screenshow with programmable length), flash, and weather display
- ftp server should accept uploads from server of new media content. ideally, this should be to the live content area, but i doubt it is possible to delete running content. so a staging area makes sense, which is checked every 12 hours or so and the live content refreshed.
i've seen some basic playlist creation scripts out there, but this is a little more involved.
is anyone interested in creating a script to handle this? as this is for commercial use, i'm more than happy to pay for the development work.
i posted a request at rent-a-coder here, but i thought i'd touch base at this site, as this forum has all the experts on xbmc's python implementation.
thanks in advance! joe
- system should boot directly into xbmc and the screenshow mode
- system should play files out of a particular directory
- order should be according to a playlist or alphabetical order of files (whatever is easiest/makes the most sense)
- support for the playlist mixing mpeg, jpg (as a screenshow with programmable length), flash, and weather display
- ftp server should accept uploads from server of new media content. ideally, this should be to the live content area, but i doubt it is possible to delete running content. so a staging area makes sense, which is checked every 12 hours or so and the live content refreshed.
i've seen some basic playlist creation scripts out there, but this is a little more involved.
is anyone interested in creating a script to handle this? as this is for commercial use, i'm more than happy to pay for the development work.
i posted a request at rent-a-coder here, but i thought i'd touch base at this site, as this forum has all the experts on xbmc's python implementation.
thanks in advance! joe