2011-05-27, 00:50
giftie Wrote:This is already how the script is set up.
You have the ability to set the slide show to last for up to an hour, depending on the number of slides you have. For instance, I have about 1500 slides, showing a slide every 10 seconds, those slides will last for around 2.5 hours. The script limits to 1 hour, as it is a pretty long time... Pressing the 'Back' button on the remote(varies from remote to remote) will stop the slide show, and continue on.. Since music is part of the slide show, transport keys(Play, Stop, Pause, Skip Back, Skip forward) are mapped to the music player.
This would be possible to program(not too difficult) but I don't see this sort of thing around(yet) The community is doing pretty good a creating new slides and I think Dark Scout is hosting them on his server(in pack form) available to all... I personally don't like to rely on streaming from the internet, though the world is definitely heading that way.
Excellent, an hour is more than enough time so that is perfect.
Regarding the streaming perhaps instead of relying on it to stream the images it could just display what it has locally but if it's idle then use that time to attempt to contact a server and download some new slides to display next time. I just wanted to throw it out there because I am sure to neglect my collection of slides and it would be nice to have it acquire new content when it has nothing better to do.
Anyway, great work on this. Thanks for the response.