[H-GEN] AV question

[Julian DeMarchi]

On 09/27/2011 02:15 PM, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
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> Heya--
> 
> I've had a request to build a server that can output Video to an AV
> system at a retirement home.
> 
> What is required is a system that can stream "channels" and insert their
> own advertisements into the stream. Such as, meeting dates, up and
> coming events and the such.
> 
> Any ideas that I can look at? Of course this will be all F/OSS.

got no answers on this from this list nor any positives from sage-au.

in the end i found no in-the-box solution. feeling quite confident i am
not re-inventing the wheel, i ended up writing my own.

i am a systems hacker, not a developer, so the code is embarrassing to
say the least. it was written using perl catalyst mvc framework.

here is what it does in short;

- controls a vlc instance via the RemoteControl interface using net::telnet
- creates a mpg stream from still images using mencoder and also demux's
audio over the top if needed
- backup DVDs and have the ability to play such DVDs over the vlc
stream(if licensed to do so, for legal reasons)
- download recorded mythtv to queue into the vlc stream

this is only a very short description. i am installing this at the
clients premises on sat so it should work really well.

i did have issues with the net::mythTV and net::mythweb perl modules
which is not solved just yet, but hopefully will be this week.

if anyone is interested in the software i am happy to release it on
sourceforge/sharesource

--julian