Anyone interested in writing or helping with a media playback app?

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Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong area

Is there an app or does anyone fancy giving me a price for writing an app do to the following:Play an ambient audio/video track (whatever format needed)
On receiving a trigger input switch to playing another specified audio/video track
When 2nd track is finished go back to playing the ambient track.

Tracks would need to be full HD

Thanks

Mike

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Just curious. What board would this application be running one?

Gerald

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I know that VLC Media player has a web interface for adding items to the playlist and playing videos remotely. It can also be configured to loop the playlist.

So with that, you could invoke VLC from the command line and give it a file to play automatically - then use the web interface to “trigger” switching to another file immediately while leaving the initial file in the playlist to be looped back to once done.

I’m fairly sure ALL the major video player apps for linux have a web interface.

Of course this moves the time/cost from “writing an app” to “configuring the system” as you will need to setup your linux distribution, have it start the x-windows environment upon bootup[but not a desktop, just the windowing system], and then start VL - that is assuming you don’t want a desktop, you just want a pure video player.

Then you can design your trigger app.

Not a non-trivial amount of time, mind you.

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Is there an app or does anyone fancy giving me a price for writing an app
do to the following:
Play an ambient audio/video track (whatever format needed)
On receiving a trigger input switch to playing another specified
audio/video track
When 2nd track is finished go back to playing the ambient track.

Tracks would need to be full HD

ooops... poor BB

Of course this moves the time/cost from "writing an app" to "configuring the
system" as you will need to setup your linux distribution, have it start the
x-windows environment upon bootup[but not a desktop, just the windowing
system

No - you don't need X, you can run videos in framebuffer mode.
Search the net for
framebuffer gstreamer mplayer etc. in combination with BB(B)

HTH

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Hi Mike,

I don't know how far you have gotten along with this but in my opinion
you would be better off using a Raspberry Pi due it's hardware video
decoding capabilities.

I am not sure what you mean by "trigger input switch" but if you mean a
physical switch connected to the device, then this is certainly do-able.

I have done embedded contract work before on both the BeagleBone and
Raspberry Pi hardware, I would be happy to discuss this further with you
if you're looking for a paid solution.

I am a freelance embedded linux contractor on my off hours from my day
job (which is also embedded linux based). If you wish to know more,
please visit my site at http://www.embed.me.uk.

My prices are fair, and relatively cheap compared to full-time
contrators. If we could get the specification nailed down I could give
you a quote. I can also supply a previous client for you to email for a
testemonial if you so wish.

Regards,
Jack.