Hi guys
I'm planning on working at making some extra options for playlists and bring  a-b repeat style option for playing media back.
I'd love to get it so, like with the DVD bookmarks, you can jump to a point in a media file and play it for X seconds. So you could mark sections of music or dvd and then have a playlist of them all.

I'm still putting together a design spec on what i want to get working so if anyones got any ideas let me know.

One idea i have is tap into the existing events to fire a next track option after X seconds when you play your playlist. Think this will need no real back end changes and just needs a editor function to create the events. (i'm thinking a web-based one for now, moving to adding orbiter screens later on)

Again i'm still just throwing ideas around at the moment.

I've got a Nokia 6500 slide i can test it on too

From what i remember seeing thats how its always been.
I think the idea is with a central drive you would just use that to rip the disks. your more likely going to want to watch a DVD on a MD so you'd have the drive local in the room.
I guess this has just been taken as the norm.

Yeah i've just read about this purevideo patch in the new nvidia drivers
seems most of the main video libs have been patched already, libavcodec, libavutil, and ffmpeg. mplayer has basic support already.

This can only be a good thing for us, will make those onboard nvidia cards really nice for video quality now

I'll have a go this weekend and see what happens. Which version of outlook you using?

man, that's uncool. really uncool.

I've got a basic template for rako. It's really rough but worked enough to demo the kit (was demoed at the Uk cedia expo two years ago)
I would really like to get it finished and have a go getting bi-directional control added to it. Here a dump of the code. I'll try and explain any questions IF i remember how i got it to work

Code:

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   0:require 'Ruby_Generic_Serial_Device'
   1:class Command < Ruby_Generic_Serial_Device::RubyCommandWrapper
   2:end
   3:class Device_48 < Ruby_Generic_Serial_Device::RubySerialIOWrapper
   4:#### 350 ####################################################################
   5:def cmd_350(cmd=nil)
   6:@returnParamArray.clear
   7:buffer = conn_.Recv(100,500)
   8: print buffer
   9:
  10:return @returnParamArray
  11:end
  12:#### 355 ####################################################################
  13:def cmd_355(cmd=nil)
  14:@returnParamArray.clear
  15:rakoReset
  16:setHouse
  17:
  18:return @returnParamArray
  19:end
  20:#### PRIVATE METHODS ####################################################################
  21:#373 Private method Listing
  22:
  23:#Send Message out
  24:def sndgsd(message)
  25:   conn_.Send(message)
  26:end
  27:
  28:#Pull in lights room and channel from the device data
  29:def getRoom(myData)
  30:   print myData
  31:   getMyData = myData.split(',')
  32:   myRoomID = getMyData[0]
  33:
  34:end
  35:def getChannel(myData)
  36:   print myData
  37:   getMyData = myData.split(',')
  38:   myChannelID = getMyData[-1]
  39:end
  40:
  41:
  42:def setRoom(myData)
  43:   getMyData = myData.split(',')
  44:   myRoomID = getMyData[0]
  45:   sndgsd("RO:#{myRoomID}\r\n")
  46:end
  47:
  48:def setChannel(myData)
  49:   getMyData = myData.split(',')
  50:   myChannelID = getMyData[-1]
  51:   sndgsd("CH:#{myChannelID}\r\n")
  52:end
  53:def setHouse
  54:   house = device_.devid_[267]
  55:   sndgsd("HO:#{house}\r\n")
  56:end
  57:
  58:def rakoReset
  59:   sndgsd("RESET\r\n")
  60:end
  61:def cmd_ReceiveCommandForChild(cmd)
  62:childID = device_.childdevices_[cmd.devidto_].devdata_[12]
  63:#getRoom_Channel(childID)
  64:
  65:setRoom(childID)
  66:setChannel(childID)
  67:
  68:
  69:  if cmd.id_ == 192
  70:     serial_on = "LEVEL:255\r\n"
  71:     print( "Sending " + serial_on + " \n" )
  72:     sndgsd(serial_on)
  73:  end
  74:
  75:  if cmd.id_ == 193
  76:     serial_off = "OFF\r\n"
  77:     print( "Sending " + serial_off + " \n" )
  78:     sndgsd(serial_off)
  79:  end
  80:
  81:  print("We got cmd: " + cmd.id.to_s)
  82:
  83:  if cmd.id_ == 184
  84:     dim_level = cmd.params_[76]
  85:     serial_dim = "LEVEL:"+dim_level+"\r\n"
  86:     print( "Sending " + serial_dim + " \n")
  87:     sndgsd(serial_dim)
  88:  end
  89:end
  90:#### START SETTERS ####################################################################
  91:def initialize()
  92:super
  93:@returnParamArray=Array.new
  94:end
  95:####  END  SETTERS ####################################################################
  96:end

I'm currently looking at wtorrenthttp://www.wtorrent-project.org/trac/ for this, torrentflux is ok, but interface isn't that nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSLinux
its a uClinux port on the DS
seems to have SDL ported to it and also a useable framebuffer
i never thought about using it as an orbiter, but could be quite good.  I'll add it to my "someday list"

You might get away with sending the 1900x1200 res signal to the projector, most new projectors have onboard scaling, but you need to check what modes your projector supports before doing that.

I've not played with dual screen stuff in a few years on linux so not sure what options there are now.
It use to be that you could use either xinearma to make apps support the extra screen or the nvidia drivers have twin-view which can drive the screens.
I've used a plasam screen and a projector via a video switch and that worked ok. system was set to out put a 720p screen and i just hit a button when i wanted to use the projector.
A software solution would be better but a video switch is a fail safe solution if its a must have for you.

out of the box LMCE cant use dualview

Sorry what graphics card are you using?
also can you post the full hardware including motherboard model

I've cheated with samba
on a reboot, the core will re-write the samba.conf files so editing them will need some extra work i've not looked at yet.
So
i went into /home/public/data/ and then created a sybolic link to the path i wanted to access (its a usb external drive)
 
Its not the best solution but it works

I've had this when i used the DVD install image with 710b4 and a Nvidia 6600Gt APG card
i went round in circles as it looked like a possable bad system ram/heat issue. Found info on the web todo with the nvidia agp settings (google for nvagp issues)

In the end i did a full reload with the CD install method.
Works a treat now.
So...
What hardware you using,
What install method you using etc......

Just to say, thanks to watching this i was able to get my Rako kit working At the moment its really basic code to "just get it to work" but will be going back over it to add checking and anything else i can think of (the blasted off commands issue for one  )

I'll pop a wiki page up sometime this week with my code.

Looking forward to the next conference, i'll try and add something to it this time (got a list of why dont this works )