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Szerző: Lukasz Jastrzebski
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Tárgy: Re: [dyne:bolic] dynebolic to start playing a full screen video automatically when boots
Hi there!

It will be possible if you make custom nest. If you'll be able to burn
the file into dynebolic DVD (with the footage; things will be simpler
if you'll install it into pendrive, eg with Fusbi installer - it works
with 2.5.2, you just have choose DHORUBA option from the grub menu
when booting) - you're all set.

How I would do this:

create fresh nest

put all the video files so I can reach it from /home/luther somehow -
link it there in the way it won't break when changing number of
connected disks/drives

find a file that is supposed to be executed when your desktop env.
starts (~/.fluxbox/startup with Fluxbox, don't know XFCE that much).

read mplayer (and xinerama if you have to have dual screen setup) man,

put in the startup file instruction like

mplayer video.avi -loop 0

and fiddle with this (or other) options:
-xineramascreen, -fullscreen, -fstype

you can as well try this sneaky tool, maybe it will make your job
easier without bending d:b to do the job:
http://geexbox.org/en/generator.html
seems like you put playlist with your video 100 (300) times (and the
video file as well) in the main iso directory and you're all set.

If you have 2 PCs for two videos it is much easier, just dunno ;)
It would be also hard to prevent some hardware-related hardware from
saving in nest, eg. when you set up dual screen output and want it to
be independent from video card you'll find in their PC.

Cheers,
Luke

2009/9/26 Orton AKINCI aka .-_-. <ortonak@???>:
> hi,
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> i have two problems:) a work of mine, which is about free culture and copyleft attitude, is going to be shown in an exhibition, in germany. i will not be there to setup the work but i have instructed the technical team to use dyne:bolic to  run my two theora videos as looped. but they say that it is not easy for the assistants to start the work play each day, without the assistance of technical team and this is a problem for them since the exhibition lasts for 6 months. so i was thinking if it would be possible to send them a dyne:bolic cd, which will start playing the videos in a loop when boots.
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> my second problem is that i am not a hacker:) and i don't know it myself, but i can try to figure it out if someone instructs me...
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> they offered me to run the piece from dvd or form a pc by converting to another format. but i rejected that since this is the most important conceptual part of the work, using free software and free formats. most of my work is about copyleft attitude and this peace to be shown is called "re_potemkin: a copyleft crowdsourcing free/open source cinema project"
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> it would be great if i can learn how to make a dyne:bolic cd (or better a usb flash disc) that will run two theora videos full screen and looped, when computer boots from the dynebolic usb... i am not asking this just for my work but i am helping some people for their video works and i can make them use dynebolic and i can promote dynebolic this way among local artists.
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> any recommendations or is there anybody that can instruct me to do that?
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>  .-_-.
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