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Cool, but I really need something that will play videos too

Thanks Toby. An interesting challenge I think!

Brilliant idea! How do I go about that?! Thanks Toby.

Thanks everyone for your repsonses. I guess I have 3 replies!: a) Attached is a simple script I wrote to do what I wanted, cobbled together from various sources. Basically it allows you to have a media folder, which can contain various videos, photos, mp3s etc (anything the media player can play). There is also a batch file script called showit.bat, which when run, creates an m3u playlist file automatically, containing any of the media files in the current directory. It will then tell Windows Media Player to play that playlist fullscreen. Note that the playlist must already have been added to WMP. Works well, does the job. Tried PortableVLC, had issues with quality. b) I've installed Xibo, very simple for me, although I'm trying to make it easy enough for our admin team to do it! If I have a powerpoint that it is displaying, then if I update the PPT, will the Xibo system show the updated file? Otherwise it requires reuploading again... c) Can Xibo display media in a folder, as opposed to having to upload the media into Xibo? That would be ideal Thanks everyone for your help media.zip

Hi, we have an LCD TV in the reception, connected to a networked XP machine. I would like to have a shared folder on the network, where staff can dump images and videos, and for this to be shown on display on the machine. I would rather I didn't have to stop the looping of content to change the file, just repeat over and over again, taking into account if new files are there (and adding them). Any ideas of a solution for this? I.e. play media files in a directory full screen, on loop, and include new files when available. Thanks!

Thanks- if you can check, I would appreciate that! SUre it can work, but don't want to advise others if it really doesn't. Thank you.

HI, a friend of mine has an HD Flip camera, we have the normal non-HD ones. On our network we use the klite codec pack, and can edit the videos in MovieMaker fine. On their network, even with the klite codec pack, they are unable to edit the videos in MovieMaker. Is this because the videos taken with HD Flips are a different format, so unable to be klite'd or Moviemaker'd ? Thank you.

Thanks painejake. Sorry- one more thing. The ubuntu page says "The big problem is that wildcards don't work, so you will need one such stanza for each PHP package you want to pull from karmic". How do I know or find out the php packages and versions that I need? Thank you for your continuing help!

Thanks for your help. How exactly do I downgrade to php5.2? I've no idea how to do it! Also, apt-cache search phpshield returns nothing. Version 5.2 located at /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/phpshield.5.2.lin, which is the extension_dir property showing in php. Thanks again.

Hi, I'm trying to install phpmotion on the latest ubuntu release. Apache, ffmpeg etc are all installed. However, when I come to run phpmotion (ie to setup it up), I am met with: PHP script /var/www/phpmotion/classes/config.php is protected by phpSHIELD and requires the phpSHIELD loader phpshield.5.3.lin. The phpSHIELD loader has not been installed, or is not installed correctly. Please visit the phpSHIELD php encoder site to download required loader. I cannot seem to find phpshield.5.3.lin, only phpshield.5.2.lin Is there an issue with one thing being more up to date than the other? I am at a loss, and have very limited unix experience. Thank you!

Hi, we are looking to purchase 7 SB 660i, to be installed with powered speakers (not USB). 5 of them are replacing existing older 660 smartboards, and 2 are fresh installs. Power for the boards is readily available. We are located in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Is anyone able to give me a quote for supply and installation? I'm looking to purchase next week, so am in a bit of a rush. Many thanks!

OK, well http://mtube can be accessed from a windows machine, but not from ubuntu itself (the host machine). Any ideas?

administrator@mtube:~$ sudo iptables -L [sudo] password for administrator: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceroute Hop Hostname IP Time 1 Time 2 1 mtube.local 10.199.224.187 0.103ms 1 10.199.224.16 10.199.224.16 0.351ms 1 10.199.224.16 10.199.224.16 0.371ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ping the windows server (10.199.224.16) Bytes Source Seq Time Units 64 10.199.224.16 1 0.083 ms 64 10.199.224.16 2 0.122 ms 64 10.199.224.16 3 0.124 ms 64 10.199.224.16 4 0.122 ms 64 10.199.224.16 5 0.117 ms Time minimum: 0.08 ms Time average: 0.11 ms Time maximum: 0.12 ms Packets transmitted: 5 Packets received: 5 Successful packets: 100% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that I can ping from a windows machine to the ubuntu machine fine. I can also type in http://10.199.224.187 from a windows machine and it shows up the 'It Works" webpage fine. It's only http://mtube/ that doesn't work from any machine, inc the ubuntu machine.

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

No, I've not changed that (not sure how). It definitely loads var/www/ as I slightly changed the index page, which is reflected by the browser.

Hi, I have bought a new machine and installed the latest version of Ubuntu on it. I've installed Apache2, as I want to run a few web apps on it. The problem is that only http://localhost/ will work to get to the root webpage via a web browser. http://servername/ or http://ipaddress/ will not- they simply give a 404 error (from the orginal machine or a networked machine). I know a few bits about unix, but mostly google stuff off the net. Can't solve this one though! It's got DHCP, getting an IP off a windows server. It can ping the network fine, and access the web and shared resources. Any ideas? Thanks.

Youtube is banned by our county filtering. Easier to have it in-house only, so no external issues! Good thinking though!

Hi all, as we use more and more video at school, I would like us to have an internal style youtube site. Posting videos to groups, class sections etc. I'm fairly experienced at setting up websites and using php, although am not a *nix man (I am a man, though). Anyone have any free suggestions of software that will enable me to do this, which I could run on a spare machine at school? It only needs internal access for the moment. Thanks in advance!

Well, just found that below the option for user management tool, there is address book management. I'll try that!

That's fab, thanks mac_shinobi. A question though- am I adding a user for the photocopier itself (so different people have different quotas etc), or is it adding someone to the address book, allowing just the scanning to be affected. We're not going down the route of quotas per teacher, so don't need to login or have a code, but may want to select a different folder to scan to. Thanks again.

Thanks everyone, I managed to get it working. Created a share on the server, and used the photcopier web interface to add a user in the address book. Found out you can also add the user from the machine panel itself. All working well! Be nice to be able to batch add a load of users so they can scan to different folders though! At least it's working Cheers.

I think this might help, will try tomorrow! https://eu-ricoh-en.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/eu_ricoh_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=99080&p_created=1231475515&p_sid=cHuC4p-j&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=99080&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQ6MSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjgsMjgmcF9wcm9kcz0xNDM2LDE0MzcsMTQzOCw0MDY2JnBfY2F0cz0wJnBfcHY9NC40MDY2JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1zY2Fu&p_li=&p_topview=1

Hi, we've just got a new Ricoh Photocopier MP4000 (I think). It's already networked and shared on our simple Windows 2000 network. The copier has a scan feature so that it will scan docs and then put it on the server computer. Anyone know what I need to have on the server so that this will happen? Is it to do with ldap? If so, does Win2k have this, or do I need to buy something so it works? All it will be is 1 teacher account to scan to a shared folder on the network. Thanks in advance!

Thanks, but they don't seem to stock the HP Compaq NX6325!