Erwin10 wrote: Changing OSD marquee or logo on the fly is possible with the rc interface. This can also be integrated into a shell/batch script for easier use.
Very much appreciate the feedback, Erwin10. Unfortunately, the reply from j-b is what makes VLC frustrating - they say to read all documentation, wiki pages, and google, yet I couldn't find anything that talked about the settings in Tools/Preferences/All. I guess the assumption is that we are all C programmers. I'd love to use the RSS feed feature - but wouldn't I need to send RSS data? How? I can so easily do this by purchasing a Text Generator for $250 ...but I thought when customers ask how I'm doing that they'd be interested in my promoting VLC. But back on track...
Edited add-in:
The rc interface seems like a possibility from what I could read - but can you initiate the player from the GUI and then send commands via DOS, or would I have to initiate the program from the command line and then send subsequent changes the same way? I was also wondering about OSD via VNC as this would be cool to make changes from home while the tv's play and are viewable through the store window. But again, couldn't find documentation on it.
Think you can help me do it??? lol It's really not a lot of text I want to send and it's worth a McDonald's gift card (promise the card won't be blank and will be a Hawaii collector's card!).
The signal gets fed to approximately 25 tv's throughout the office. I need to let customers know that their product is ready for pick up. It's only a few words like "Bill C. pick up". I would like this to flash onscreen for maybe 5 seconds, pause 5, and repeat that sequence maybe 6 times.
I tried to do something with the logo but I could not get it to repeat nor could I figure out how to keep it onscreen. The milliseconds timer doesn't keep good time - I set it for 1000 and it stayed on forever; I set it for 100 and it stayed on for maybe a second. I have spent some 12 hours researching the ability to create a .png file from text. That was a very good posibility except I don't know PhP nor could I get their sample to compile with some freebie compiler programs. I thought I could create a logo file and have it flash but that too was a bust. I was able to create the text .png and had it read the file,but I couldn't test to see if it would read the logo file over and over again, otherwise it would be the same logo image created the first time flashing for hours on end (I'm sending a live tv feed like the Food Network or CNN). Sometimes I will play movies that I have stored on my computer as image (.nrg) files. Here is where I found the text-to-png which I thought was real cool but oh well...
http://visionmasterdesigns.com/tutorial ... using-php/
So, what do you think?