I use the MediaMVP myth front end in my family room. One of the problems I ran into is that the MediaMVP Myth front-end cannot reliably play back jpg images. To work around this I have created some scripts that automatically create mpeg 2 videos out of the jpeg images. When played, you are watching a "slide show" where each of the jpeg's is displayed for ~4-seconds. While this is a bit of a kludge, it enables me to view my digital photos.
If you are interested in these script you can download them from
http://home.comcast.net/~marc.aronson/genslideshow.tar . Below is a synopsis of the script.
Marc
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will convert all the jpeg images located in
# /myth/gallery into videos. These videos are placed in the
# directory rooted at /myth/Slideshows. The directory scructure
# of /myth/Slideshows will replicate /myth/gallery. An example
# helps:
#
# /myth/gallery/photos_from_2001/birthday_party/*.jpg
# /myth/gallery/photos_from_2001/summer_vacation/*.jpg
#
# Will generate:
#
# /myth/Slideshows/photos_from_2001/birthday_party.mpg
# /myth/Slideshows/photos_from_2001/summer_vacation.mpg
#
# Other notes:
#
# 1. If /myth/Slideshows does not exist, it is created
# automatically.
# 2. The script "genss.sh" must be in a directory that is
# on your path. On my machine I put it in /usr/local/bin.
# 3. These scripts will not spend time re-generating an existing
# mpg file unless one or more of the corresponding jpg images has
# a more recent time stamp than the mpg file.
# 4. The "genss.sh" script defaults to NTSC -- if you need PAL, you
# need to edit "genss.sh" and set the variable "standard" to PAL
# near the top of the file. Note that I have not tested the use
# of PAL, as my environment is NTSC.
# 5. Temporary files are created in /myth/tmp.
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