Anyone ever install a second video card on their knoppmyth frontend and have it running a slide show? I've been wanting to buy a cheap flat panel, mount it on the wall like it was in a picture frame, and have it display a slideshow from the knoppmyth install.

Any ideas about how to do this? I have a second video card laying around, and I'm sure I'll find a nice cheap flat panel during black friday sales.

-Mitch

So, it's been over a year. Any thoughts on this?

I'd like to turn an LCD monitor into a picture frame using another video card. Not sure how to do this. Any pointers?

Sure.

1. Install/setup second monitor as a second display. [We'll
   assume it's unix:0.1]
2. Run something like this (as user "mythtv") in the directory
   where the .jpg files are

The "display" command is part of the ImageMagick package, so
you'll need to apt-get install ImageMagick. The -delay
parameter is the number of seconds each photo is displayed.
One second is cool for testing, but would be a bit annoying on
the living room wall.

There are probably programs other than "display" that you could
use if you want fancy transitions or other features.

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Grant

Oh, the "display" command is going to be re-sizing photos to
fit the display, it's going to use up a little CPU when it
comes time to switch to the next photo. So you might want to
nice it to make sure it doesn't interfere with more
time-critical things.

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Grant

feh is a program that comes shipped with R5F27 (and maybe previous version ???)

Check it out !!!

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Thanks in advance
Matt Shaw
matt@shagshaw.com

AMD Sempron 2400+ on Via Motherboard,
512MB Ram, 160GB IDE HDD,
Nvidia Geforce FX5500 128MB TV-Out,
2 x Twinhan DVB-T BT878 (Freeview UK)
KnoppMYTH R5F27

I would be interested in hearing how this turns out. A wiki page would be great if it could be put there, I think this would be a wonderful addition.

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Girkers