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Very Slow Media Player (VSMP)

Inspired by an e-ink project of the same name. Unfortunately no source code for appeared to be released, but the write up was almost sufficient to build exactly the same thing.

Requirements

Originally created using node v10. Last tested with node v16. Assumes Linux (Ubuntu). Tested with FireFox.

Setting up

Copy a movie file into ./media then run the init script

node init.js ./media/movie-file.mp4

This will create artifacts in the ./config directory that tracks the frame being shown and remembers the movie file name etc.

Running

We need a few things

  • The example.sh script running to generate frames. This can be replaced with cron.
  • A web server hosting the files in ./public
  • A web browser viewing the website, preferably in full screen (kiosk) mode.
sh example.sh &
node webserver.js

The webserver port is 8080 - thus view it with http://localhost:8080

Links

https://github.com/TomWhitwell/SlowMovie - Pi based + custom e-ink screen.

Future

I'd like to create a canned RaspberryPi distribution for easy setup and use. It current plays 1 frame per 30 seconds, configuration of this might be nice.

MIT License

In memory of Jim des Rivières.