On Friday 09 September 2005 9:21 am, Donovan Niesen wrote: > I'm looking to build a handful of multimedia kiosks for a project. > The main features of these kiosks is to display MPEG videos in a > playlist. Simple enough so far, but the part I'm having trouble > finding a solution is that the playlists need to be able to be > adjusted on the fly without affecting the display and they need to be > able to change on a schedule (ie: playlist a plays in the morning, > playlist b plays in the afternoon, etc.) > > Does anybody know of a package or packages that might accomplish this? I don't have a package (yet, this is intriguing so I'm going to look myself) but here's a possible solution. What if you setup your playlist files then have a "working" playlist file name and use a cron job to copy playlist_a to playlist at the appropriate time? If nothing else you should be able to start prototyping with this solution even if it turns out to be suboptimal. Jack -- Jack Ungerleider The Ungerleider Group jack at jacku.com http://www.jacku.com