Amanda, Thanks for the info. I’ve been thinking about creating the 10hour video in quicktime as a solution.
How did you play your 10 hour video? On a mac? We’re going to need three players, and I’m not sure I’ve got 3 macs (minis or laptops) that I could use during the duration of the show. Paul > On Feb 27, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Amanda Christie <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I went through a pretty big search for something similar last year, and it's > harder than you would think. most of them to have at least a black screen if > not a reloading symbol between each loop. > > here are the results from my search: > > 1) the Lacie LaCinema media player can do it, but it has been discontinued > and is hard to find. > > 2) there is a woman in france who can write a hack for a firmware update > that can remove the little orange circle "reloading" symbol from the WD live > media players. > I forget how much she charges for the hack, but I don't think it was much... > > 3) a lot of people were using media players that were specifically designed > for haunted houses in the US (go figure! who knew! apparently haunted houses > are a big commercial industry there, and there are media players designed > just for those that don't have the looping symbol)... sorry, I can't find any > of my reference notes on makes or models though... :-( > > 4) finally, the easiest solution, that I went with... was I just put my media > into Quicktime Pro... and copy paste copy pasted loop after loop to make a 10 > hour long video file. so it only had to play once in the gallery anyway. > > > hope some of that is helpful, and if you find something, do let us know! > > adc > > > > On 2016-02-27, at 2:18 PM, Paul Harrill wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I’m looking for recommendations for media players capable of looping video >> seamlessly for several hours in an installation/gallery environment. >> >> I’ve been trying out this Micca Speck G2 player, but it has been freezing up >> after 50 minutes or so: >> http://www.amazon.com/Micca-Full-HD-Portable-Digital-Player/dp/B008NO9RRM >> >> I need it to be able to run as long as 10 hours, continuously. Does anyone >> have any ideas? I’ll need three, so something affordable would be awesome. >> >> Thanks, >> Paul >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
