posted by
Fnord666
on Sunday November 24 2019, @03:53PM
from the just-play-the-file-already dept.
Arthur T Knackerbracket submitted a link to an interesting hackaday story about a DIY video player. The approach taken is very simple, using a Raspberry Pi to do all of the heavy lifting. There's also no user interface. The Pi scans for any removable media that has been inserted, and if it finds something it automatically plays the video files contained on the card. For anyone interested in building a no-frills, portable video player this might just be the ticket.
My feelings exactly. They, um, took a Pi, put it in a box and, um, plugged it together.
This is what happens when you hand out trophies to kids for participating.
If I really wanted something like this I'd just buy one of about umpty bazillion purpose-built media players with vastly more capabilities than the Pi, at about the same price, or less for the really cut-down ones.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 24 2019, @05:16PM (1 child)
Millennials believe a one line bash script is black magic, so it's no wonder this trivial project is news.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Sunday November 24 2019, @10:29PM
My feelings exactly. They, um, took a Pi, put it in a box and, um, plugged it together.
This is what happens when you hand out trophies to kids for participating.
If I really wanted something like this I'd just buy one of about umpty bazillion purpose-built media players with vastly more capabilities than the Pi, at about the same price, or less for the really cut-down ones.