[Frameworks] seamless media player recommendations?

[Paul Harrill]

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 <amanda at amandadawnchristie.ca> 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
>> 
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