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Making A Videowall
Ur@eus writes "Zeeshan Ali Khattak has made a videowall using Red Hat Linux, GStreamer and commodity hardware. The solution was made based on the need to create a flexible and cheap solution for use in Pakistani Schools and Universities using commodity hardware. To find out how this was done and some more details, and of course some cool pictures, check out the Video Whale project homepage."
at least they're showing a good movie on it :))
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16 Debbies doing Dallas, or maybe 4, or heck even one giant Debbie filling my living room!
Can I watch my Duran Duran videos on it while I puff up my hair?
What's next? A vacuum tube computer!? Running Linux?
I'll trade you one S3 card for 4 of those monitors :-) Yessirree these cards are expensive here heh heh
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Simulating nuclear explosions. Great way to visualize it, and it's probably a big fad in Pakistan these days.
For god sakes man
take those monitors out
of their cases. Put
Them closer together and
kill the funky spacing.
Any movie watched on that wall will make it a funnyp ic07.jp g
comedy. I mean, just watch the head on this dude!
http://www.gstreamer.net/apps/vw/vw_files/
"...When the aliens invaded!!"
Hey! That's my sig you're smoking there!
Jeebus Cripes! These guys whip up a Cool Hack(tm) with scrounged materials, make it work and add to the collective abilities of Gstreamer and all you have to say is 'it looks crappy'.
What a bunch of hypocrites. The fact that the monitors can be swapped out after a proof of concept, and that you've got the power of four CPU's available (Beo-mumble) is completely lost on you guys.
And I've figured there'd be at least ONE MPAA crack from somebody.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Ok, what if they used a cluster of 16 projectors? ;-)
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Makes you wonder what Hillary will do to her interns...
Anyway, I'd like to congratulate Slashdotters on actually reading the article for a change, and not flooding this story with remarks about MPAA chasing after violaters, Pakistan being slightly out of their jurisdiction, as well as that of many US laws brought in thanks to the MPAA.
Contrast with the recent Ask Slashdot about openning a movie cafe in Bolivia, where the comments were utterly comical, especially the 'Gee, thanks a lot, people, but I'm in BOLIVIA' from the original poster.
One cannot help but wonder if that was the work of one monomaniac with two dozen accounts doing it as a joke.
You'd almost think a 'net company would know
Wire this thing poorly and you might just get yourself a Firewall.
As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Khattak. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Zeeshan Ali Khattak, program writer for a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Zak147 and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for.
One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help.
We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself umer_pk. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is THAT YOU CLEAN THIS FRIGGIN MESS UP AND BUY A BIG SCREEN TV!
So does Anonymous Coward have good karma?
Looks like they cant get those silly plastic bags off monitor cables in pakistan either.
What are they going to call a wall from the video whale project -- the Whaling Wall?