[MPlayer-dev-eng] Opportunity for list members (w/ attach)

[Jeff Gladnick]

Software Modules


1)Video Selection and playback

Goal:
Develop or Modify existing GPL software in order to display a menu of 
different video clips (4-10), with their short (a few words) and 
“preview” (a longer description).  The menu will also be able to perform 
a few functions, such as loading 3rd party programs, but it MUST return 
when that 3rd party program is finished.

Features:
The software should be able to accept keyboard commands, and the entire 
application should be able to be controlled using less then 6 keys total.
When the system is booted, it most go directly to this video selection 
program
The video selection program must be able to load other programs, but 
when that other program has finished, it must revert right back to the 
video selection program.  This feature should be able to be turned on 
and off.
The program should play a very brief introduction video upon startup.

OS Requirements:
Linux, it must run under Linux.

Hardware Requirements
Must be able to run under Via's EPIA VE5000 motherboard/cpu.
(http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_v_spec.jsp?motherboardId=141)

Design Guidelines:
The program should reside in its own hard drive partition.  The OS will 
be in another partition, and all video will be located in a 3rd and 
separate partition.
The program should use video files which will be named:
  1_a_video.mpg, 1_b_video.mpg, 1_c_video.mpg, 2_a_video.mpg, etc.  Each 
video series will have a configuration file associated with it 
(1_video.cfg) which will store information about each video clip series. 
The naming scheme for the files can be changed.

Configuration File Guidelines:
The configuration file must store the following information:
The names of all associated video files and their order of play.
The name of a picture file used in the menu
The brief, and full description of the video files contained for each 
series of clips

End Users:
This will be used in a Kiosk environment, and the users must be unable 
to exit out of the video selection program.

2)Motion detection and program activation

Goal:
Use existing GPL software (ie motion, or other) to develop a program to 
recognize whether people have entered an enclosed area.

Features:
The software should be able to determine if at least one person has 
entered an enclosed area.
Once it has determined that the person has entered the enclosed area, it 
should activate a program.
It should check every 30 seconds or so to make sure at least one person 
is still in the enclosed area.
If no people are detected, it should shut down the program it previously 
activated.

OS Requirements:
Linux, it must run under Linux.

Hardware Requirements
Must be able to run under Via's EPIA VE5000 motherboard/cpu.
(http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_v_spec.jsp?motherboardId=141)

Design Guidelines:
The people will be sitting in predictable places.  So one idea could be 
to assume that certain markings will always be in an approximate area. 
Lets say a big “X” would be painted on the wall, and if a person sat 
there, they would cover the “X”.  So the program could safely assume 
that a person had entered the enclosed area and activate a program.

Environment:
This will be used in a Kiosk environment, and the users must be unable 
to exit out of the program.  This program should run in the background, 
and should automatically restart if it crashes.













3)Update Program

Goal:
To update a program and video files, each of which are located on their 
own hard drive partition, utilizing UDPCast (http://udpcast.linux.lu/)or 
modifying another GPL program.

There will be 2 parts to the program: 1) A interface at the central 
computer to control the entire system, and 2) a background program 
running on all “remote computers” (see block diagram) that will can 
receive commands to update all “PC”'s (see block diagram)

Features:
Completely overwrite existing hard drive partitions with new data.
The entire network of computers will need to be administered remotely, 
and most importantly, securely over the internet.
Easy to use

OS Requirements:
Linux, it must run under Linux.

Hardware Requirements
Must be able to run under Via's EPIA VE5000 motherboard/cpu.
(http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_v_spec.jsp?motherboardId=141)

Design Guidelines:
The program should run in KDE and be very user friendly.
A GUI should allow the user to select which video files he wants to be 
updated to the remotely networked computers
This program will be stored on a “central computer” (see block diagram)

Block Diagram: Heirarchy of network


Environment:
This will be used in the KDE desktop, by administrators.  The system 
will also run in the background (and start on bootup) on the remote 
comptuters and be used to updated the PC's on their individual networks.
Jeff Gladnick
SnoRhino Snowboard Footrests
http://www.SnoRhino.com
Office: (856) 269-9324 (Temporary Line)
Cell: (302) 584-1445


Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:53:48PM -0400, Jeff Gladnick wrote:
> 
>>I am interested in getting a quote for a software project in linux.  You 
>>are free to recommend a particular distribution!
>>
>>I have attached a pdf.  You may bid on each individual module, or all of 
>>them, but I need individual quotes for each module.  I am really 
>>expecting most of you to be familiar with the 1st module, but who knows!
> 
> 
> Could you send a plaintext version please?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Joey
> 
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