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I am building a media room and on the outside of the media room, I want to put a "Now Playing" display. Similiar to what you would see on the outside wall of a theater. However, I would like to use a digital display that will show only the fanart or coverart of the media being played. Maybe the synopsis, etc.
If this is already possible, I'm open to implementing additional hardware to accomplish this.
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This would bee a great feature to have in the software though. If you have a HTPC with a 7" display (could be touchscreen). You could easily use it as the secondary display to show the time/weather, currently playing song/video/movie/tv show with artwork. That would be awesome, and maybe some simple controls like: Play, Pause, Stop that could be enabled if the display is touch screen capable?
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I was actually thinking about using a 32"ish display, turned 90 degrees into a portrait mode. Then framing it out, to make it look like a poster with lights around it or even buying a "now playing" frame and putting the display inside it.
I've never tried to do development for XBMC, but I think it would be pretty easy to just pull in the cover art for the now playing media and have it display full screen on a secondary display.
I have Constellation for my iPad, and Remote for my android phone. However, I am wanting to drive a larger display.
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I'm staying out off this odd expensive limited coolnes mod.
I was just trying to point out how much that is allready out there.
Regards tuxen.
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Im looking at the same idea as well. I have a 26" lcd laying around that would work pretty well. Any one make any progress?
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That's awesome - great work! Any chance you would release it? - am sure there are many that would love to use it (myself included)
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Since I utilize a couple libraries that I haven't created myself, I'm not entirely sure what an appropriate license is for distributing it to the public. I'll need to read through the licenses of the 3rd party libraries I use first. In the meantime if you are interested in testing it out, send me a PM for a link to a development build.
captainkirk, you should have a pm already with details.
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Could use a cheapo droid x with hdmi out running the xbmc android app. Done and done on the cheap.
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