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musher0 · Posted: Thu 06 Sep 2018, 00:37 Post subject:

Hi.

I guess I'm now late to the party since mikesLr has marked this as solved.

And I suppose some malicious tongues will say that I wish to give
Mike_Walsh some competition. Not so.

Not that I wish to be prima donna, or worse a belladonna... Question

but I did
publish the following slide-show script on 2016-11-09 or there abouts and it
went unnoticed. Was it on this board or in the French section or somewhere
else? But does it matter?

If started from console, this script has a few settings for viewing
-- all or an alphabetical selection of pictures in a directory
-- definition of the delay.

This is the help panel called from

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5623 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Hi, musher0.

Listen, mate; I never see anything we do here as 'late to the party'..! Laughing

Okay, I know this is going to smack very slightly of a recently-departed individual. But you-know-who had, I suppose, some 'method in his madness'.

Many forums frown on 'necro-posting', and like to keep everything current, up-to-date, topical, and in its own little cubbyhole. But in all honesty, that's where the greatest of this Forum's treasures lies.....in the past.

And I'll not hear a word about 'competition'. What competition?

I couldn't care less how many different ways we have available for doing the same thing. The more, the merrier, I say. Not everyone will want to perform a given action the same way; I know I prefer to have plenty of choice myself.

And, to me, that's what it all boils down to. We provide Puppians in general with as wide a choice as possible... The decision is then down to them.

Keep the alternatives coming..!

Mike. Wink

musher0 · Posted: Thu 06 Sep 2018, 06:09 Post subject:

Thanks, Mike.

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5623 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Afternoon, all.

Right. Now then; here's 'QIV-slideshow Mk 2'...

With further assistance from Fred/MochiMoppel & crew, have added a selector button for full-screen. Also added one for enabling/disabling the 'status-bar' in full-screen mode (not applicable in 'standard' viewing mode, since here it appears to be hard-coded to always show.)

There's also an 'Information' button which brings up a second YAD 'text' window, explaining some of the functions (keyboard and mouse-controlled), and a 'Quit' button to, well, quit.

Re-uploaded to the previously-mentioned location:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V-Nd1ZSs7fEeuVXIpFGOgj41EbpMSlqQ?usp=sharing

....so, help yourselves to the appropriate version.

Credits are due to:-

Fredx181
MochiMoppel
(and, of course) Smokey01.....whose YAD tutorial has proved absolutely invaluable. Thanks to all.

Enjoy.

Edit:- Have added a special version just for Lucid 5.2.8.7. This makes use of an older version of qiv - 2.2.2 instead of 2.3.1 - and includes libImlib2.so.1, required by that version. YAD v0.40.0 works fine in Lucid, and full functionality is still there.

Mike. Wink

mikeslr · Posted: Thu 06 Sep 2018, 10:37 Post subject:

Please accept my apology, musher0.

I seem to have lost the ability to capture all the important details of a writing when it is scanned the first time. So I missed your inclusion of the diapo-qiv-lst.sh.zip attached to your initial post on this thread. Embarassed

Then, again, seems everyone else did as well. Smile

Since I agree with Mike Walsh about the value of choice, call it a happy accident. Had we realized the full import of your post it is unlikely that Mike Walsh would have struggled to obtain his solution. And as learning new things is itself rewarding, he would not have increased his knowledge of Yad; and I, by following the discussion on the Yad thread --at least for the present-- have a better understanding of Yad's syntax.

And thanks for the more detailed explanation of your solution; and the diapo-qiv-0.1.pet you attached.

mikesLr

musher0 · Posted: Thu 06 Sep 2018, 17:29 Post subject:

No apologies are necessary, mikeslr. But thanks.

greengeek · Posted: Fri 07 Sep 2018, 03:36 Post subject:

I have previously trialled qiv but found it needed an imlib dependency. In the end I settled on "pho" which was tiny.

Also, Geoffrey had used pho before on Carolina and his pet is 27kb (no dependencies)

I don't know if it can be used in the way mikeslr intended as a screensaver - but I guess that depends on how a screensaver function is triggered.

Some discussion about it here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=972923#972923

Stu90 had a terminal wallpaper changer here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=628144#628144
Maybe either of these two image swappers can be given a gui to sweeten them?

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5623 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Hiya, GG.

Imlib2 appears to be a standard requirement for qiv in any case. I've had to provide it in the package I've put together for Lucid, since Lucid only comes with the original Imlib library.....and this wants the newer one. Most later Pups come with it as standard; certainly, it ran straight off in my copy of 560.

Amazingly, I managed to download the older qiv, initially, through Lucid's PPM, from oldreleases.ubuntu.com; I think Richard must have done some tweaking to Lucid's PPM config files!

It's a neat little viewer, though.....in the best traditions of Puppy.

Mike. Wink

musher0 · Posted: Sat 08 Sep 2018, 21:18 Post subject:

Hello all.

mikesLr's question keeps bugging me!

It sure would be nice if we could have a sound and picture "screensaver /
slideshow". And useful, too, for many occasions: family gatherings (family
pictures), romantic setting (to seduce Madame Musher again!), maybe even
as some kind of ad playing on a recycled compy on a shelf in your small
shop (why not?).

~~~

I've been exploring a couple of avenues with this in mind. One of these
avenues consists of using ffplay as basis. As I hope everybody knows, ffplay
(or avplay) is traditionnally used to play movie formats.

I don't know how many Pups come ex-factory with ffplay or the equivalent
avplay, but the following works for one (1) piece of music and one (1) picture:

musher0 · Posted: Sat 08 Sep 2018, 21:52 Post subject:

Hello all.

I just read something about creating a musical slide show with Impress:

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/39099/what-software-should-i-use-to-create-a-slideshow-with-music
(q.v. Answer # 1)

Anybody knows anything about this? Anybody ever tried it?

TIA.

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5623 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Hi, musher0.

Mm. Interesting idea.

I don't know too much about Puppy's multimedia 'engines' over time. The one thing I am aware of is this; avplay was the older 'standard' in this respect.....ffplay has all but superseded it (though I think I read somewhere that Phil Broughton had returned to avplay (for some reason) when he originally put Tahrpup 6.0.CE together, some 4 years ago).

I could, of course, be completely wrong. It has been known! Very Happy

I'm quite happy to be corrected if necessary...

Mike. Wink

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 1172 Location: UK

Hi musher0,

For an example of an alternative approach to doing this just click on the following link:

https://goo.gl/i2mnV6

Whilst the above is a video of a slideshow of wallpapers it could equally well be family photographs with music or commentary of your choice.

To download the mp4 ( 153MB ) just press Shift + D during playback.

Looped local playback of of such an mp4 using vlc or mpv may be assigned to a desktop icon with a hotkey combination e.g. Shift + Pause.

I suggest that you run this past Madame Musher and if interested, come back to me for more details plus a pet that can easily be modified to provide this feature.

musher0 · Posted: Sun 09 Sep 2018, 09:49 Post subject:

@ETP:
Oh, Madame Musher just loved Nick Drake's music! And except for the
abstract art, she found most pictures breath-taking.

mikeslr · Posted: Sun 09 Sep 2018, 10:21 Post subject:

Hi All,

Pre-2nd-cup of coffee, so too soon for me to think logically. But not to soon to see a better thread title was required.

musher0 · Posted: Sun 09 Sep 2018, 11:48 Post subject:

Thanks, mikeslr!
You're having a delicious Costa-Rican brown, perhaps? Smile

Anyway, I came back to inform everyone that some "wheels" already exist
in Linux to create "musical slideshows", as shown in this discussion.

If anyone has experience with any of the following apps:

-- Imagination
-- PhotoFilmStrip
-- KdenLive
-- Videoporama
(the URLs for these apps are in the discussion link above)

or even the one-liner: < ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg video.mpg >,

please chime in and share? It will be much appreciated. Plus of course
ETP's much awaited suggestion.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I think "we're on a roll!" Smile

BFN