Comments on: Case in point: A 133Mhz photo frame

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 19 May 2011 11:00:21 +0000

Ah good, that eliminates the need for unclutter. One less strain on the system.

By: An apology, and a eulogy « Motho ke motho ka botho

An apology, and a eulogy « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:54:45 +0000

[...] I’d also like to repeat the photo frame experiment too, mostly because I think I could get that working in a way that would be useful in the [...]

By: Jose Catre-Vandis

Jose Catre-Vandis — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:25:42 +0000

Found a –nopointer option for feh, so that helps

By: In praise of Debian 5 « Motho ke motho ka botho

In praise of Debian 5 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:33:10 +0000

[...] much. That photo frame I mentioned a week or two ago has enough processor, video and memory power to [...]

By: The problem is all inside your head, Al said to me « Motho ke motho ka botho

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:51:00 +0000

[...] I do expect it to double as a slideshow picture frame, while playing streaming audio and holding my meager ogg audio collection with Debian [...]

By: Benjamin Cahill

Benjamin Cahill — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:18:35 +0000

Ok, that makes sense, and was what I was thinking it might be.

The picture frame of which I’ve mentioned before is simply using the framebuffer (ATI Rage Mobility,500mhz,128MB ram), but if I build it again, I’ll probably use Arch (running Ubuntu right now, it was before I had gotten into Arch) and X, and find something to do little transitions, since I would think it would have the power to do so.

And I’ll get a picture of it sometime for you…

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:55:46 +0000

Yes, unfortunately I have two of those early Trident cards in two different machines, and it's rare that the cards will work with the framebuffer. I can get one working with ConnochaetOS, but like I mentioned the other day, I lose a row of pixels in the process. And honestly, Debian Lenny's version of X is vaguely acceptable on a machine of this era. htop is showing memory use at around 16Mb of the 28Mb that is available. Not fantastic, but not terrible. It's an acceptable substitute for a machine that can't do VESA 2.0.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:49:04 +0000

Ah, there’s no transition. The fade effect is the washout from a 13-year-old LCD.

As far as I know, feh doesn’t do transitions or effects. If you wanted, there might be other applications that do the same, but have effects. They would probably run a little heavier though.

By: Jose Catre-Vandis

Jose Catre-Vandis — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:04:19 +0000

I’m surprised at you KMandla! Where’s the cli solution for this? Or is it you can’t get a framebuffer running on your machine.

I had a crack with fbi and got a nice slideshow running with:
(sudo) fbi -t 10 -a -u /photos/*

(-a for autozoom, -u for random, -t for time)
Press V to disable status line

By: Benjamin Cahill

Benjamin Cahill — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:46:04 +0000

What makes it do that little transition/fade into each picture? I tried your command here, and it didn’t do that…