[mythtv-users] MythGallery, or something like it

Steve stevemyth at priorityelectronics.com
Tue Mar 22 20:31:45 UTC 2011


>> I am glad to hear you got feh going. What is nice is that you will not
>> have to touch that computer when you do myth updates on the myth-boxes
>> you have in the house. It would be nice if myth offered some sort of
>> backwards compatibility so that you didn't have to upgrade all the
>> computers at the same time. In some households it is a big undertaking
>> to do an update because you risk something going wrong on one of the
>> clients, even if it's non myth related. (like a new ubuntu version)
>>
>> Feh is simple, fast, and easy to use from the command line. Plus, it's
>> one of the only command line slideshow programs I know of. Use it and
>> xbindkeys and you can set a hotkey on your keyboard to start or stop
>> different slideshows.
>>
>> -Steve
>>      
>
> I'd be happy if I could get something like MythGallery in a stand-alone
> app. I've probably spent 6 hours looking through what's available and for
> my needs (large tree of files + transitions) nothing beats MythGallery yet.
> There are lots of slideshow creators (for DVDs and such) but none that will
> slurp up my 56k image collection AND do transitions like my old Myth box.
> Feh handles the image volume very well but the image-switching is less than
> ambient.
>
> A potential alternative is Diascope (http://diascope.sourceforge.net/) but
> it looks to rely on scripting more and it's on the One Day pile for me now.
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XBMC is pretty good too and can be set to screensaver mode after a 
minute. The one plus it has on myth gallery is that it does the panning 
and zooming so that you don't have stagnant images.

-Steve



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