Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage options

2015-12-08 Thread Susan Edwards
We use Bright Sign https://www.brightsign.biz/ It hits most/all of your requirements. We use the BrightAuthor CMS. Ease of use is subjective of course. It can be a little challenging to schedule multiple files to the screens. We manage 5 screens and are pushing video regularly. s Susan Edwards A

Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage options

2015-12-08 Thread Desi Gonzalez
My museum uses Industry Weapon. http://industryweapon.com/ I'm new here, but so far so good. Seems like there's a lot we can do with it. It meets all of your requirements; the CMS could always be better designed, but it works. On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Douglas Hegley wrote: > We've had de

[MCN-L] Present at DPLAfest 2016, April 14-15 in Washington, DC

2015-12-08 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la/) is currently seeking session proposals for DPLAfest 2016 , taking place on April 14-15, 2016 in Washington, DC. DPLAfest is an annual series of workshops, presentations, and discussions bring

Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage options

2015-12-08 Thread Douglas Hegley
We've had decent luck with Xibo, an open source solution. http://xibo.org.uk/ Although we've been hesitant to push its boundaries in terms of video, it works great with all kinds of other file types and managing multiple screens. Would be great to have some colleagues using it too, then we could tr

[MCN-L] Digital Signage options

2015-12-08 Thread Shane Richey
We have a number of digital signage installations through our museum that we use for way finding, schedule/program information, etc… We have been using SMP-WEBDUO players to manage the content for the last 4 years, but we’re getting to a point where the hardware is starting to show its age. Brea

Re: [MCN-L] "easy" file duplication cleanup

2015-12-08 Thread Josh McDonald
As Matt implies above, this isn't too difficult with standard *nix utilities if the files are actually duplicates. I use a tip from Jim McNamara to do this in single directories; compare checksums and dump dupes into a file for review, then delete known duplicates: cksum *.jpg | sort -n > fileli