https://github.com/doches/mediabox

A highly configurable, plugin-based program for media computers.
https://github.com/doches/mediabox

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A highly configurable, plugin-based program for media computers.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/doches/mediabox
• Owner: doches
• Created: 2008-09-23T15:36:57.000Z (almost 18 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2008-11-10T00:24:13.000Z (over 17 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-03T10:44:32.223Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://apartmentland.net/~doches/mediabox
• Size: 598 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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README

          
Trevor Fountain, 30 September 2008

doches@gmail.com

Mediabox is a highly configurable, plugin-based architecture for building 

frontends to multimedia PCs running GNU/Linux or OS X. By itself, Mediabox is

essentially useless -- all of the functionality comes from loaded plugins and

'screens'.

Read the 'mediabox.conf.example' file for information on how to set up Mediabox.

Mediabox recognizes several types of plugins. The first, and most important, 

are 'screens' -- a screen is a largely self-contained program that does some

processing every tick, and displays some output to the screen. Only one screen

can be active at a time, but screens may yield execution to another screen of

their choice at any time. Depending on your application for Mediabox you will

load particular screens, or sets of screens. For example, the 'Slideshow' 

screen allows Mediabox to act like a digital picture frame, rotating through

images in a specified directory, the 'RecentTracks' screen displays a list of

recently played music from a user's Last.fm profile, and 'Clock' displays the

current time.

Secondly, Mediabox recognized both 'slotted' and 'unslotted' plugins. 'slotted'

plugins fill a particular role, and you may only have a single plugin loaded

per slot. For example, the graphics engine Mediabox uses to draw screens is 

implemented as a slotted plugin -- it would make little sense to load both SDL

and OpenGL engines. Conversely, multiple 'unslotted' plugins may be loaded; an

'unslotted' plugin extends Mediabox with additional features or functionality.