Schedule DVD playback? - Professional Environment

[MIDIman]

Hi all,

I have a slight dilemma, and thought I'd make a quick post just in case someone reading has had the same situation.

I do some work in a local TV station, and they recently went digital. Its a self-contained propietary setup, that basically works via a scheduler to automate playback.


I suppose I'm curious if anyone knows of a hardware DVD player available in which you can schedule certain chapters to playback at certain times of the day. Has anyone seen something like this?

And if not a hardware unit, is there any software out there that might accomplish something similar on a computer?

 

[thirtythree]

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[daniel1113]

I do not know of any off hand, MIDIman. However, you need to remember that DVDs are highly compressed video, and not even close to being broadcast quality. I'd make sure your local TV station will even accept a video signal off of a DVD before you go through all of this work.

Best of luck.

 

[MIDIman]

I think actually via a hardware solution, it would be a simple implementation.

Nonetheless - this is acting purely as a backup in case the server went down. They want to completely remove all traces of analog tape (I don't blame them!) and having programming on a DVD carousel of some kind might work well for scheduling programming in case things went awry for a day or two.

I'm definitely not one to agree with it - just looking at options.

To be honest (and off topic), the new digital server that was purcahse is actually MPEG-2 based. Its at a very high rate tho, looks much better than the used betas they were originally broadcasting with, and is definitely more than enough for their needs.

 

[Relayer]

We load up a Fast Forward Omega Deck with video and schedule it to play.

 

[MIDIman]

Originally posted by: Relayer
We load up a Fast Forward Omega Deck with video and schedule it to play.

Thx. Not sure if they'd be keen to another hard disk solution though.

We commonly get DVDs for broadcast, so that may be another reason they want a DVD player available. Very interesting product though! I haven't seen M-JPEG in a LONG time.