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Getting the most out of plymouth or how to make raspbian jessie boot with a full splash screen
Assuming you want the fancy splash screen (ie you want to hide the ugly boot messages), add “quiet splash logo.nologo plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles” to the end of the single line in /boot/cmdline.txt file. This enables the splash screen. Now you need to choose one (I like spinfinity), so issue the following command to switch from default (bland grey…
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Designing a six channel 24/7 streaming video player for digital signage
So here are the design goals: Provide atleast 6 channels of streaming video. Allow “hot” switching between streams using a remote control. Allow network to fail and be able to have the stream automatically recover. Allow the Pi to autostart on a particular stream when powered. Be flexible enough to potentially provide more than 6…