Comments on: More on using Quartz Composer for digital signage

By: Mike Riley

Mike Riley — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:14:42 +0000

I’m having trouble getting this workaround to work around. Does it no longer work with current quicktime releases? Does the local file need to sit on a local web server perhaps – I would think not.

By: New Media Initiatives Blog » Vineland Kiosk Screensavers

New Media Initiatives Blog » Vineland Kiosk Screensavers — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:41:44 +0000

[...] played with before. I also made a version of a screensaver that uses more of Walker Expanded, and posted about it a few months back. In depoloying it to the iMacs, though, I ran into some trouble. The machines we’re using [...]

By: Dale Pike

Dale Pike — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:28:53 +0000

We’ve got a single installation (2 screen) digital signage solution running using Quartz Composer as a screen saver that successfully pulls data from an RSS feed for content. We use a WordPress weblog as the source, which allows multiple authors to post news, which shows up on the display as soon as the feed is refreshed (every 30 minutes).

By: Paul Wenzel

Paul Wenzel — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:10:47 +0000

Sorry, I messed up the link in my above comment. It should be:

http://trac.softwarelivre.sapo.pt/broker/wiki/qtzplayer

By: Paul Wenzel

Paul Wenzel — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:09:56 +0000

For some automation tasks, you might want to have a look at qtzplayer by Joo Pavo:

http://trac.softwarelivre.sapo.pt/broker/wiki/qtzplayer“>

“This is .qtz player for OSX that will work from the shell command line. It’s useful for kiosk scripts, scripting in general or just to start a presentation from a SSH session.”

This might be useful in finding a workaround for your RSS feeds issue, though grabbing RSS from a locally cached file might be a mixed blessing.