Cinema media player with ability to start a movie via composer HELP

[Tuur]

Anyone has a solution for a cinema media player that can start a movie by composer programming .

We ar bylding a demo cinema and we want to start a movie by one press at at button .

This cinema is external located and we want a simple way that a custommer can press a demo butten and witin a few seconds it starts my programming lets say sreens open , lights dimmed and begin a atmos demo .

No problem with the trigger for lights and other things, this can be done by simple programming with a c4 keypad or trigger on the Core .

 

Only i cant find a player that can start a movie by direct programming ore from any favorites.

Dont want to program lets say an apple tv to go left ricct oke oke etc etc to go to a movie, it must be 98% working al the time.

Kaleidescape not supported here in NL

Found the Zappitio player that was perfect only they are out of business 10-2023 

 

Anyone any idea how ore what could be a sollution for me.

 

Sorry for my bad typing ;-)

[Matt Lowe]

my best solution is shield tv with plex and a complicated macro. It was pretty unreliable and often was unable to play the video through automation and would need to be restarted.

 

[BY96]

Zappiti is out of business, but R-volution is taking over their product line and has released an app for the Zappiti players to replace the Zappiti app. However, I do not know if Chowmain's Zappiti driver, which is excellent, will work with the new R_volution app. 

https://www.rvolution.com

Another option might be Zidoo. When Zappiti closed shop, I switched to a Zidoo player. It has a free C4 driver and has many of the same options as the Zappiti did for control, including an option to view the media on a server. I am not certain a specific movie can be programmed to be triggered with a touch of button, but I can play around in HE and see. 

[lippavisual]

If it’s only one file, just toss a digital signage player in like a Brightsign or something.  Can send web commands to the player with a TCP/IP driver.

[SpencerT]

Just offering this perspective from the customer-side...

Unless it's something you know well, can easily re-create (and scale).. please don't do it in a showroom. 

[Tuur]

On 12/2/2023 at 1:45 AM, lippavisual said:

If it’s only one file, just toss a digital signage player in like a Brightsign or something.  Can send web commands to the player with a TCP/IP driver.

Only Brightsign will not support a lot of audio formats , as we informed they only support AC3 passtrough, i dont now if this will give problems with my marantz cinema 40 amp 

[Tuur]

On 12/1/2023 at 10:31 PM, BY96 said:

Zappiti is out of business, but R-volution is taking over their product line and has released an app for the Zappiti players to replace the Zappiti app. However, I do not know if Chowmain's Zappiti driver, which is excellent, will work with the new R_volution app. 

https://www.rvolution.com

Another option might be Zidoo. When Zappiti closed shop, I switched to a Zidoo player. It has a free C4 driver and has many of the same options as the Zappiti did for control, including an option to view the media on a server. I am not certain a specific movie can be programmed to be triggered with a touch of button, but I can play around in HE and see. 

Thanks for the update , i have send a mail to Rvolution and chowmain for a update if the driver works with the same programming options, will keep you all updated if i get a response .

[videostorm]

Our Lumi TV devices will work for this.  Professional Android based digital signage players.  Can be controlled in C4 using our free driver.  Direct command to play any file loaded on internal flash or USB stick (or URL etc).

https://lumi-tv.com