is anybody aware about the possibility to trigger videoplayback via an arduino without the additional use of a pc?
i want to playback video (resolution at least pal) from a standalone mediaplayer. to trigger more or less synchronized playback of multichannel video i used some years ago the arduino as an infrared remote control for dvd-players, but i am wondering if in the meantime there might be some solutions to connect arduino directly to standalone mediaplayers? i searched the forums & playground, but didn't find anything related, so i hope that i am not doubleposting...
The reason for not finding anything is likely because you are looking for something that is very generic. What is a standalone media player? What are the options for interfacing to them? Are you trying to simulate button presses? Do these players provide some kind of synchronization options?
Break down what you are trying to do to simpler blocks than "media players."
thanks for your reply!
You are right, my question is too general, that's partly because i have no specific project in mind right now. but when i browsed the playground & other forums i was wondering that I never found something about playback of simple videos triggered by arduino... Sure, you find examples how to use arduino to create video or how to connect to a multimedia computer, but i think it would be great for many people to have a simple possibility to trigger video / audioplayback in a simple, cheap & reliable way. Example project (very simple): you have 4 buttons and each button triggers one different video on a screen (with vga or svhs input). It is easy to do sth like this with multimedia computer, another possibility i used before is via infrared-remote control of a dvd player. So next time i would do the playback probably again via infrared and a dvdplayer, but i just thought the task is so common, that there should be some examples of connecting standalone videoplaybackdevices with microcontrollers.