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I need a simple presentation software that:

  • plays presentation in infinite loop
  • allows me to easily edit content in rotation (add, remove, order, hide, etc.)
  • can render typical presentation content (video, pictures, text, powerpoint slides, etc.)

If there's no existing software that can do this, then maybe I could use some of these:

  • desktop software that does other things, but can be extended/tweaked to do this easily
  • some kind of web CMS that handles multimedia content well and easy

I need this for some kind of a multimedia message board on a public display screen.

Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!

PS: I posted this question on stackoverflow.com as well. I think superuser.com is a better place for this question, but I found about this place only after I posted over there. Sorry!

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Microsoft Powerpoint?

Actually, most modern presentation software supports all of your prerequisites. If you are on a Windows computer I suggest Microsoft Powerpoint (which comes with Microsoft Office), or if you are on a Mac, you should give Keynote a once over.

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I think the poster is looking for something where content in the rotation loop could be edited "on the fly", using another computer (or another screen on the same computer). I think that you'd have to stop the presentation in order to edit it in Powerpoint, Keynote (or OpenOffice Impress for that matter). – Ilari Kajaste Nov 11 '09 at 14:09
Thanks for the quick answer, but wait. Maybe I haven't made myself clear. I don't want to have to create slides in the first place. I want to create a playlist: 1. movie.avi 2. pres.pps 3. photo.jpg 4. text.rtf 5. page.html 6. movie.mpeg 7. clipart.gif ... Then I want to edit the playlist and just restart the presentation. Or even better, I want to edit the playlist while the presentation keeps going. Can Powerpoint to this? How? – user17603 Nov 11 '09 at 14:12
Thanks Ilari, you understood me perfectly! – user17603 Nov 11 '09 at 14:13
Ahh I see. Yeah, all of these programs don't allow you to edit the presentation remotely during the presentation is… presenting. One solution would be to make the changes on another computer, copy the new presentation over to the 'presenting' computer, and quickly swap the presentations over... – David Pearce Nov 11 '09 at 14:13
...but the most important feature of the solution I need would be not having to create slides. Or having them somehow automatically created. – user17603 Nov 11 '09 at 14:21
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