I am having troubles getting time-sensitive content to work
properly. We have an event coming up where we want a
"commercial" (or picture) that says the actual start times of the
event but we want to use the same URL so that if someone arrives
early to the event, they get the "commercial" and then the event
starts up when the event time arrives.
The problem I have is that the movie we made from a picture doesn't
transition well (there are "Warnings" [Yellow triangle with an
exclamation point in the middle] when we start the playlist and only
the first movie in the playlist will play) with the actual movie we
want to show.
We have tried some cron jobs that stop the playlist, swap a playlist
file, then start the playlist again but that's where we noticed the
Warnings. We also thought about a PHP page that will redirect you to
different playlists or files (.jpg) depending on when you hit the
link but then you won't automatically start the movie when the event
time arrives.
Does this problem description make sense? I imagine someone else has
tried this but I can't find anything in the manual or on Google
searches.
