TimEllershaw
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| posted on 15/4/10 at 09:42 AM |
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Everyman Racing - Video USB Stick?
Does anybody have a USB stick from Everyman Racing ( Driving Experiences ) ?
- If possible, I would like to have a look at the contents / files to see how it works.
Everyman take video footage of you in the car ( Racelogic V-Box ) and when you have finished you get the memory stick to take home with a nice
software front end to play the videos.
I have written a similar system here for driver training, but it would be nice to have a look at how they have done it.
( not going to plagiarize it… honest )
( Or, if any of you IT folk have suggestions on better ways to do it I would be interested to hear them.
Our solution is a VB application that plays videos via Media Player and a VB component, but we are having problems with DivX and auto-running apps fom
the memory stick.
Everyman, I believe, run apache, PHP and some movie player app.
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Thanks,
Tim.
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MikeFellows
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| posted on 15/4/10 at 10:47 AM |
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you could do all sorts with it
1. build a small website on the devcie (add customer images / feedback to make the site unique to each customer
2. use flash (will probably be more work in the long run)
3. forget the usb stick and just host it all on a server for them (add new customer, creates there page with logins etc..)
all depends on what you want to spend really.
I havent seen one of the flash drives you talk about but im guessing at what your trying to achieve
edit: if you did it on your own webserver, you have a constant supply of customers to your website without having to do anything (who knows what else
you might sell)
edit2: if you put divx on the stick it wont work on everything you plug it into as divx requires codecs to run on most machines. pm me and I can
probably help you better if I understand your requirements a bit better
Mike
[Edited on 15/4/10 by MikeFellows]
[Edited on 15/4/10 by MikeFellows]
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Madinventions
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| posted on 15/4/10 at 11:43 AM |
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Remember - if you 'borrow' an idea from one other person, it's plagarism. If you 'borrow' an idea from many others,
it's research... 
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TimEllershaw
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| posted on 15/4/10 at 11:45 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Madinventions
Remember - if you 'borrow' an idea from one other person, it's plagarism. If you 'borrow' an idea from many others,
it's research...
Ed.
We have a working(ish) solution already, just interested to see how they did it.
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TimEllershaw
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| posted on 15/4/10 at 12:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeFellows
you could do all sorts with it
1. build a small website on the devcie (add customer images / feedback to make the site unique to each customer
2. use flash (will probably be more work in the long run)
3. forget the usb stick and just host it all on a server for them (add new customer, creates there page with logins etc..)
all depends on what you want to spend really.
I havent seen one of the flash drives you talk about but im guessing at what your trying to achieve
edit: if you did it on your own webserver, you have a constant supply of customers to your website without having to do anything (who knows what else
you might sell)
edit2: if you put divx on the stick it wont work on everything you plug it into as divx requires codecs to run on most machines. pm me and I can
probably help you better if I understand your requirements a bit better
Mike
thanks Mike, good thoughts.
We do have an additional Web based service, but the memory stick is a nice physical souvenir for them to take away after thier session.
The functionality is pretty basic; the instructor copies the videos on to it, and the software on the stick display a nice little interface, populates
a (dynamic) menu, draws some graphs and plays the videos.
DivX videos are playable by our bespoke component without the divx codec installed. So not a problem there. 
Tim.
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MikeFellows
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| posted on 15/4/10 at 02:06 PM |
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does your software run on osx, linux?
if I put it on a cheap net book will it work?
probably not
also are you including the .net runtime libraries on your flash drive, if not you require people to have the neccessary components installed on their
machines.
ditch the expensive usb memory sticks and stick the whole lot on the web, give people a login and let them download there information.
that way it plays on everything
also I would give up soon on making the memory stick auto run, its just about a dead due to the security risks of sticking something in your pc and it
running automatically (you dont want to be responsible for putting viruses on peoples machine)
I would reconsider your options if I where you
[Edited on 15/4/10 by MikeFellows]
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TimEllershaw
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| posted on 15/4/10 at 03:34 PM |
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Hi Mike,
OSX, Linux :
quite right, not going to work on there. An increasing problem for us developers as we start having to recompile / recode the desktop apps for Windows
and Linux (Don't have much to do with Mac stuff but I'm sure it will come). Same goes for phones, half the desktop apps we create are
also ported to Windows Mobile and/or Android.
...trying to please all of the people all of the time can be a pain 
Seems OK on the lower spec (Windows) netbooks we have tried. I would like to think my home-grown media player is a little more efficient than the
Microsoft Windows Media player. I only have to cope with one type of video, one size, one codec, one frame rate, etc, so life is a bit easier and we
can strip out all the bloat.
It doesn't need the runtime libraries, all self contained.
autorun : yes I agree. it trips most of the corporate virus checkers and Windows 7 doesn't implement it at all.
You are right, Web site the way to go, but customers love to have the memory sticks to take home with them.... but I wouldn't be surprised if
most of them format them as soon as the get home and use them for something else. Ultimately a marketing decision rather than a technical one.
Cheers,
tim.
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