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Can Ubuntu play a video via cron job?

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Mar 15, 20264143 views
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I'm developing a display system for a paint shop. I've set up a computer with Ubuntu to run the video and display it on a TV, running a PHP script that should update the video every hour via the internet. The script is set to run via cron, executed once every hour (@hourly). Almost the entire scrip…

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php /path/to/cron.php

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To display something on an X server the X client (like ) requires an environment variable to be set which defines network address of the X server. In almost all cases (one local X server) it should be assigned to . You can set that variable from you…

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