OT[?]: Video player for hospital?

I was graetful for this and all the other replies. I am responding
briefly here because clearly you have the t-shirt. .

Friends lent me both an iPad and an Android based tablet (can't recall
what make/flavour) which I took in today. But they don't offer the same
interface as Windows. And when you can't recall where you are or what
day it is for more than 10 minutes it ain't the time to learn a new GUI.
(I think the same'd be true of Linux: it may be VLC Jim, but it ain't
Windows Explorer as we know it IIRC; you don't hibernate in the same
way; etc)

As regards plugging in, in ITU/HDU they wouldn't wear it - and I don't
blame them given the set-up there with the sockets on ceiling-mounted
wotsits which rotate. But they said main wards are less fussy and/or I
could recharge in the admin area.

Also, you were right so far that an hour or 2 is all that's needed (at
least for now).

So for now we are running with her netbook. Crappy picture compared to
the tablets but she knows how to use it and that helps her
self-confidence.

I'd look further at a tablet which came with XP/Vista/7 (all of which
she knows). But not Windows 8. And I ain't got time to do a custom
job.

As regards the North-South divide, I find a bars of Green & Blacks and
boxes of choccie bikkies smooth the path with the nurses. (I've never
understood the way people buy chocolates etc *after* hospital stays. I
can only speak as a visiting relative but it's always seemed to me
better to try to ingratiate onself as one goes along while it can still
make a difference in terms of warmer hands, gentler catheter insetions,
etc) I do apprecaite though that there are different strokes for
different folks. Eg I see nothing in filling a nurse's bath with coal


Thanks again - and apologies in advance if I don't respond to any
follow-ups for a while


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Robin
reply to address is (meant to be) valid

Robin wrote:

Thanks again - and apologies in advance if I don't respond to any
follow-ups for a while

I think I can speak for everyone who has contributed to this discussion
in hoping that the present crisis has a happy, or at least tolerable,
outcome.

Bill

In article , Robin wrote:
I was graetful for this and all the other replies. I am responding
briefly here because clearly you have the t-shirt. .

Friends lent me both an iPad and an Android based tablet (can't recall
what make/flavour) which I took in today. But they don't offer the same
interface as Windows. And when you can't recall where you are or what
day it is for more than 10 minutes it ain't the time to learn a new GUI.
(I think the same'd be true of Linux: it may be VLC Jim, but it ain't
Windows Explorer as we know it IIRC; you don't hibernate in the same
way; etc)

It's of course your choice, based on the circumstances, but...

You'd have to say what versions/distros/etc of 'Linux' you have in mind.
And which 'Windows'. They both vary in GUI, and some 'Linux' distros adopt
a look and feel similar to various versions of 'Windows', precisely to make
life easer for those familiar with 'Windows' who struggle to cope with - or
simply don't want - changes.

Afraid I don't know why you think Explorer is relevant to VLC, nor why you
you think hibernation must be a problem.

FWIW Android is, under the commercial fluff, actually based on Linux. But,
as with iPlods, etc, the flexibility of the system may be tied down out of
sight of the user by the makers. Commercial vendors like to have their own
'look and feel' and hide anything they've, erm, 'borrowed' from elsewhere.
:-)

Hope all goes well,

Jim

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David Kennedy wrote:

On 28/01/2013 08:03, the dog from that film you saw wrote:
On 28/01/2013 07:45, Dr Zoidberg wrote:

"Robin" wrote in message
...
Background: seriously ill patient in hospital wants to be able
to watch videos - not broadcast or iPlayer but from
disk/memory. Probably .avi and .mkv wrappers. Possibly DVD
images. Resolution not critical but would prefer widescreen.

Budget: I hope this will be used over months rather than weeks
or days so I'm game for £ several hundreds for a good solution.

I don't think there's much point looking outside the Tablet
marketplace.

An iPad will do the job very nicely, but it sounds like you'd
want the 64gb version if you plan on filling it with video which
isn't cheap. It's a brilliant bit of kit IMO, but something like
a Samsung Galaxy Tab has a Micro SD card slot so that will be a
lot cheaper - half the price.




the ipad would need all the mkv videos etc converting to something
it likes wouldn't it?

what about

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

I can't find VLC Media Player on the Apps store. I'm using AVPlayerHD.

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On 29/01/2013 13:48, Ashley Booth wrote:
David Kennedy wrote:

On 28/01/2013 08:03, the dog from that film you saw wrote:
On 28/01/2013 07:45, Dr Zoidberg wrote:

"Robin" wrote in message
...
Background: seriously ill patient in hospital wants to be able
to watch videos - not broadcast or iPlayer but from
disk/memory. Probably .avi and .mkv wrappers. Possibly DVD
images. Resolution not critical but would prefer widescreen.

Budget: I hope this will be used over months rather than weeks
or days so I'm game for £ several hundreds for a good solution.

I don't think there's much point looking outside the Tablet
marketplace.

An iPad will do the job very nicely, but it sounds like you'd
want the 64gb version if you plan on filling it with video which
isn't cheap. It's a brilliant bit of kit IMO, but something like
a Samsung Galaxy Tab has a Micro SD card slot so that will be a
lot cheaper - half the price.


the ipad would need all the mkv videos etc converting to something
it likes wouldn't it?

what about

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

I can't find VLC Media Player on the Apps store. I'm using AVPlayerHD.

The download links are all here

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/#download

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

On 29/01/2013 13:48, Ashley Booth wrote:
David Kennedy wrote:

On 28/01/2013 08:03, the dog from that film you saw wrote:
On 28/01/2013 07:45, Dr Zoidberg wrote:

"Robin" wrote in message
...
Background: seriously ill patient in hospital wants to be able
to watch videos - not broadcast or iPlayer but from
disk/memory. Probably .avi and .mkv wrappers. Possibly DVD
images. Resolution not critical but would prefer widescreen.

Budget: I hope this will be used over months rather than weeks
or days so I'm game for £ several hundreds for a good solution.

I don't think there's much point looking outside the Tablet
marketplace.

An iPad will do the job very nicely, but it sounds like you'd
want the 64gb version if you plan on filling it with video which
isn't cheap. It's a brilliant bit of kit IMO, but something like
a Samsung Galaxy Tab has a Micro SD card slot so that will be a
lot cheaper - half the price.




the ipad would need all the mkv videos etc converting to something
it likes wouldn't it?

what about

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

I can't find VLC Media Player on the Apps store. I'm using AVPlayerHD.

You can simply type VLC into the search box on the iTunes store and
there are a number of choices most of them free

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

On 29/01/2013 13:48, Ashley Booth wrote:
David Kennedy wrote:

On 28/01/2013 08:03, the dog from that film you saw wrote:
On 28/01/2013 07:45, Dr Zoidberg wrote:

"Robin" wrote in message
...
Background: seriously ill patient in hospital wants to be able
to watch videos - not broadcast or iPlayer but from
disk/memory. Probably .avi and .mkv wrappers. Possibly DVD
images. Resolution not critical but would prefer widescreen.

Budget: I hope this will be used over months rather than weeks
or days so I'm game for £ several hundreds for a good solution.

I don't think there's much point looking outside the Tablet
marketplace.

An iPad will do the job very nicely, but it sounds like you'd
want the 64gb version if you plan on filling it with video which
isn't cheap. It's a brilliant bit of kit IMO, but something like
a Samsung Galaxy Tab has a Micro SD card slot so that will be a
lot cheaper - half the price.




the ipad would need all the mkv videos etc converting to something
it likes wouldn't it?

what about

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

I can't find VLC Media Player on the Apps store. I'm using AVPlayerHD.

You can simply type VLC into the search box on the iTunes store and
there are a number of choices most of them free

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

All these experiences were gained in Yorkshire hospitals. It might be
different down south, you know, funny ideas and all that. I once went to
Bawtry and that was far enough for me.

Bill

Tickhill Spital sounds like a medical condition, and Scrooby is a
Hanna Barbera character, or should be.

I'm in Batley tommorow.

Nice useful post by the way. Thanks.

Graham. wrote:
All these experiences were gained in Yorkshire hospitals. It might be
different down south, you know, funny ideas and all that. I once went to
Bawtry and that was far enough for me.

Bill

Tickhill Spital sounds like a medical condition, and Scrooby is a
Hanna Barbera character, or should be.
Ah but we have Goldthorpe, so called because property prices there are
the highest in the north of England. Crime there is almost non-existent.
The local grammar school is in the top five for the whole country. All
the dogs have pedigrees.


I'm in Batley tommorow.

Nice useful post by the way. Thanks.
My pleasure. If you meant me.

Bill

In message , Bill Wright
writes
Graham. wrote:
All these experiences were gained in Yorkshire hospitals. It might
be different down south, you know, funny ideas and all that. I once
went to Bawtry and that was far enough for me.

Bill
Tickhill Spital sounds like a medical condition, and Scrooby is a
Hanna Barbera character, or should be.
Ah but we have Goldthorpe, so called because property prices there are
the highest in the north of England. Crime there is almost
non-existent. The local grammar school is in the top five for the
whole country. All the dogs have pedigrees.

Surely not another place where "where all the women are strong, all the
men are good looking, and all the children are above average"?

I'm in Batley tommorow.
Nice useful post by the way. Thanks.
My pleasure. If you meant me.


--
Ian