OSMC to replace windows powerpoint in a tour?

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Hi guys, I hope this is the right place to ask :wink: I currently do Ghost Hunting tours for my city and I do a presentation via laptop (windows 10 with powerpoint) and LCD screen/tv and a powered speaker. Way too much to carry around, the solution I think is a Raspberry Pi and OSMC. All my presentation files are videos, and I play them in sequence one at a time via mouse click. Is it possible to do the same thing but with a remote and a playlist of sorts that can be controlled or played by using the remote?

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You need to be asking on Kodi forums. The function you desire should be absolutely possible but OSMC has no bearing on this, it’s comletely dependent on Kodi.

http://kodi.wiki/

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Thank you so much!:grinning:

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Sure you can do it.
place autoexec.py here:
/home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/autoexec.py
The content of autoexec.py is:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin(‘PlayMedia(“/path_where_video_files_are”,“isdir”,“playlistoffset=1”)’)
xbmc.executebuiltin(‘xbmc.PlayerControl(repeatall)’)
xbmc.executebuiltin(“Action(Fullscreen)”)

Reboot raspberry and the video auto-play will start

By,
Den

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I think OP wants to use PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX) files though. I am sure there is a way to convert them to images or videos.

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They are video files that I just added to powerpoint. So that shouldnt be a problem>

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Can this list be paused or stopped and started?

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If it’s just videos you could use a remote control or Kodi app to control playback.

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Hi,
at post 1 is stated that presentation are video files, so I understood that the presentations was saved as video (pp saves to wmv if needed), my bad if I understood wrongly. And yes you can stop/pause/play with the remote as any other video running on Kodi/OSMC, but to reload the playlist once stopped as well as if you add another video file in the queue during the video presentation you must reboot the device.

by,
den

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