There is an unused Medical Advertisement system in a pharmacy nearby. This system would show many medical ads on local medical services; hospitals, medicines etc. Since a long time now it has been switched off and unused "perfectly working" things cause a lot of botheration. Got the Mukesh Medicals Pharmacy owner interested in reviving it so that it could be repurposed to show other things: custom ads, local information, products on offer etc. The hardware turned out to be an MP4 player with a VGA out connection. Good deal of time was spent in experimenting in encoding a suitable video that could be run on the System as it was 10+ years old and many codecs and features have evolved and cannot be run on older systems. Also the file structure on the storage device also played a part in the video operation. The earlier system keeps a record of how long and how often a particular ad has been played for payment purposes and this feature couldn't be changed. There was a need t...
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