Project: Hacking a 'Video Brochure'

Documentation of our efforts to reverse-engineer, repurpose, and hack a 'video brochure' - a cardboard brochure with an embedded video player board based on the Actions Semiconductor V100 chip

Status: ongoing

Runtime: 27.07.2023 -

Participants: Raphael Wimmer

Keywords: video brochure,

more to come…

Hardware

Hacks / Mods

Playing the video(s) in a loop

Here's the simple hack that will allow the video to loop: Create a 1-byte text file. Rename it and change the extension to “z.mpg”. Put the file in the card's video directory. On my card from last year, the video directory has a slightly different name.

Here's how it works: The card's operating system plays every video in the directory, in alphabetical order, then it stops. If it does not recognize the video format, it goes back to the first file and plays everything again. It will do this until you unplug it.

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Further reading

Video Brochures:

Misc: