installed!
Finally got the chance to install this system in its planned location, our house in San Diego. As in every other case when I've deployed these klugy script-based video players on Linux systems, a considerable amount of twiddling around was required to make it work. This is the opposite of trouble-free portability! But oh well, it's all based on free software, and I didn't have to write any of the "hard" stuff. Which is good, because the "easy" stuff is plenty annoying on its own. The basic overview: I had to install "fim" and "mpv", I had to install .config/mpv/input.conf and mpv.conf, I had to edit these config files, I had to (of course) install svp2.sh in /usr/local/bin, and I had to edit the IMG_CMD and VID_CMD variables in the script to pass the right options to fim and mpv. Then, I had to figure out how to change the Ubuntu system into console (text) mode instead of X Windows (this involves using "systemctl" comman...