Hi Jean-Michael, thanks for the hint with the qml-presentation system! For something easier (and as a Adobe Acrobat Reader replacement!) I can recommend the 'pdf presenter console' https://pdfpc.github.io/ They also provide a nice example with videos on their site, latex beamer source included. Depending on your groups abilities you may choose one or another, I think both will work. Best, Oliver On 04.04.19 18:21, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote:

When I need advanced media capabilities in my presentations I do them with QML : https://github.com/ec1oud/qml-presentation-system - you can do nice things like putting a whole 3d renderer in there. It's a complete programming language used for UI.

Else if it's simpler stuff I do them in LaTeX with beamer but you need to use the proprietary Acrobat as a PDF reader (ugh)if you want to ensure proper video playback in my experience. If you don't need videos / more media stuff then it's the safer - PDFs work everywhere, on every OS (that can drive an HDMI output at least ;p).

Best, Jean-Michaël

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 5:20 PM Farid A <7dare@outlook.com> wrote:

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Hi,

I'm in a student group where we organize monthly conferences with public personnalities, and during the conference we use a powerpoint (c) presentation to show images, video, text related to the presentation.

Only last time we had issues with the powerpoint (and the macbooks they ran on) so I decided to step in and move us to something more reliable.

I'm therefore looking for software (preferably FOSS) that runs on arch, which can broadcast video, audio and text on a screen connected through HDMI whilst being controlled from the computer's screen. Ideally the software would leave little room for error, be reliable/stable, and be rather easy to manipulate live.

Thanks in advance for your help

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