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Caleb9 / syno-photo-frame

Build a digital photo frame for Synology Photos with Raspberry Pi
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Request for video playback #15

Open bigshow104 opened 4 months ago

bigshow104 commented 4 months ago

Is it possible to include playback of videos on the album?

I have a video in the shared album but it only shows the thumbnail image.

Loving the app. this is something I have wanted to make the Synology system even better. I have this running on a PI3 b+.

Caleb9 commented 4 months ago

No, unfortunately it's not currently possible, and I don't see a chance for it to be added anytime soon :(. I am aware of this limitation and I've been experimenting with implementation but it is simply beyond my skills. It most likely requires usage of ffmpeg and I haven't figured a way to read a video from the API using available ffmpeg Rust bindings. ffmpeg in itself is quite a handful, and with the way Synology Photos serves videos would probably require implementing some kind of buffering on RPi...

Either way I gave up on the idea, for now at least. Would be great to get someone who's an expert to add it to the project, so I'll leave this issue open.

bigshow104 commented 4 months ago

Thank you for your honest reply. It woild be good if someone does manage to work it out.

What you have done already is fantastic and I can't thank you enought for doing what you have already done.