Gap Between Loops

[pwsherman]

This is awesome for 4K! The only problem is the 1/2 a second gap at the end of a cycle. I've tried an off-the-shelf solutions as well (Neumi Atom 4K) and it also has a gap. The HD OMXPlayer Pi build has a slight delay but not a black screen.

Any chance in the future for a no-gap solution? I read that VLC for the Pi is not ready for prime time but I don't understand why this hasn't been solved, even commercially.

Thanks for your work on this.

[JuliusCode]

Dear Paul,

before answering you i wanted to confirm that, at least with the testmaterial i use, there is no black frame at the point of loop.

i am using handbrake with the 4k setting available on the website, basically the high quality streaming preset of handbrake but with forced h265.

connected to my desktop monitor (in 4k), a raspi 400 with a A2 rated sd card, did not stutter or showed black frames while looping. playback was from the internal card, too.

i used the 240p slow motion of my phone to verify what i think i saw going on the screen.

please do share if you find out where it needed to be improved, if you get it working?

best, Julius.

[pwsherman]

Thanks for getting back to me.

I tried again from scratch (a couple of times):

• Re-imaged U3 mSD card with v5 img.zip
• Set gpu_mem to 256 in config.txt
• Re-encoded original MP4 video using HandBrake
  • Preset: Raspi 4K
• Confirmed no black frames in video
• Copied video to the media drive on the mSD (file size: 161MB)
• Connected Pi HDMI to 4K TV

Video plays smooth but still get 1/2 second black at the end of the loop. The video loops correctly (1/4 second delay, but no black screen) on my desktop players (including VLC).

[JuliusCode]

hi, is the filename „loop.mp4“? other than that, my guess it‘s an encoding issue.

J.

[pwsherman]

Thank you!! Naming the file loop.mp4 seems to have fixed it! I knew I saw that in your documentation somewhere but I couldn't find it on review. Thanks so much!