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Support for looping video & orientation #298

Open abrenoch opened 9 years ago

abrenoch commented 9 years ago

We have recently found a need to play looping video (in portrait mode) with screenly.

I know this isn't supported natively, but the most recent versions of omxplayer do actually support changing the video orientation & a loop flag.

In the meantime I am just turning off all the assets, and playing the video with the orientation & loop flags via SSH (with an updated version of omxplayer). I have not seen any impact on performance.

vpetersson commented 9 years ago

Interesting observation. Thanks, @abrenoch. We'll take a look.

abrenoch commented 6 years ago

Just wanted to bump this - unless I'm mistaken I believe SSH is still the only way to accomplish changing orientation & seamless looping!

vpetersson commented 6 years ago

SSH is the only way to sort out orientation, that is correct.

As far as the loop feature goes, that would require development work. I haven't looked into this, but I presume it would require something like conditional checks in the playlist and then appending some flag if there is only one video asset (which likely is an edge case IMHO).

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joeladria commented 5 years ago

@abrenoch what exactly did you modify in SSH to achieve this?

abrenoch commented 5 years ago

@abrenoch what exactly did you modify in SSH to achieve this?

Originally I had to build and install a newer version of omxplayer, but it appears that the more recent versions of screenly do support the --loop and --orientation flags in omxplayer already.

Basically I would just call out the screenly asset I want to play looped & rotated, launching it with omxplayer. Provide the orientation & loop flags as needed to make it display/play as expected. This needs to be done every time you want to play a video.

Kinda stinks but will get the job done if you are in a pinch!

joeladria commented 5 years ago

I've created a fork that rather crudely implements these features as global functions. Unfortunately it breaks scheduling, but if you're just looking for a quick version that does looping and orientation this will do the trick. https://github.com/joeladria/screenly-ose