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adafruit / pi_video_looper

Application to turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated looping video playback device, good for art installations, information displays, or just playing cat videos all day.
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Pause vs stop #163

Closed Chrisgraue closed 9 months ago

Chrisgraue commented 1 year ago

Pause (S key) doesn't work as expected.

Pressing S stops video playback, turning screen black. When S is pressed again, the next video in the playlist starts from the beginning.

Is it possible to have the same video file resume from the moment it was paused? Like how a pause/play button normally works on most devices?

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 1 year ago

Hi, the documentation states that S is stop/start and not pause. Unfortunately the way the video looper is currently designed, there is no way to send "signals" to the software (omxplayer) that actually plays the videos to make them halt or resume. But I can have a look to change the behaviour so that pressing S again starts the same video from the beginning where S was pressed the first time...

Thanks for understanding. Cheers

Redacted99 commented 1 year ago

Sending a command to omxplayer is pretty easy. I have coded it for my application and can add it to the software if you approve. Basically add stdin=subprocess.PIPE, to the popen and then add a pause function to omxplayer.py that sends a space character to omxplayer when you want to pause it. A few lines of code in omxplayer.py and then keystroke glue in video_looper

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 1 year ago

Great, please open a pull request!

cinghialino commented 1 year ago

Oh I would love this too! I made a compilation of video for my aging father, so the ability to pause and then resume at a later time would be amazing.

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 1 year ago

it will come in version 1.0.13 which is currently in the "next" branch and needs to be tested before it is "released"

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 9 months ago

pause is implemented in https://github.com/adafruit/pi_video_looper/releases/tag/v1.0.13