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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.
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Disable loop #189

Closed simonemarin closed 1 year ago

simonemarin commented 1 year ago

Hallo this is a feature/help request, how would it be the easiest way to disable the looping function? I need it just to play once a single video. Thanks

JonnyTech commented 1 year ago

Hahaha, forgive my response but I could not help it... This project is pi-video-LOOPER - there is a clue in the name - you need to use a video player, of which there are many. One would not say, how can I drive my car in the ocean, rather than use a boat...

simonemarin commented 1 year ago

Yes you may be right, but this project has all the right setup already (pygame for a nice blank startup, etc.) I have used it for many years and I still think that , despite the name, using it as a single shot video, together with the keyboard shortcuts, would be within the user case, so to say. I tried to dig into the code but have not found an easy way to disable looping yet.

shell3000 commented 1 year ago

Makes sense in an exhibition context, with an external trigger to start a video, motion detection, light, button and so on. VideoLooper exist mostly in this environment, so this question is relevant.

Oppfields commented 1 year ago

This would be a good option to add, there are many occasions where a 'one shot' function could be useful in events, gallery and installation settings.

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 1 year ago

I plan to add this in the next version - you can find a work in progress solution in the current next branch https://github.com/adafruit/pi_video_looper/commit/4b0c616106ac19b24ed902309d3eabf5695f36d2 added this code without testing it yet. maybe you could also see if it fits your needs

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 1 year ago

Makes sense in an exhibition context, with an external trigger to start a video, motion detection, light, button and so on. VideoLooper exist mostly in this environment, so this question is relevant.

check out the new GPIO control feature added in version https://github.com/adafruit/pi_video_looper/releases/tag/v1.0.14

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 1 year ago

Hallo this is a feature/help request, how would it be the easiest way to disable the looping function? I need it just to play once a single video. Thanks

done. this is now possible in https://github.com/adafruit/pi_video_looper/releases/tag/v1.0.15