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cees-elzinga / script.xbmc.hue.ambilight

XBMC add-on for Philips Hue lights with ambilight support
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Raspberry Pi issues #10

Closed SebCorbin closed 10 years ago

SebCorbin commented 11 years ago

From README.md

Ambilight mode doesn't work on a Raspberry Pi due to the way it renders video

Could you explain it a bit, I was going to do a Raspberry setup until I stumbled upon this comment

defuuss commented 11 years ago

All the video playing is offloaded to the Broadcom GPU via XBMCs omxplayer code. The problem is that RenderCapture is not compatible and only captures black frames when running on the raspberry pi

cees-elzinga commented 11 years ago

Yes that's exactly it. Theatre mode works though (dimming the lights when playback starts), but ambilight is unfortunately not supported on the Pi

SebCorbin commented 11 years ago

So that's a software problem, it is still hardware-capable of doing it.

I was also going to make a music version (https://github.com/cees-elzinga/script.xbmc.hue.ambilight/issues/1), I'd like to take that work for you.

defuuss commented 11 years ago

Yeah kind of ,there is no CRenderCapture implementation available for the OMXPlayer yet. But it seems they are working on it in some way , there are patches arround but I have no clue how and if they are working

You could try the modified version of the OMXPlayer https://github.com/Stasik0/omxplayer/commits/master

This just might do the trick or it's just specialized for boblight .

cees-elzinga commented 10 years ago

SebCorbin, that sounds great. have you looked into the modified version of the OMXPlayer? What were your results?

SebCorbin commented 10 years ago

Unfortunately I did not manage to save time for that, probably won't have any at all now that the summer is over, but I'm still interested

jazz1138 commented 10 years ago

Ambilight plugin now works in Openelec 3.2.4.

cees-elzinga commented 10 years ago

Awesome! closing the issue