any one had luck with piping video?

[hijak]

i love the camera example and have tried to adapt it for streaming m3u8 but my novice python skills are no match. any one have a good example of displaying any video on the unicorn hat hd?

[Gadgetoid]

It's tricky to find any good examples of displaying to an LED matrix like ours - so perhaps we need one - but here's some discussion suggesting that python-gstreamer and python-gobject are likely candidates for playing a video stream to Unicorn HAT HD: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7227162/way-to-play-video-files-in-tkinter

There's also this GStreamer tutorial, but it makes my head spin! - https://brettviren.github.io/pygst-tutorial-org/pygst-tutorial.html

[hijak]

i paid a guy off fiver to figure it out :) mainly cause i was on the verge of crying hahah

#!/usr/bin/python3
import cv2
import subprocess as sp
import numpy
try:
    import unicornhathd as unicorn
    print("unicorn hat hd detected")
except ImportError:
    from unicorn_hat_sim import unicornhathd as unicorn
VIDEO_URL = "tcp://picamera.exnet.lan:5000"

FFMPEG_BIN = "ffmpeg"
unicorn.rotation(270)
unicorn.brightness(0.6)
pipe = sp.Popen([ FFMPEG_BIN, "-i", VIDEO_URL,
           "-loglevel", "quiet", # no text output
           "-an",   # disable audio
           "-f", "image2pipe",
           "-pix_fmt", "bgr24",
           "-vcodec", "rawvideo", "-"],
           stdin = sp.PIPE, stdout = sp.PIPE)
while True:
    raw_image = pipe.stdout.read(640*480*3) # read 432*240*3 bytes (= 1 frame)
    image =  numpy.fromstring(raw_image, dtype='uint8').reshape((480,640,3))
    image1 = cv2.resize(image,(16,16))
    for x in range(16):
        for y in range(16):
            [r,g,b] = image1[x,y]
            unicorn.set_pixel(x, y, r, g, b)
    unicorn.show()
    if cv2.waitKey(5) == 27:
        break
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

[hijak]

i was pretty close which was a kicker