RANDOM VIDEO PLAYER FOR ART INSTALATION

[maximedrop]

I am working on a art installation that will play video randomly .
i will like to be seamless ans full screen. maybe it will be 4 k video.

what i will like is put all video in one folder and the player will chose randomly any video inside of it depending on the number. so i can add or remove.
is something like this is possible on raspberry pi
I have try some multimedia software like kodi but it have a gab between video.

[ltdrum]

Check out my project, it might give you a starting point. It pays all videos in a folder, the random part should be easy to add. You would have to enumerate them first that random pick a number.

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[maximedrop]

thanks ltdrum
do the video have a gap (black screen ) between each video or it seamless

[ltdrum]

With omxplayer three will always be a small gap, that's just the load time of the video. True seamless will be hard to do with a rpi just based on the processing power. But if you find the process that will work, hopefully the script will get you the rest of the way

[tvjon]

I am working on a art installation that will play video randomly .
i will like to be seamless ans full screen...

Is it just video or do you also need accompanying (lip-sync) audio?

[maximedrop]

I am working on a art installation that will play video randomly .
i will like to be seamless ans full screen...

Is it just video or do you also need accompanying (lip-sync) audio?

it just the video no sound video

[tvjon]

In that case, a simpler application will do the job without gaps, providing your source videos are in .h264 form, or if mpeg4 you can quickly convert them on your RPi via something like

gpac.

The app's source code is on your Raspbian µSD card in:

/opt/vc/src/hello_pi/hello_video/

You'll need to build it, so view the README.

Having done that, copy hello_video.bin to an executable path, eg., into:

/home/pi/bin


Attached is a small script I use to play a folder's video content, which also can be copied to:

/home/pi/bin

You can modify it to shuffle the videos for playback.

Finally, cd to your folder of videos, & in a terminal window, type the name of the script & all the videos will play.

[dividuum]

True seamless will be hard to do with a rpi just based on the processing power.

That's not correct. My info-beamer pi software is capable of that. It works by preloading and pausing the next video before the current video ends. Once it ends, it unpauses the next video. It works pretty well. Here's some minimal example code: https://github.com/dividuum/info-beamer ... r/seamless. It's also possible to use this ability to create video walls that play videos synced across multiple screens.

[useruseruser]

You can try Pi Presents. https://github.com/KenT2/pipresents-gapless