omxplayer

[diogoviannaaraujo]

Im trying to run a video on top of amino, it was working with the version on the other repo, but with this one i keep getting 'COMXAudio::Decode timeout' error.

Is there a way to avoid this or a way to disable the screen rendering before initiating the video?
Thanks

[diogoviannaaraujo]

Ok, setting a higher gpu memory resolved at some point, im still seeing arctifacts on omxplayer, is that something ill have deal with or is there a way to treat that.

[joshmarinacci]

I haven't tried doing any video with Amino. What app are you using for the video playback? Can you tell me some steps to reproduce it? There's probably something silly going on in Amino's backend.

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[diogoviannaaraujo]

Hi, im using omxplayer, the default raspberry pi player

[diogoviannaaraujo]

And when looking for this if you think in a way that amino could render above the video i would really appreciate, would open doors for lots of applications

[diogoviannaaraujo]

Hey, just here again to say that I've been enjoying a lot coding with this library.
Wonderful work, been searching a lot on something like this for rPi.
Congratulations

[movingbits]

Hi,

Did you find a solution to render amino above omxplayer?

Rolf

[diogoviannaaraujo]

No i didn't, im experimenting with gstreamer1.0 but no advance in this particular problem

[movingbits]

I found a similar issue with the solution here (eendeego/node-openvg-canvas#9) and i noticed the that amino also uses dispmanx.

What i think is when you change the display layer in /src/rpi.cpp (line 103) from 0 to 1 it would/might work. But i guess you have to rebuild/recompile and i don't know where to start doing that.

[joshmarinacci]

I'm traveling so I don't have a raspberry pi to test with me. Why don't you try changing that line and rebuilding. You just need to do
rm -rf build;
npm rebuild

That should trigger a recompile of the native code.

[movingbits]

Hi there,

I got it working, great, thanks for your fast reaction!

I know aminogfx is a work in progress. So the questions i ask me be related to stuff that hasn't been done yet or are not supposed to work the way i think. Just let me know

Two questions

One:
Is it possible to get a transparant (root) layer. When i set no items the background is black. When i add transparant Rect's they show the video.
So i set a fullscreen rect with opacity. But the lowest i can set opacity is 0.1. Any lower the opacity is gone. (Also tried visible true/false but i get a black background). So i cannot get full transparancy.

Two:
When i set opacity to a Rect without a fill, the layer behind it is green (shell or omxplayer). As if there is a green fill. Could this be a side effect of changing the dispmanx layer?

[joshmarinacci]

I haven't implemented either of these. Can you put in separate feature request issues? I'll get right on them. For a transparent background I think I can do it by changing the glClearColor.