Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MMM-MPlayer
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HI, im running my MM on on Proxmox VM and pointing my display to IP on VM, when i try to run Mplayer it just displays black box but no feed, i doo see the feed on the server VM. any ideas how to get this playing on my remote display?
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@Guku did you expose that port on the vm to another connecting host?
maybe a firewall filter?I don’t use proxmox, but I see this on windows VM’s all the time
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thanks for checking in with me, i gave up on the player since even when i ran it localy on my VM the camera feed was delayed by about 5sec which defeted the pourpose. thanks anyways!
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Just a comment
I am using MagicMirror on a pi using bullseye 32bit.
When using a rpi4 everything works fine. When I transfer the sd card to a rpi3 every time the MPlayer shows a live feed the desktop taskbar shows up, when MPlayer is switching between feeds the taskbar is not visible.
This is probably due to my specific choice of settings but just thought it might help someone.
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@clakkentt if you use my backup/restore to capture your MM config
and build a new card ON the pi3, and install MM and restore the config
do you see the same problem?backup/restore here https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore
install/upgrade here https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts
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@sdetweil
Yes the problem is the same. I initially had MM running on a rpi3, when I installed MMM-MPlayer, I noticed the taskbar showing every time there was a feed showing.
I started from scratch on an rpi4 and saw no problem but when I transferred the card to the rpi3 the issue came up again.Since I wanted to keep using the rpi3 for the MagicMirror I solved the problem by making the taskbar 0 pixels in height.
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@clakkentt what do you mean by taskbar?
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The desktop taskbar. On the raspberry the bar at the top of the screen.
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@clakkentt it pops up over MagicMirror screen?
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Yes, when the MPlayer RTSP stream is running
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I don’t know if this is the cause but I am using vcgencmd to turn the display off and on and to do that I had to disable vc4-kms-v3d
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@clakkentt crazy. i don’t know either
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@sdetweil
Wonder what he is using for his x and y start position in MMM-MPlayer.windowPosition: { x: 5, y: 5 },If I remember correctly.
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R rkorell referenced this topic on
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No, I have the window in the middle of the screen, something like x: 450, y: 100
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@clakkentt I’m having the same issues on my rpi4. How did you hide the taskbar?
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Also, I have 2 windows, one RTSP stream from Frigate in each, but there is a lot of extra space between them and above the first window. Would also like to get rid of the MPLAYER header if possible.
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@hrmax23 said
@clakkentt How did you hide the taskbar?
Good morning,
I did have this taskbar issue suddenly appearing as I upgraded to a larger monitor. Caused by this I increased the screen resolution.
After this I had the annoying taskbar appearing more or less randomly.
Played a lot with colors/height/position of the taskbar …
And while playing around I found an option in screen-config tool.
For some (really strange) reasons it seems that this setting is dependent on screen resolution !?
So it’s may worth a trial to stop your MagicMirror so that you can see the native Pi-OS screen and find the screen config tool - there you should be able to hide the taskbar as well …Good luck!
Regards,Ralf
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@rkorell I can autohide the taskbar but when it hides, it takes the MPlayer window with it.
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@hrmax23 O.K., never experienced this.
But in my installation I rarely use MMM-MPlayer (it’s configured to have a look at my 3D-printer which seldomly is necessary), so I enable MPlayer module only if needed…Sorry, than I do not know…
Ralf -
When I tested the module, I used a Pi 3b connected to a 4K monitor and it was working okay.
After reading about the MPlayer window, that appears in the center, I decided to test again.
And to my surprise I have the same issue.It seems that MPlayer is ignoring the window position defined by the module.
The GUI screen resolution is set to 1920x1080 @60Hz.
Both xrandr and wlr-randr reflect this.On my Pi 4b, connected to a 1600x900 monitor, I do not have this issue.
I did do an update & upgrade of Debian before looking at the issue, so it can be that something ‘broke’ the module.
But then again I updated both Pis and only one has this issue.I will try to connect the 1600x900 monitor to the Pi 3b, so see if it is a monitor thing.
All in all very odd.
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