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    • evroomE Offline
      evroom
      last edited by

      For me this works:

      url: '/home/pi/Videos/MoonEclipse.mp4',
      

      So no ‘rtsp:’.
      But I do not know if this sets the right parameters for this purpose, are more suited for CAM streaming I suppose:

      |mm       | Starting stream stream1 with args: [
      1|mm       |     "--avdict",
      1|mm       |     "rtsp_transport:tcp",
      1|mm       |     "--win",
      1|mm       |     "33, 620, 513, 890",
      1|mm       |     "--live",
      1|mm       |     "--video_queue",
      1|mm       |     "4",
      1|mm       |     "--fps",
      1|mm       |     "30",
      1|mm       |     "/home/pi/Videos/MoonEclipse.mp4"
      1|mm       | ]
      

      Makes my Pi very slow too, but that is because I put the file on the SD, which is not a fast medium in my case.

      MagicMirror version: 2.30.0
      Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (8 GB RAM)
      Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

      Test environment:
      MagicMirror version: v2.30.0
      Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 (1 GB RAM)
      Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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      • M Offline
        maxbachmann
        last edited by maxbachmann

        ty I will try it

        Ok I tried. Your first config worked perfectly fine when I tried and it showed me the video. However when I just swapped the url with a file path the way you said in your last post the omxplayer does not open it

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        • MrCoffeeM Offline
          MrCoffee @maxbachmann
          last edited by

          @maxbachmann
          I am just wondering…did you downgrade your electron to avoid activating openGL?
          With openGL activated omxplayer ist not working anymore. Or did I get something wrong.
          Sorry, it is not an answer for your question.

          Thx
          Mr.Coffee

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          • M Offline
            maxbachmann
            last edited by

            Hm no I did not downgrade electron. I am really not that deap in the topic, but why does electron stop omxplayer from working? (at least in my case omxplayer still works, although it kind of does not work with local files for me for whatever reason)

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            • MrCoffeeM Offline
              MrCoffee @maxbachmann
              last edited by

              @maxbachmann
              Seems like you do not have the latest version of MagicMirror installed.
              It is said “The latest versions of electron use an extreme amount of CPU power when no Open GL driver is loaded. This will result in an overheating Raspberry Pi.”
              Thats why I had to activate OpenGL which stops the omxplayer from working (it is not the electron).
              Enable the Open GL driver to decrease Electron’s CPU usage

              But it is off topic. So thank you so far.

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              • M Offline
                maxbachmann
                last edited by maxbachmann

                wait they screwed electron even more??
                What the heck is wrong with them I am already super annoyed they still use no hardware acceleration for videos

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                • evroomE Offline
                  evroom
                  last edited by

                  To be honest, I do run MM 2.4.1, but did not activate OpenGL. That is to say, I commented out
                  #dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
                  The electron processes do not show extreme usage and the temperature is around 48 celsius (25 celsius room temperature).
                  I have 2 camera streams running.

                  And I fail to see the difference between streaming via a rtsp url and from the SD card.

                  It just now pops up in my head; do you have the MPG2 license?
                  Try this to see if it is enabled:

                  # vcgencmd codec_enabled MPG2
                  

                  MagicMirror version: 2.30.0
                  Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (8 GB RAM)
                  Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

                  Test environment:
                  MagicMirror version: v2.30.0
                  Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 (1 GB RAM)
                  Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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                  • M Offline
                    maxbachmann
                    last edited by

                    When not included by default I will definetly do not have it. Will try it when I am home later today.

                    And yes I am confused whats the difference aswell. Especially because I can absolutely use omxplayer with a local file from the shell

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                    • evroomE Offline
                      evroom
                      last edited by

                      The MPG2 license I most probably needed in order to be able to stream the satellite TS stream.
                      With the codec disabled, I am still able to play the .mov and .mp4 files.

                      In general the rule applies: when you can play / stream a source using omxplayer from the command-line, you should be able to play that source via MM (as long as the module used passes the right omxplayer parameters).

                      If you want to pursue the issue further, you can add the --genlog parameter in order to generate the omxplayer.log file:

                      cd /MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RTSPStream
                      $ vi node_helper.js
                      
                      Edit line 113:
                      
                      args.unshift("--genlog", "--avdict", "rtsp_transport:tcp");
                      
                      Restart MM.
                      
                      $ ls -als /home/pi/MagicMirror/omxplayer.log
                      

                      Perhaps this log will reveal why the file does not play.

                      MagicMirror version: 2.30.0
                      Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (8 GB RAM)
                      Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

                      Test environment:
                      MagicMirror version: v2.30.0
                      Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 (1 GB RAM)
                      Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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