Halloween mirror ghouls anyone?

[Mitchfarino]

@Jopyth www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs

[McSorley]

Link it up with a PIR sensor with some bluetooth speakers and you could give someone a nasty fright!!

[Jopyth]

@rvdgeer Good idea.

If anyone wants to see how this looks (with a gif it is pretty simple):

		{
			module: "helloworld",
			position: "fullscreen_below",
			config: {
				text: "<img src='https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DiscreteDenseCockroach-size_restricted.gif' alt='GIF test' style='position:absolute; top:100%; left:50%; transform: translate(-50%, -100%); width:100%;'>"
			}
		},

[rvdgeer]

I did sudo apt-get install omxplayer and included a video using <video> tags in the helloworld module.
It works great!

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[rvdgeer]

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[jtyle6]

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[Mitchfarino]

@Jopyth Have you had any luck with this mate?

I haven’t looked at it for a while, have had a few things going on so haven’t had chance

[Jopyth]

@Mitchfarino did not have the time for it. I will see if I get to it, when I get back from vacation in one week.

[bhepler]

I experimented with this a bit yesterday. Thanks to @rvdgeer for the hint and @Jopyth for the initial code to start.

I ripped a YouTube video to disk and uploaded it to my Pi, putting it in the vendor folder. Adding this to my config.js was surprisingly effective (the rotate 90 is due to the video being designed to be projected on a window):

{     module: "helloworld",
      position: "fullscreen_below",  
      config: {
                text: "<video src='vendor/halloween.mp4' autoplay loop style='transform:rotate(90deg); position:absolute; top:50%;left:30%; height:50%'></video>"
               }
 },

[Mitchfarino]

@bhepler What video did you use? Sorry I missed the link

How did you rip it from YouTube?