MMM-Videoplayer - Play video files on your mirror

[Snille]

Added some new stuff again in v0.3. See first post…

[dherl0623]

Awesome module! I’m using it to play the old Windows 98 Mystery (Haunted House) Screensaver. I just ripped the video off of YouTube, reduced the quality and it plays perfectly! Thanks again!

[Snille]

@dherl0623 Thank you! :) I’m going to use it soon to play spooky stuff from AtmosFX on Halloween, It’s going to be timed with module scheduler over whole day. Suddenly a ghost appear in the background… :)

[dherl0623]

@Snille That’s awesome! I just downloaded a leaves falling video from them! What would be the best way to play this fullscreen in the background behind all of the elements? Using the CSS in your example above is putting it over top of all of the other modules. Thanks again!

[Snille]

@dherl0623 Hm… I’m using the player in the region “fullscreen_below”. I have this player first in the config of all things that “can” show in the same region (that way it will always end up above the other things in the same region):

{
	disabled: false,
	module: 'MMM-Videoplayer',
	position: "fullscreen_below",
	classes: "scheduler turn90",
	config: {
		random: true,
		loop: true,
		notification: "VIDEOPLAYER1",
		videolist: ["http://your.site.com/video/clip1.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip1.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip2.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip3.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip4.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip5.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip6.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip7.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip8.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip9.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip10.mp4", 
					"http://your.site.com/video/clip11.mp4"],
		module_schedule: [
			{from: '0 6 31 9 *', to: '5 6 31 9 *'},
			{from: '2 7 31 9 *', to: '7 7 31 9 *'},
			{from: '4 8 31 9 *', to: '9 8 31 9 *'},
			{from: '6 9 31 9 *', to: '11 9 31 9 *'},
			{from: '8 10 31 9 *', to: '13 10 31 9 *'},
			{from: '10 11 31 9 *', to: '15 11 31 9 *'},
			{from: '12 12 31 9 *', to: '17 12 31 9 *'},
			{from: '14 13 31 9 *', to: '19 13 31 9 *'},
			{from: '16 14 31 9 *', to: '21 14 31 9 *'},
			{from: '18 15 31 9 *', to: '23 15 31 9 *'},
			{from: '20 16 31 9 *', to: '25 16 31 9 *'},
			{from: '22 17 31 9 *', to: '27 17 31 9 *'},
			{from: '24 18 31 9 *', to: '29 18 31 9 *'},
			{from: '26 19 31 9 *', to: '31 19 31 9 *'},
			{from: '28 20 31 9 *', to: '33 20 31 9 *'},
			{from: '30 21 31 9 *', to: '35 21 31 9 *'},
			{from: '32 22 31 9 *', to: '37 22 31 9 *'},
			{from: '34 23 31 9 *', to: '39 23 31 9 *'},
		]
	}
},

Then I have set the “classes” on this player to “scheduler turn90”, the first class is for the MMM-ModuleScheduler to work and the second is for the player to be turned 90 degrees and set to full screen.
My CSS entry for this player looks like this:

/* MMM-Videoplayer ----------------------------------*/
.MMM-Videoplayer video {
    width: 1080px;
    height: 1920px;
}

.turn90 video {
    position: absolute;
    transform:rotate(90deg);
    transform-origin: bottom left;
    width: 100vh;
    height: 100vw;
    margin-top: -100vw;
    object-fit: cover;
}
/*****************************************************/

That’s it. :)

[feigi]

@Snille
Thank you very much for your answer. Sorry for my late reply, but i did not have time to cover this through the week.

I updated to the latest version and disabled all other modules on my rPI.

But none the less, it does not load the (or any other video).

I dont see any errors:
[2020-10-25 19:30:29.738] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.12.0
[2020-10-25 19:30:29.749] [LOG] Loading config …
[2020-10-25 19:30:29.758] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
[2020-10-25 19:30:29.761] [LOG] No helper found for module: MMM-VideoPlayer.
[2020-10-25 19:30:29.762] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[2020-10-25 19:30:29.981] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 …
[2020-10-25 19:30:30.000] [LOG] Server started …
[2020-10-25 19:30:30.001] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …
[2020-10-25 19:30:30.145] [LOG] Launching application.

Did already someone had success to test this on rPI?
Or what could i do for some more debug?

Cheers,
Feigi

[sdetweil]

@feigi which version, there are 3? google search ‘mmm-videoplayer github’

Snille’s version does not have a node_helper.js file
the others do

[Snille]

@feigi Yes, as @sdetweil said, I’m not using a “node_helper” at all. It’s not needed for the player. It looks like it’s loading as it should. If you don’t see the video, try putting it in another region just to see if it plays. I have only tested the player on my mirror (Ubuntu server with XFCE desktop on a Intel NUC machine) and on a Ubuntu server (running in a container (LXC) then accessing the mirror from a Windows 10 machine in Chrome). And both of them are working… But I can imagine that the RPi may struggle…

[feigi]

@Snille Yes, i use your Version. The content of my cloned folder on the rPI is identical to your folder on github. So i am using the same Version.
Why its showing that its trying to load a node_helper, i have no idea. I dont even know what that is :) I just started the MM without any other modules than yours and did not see an Error and just wanted to show that.

But its ok if this is not possible to play on a rPI. Was worth a try!

Thanks anyway for your support and the great work! :)

[sdetweil]

@feigi said in MMM-Videoplayer - Play video files on your mirror:

Why its showing that its trying to load a node_helper

the system ALWAYS tries and reports… nothing worrisome…