Halloween mirror ghouls anyone?

Jopyth

I am not (yet :) ), but this seems to be a good starting place:

Fullscreen Backgound Video
Demo page

Mitchfarino

@Jopyth Awesome!

We’re hosting a Halloween party, so this would be great to have running through the night!

bhepler

Do we have a generic video file playing module?

Jopyth

@bhepler We’ve got this: https://github.com/ptrbld/MMM-Podcast

Who can animate the ghosts? :)

Mr.Meeseeks

I’m hunting for anything we can use, here is another paid product, pretty sweet though since it’s in a format for being displayed as a door window, similar to our mirror.
So still good for looking at ideas, but nothing free yet…
https://www.hi-rezdesigns.com/store/home.php?cat=263

Mitchfarino

@Mr.Meeseeks Does it have to be a video?

Why can’t we just load a gif?

http://giphy.com/search/grave-encounters

Edit: or a collection of gifs on a loop?

Jopyth

@Mitchfarino But how are our ghosts staying in HD-Quality with a gif?

Ok, joke aside, gif might also be a good option. But I still think the main thing is to find a video or gif, that actually look decent on the mirror. Without stuff in the background, and maybe something like a fade in and fade out movement.

rvdgeer

@Jopyth I have found something that’s exactly that:
A ghost, doing scary stuff, fading in and out on a black background and that stays mostly within an invisible portrait frame…

Unfortunately it’s not free, so I can’t share it…
But if we have some sort of video player we can use, I would certainly love to try to get it to work…
I tried MMM-Podcast, but realised it needs a button, wired to the Pi and I don’t have nor want that…

Jopyth

Well we would need to change MMM-Podcast, to basically play the video always and then maybe show/hide this with MMM-Module-Scheduler.

Still a custom module might be better here, since we do not want to waste resources, by playing a hidden video all the time, maybe I have time to put something together this weekend.

rvdgeer

@Jopyth How about the helloworld module just to add the needed html tags to display video?
(Obviously just for testing purposes…)