Halloween mirror ghouls anyone?

Jopyth

Excellent idea, we still have a month to finish this, so it is ready for Halloween. ;)

Would be best, if we can avoid the proprietary content though, and find something that can be distributed together with the module free for everyone to use.

Mitchfarino

Is anyone working on this?

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…