Video playback on QLC+ Raspberry Pi 4.8.1

[Michael Rubenbauer]

Hi Massimo, hi all,

First I have to mention, I'm really impressed by the big set of features and the
good usability of QLC+! Thanks to Massimo and all contributors!

I just got the QLC+ image, provided by Massimo, working on the PI. So far it
worked as expected. Now I am stuck to the playback of videos. What I tried so far:
- I loaded my project via the web interface
- I modified the paths of the videos via the HDMI UI to match their location on
the SD card and set them to play in full-screen mode
Anyway, when I start the associated chaser, the screen is partially covered by a
gray window, but nothing is playing.
I also realized, when selecting the video in the UI, a duration of zero is
displayed.

The video I want to play, is a high profile x264 encoded one in a mkv container.
It plays properly in XBMC on the same PI.

Do you have any hints, what file format and/or settings are required, to get
this working?
In case this use-case is not (yet) supported: Is it possible to control the
play-back in another player than the integrated one, e.g. by scripts?

Thanks for any support!
Michael Rubenbauer

[Jano Svitok]

For external control, look for a player that has MIDI/OSC/ArtNet remote control.

[Massimo Callegari]

Hello Michael, unfortunately video playback on the Raspberry is not working yet.
XBMC uses totally different libraries and moreover the hardware accelerated decoders.

We need to wait until the Qt team switches to gstreamer-1.0, so we'll have hardware acceleration too.
Should happen quite soon. I'll keep you posted.

[mortti04]

Hello,
I haven't tried QLC+ 4.8.5 on RPi yet, but as soon as video playback is supported will there be possibility to stream the video to remote location? Ie. to another raspberry pi waiting UDP stream? Thank you!

[janosvitok]

For streaming, your best bet is VLC. There's a script to control VLC frol QLC+ see viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7754
You may even be able to run VLC directly on the remote PI, controlling it over network (I didn't check the script, I just know it exists).

[mortti04]

Ok, I'll try that one