g5 Animated/Video Background

justin.r.beattie@gmail

I have a cool time-lapse loop animation on a webpage that I have developed that would look great as a background for a Welcome page.

256 states isn’t enough (can this be increased ?) so I can’t do in a normal multi-state button.

Has anyone found a way to get a full screen browser window to show behind a popup or buttons on a page ?

I notice the “show above popups” option in the General Tab has disappeared in TP5.

justin.r.beattie@gmail

looping video background working

Looping Video Background now working on an MXT-1900. Discovered some cool commands in the G5 programming guide. :-)

You can send videos on a thumb drive that is plugged into the panel to a Video Fill button.

^SDM-400,1,file:///udisk/1.mp4

And loop the video it continuously
^SDL-400,1,0

And stop the video it on page-flip to the main page.
^SDM-400,1,stop


Great for the clients welcome page, with one of their own promo videos, animations or perhaps a time-lapse of their new building being built. Especially handy for the larger panoramic panels located in a showcase space where the client expects a little more.

Would only do it on the welcome page though it would be too much of a distraction on any other page.

Could be various uses for this perhaps training videos for advanced touch panels, and animations you cant achieve in 255 states. Obviously a little more flexible than having a video in an app window.

Only thing is smaller table panels don't have a concealed usb port.

Looks great, Plays smoothly without hesitation on the panel :-)

PhreaK

Oh, nice work. Have you tried loading one from say a http:// url? Could be a nice way to tie in with some content that changes semi-regularly.

justin.r.beattie@gmail

PhreaK wrote: »

Oh, nice work. Have you tried loading one from say a http:// url? Could be a nice way to tie in with some content that changes semi-regularly.

Yes this works well also, and would be great for semi-regular content changes.

Also you can run videos from the panels internal storage.
The path doesn't seem to be documented anywhere but if you use,

file:///storage/emulated/0/Downloads(or directory of your choice)/video.mp4

Easiest way to get them into directory of your choice on the panel is to export from dropbox.

Jeff Lockyear

Does anyone know if this works with ModeroX G4 panels?

Jeff Lockyear

Never mind, I found the commands in PI for the X Series.

0XiDE

Jeff, did you have any luck with playing an mp4 on the G4 panel?

DHawthorne

I suspect the GPU on a G4 might not be up to the job. I have a few jobs with network cameras and they can take 10-20 seconds to load. I'm not sure, however, if it's really the GPU or whatever mechanism the G4's use to read dynamic images. But it's slow as heck.