FPP video

[spaulgal]

I have a 1080p video wall fed by an instance of FPP. Right now it's in player mode and just loops via the scheduler.

For the Christmas display, I want to make this player a Remote and have a video kick off with the overall lightshow. I was testing this today and could not get the video remote to play with the test coming from the master.

I have "Thanksgiving.fseq" playing on the master and it is successfully controlling several PiCap remotes as well as a few boards in Bridge mode. I put a video of the same exact length on this video remote and called it Thanksgiving.mp4.

In Multisync on the master I connected the remote with the video on it. Logging into the remote, it acknowledges the master and says "waiting for sync commands" but remains idle.

Am I missing a step?

 

[dkulp]

Videos on remotes have to match the media (mp3, mp4, avi, etc...) on the player. They don't match the fseq filename.

 

[spaulgal]

I see, thanks.
In my setup lights and music play off the master. The goal is to play the corresponding video on a remote. Is there a way to achieve this?

 

[dkulp]

Name the video the same as the music on the master (except the file extension).

 

[spaulgal]

Great, Got it... so the video can sync with other media... doesn't have to be the same type.

 

[spaulgal]

So quick follow up here...
The remote video is working as expected, but I'm noticing some stuttering/freezing during the video.
I remember reading something about an FPP setting that allows the sync interval to be throttled back. I cannot find that setting. Do you think that might be the issue? I suppose it might be data rate was well. I converted the video to mp4 using handbrake and used fairly standard settings (for 1080p)
Is there a real of thumb for FPP HDMI video?