3.x Stream videos to megatree or pixel matrix

[merolight]

How to stream videos to pixel matrix or megatree? Can anyone shed some lights, thanks in advance

 

[EmmienLightFan]

XLights and the LOR pixel editor have an option to show video. I am unsure if Vixen has.


Streaming live video would be harder.

 

[SmartAlecLights]

yer vixen3 has but its in the old list of nutcracker features that there slowly fading out

 

[CaptainMurdoch]

On the FalconChristmas site a year or so ago, I posted a picture of me using a webcam program I was playing with on the Pi that allowed this feature but I haven't refined it enough for release. It captured live video from a video input and displayed that on a FPP Pixel Overlay so it could be on a regular matrix, virtual matrix on HDMI, or on a "P10"LED panel matrix. I hope to work on it some more this year so it is usable for this season since a lot more people are using P10 panels this year.

 

[fasteddy]

This is where DVI mapping with matrices works great because you can map your computer screen to the matrix and that means you can play live feeds easily. If I remember correctly, LOR, LSP and XLights require a pre recorded file for video to be used

 

[MikeKrebs]

The old fashioned way is to make a series of still pictures and display them. I did a short video on my mega tree and it looked really bad. Not enough horizontal pixels to really see it. For xlights, this post tells the story.

http://auschristmaslighting.com/forums/index.php?topic=7739.0

 

[keithsw1111]

As of 2016.10 xlights can render video files directly. No need to create thousands of images.