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goyney
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Thank you! Do you have any good starting points for any of this?
Basically, I want to create an addon that, when a key is pressed at any time, a MP4 file plays on top of everything. The video file plays for 30 seconds and then goes away.
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goyney
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I don't think that can be true. How do the doorbell IP camera overlay's work? My friend has this on his Kodi setup, we'll be watching a movie and if you ring his doorbell, a video overlay popups with the live video from the front door IP camera without interrupting the video. (And yes, it's a Kodi add-on for the camera overlay.)
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enen92
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The doorbell ip camera just presents an image overlay (control image) that is updated from x to x time. It's not a video as you pretend to do with your addon.
The big majority of ipcams provide mjpeg feeds and have specific url's/"api" to grab images only. That's what that addon uses, just does it "so quickly" that makes you think it is a video.
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goyney
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Bah, there's gotta be another way to do this. Thanks for your insight.