2017-12-13, 02:05
Hi there and welcome to the forum!
I tried to play a stream from an usb webcam using an external player description. i added this to my ~/.kodi/system/playercorefactory.xml file:
and a simple file with this content:
(which should be useless, since i do not parse its content)
but nothing happens. error is as follows:
this is really frustrating. i tried a lot (avconv to stream the webcam, failing due to limited avconv functionality with v4l2 camera input selection), building my own add-on, minimizing kodi with RPC and json, ... the stream shows up by simply calling the mplayer command if kodi is not running, but closing and restarting kodi is not an option in my eyes. another thing could be to start a PVR backend, but this is also overkill, since i'm running everything on an Raspberry pi...
are here some hints for me? it could be that tricky just to view an usb-grabber output...
thank you very much, andieh
I tried to play a stream from an usb webcam using an external player description. i added this to my ~/.kodi/system/playercorefactory.xml file:
Code:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="RearcamPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>/usr/bin/mplayer</filename>
<args>-nosound tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:norm=NTSC:width=720:height=576:device=/dev/video0:input=0</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
</player>
</players>
<rules name="prepend">
<rule name="test" filename="*webcam*" player="RearcamPlayer"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
and a simple file with this content:
Code:
/dev/video0
but nothing happens. error is as follows:
Code:
01:05:09 T:1947602944 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: /home/pi/Videos/webcam.avi
01:05:09 T:1947602944 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):
ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
01:05:09 T:1827918768 NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
01:05:09 T:1827918768 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
01:05:09 T:1827918768 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
01:05:09 T:1827918768 ERROR: Open - Error, could not open file /home/pi/Videos/webcam.avi
01:05:09 T:1827918768 ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
01:05:09 T:1827918768 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
01:05:09 T:1947602944 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [/home/pi/Videos/webcam.avi]
01:05:09 T:1827918768 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
01:05:09 T:1947602944 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
01:05:09 T:1947602944 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
01:05:09 T:1947602944 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
01:05:09 T:1947602944 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
01:05:09 T:1947602944 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
01:05:09 T:1947602944 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
this is really frustrating. i tried a lot (avconv to stream the webcam, failing due to limited avconv functionality with v4l2 camera input selection), building my own add-on, minimizing kodi with RPC and json, ... the stream shows up by simply calling the mplayer command if kodi is not running, but closing and restarting kodi is not an option in my eyes. another thing could be to start a PVR backend, but this is also overkill, since i'm running everything on an Raspberry pi...
are here some hints for me? it could be that tricky just to view an usb-grabber output...
thank you very much, andieh
