2025-01-07, 15:38
Good afternoon,
I am looking for a media player that can do the following (hopefully simple tasks), and I wondered if Kodi on a Pi 5 would achieve this :-
1. Output a blank all black screen when no video is playing, no on screen menus, so screen savers kicking in etc.
2. Play a 4K (or it might be a 1080p) video with 5.1 audio over HDMI, triggered via a TCP command (I see it supports JSON-RPC so that would be fine) from a controlling server. There will be several videos loaded on the player, so I would need to trigger video 1 or video 2 etc to play.
4. Be able to stop the video before it has fully played (again via JSON-RPC)
5. Go back to the blank screen when done (not have the video loop)
Ideally it would be good if it could also simultaneously play a video (which should be able to loop) which just has 5.1 Audio in it (the video content is all black). Again this video would be triggered by JSON-RPC, and I could ideally have independent volume control over this background audio video and the main video.
Regards
Ben
I am looking for a media player that can do the following (hopefully simple tasks), and I wondered if Kodi on a Pi 5 would achieve this :-
1. Output a blank all black screen when no video is playing, no on screen menus, so screen savers kicking in etc.
2. Play a 4K (or it might be a 1080p) video with 5.1 audio over HDMI, triggered via a TCP command (I see it supports JSON-RPC so that would be fine) from a controlling server. There will be several videos loaded on the player, so I would need to trigger video 1 or video 2 etc to play.
4. Be able to stop the video before it has fully played (again via JSON-RPC)
5. Go back to the blank screen when done (not have the video loop)
Ideally it would be good if it could also simultaneously play a video (which should be able to loop) which just has 5.1 Audio in it (the video content is all black). Again this video would be triggered by JSON-RPC, and I could ideally have independent volume control over this background audio video and the main video.
Regards
Ben