I would need during a lesson at the planetarium to project a video on the dome, while using Stellarium. To do this I wrote the following script (use the 0.14.1 version):
Hi Alexander,
I tried to install the latest version of stellarium you recommended, and then to launch a mp4 videos present in the "scripts" folder of the program, but will not start ...
Hi gzotti,
in my log file i have this error: [StelVideoMgr] Video object with ID "Moon" already exists, dropping it
and the video does not appear on stellarium screen ...
The syntax core.playVideo("Moon",true) are correct?
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If you read the docs in the given link you see the video should start playing immediately with show=true. Calling playVideo("Moon"); should be enough, unless you want to pause at end.
The error message refers to the nth time you reloaded the video.
There may be another error message when attempting loading for the first time after start of Stellarium. Maybe try another video, some codecs may not be available.
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I am interested in playing back FullDome films with Stellarium. Is this possible with the video play built into Stellarium - using mirror dome distortion?
Thanks in advance.
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Depends on installed and used codecs, and can be quite picky. Worked on Windows with MP4 (h264) files. We can never test anything on Mac because no developer has one.
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Hey gzotti, I was able to log into SF. (I'm the two Anonymous postings above)
I was able to test this on my Arch Linux install (up to date), exactly the same issue (Video text shows playing video- as per the test script). I can see that the video is playing from the output from Terminal --verbose.
This is just the standard install from Arch Repo: 0.16.1-1 (in EXTRA).
I was going to 'roll my own' on Arch - however there are no complaints in the terminal - or warnings?
Hmm, seems videoplayer is indeed broken again. It works on V0.15, but I also have only short flash of black box on current trunk :-( Rarely used feature... Must see what happens and why? Or anybody else, QtMultimedia experts please go ahead?
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I would need during a lesson at the planetarium to project a video on the dome, while using Stellarium. To do this I wrote the following script (use the 0.14.1 version):
core.loadVideo("../scripts/video/SolarSystem/moon.mp4","moon",100,70,true,0.5);
core.playVideo(true);
The script should be running properly, but nothing appears on the screen.
Where am I doing wrong? :-(
Thanks to those who can help me!
It may look odd, but, please, try use version 0.14.81.0 because series 0.14 has a problems for media support (0.14.81.0 is from series 0.15).
Ok I'll try! Thank you a lot! :-)
Hi Alexander,
I tried to install the latest version of stellarium you recommended, and then to launch a mp4 videos present in the "scripts" folder of the program, but will not start ...
The syntax I used is correct?
core.loadVideo("../scripts/moon.mp4","moon",100,70,true,0.5);
core.playVideo(true);
Many thanks for your help!
Last edit: zenmike 2016-05-21
How does "will not start" look like? Is there a message in the logfile?
Or:
http://stellarium.org/doc/head/classStelMainScriptAPI.html#ae7fcb80524b5d460554538b067513e3e
says:
Parameters
filename the name of the file to load, relative to the scripts directory.
Therefore: does this work?
core.loadVideo("moon.mp4","moon",100,70,true,0.5);
core.playVideo(true);
Hi gzotti,
in my log file i have this error:
[StelVideoMgr] Video object with ID "Moon" already exists, dropping it
and the video does not appear on stellarium screen ...
The syntax core.playVideo("Moon",true) are correct?
If you read the docs in the given link you see the video should start playing immediately with show=true. Calling playVideo("Moon"); should be enough, unless you want to pause at end.
The error message refers to the nth time you reloaded the video.
There may be another error message when attempting loading for the first time after start of Stellarium. Maybe try another video, some codecs may not be available.
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Hi,
I am interested in playing back FullDome films with Stellarium. Is this possible with the video play built into Stellarium - using mirror dome distortion?
Thanks in advance.
Please try it out. I rather think it will be a rectangular screen insert, like ScreenImages, and will not be re-distorted.
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I built Stellarium on MacOS 10.11, but I can only get audio playback from video - not video itself... will test with official build.
Depends on installed and used codecs, and can be quite picky. Worked on Windows with MP4 (h264) files. We can never test anything on Mac because no developer has one.
Hey gzotti, I was able to log into SF. (I'm the two Anonymous postings above)
I was able to test this on my Arch Linux install (up to date), exactly the same issue (Video text shows playing video- as per the test script). I can see that the video is playing from the output from Terminal --verbose.
This is just the standard install from Arch Repo: 0.16.1-1 (in EXTRA).
I was going to 'roll my own' on Arch - however there are no complaints in the terminal - or warnings?
Possibly the script is wrong I am using.
Hmm, seems videoplayer is indeed broken again. It works on V0.15, but I also have only short flash of black box on current trunk :-( Rarely used feature... Must see what happens and why? Or anybody else, QtMultimedia experts please go ahead?