Media player with crossfading effect.

[anthony baldwin]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> anthony baldwin wrote:
>> Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>>> Raseel Bhagat wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> Hmm..  Ok, even if crossfading is not possibl, is there a way to
>>>> prevent
>>>> the
>>>> glitches one sees when players like vlc or mplayer are transitioning
>>>> from
>>>> one media file (video) to another ?
>>>> I just want to prevent this. I don't care if I am staring at a blank
>>>> screen
>>>> for a second, as long as the screen does not STOP.
>>> </snip>
>>>
>>> I had a stupid thought:  What if you continuously supply a video feed
>>> from
>>> your individual video files.  Then *any* video player would do.  How to
>>> pipe this video feed is beyond me, I think, but I am sure you or
>>> somebody
>>> else on list can do it.
>>>
>> That wouldn't be too hard.
>>
>> cd /dir/full/of/video/files
>>
>> find . -type f | mplayer -playlist - -loop 0
>>
>> I use a similar script to loop audio files.
>>
>> cd /dir/fulla/tunes
>> find . -type f | mplayer -playlist - -shuffle -loop 0
>>
>> just added shuffle in there for that one.
> 
> Nice, but what you do here is supplying mplayer with a sequence of files
> and according to the OP this will cause interruption and visibility of the
> desktop.  What I mean is that mplayer should be fed from a "live" stream
> and this live stream in turn from a play list of files.  This way mplayer
> might refrain from close-down / open-up procedure and in turn not show the
> desktop.
> 
I'm a little confused by that...
But, hey, speaking of desktop and video...
once I found this cool script that allowed me to use a video for my 
background...
that was co0l.
I think I used it in fluxbox...yeah...

or..wait...no, I had some perl (or was it python?) script that allowed 
me to alternate wallpapers in fluxbox in a determined interval, from a 
dir fullo images...it wasn't a video.
I bet I could make that work in openbox or dwm, too.
but I think I had found another script or something that allowed me to 
use a dir fullo videos for my screensaver...yeah...
Anyway, I'm rambling now, and not helping solve this issue at hand here.

/tony

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