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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Playing video to projector while controlling syncronized RGB pizels
« on: January 14, 2016, 12:18:06 AM »
I have been researching for hours and have not come up with a good solution for what I want to do. I have LOR4 and Xlights4 and I have to say after playing with them both I love Xlights... So here is my situation:
Last year I did a projection mapped show using a single projector to play custom video sequences on multiple planes of the exterior of the house quite successfully. The video is full HD 1808p @ 30fps.
This year I would like to step that up by adding RGB pixel elements as highlights to the show such as a 24x50 MegaTree, roof lines, bushes, etc. I see that Xlights will allow me to sequence an MP3 and schedule it to play the media and sequence simultaneously. I see I can schedule and play a video but can not tie a sequence to it simultaneously. I have read about using FPP on a Pi where you can marry a sequence to a video media, but I see that the Pi does not support full HD 1080p video output. I have read about using the BBB but I am not sure it will handle the 1080p video. I see the PiZero is going to be supported and I think it may actually be able to do full HD but they are hard to get a hold of and need a hack of FPP to work until v2 comes out later this year.
I would really love to use a PC and all of it's horse power and E1.31 to the controllers to do this but I do not think that Xlights is able to do this (yet?)... Is there maybe something in the dev chain for Xlights to pull this off?
Does anyone know the correct solution to this puzzle?
Last year I did a projection mapped show using a single projector to play custom video sequences on multiple planes of the exterior of the house quite successfully. The video is full HD 1808p @ 30fps.
This year I would like to step that up by adding RGB pixel elements as highlights to the show such as a 24x50 MegaTree, roof lines, bushes, etc. I see that Xlights will allow me to sequence an MP3 and schedule it to play the media and sequence simultaneously. I see I can schedule and play a video but can not tie a sequence to it simultaneously. I have read about using FPP on a Pi where you can marry a sequence to a video media, but I see that the Pi does not support full HD 1080p video output. I have read about using the BBB but I am not sure it will handle the 1080p video. I see the PiZero is going to be supported and I think it may actually be able to do full HD but they are hard to get a hold of and need a hack of FPP to work until v2 comes out later this year.
I would really love to use a PC and all of it's horse power and E1.31 to the controllers to do this but I do not think that Xlights is able to do this (yet?)... Is there maybe something in the dev chain for Xlights to pull this off?
Does anyone know the correct solution to this puzzle?