Black Screens during transistion about pisignage HOT 12 OPEN

Hi, can you try with latest pisignage image (https://s3.amazonaws.com/pisignage/pisignage-images/pisignage_1.8.5.img.zip) and let us know if the problem exists.

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Well its still coming black screens, tried new version 1.8.5

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Same problem with version 1.9.8c, any suggestion?

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I'm using software version 2.3.0 and see these black screens as well. (length of 'blackness' depends)
Although not that annoying, is there a way to avoid them?

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there is an option in group settings screen, please try that in 2.3.0

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Thanks for letting me know! Must have overlooked this one, my fault, sorry: "Avoid gap between videos (BETA, use only for short videos".

I'll check it right away and post my experiences as soon as possible.

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The 'avoid gap between videos option' makes the transitioning better.
There are still some issues (or is this normal behavior/unsolvable?) :

• There is no gap anymore when transitioning between weblink and video.
• There are still gaps when transitioning between two video's. (not sure if this can be avoided in a way...)
• There is still a gap between transitioning from a video to a specific html page which contains two iframes (a link to a google page and a link to a soundcloud track). During that time the group ticker also strolls slowly are almost stops. So it probably has something to do with buffering/loading of that page?
  [update: I've read some issues on the soundcloud website about slowing down websites when embedding it in an iframe. Is there a way to prebuffer assets just before these are shown? ]
  PS. What is the definition of a 'short video'? ["Avoid gap between videos (BETA, use only for short videos".]

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the gap between video -> video should go, if not can you send me the log "tail -200 /home/pi/forever_out.log" or check "which mpv" gives path of the mpv program?

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How does the functionality exactly work? Is it a kind of preloading the next video? Could it also be useful for the issue with webpages which can take some time to load?

Concerning video -> video. I'll provide you the log through mail.

I see the following lines in the logging, just after the second video starts (after black screen)

8 Jan 22:08:37 - info: browser stderr: [789:2917:0108/220837.845164:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(626)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.GetDisplayDevice: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[789:2917:0108/220837.846728:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(626)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.EnumerateDevices: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files

8 Jan 22:12:44 - info: livestreamer/ydl error WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.

8 Jan 22:19:34 - info: livestreamer/ydl error WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.

8 Jan 22:20:06 - info: livestreamer/ydl error WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding cannot encode all characters. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.

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Currently the new player is only enabled for video files (not streaming videos). Also streaming starts after initial buffering so there will be an additional gap

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okay, thanks for the clarification.
But, just to mention: I see an improvement (less black screens during transitions) even with steaming video assets (all my assets use streaming videos)

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