force codec ffmpeg

Libavg detects the codec automatically. The client just passes in the video
file name

Thank you Alex,

When I run avg_videoplayer.py filename.mp4, i get about 40% of cpu usage. And the nvidia-settings, section "Graphic Card Information" reports a "video engine utilization" of 27%, which seems ok.
Using the same video file, and running the xibo pyclient (sh run.sh), cpu usage scalates to 80%, and nvidia-settings, section "Graphic Card Information" reports a "video engine utilization" of 0%. It appears that video engine is not in use.

Thanks

Make sure you have the correct libsdl audio engine installed for your
environment. I've seen that break hardware rendering

Sory Alex,

I tried all libsdl packages , even the one from this repo "https://launchpad.net/~zoogie/+archive/ubuntu/sdl2-snapshots" witch is version 2. No luck, can you tell witch version you are using?

Thank you

I'm using the one in the installation guide

Hi Alex,

Just followed the installation guide step by step. Noticed that python-soapy is python-soappy and libswscale0 does not exist on ubuntu 12.04, just installed libswscale2.
Get the same result stated on question #2.
Its strange because avg_videoplayer.py allways uses the video engine.
Do you have more suggestions to make pyclient work with the graphic video engine?

The videoplayer py script is definitely using the system libavg and not
from a separate distribution

Hello Alex,

Sorry to insist, I managed to use the graphics video engine with this script:

"import sys
from libavg import avg, app, player, widget

canvas = player.createMainCanvas(size=(800,600))
rootNode = canvas.getRootNode()
videoNode = avg.VideoNode(href="/opt/xibo/pyclient/client/python/data/18.mp4", pos=(10,10),
        parent=rootNode, accelerated=True)
videoNode.play()
player.play() "

The video acceleration, only works when this is stated "parent=rootNode, accelerated=True".
Can you tell me where can i pass this option on py client script ?

thanks

Hello Alex,

Its Great, it works !

Many Thanks for the help

Thanks Alex Harrington, that solved my question.