Roku Developer Program

[runnr_az]

Hello!

So... I'm trying to do something kind of dumb and seemingly simple: create a loop of a log burning on a fireplace to make a basic video firelog.

Building off the Custom Video Player, I got a sample up and running. Cool. Looping... no problem... EXCEPT, as you probably know, there's a long lag reloading back to the beginning of the clip.

I tried cutting the length of the clip significantly down to 1.6 mb and packaging it up with the channel, but that didn't help very much... there's still a significant lag.

I know that I could get a Wowza server or something similar and set up a looping endless stream of hot fireplace action, but that exceeds this project's budget of $50... potentially by a lot.

Anyone have any clever ideas for what I can do? There's no audio, so... potentially it could be turned into an animation of some kind, but I'm not sure the best way to approach that. ('Sides, would prefer something simpler...)

Thanks!

-jon

[RokuChris]

Putting the video in the channel is not recommended. The smaller the pkg, the better.

This may not be an ideal solution, but since you're already using roVideoPlayer/roImageCanvas you could take a single frame from the video, save it as an image, and display it whenever the player buffers.

[runnr_az]

Yeah... I was kind of thinking that. Seems like the easiest avenue to pursue and might not be super noticeable if I have a longer loop. Not really ideal, though.

Is there any way to optimize a short video's seek time by keeping it completely in memory?