I currently have a video player module that is connected to a pin collector. I have it set up in a way that every time I trigger it on, it opens the file then plays it out, and then once it's finished, it closes the video so it's no longer running in the background.
The issue/bug that I have found is when I have "buffered" on in the video player module, and then play the video, a loading icon shows up along with another video playing, after its finished buffering, it then plays out the video that is selected in the video player module. I am not sure why it's playing this other video that has no relation to. nowhere this video is sourced in this module.
I have tried this with other videos in my project and it seems to do the same thing.
So to some up the focus of this post:- Why is this random video playing before the video is finished buffering?- Why is there a loading icon? (Can't find how to visually disable this icon. Doesn't look good in production.)
Thank you!
Hi,
You can check if the video finished buffering using the Buffer Level output pin. If it is not 1, you can just play no video or different one while you wait for the buffering:
Yes, it seems counterintuitive to have any loading animation/icon when buffering happens in real-time production. We will consider adding improvements to this feature in future releases.
And to clarify things. If the video is not connected to any active Video Output, then it is not being rendered, so it is not exactly running in the background. When you use the Open option of the Video Player module, what it does that it loads the video from the hard drive into the memory. Using that Open option (turning it off), you are mostly saving on the memory space of your computer.
Warmest regards,