Movie will not play in Raspbian Kernel 4.4

TimothyBlue

I'm really trying to use movie2serial to play a movie on the LED curtain I have created. This works great with Processing using my Windows 10 machine but I want to do it with a Raspberry PI for better portability.

What I have found is that the movie events never fire. I have gotten this small program to try to just simply play a video and it has the same issue.

import processing.video.*;

Movie myMov; 

void setup() { 
  size(1062, 600);
  background(0);
  myMov = new Movie(this, "C:/Users/finite/Desktop/videos/abstract-rainbow.mp4");
  myMov.play();
}

void draw() { 
  image(myMov, 0, 0, width, height);
} 

void movieEvent(Movie m) { 
  m.read();
} 

void exit(){
  noLoop();
  myMov = null;
  this.dispose();
  System.exit(0);
}

There are no errors shown but the draw and movieEvent never fire when I run it in debug mode. All I see is a black windows on the screen. I have tried .mp4 and .mov files with the same issue. I chmod 777 on these files and directories just to be sure it wasn't an access issue.

I am using a Raspberry PI 3 running Rasbian Kernel 4.4 with Processing 3.3 for Linux ARMv6hf

Any ideas would be awesome. It has been a while since I messed with Linux and this has me pulling my hair out especially since there are no errors to follow.

Thanks, ~Tim

koogs

try the transit movie that's included in the samples. does that work?

gohai

Try also the GL Video library. The main Video library uses an old version of GStreamer, and does not support hardware accelerated video decoding.