The player module plays Blinken movies from a playlist.
The configuration of the player module with name NAME
is located in the players/NAME
subdirectory.
The playlist contains all movies in the subdirectory
playlist
.
The movies are played in alphanumerical order.
The file outstream
contains the name of the stream to
send the frames to.
The player can be halted whenever another stream is active.
Therefore, the name of the other stream is written to the file
haltstream
.
When the halt stream becoms active, the current frame is frozen,
i.e. the frame is kept.
When the halt stream ends, the player resumes with the remaining
time for the current frame and continues as usual afterwards.
If this feature is not needed, the file haltstream
should not exist.
This feature should not be used together with the synchronization
feature.
The player can be synchronized to a master by using a synchronization
stream.
To achieve this, the name of the synchronization stream is written to
the file insync
.
The player will then seek to the movie and the position requested via
the synchronization stream.
It will also go to pause mode whenever the synchronization stream
requests it.
If this feature is not needed, the file insync
should not exist.
This feature should not be used together with the halt stream feature.