Audio playback during slide show

Anthias
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Hi,

I am trying to play a playlist of only images with background music. I have tried many ways of doing this, but once the HDMI port is being used I can’t get another program to access it for audio only. I don’t want to use the 3.5mm jack because I would need to mux the audio after the rpi device. I was thinking I could use omx, streamlink or vlc to loop an mp3 file with the video slideshow. Does OSE use vlc in the background? I was thinking there is a switch or flag to allow audio from another program source. I don’t know much of how it all works in OSE. It seems so simple, but if it was someone would have implemented in the OSE version by now. I guess…

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@lightyear22,

  • Playing background images when a playlist of image assets plays is not supported at the moment.
  • Anthias/OSE uses VLC to play video assets, while it uses Qt for playing image assets.

However, open-source contributions are always welcome.

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Thanks! I’m not a programmer. I will try some stuff. :slight_smile:

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I’m trying to play a slideshow with Spotify music on my Raspberry Pi, but HDMI video blocks audio from other programs. Does OSE use VLC, and is there a way to play both together?

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@enzo5, Anthias (formerly Screenly OSE) does use VLC (for Raspberry Pi 1 to 5) and FFmpeg (using ffplay, for x86 devices).

Under the hood, Anthias uses a web view (written in Qt/C++) to display web pages and images, but uses VLC/FFmpeg to play videos.

That’s an interesting idea. The feature is still not supported at the moment, but you are always free to make suggestions (via issues, pull requests, and code snippets). In theory, it’s likely that the Qt/C++ code needs to be changed.