Player Tizen - transition between videos

[Raul_Daniel_Gonzalez]

Hi, I’m new to Xibo and I’m testing with Xibo community and Tizen player. I was able to load the videos on the screen, but there’s a black jump between each video. It’s not a continuous loop. What’s the reason for this?

[Schweminska]

Hi Raul, welcome to Xibo! The black jump between media is normal in the current version of Xibo because it’s not designed for seamless looping.

To minimize the issue, you could try creating longer layouts/playlists/videos so they don’t loop as frequently. This way the black transitions will occur less often.

You might also want to check out this post:

Player shows a black screen between video looping

For stutter and freezing problem you could try the k-lite codec pack. WMP will pick up the codecs and use it for playback. It could go alot smoother for decoding on GPU or use more CPU but not recommended. Using Handbrake (explained in the xibo manual) will give you the best practice in how to re-encode the MP4 for best playback. For the player delayed start, there is no simple solution which involves changes or behavior of wmp. You could use the transition part with a fade so the player starts…

and this one from JerryW:

1 second blank screen at beginning of playlist

Hi sptcbob, Welcome to Xibo Community! To check my understanding of the issue, you have 2 layouts where in each one you have an image (JPG file), both the images have the same resolution of 1920 x 1080. If you scheduled both the layouts with dayparting set as always, the layout you scheduled first will show first, and there will be a quick black screen in between layouts, given that the background color is set to black. This is normal behavior since the player needs to ready the layout before …