Hello Community.
I’m testing Xibo both on Android and Tizen devices.
On Android I don’t see the black blanks after every video or image.
But on Tizen Player I see 2 seconds blanks between video files and 1 second blanks between video and image materials.
Is there any setting or hint to remove those blanks?
Please help.
Hi Jakub, welcome to the Xibo signage community!
The behaviour you are seeing on the Tizen player is due to the time taken by the Tizen player to load the next media items. It is very likely that the black screen you see is in fact the background colour of your layout, which is black by default.
You are correct that you will not see this when using the Android player.
The reason for the difference is related to support for gapless playback, which is available for the Android player but not for the Tizen player at this time, it is currently in development though.
In short, your Android player is preloading the media items before they are due to display, so they can start showing immediately after the current media item is finished. Tizen does not support this currently but it will do in the future.
A common workaround that can reduce the impact of the gaps is to use transitions between your media items. This can be set up by creating a playlist of your media items, then right click on each item to reveal the option to set in and out transitions. You can see the options I’m referring to in this screenshot:
Also note that you can change the background colour of your layout, or even set a background image, which should appear between the items loading instead of a black screen.
You might also find that re-encoding your videos could also help reduce the time taken for them to load. That would of course need to be tested by yourself, but the size of a media file can impact the time taken to load it when it is due to display. We have used Handbrake to encode videos, which is an open source transcoder, which can make a difference. The presets we recommend are Fast720p30 and Fast1080p30.
I hope this helps to understand the difference between the Android and Tizen player and offers you a method to help reduce the impact of the media items loading in your layout.
OK, thanks. Earlier I tried with transitions.
But also interesting for You, I’ve changed the backround to white and now I see black, white and black gaps during 2 seconds gap.
I will try with encoding options.
Thanks.
