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Here's a video player GUI control (software decode). It works exactly the same as "image" in a skin like so:

Code:
<control type="ffmpeg">

  <left>480</left>

  <top>100</top>

  <width>320</width>

  <height>180</height>

  <texture fallback="whateves.jpg">/some/video/file.mp4</texture>

</control>

You should be able to use any tag that works on "image" control (Not that I've tried it)

Here's a demo video (https://***) showing the Confluence background replaced with 4 "ffmpeg" controls. The background/left/middle videos are .avi/.swf/.mp4 respectively. The right blue is a bad filename to show that fallback= works.

Make me something awesome with it! But you gotta patch/recompile xbmc to play with it.
Patch against Helix
GitHub commit

Screenshot (but you should really watch the demo):

*https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/5575

**Hitcher** · 2014-10-26, 13:47

Wow, that's pretty neat.

Have you requested a pull?

**Lunatixz** · 2014-10-26, 17:48

Yeah, very cool! hope this gets a official commit

schumi2004 · 2014-10-26, 21:01

Awesome. First thing that came in mind was LiveTV PIP functionality?!

un1versal · 2014-10-26, 22:56

(2014-10-26, 17:48)Lunatixz Wrote: Yeah, very cool! hope this gets a official commit

It has a PR at least https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/5575 Im not holding my breath even if I love the potential of this idea.

**zag** · 2014-11-20, 12:28

Finally video backgrounds!

Awesome work

**Lunatixz** · 2014-11-20, 16:48

This is exciting... Going to work on pip support for my plugin. Thanks again gominoa

**Hitcher** · 2014-11-20, 20:15

(2014-11-20, 16:48)Lunatixz Wrote: This is exciting... Going to work on pip support for my plugin. Thanks again gominoa

I have a question for you - can this play the same video in two windows but with one of them fast-forwarding/rewinding?

**Martijn** · 2014-11-20, 20:20

Maybe you guys haven't read the PR. It will likely never get in

**Lunatixz** · 2014-11-20, 20:53

(2014-11-20, 20:20)Martijn Wrote: Maybe you guys haven't read the PR. It will likely never get in

Killjoy

thought the "finally" post meant it was pushed... guess not.

**Lunatixz** · 2014-11-21, 01:38

(2014-11-20, 20:15)Hitcher Wrote:
(2014-11-20, 16:48)Lunatixz Wrote: This is exciting... Going to work on pip support for my plugin. Thanks again gominoa

I have a question for you - can this play the same video in two windows but with one of them fast-forwarding/rewinding?

not sure

**Hitcher** · 2014-11-21, 10:51

Well I had hoped to emulate the Fire TV's fast-forward/rewind method of having the full screen video play at normal speed while a video window appears above the progress bar and shows it fast-forwarding/rewinding but it looks like we're out of luck. Sad

**zag** · 2014-11-21, 14:52

(2014-11-20, 20:53)Lunatixz Wrote:
(2014-11-20, 20:20)Martijn Wrote: Maybe you guys haven't read the PR. It will likely never get in

Killjoy

thought the "finally" post meant it was pushed... guess not.

Unfortunately not, I was just excited that XBMC may finally have caught up with other htpc apps Wink

I think its been rejected because it is some unmaintained code. Hopefully there is another way!

**phate89** · (This post was last modified: 2014-11-22, 18:56 by phate89.)

(2014-11-21, 14:52)zag Wrote:
(2014-11-20, 20:53)Lunatixz Wrote:
(2014-11-20, 20:20)Martijn Wrote: Maybe you guys haven't read the PR. It will likely never get in

Killjoy

thought the "finally" post meant it was pushed... guess not.

Unfortunately not, I was just excited that XBMC may finally have caught up with other htpc apps

I think its been rejected because it is some unmaintained code. Hopefully there is another way!

Nope. Because use it uses a function not meant for that use and with that function it will never work in all arm/low powered devices since the video is software decoded.