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When video loops timestamp seek text is displayed. omxplayer --loop video.mp4 doesn't do this by default.

Just read this and wanted to leave a note here.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/video/

On the Pi 4, hardware support for MPEG2 and VC-1 codecs has been removed, so we recommend the use of the VLC application, which supports these formats in software. In addition, VLC has hardware support for H264 and the new HEVC codec.

Could that be an indicator for decreasing support for omxplayer in the future?

This doesn't seem to affect Pi 1 (not tested on 2), but on the Pi 3 videos consistently freeze after some period of time (1 hr?). Console shows OMX_EmptyThisBuffer error.

Related issue, maybe a firmware update will fix it? (rpi-update)

raspberrypi/firmware#449

As requested in OpenframeProject/Openframe#82 it seems like a good idea to make those default options editable.

I suggest a similar approach to what has been done in the slideshow extension – prioritising settings like this: per artwork > frame settings > coded defaults

https://github.com/jmwohl/Openframe-Slideshow/blob/master/extension.js

function getDuration(frameState, artwork) {
            var duration;
            if (artwork.settings && artwork.settings[pjson.name] && artwork.settings[pjson.name].duration) {
                duration = minToMillis(artwork.settings[pjson.name].duration);
            } else if (frameState.settings && frameState.settings[pjson.name] && frameState.settings[pjson.name].duration) {
                duration = minToMillis(frameState.settings[pjson.name].duration);
            } else {
                duration = minToMillis(DEFAULT_DURATION);
            }
            return duration;
        }