OSMC as a feed into a TV program

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Hi. I’m new to this forum (so please be kind!)

Has anyone any experience of using OSMC as a feed into a vision mixer when making TV programs or live streaming?

I have built 2 RPi3s and am very pleased with how they work. I can stream from private YouTube videos hidden on our channel or from a local file server.

What I miss is a second output - the video with the status overlay on it for use on a preview monitor - and for the second screen never to have overlays on it.

Load to the first frame and auto stop at end would be very helpful too in this application.

I was wondering about RPi4s with their dual outputs, but have read there are issues with hardware replay on these that could take quite a while to be developed.

Any insight or help would be gratefully received!

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This isn’t possible unfortunately.
I don’t think OSMC or Kodi would be the best tool for this. Kodi doesn’t handle multiple displays very well currently.

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Thanks for your reply, @sam_nazarko

I have found the remote web interface shows play times & status, so that’s an alternative to a second screen.

Any ideas whether Kodi could be coaxed to load a video then pause (or seek to 1st frame) when selected?

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If hardware acceleration is disabled this should be possible.
But individual frame advance depends on the device you are using and its hardware acceleration implementation.

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Sounds promising - any ideas how I could modify the video opening code to do this?

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Use SeekPercentage as the player control would probably be the only realistic option

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I think search Kodi Forum can give you some hints
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=144460&page=3

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Sounds like you want a presentation program. One that will display the video on one screen and a user interface on the other. Many programs are out there that can do this. OSMC is not one of them. Unfortunately, I don’t know one that works on RPi’s. Search for programs like EasyWorship or ProPresenter. It is some of the programs churches use to display lyrics on a projector.

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I do have EasyWorship, @wbeard52, but I’d prefer to have multiple media players feeding into the vision mixer. RPis look ideal for this and OSMC is working really well. I just want to load and pause when I click on a video!