Question on video widget in TouchGFX new version(4.18.0)

[MG.7]

Hi,

whenever we are using videos for video widget to upload it was not taken .only it gave output for what they were gave to us as a example video.

Any solution please how we can access our videos (that to is in avi format) for video widget in touchgfx 4.18.0 version.

[SofLit]

Hello,

Based on TouchGFX documentation, the video should be in MJPEG avi format.

You can use ffmpeg tool to generate this format.

For example to convert the video file input.mov to MJPEG use this command:

ffmpeg -i input.mov -s 480x272 -vcodec mjpeg -qscale 1 -an output.avi

For more details, refer to TouchGFX documentation (video section) from this link.

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And of course you have to put your videos under the path: \TouchGFX\assets\videos

[MG.7]

Hello,

Thanks for Reply. Tried this procedure also. Still same issue. Is there any particular frame rate to be used?

[SofLit · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Sorry but you didn't provide details of your issue!

OK. I'm putting an example and please try it:

1- Download this free mp4 video from this link:

https://www.videezy.com/abstract/44249-particle-strings-background-video

2- Convert the video in MJPEG format:

2-1 Rename the video "01__2822_29.mp4" to "test.mp4"

2-2 Apply this command to the downloaded video: 

ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -s 480x272 -vcodec mjpeg -qscale 1 -an output.avi

3- Put the generated video "output.avi" in the path: <YourProject>\TouchGFX\assets\videos

4- From TouchGFX designer please select output.avi as the video to play and try to run the simulator to visualize the video.

5- If all is OK. You can run the example on the target.

Note: these steps were tested with STM32F769-DISCO board.