Video loop

Steve Blakemore · September 2017

Hi,

I would like to play five mp4 video clips one after the other, in a repeating loop, before the service begins. What is the best way to achieve this in OpenLP?
I don't see any menu options to do this sort of thing with videos, only photos. Is it possible to loop a single video? If so, I could possibly use another program to stitch the five separate ones together.

Kind regards
Steve

milon · September 2017

OpenLP can only loop 1 video clip, so you are correct that the best approach is to stitch them together into 1 video.

If you're on Windows, you can use Windows Movie Maker to accomplish that. I don't personally use Mac/Linux, but there's definitely software for that too if you search for it. There are also several websites that will let you upload & combine videos without needing to install any software. I haven't used any online video combiners, so I can't personally vouch for any of them.

Steve Blakemore · September 2017

Hi Milon,

I'll try Movie Maker or something to stitch them together. When I've done that, how do I get the video to loop and play over and over again?

Thanks for your help,
Steve

EzraNV · September 2017

I read loud and clear that you want it "in OpenLP".

If I had something similar to display in church, I would click on "Show Desktop" button in OpenLP and have VLC Media Player do the loops for me.

milon · September 2017

Looped video isn't something I've done yet with OpenLP. You can loop custom slides (which we do for announcements), but I'm not actually seeing a loop option for video. I think I'd go with Ezra's suggestion and use a full-screen VLC to handle the looped video. The benefit to that is you only need to setup your playlist play it all in a loop - no need to stitch the videos together.

raoul · September 2017

Looping is in the next version of OpenLP.

Steve Blakemore · September 2017

I've got a playlist in VLC, I think I can do it so that it plays on the extended desktop, so it should be seamless, when I click "show desktop".
Thanks for your help, all, andI'll look forward to looping being there!
Steve

Boba · October 2017

Looping in next version as in version 3 or in next update v.2.x? Version 3 may take a while~

raoul · October 2017

2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 are not "updates", they are feature releases. 2.4.6 is an update. We loosely follow Semantic Versioning: http://semver.org/

RevBrian · October 2021

https://forums.openlp.org/discussion/comment/10899#Comment_10899

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I never knew about the ability to loop slides. This is a game changer for us now. Thanks milon.

Video loop

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