Black screen between videos on Raspberry Pi 3B using it on Raspberry Pi OS 64 Bit Lite

[1amrishi]

Installed Anthias on my Raspberry pi 3B after installing the latest Rpi OS 64 Bit Lite as i also wanted to use tailscale for remote access but the issue is that after uploading multiple videos compressd using handbrake, as those are the only videos seeming to work on it, there is a black screen of 4-5 Seconds between each video.

is this a know or unsolvable issue, please guide me.

• Raspberry Pi Hardware Version: Raspberry Pi 3B 1GB Ram
• Raspberry Pi Network Setup:built-in WiFi
• Anthias Version: 0.18.6

[Napsty]

Same issue here, even with just one asset active there's an annoying black screen of around 5 second until the video is played again. Also happens on Raspberry Pi 4.

[vpetersson]

Important variables:

• What kind of SD card (anything less than a Class 10 should be avoided)
• How long is the video?

[Napsty]

In my case SD card is a class 10, the video duration is 29s.

[vpetersson]

Does the duration decrease if you use a shorter asset?

[Napsty]

I was unable to test this myself but the person on site confirmed that the black screen duration is always ~5s, doesn't matter which video file was playing and which duration that video had.

[1amrishi]

Important variables:

• What kind of SD card (anything less than a Class 10 should be avoided)
• How long is the video?

I am also using a sandisk 32gb class 10
i have multiple videos of 30sec- 1 min

[1amrishi]

Does the duration decrease if you use a shorter asset?

no

[Napsty]

Just installed a new Anthias using the script installation on a separate device (Raspberry Pi 3b+) and there's 7-8 seconds black screen between playing the assets.

By the way, this also happens when manually triggering the "Next Asset" in the UI.

I also tried to use older Anthias images (tried with tag 4170486-pi3) but same result.

Note: the black screen seems to be the console output of the Raspberry Pi

[Napsty]

Re-installed the whole thing, using a Raspbian Legacy (Bullseye) 64 bit this time (was Bookworm before). Same thing happens; roughly 8s black screen between videos playing.

[pacmac]

Same thing with fresh install. Class 10 card, 29 second long video, blank screen for about 3 seconds at the end / beginning

I am using the raspberry Pi 3 image: https://github.com/Screenly/Anthias/releases/download/v0.18.6/2023-03-06-raspberrypi3.zip

I only have one asset uploaded.

[pacmac]

I did another install:

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_arm64/images/raspios_lite_arm64-2022-09-26/2022-09-22-raspios-bullseye-arm64-lite.img.xz

bash <(curl -sL https://install-anthias.srly.io)

./screenly/bin/upgrade_containers.sh

That has a delay of 8 seconds between videos as opposed to 3 seconds from the previous.

I tried forcing the player to OMX in viewer.py but it made no difference.