Looping a video results in blank screen

[artelse]

Am having a problem where I am trying to loop a video indefinitely in a kiosk style setting. After an indeterminate time it stalls in a blank screen. I compiled the next branch for fbdev and run on standard ubuntu headless odroid distro. The video is h264 in an mp4 container. Any ideas? Could it be a non standard codec setting perhaps? What is the preferred codec setting for c2play? Thanks!

[artelse]

Further testing the problem. It seems that when c2play is started from the terminal and not remotely through SSH, the blank screen doesn't occur. This has been done with a small clip resulting in a high loop frequency. Will test some more with a larger clip. What may happen is that c2play somehow cannot output over SSH and craps out?

Update: did more testing with a larger file and no problems occur when started from the local terminal.

[OtherCrashOverride]

This is most likely the console screen saver. The fbdev version attempts to disable it:

c2play/src/UI/Fbdev/FbdevAmlWindow.h

Lines 64 to 77 in 534cac8

	// Set graphics mode
	int ttyfd = open("/dev/tty0", O_RDWR);
	if (ttyfd < 0)
	{
	printf("Could not open /dev/tty0\n");
	}
	else
	{
	int ret = ioctl(ttyfd, KDSETMODE, KD_GRAPHICS);
	if (ret < 0)
	throw Exception("KDSETMODE failed.");
	close(ttyfd);
	}

This may be failing if running over SSH. The console screen save can also be disabled on the kernel command line.