ESP-Video-Player

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An ESP32-based project for playing video animations on an SSD1306 OLED display.
This project uses the Adafruit SSD1306 library for rendering graphics.

Installation

Step 1: Load the Sketch onto the ESP32

1. Open the .ino file in the Arduino IDE.
2. Select the appropriate ESP32 board in Tools > Board.
3. In Tools > Partition Scheme, select Custom to use the partitions.csv provided in the project.
4. Upload the sketch to your ESP32.

Step 2: Prepare Video Files

The project includes two pre-converted compressed video files (bitmap arrays):

• "Bad Apple"
• "Kanaria - Brain"

If you want to use another video:

1. Extract video frames (e.g., using VLC Media Player).
2. Use the provided framestobin.py script to convert the frames to a compressed bitmap array.
   • The output will be a .bin file.
3. Rename the generated .bin file to bitmaps.bin.
4. Create a folder named data in the project directory and place the bitmaps.bin file inside.

Step 3: Create and Flash the SPIFFS Partition

You will need two tools:

• mkspiffs (to create the SPIFFS partition)
• esptool (to flash the partition to the ESP32)

Run the following commands:

1. Create the SPIFFS partition:

   mkspiffs -c data -p 256 -b 4096 -s 0x38fff4 data.bin

2. Flash the partition to your ESP32:

   esptool -b 921600 write_flash 0x70000 data.bin

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The readme was created through a translator using chat gpt, so there may be inaccuracies . If there are any problems there is always the Issues tab