Playing Movie on the Touchscreen?
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On a road trip last weekend, we watched a replay of an NBA game on the way trip away from home and watched the Super Bowl live on the way back home. We didn't do this on the display, and instead used an Android tablet, with the audio sent via Bluetooth to the car's media player.
The NBA game replay was done from a local file on the table using VLC. Sending audio to the car introduces a significant delay (about .5 second), causing the audio to be slightly out of sync with the video - not noticeable when watchin a game, but very noticeable when watching commercials or commentary when you see the speakers. Since VLC supports audio delay, we were able to correct it. And everything worked well.
On the way back, the passenger was watching the Super Bowl (I was listening). We used one of our smart phones to create a hotspot - and then streamed the Super Bowl from our home TiVo (if we hit a gap in the cell phone network, the TiVo playback would pause, and then resume when the network connection was re-established - which is better than watching a live feed, which would have skipped over part of the game every time the network glitched). This worked pretty well, and we were able to watch most of the Super Bowl on the trip (and watched the rest on the TiVo at home). Because the TiVo app doesn't understand audio delay, the audio was out-of-sync, which wasn't a problem for the game - but was a problem with the commercials (which are often more interesting than the games).
While it would be nice to have the video on the console display (especially when FSD is working), until then, using a tablet with the car's audio is not a bad alternative...
The NBA game replay was done from a local file on the table using VLC. Sending audio to the car introduces a significant delay (about .5 second), causing the audio to be slightly out of sync with the video - not noticeable when watchin a game, but very noticeable when watching commercials or commentary when you see the speakers. Since VLC supports audio delay, we were able to correct it. And everything worked well.
On the way back, the passenger was watching the Super Bowl (I was listening). We used one of our smart phones to create a hotspot - and then streamed the Super Bowl from our home TiVo (if we hit a gap in the cell phone network, the TiVo playback would pause, and then resume when the network connection was re-established - which is better than watching a live feed, which would have skipped over part of the game every time the network glitched). This worked pretty well, and we were able to watch most of the Super Bowl on the trip (and watched the rest on the TiVo at home). Because the TiVo app doesn't understand audio delay, the audio was out-of-sync, which wasn't a problem for the game - but was a problem with the commercials (which are often more interesting than the games).
While it would be nice to have the video on the console display (especially when FSD is working), until then, using a tablet with the car's audio is not a bad alternative...
David99
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20 years ago, I was sitting in a BMW 7 watching TV or videos on the car's screen. It would automatically turn off once the car was in motion to obey the law.
In some aspects Tesla is high tech, in other ways they are incredibly resilient to what's current technology. Having a media player (videos and audio) while sitting at a Supercharger seems like the most obvious thing to do. It's not like implementing that is a big R&D project and would take up lots of resources.
In some aspects Tesla is high tech, in other ways they are incredibly resilient to what's current technology. Having a media player (videos and audio) while sitting at a Supercharger seems like the most obvious thing to do. It's not like implementing that is a big R&D project and would take up lots of resources.
Then people would expect to be able to watch Netflix over Tesla’s cellular data...
David99
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The Netflix app and YouTube (and probaly others as well) allows you to download a few movies to be able to watch them offline. People are not that naive. You pick a few shows at home, it downloads via WiFI and then you have them on the road. Tesla could also have WiFi hotspots at Superchargers.
Tesla can be smart and only allow Netflix when connected to 'Tesla Guest' at the service centre super chargers
Is this the guy from Detroit who just trashed the Model 3?
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sperkin
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I was just at a Supercharger and the people inside a Model S was watching a movie on their main screen. Anyone know if its possible on a Model 3?
Tam
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