Ffmpeg play on demand

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Hello forum,
I’ve two IPcams and I set two picture-entity cards to display the presence, but I’d rather leave just a simple image and play real time only when clicked on the card.

The fact is that the image disappear for a couple of seconds during the refreshing, which is pretty annoying. Not to mention the lags to get the playback started, which is not visible if played from the web browser.

I haven’t see any additional option for the ffmpeg entity to show a still image, or perhaps a preview that can be downloaded from the IPcam.

EDIT

It seems that the system doesn’t work properly

5:12 PM deps/lib/python3.7/site-packages/haffmpeg/tools.py (WARNING) message first occured at July 23, 2019, 9:00 PM and shows up 100 times

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I’m trying to get somewhere, but it is like walking in the dark.
I set a different card:

entity: switch.fake
image: /local/SideCam.jpg
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  entity_id: camera.sidedoor
  service: media_player.playmedia
type: picture-entity

So at that point I’d expect an overlapping window to start playing the stream (as it does with ffmpeg assignment). But there’s a warning that I don’t have a media_player.

What should set to have one to bump up and start to play the stream ?