Omxplayer is a video player specifically made for the Raspberry Pi's GPU.
Omxplayer is a command-line media player made by Edgar Hucek from the XBMC project. It has built in support for streaming RTMP and RTSP.
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omxplayer not loading a playlist file
So i'm trying to make my raspberry pi play a bunch of video files on it's own.
I got omxplayer setup and working to actually play video to the screen the pi is connected to and not the remote terminal and also working with the usb sound card.
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stream video to Raspberry pi, using hardware acceleration
Here's what I want to do: have a raspberry pi as a simple dedicated player of streamed video, like a kiosk. I have a dedicated small ethernet. On one node The rpi is connected to an HDMI display. The stream sender is a PC running ubuntu linux. I…
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Quit Shell Script on Raspberry Pi (no keyboard input detected)
I've made a shell script on a Raspberry Pi to run a video file on loop with no on screen display.
The code at the moment is just
#!/bin/bash
omxplayer [path to file] -o local --no-osd --loop
which I'm then saving in a .sh file and making it…
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Python : Images (Tkinter) over a video (OMXPlayer)
I would like to know if it is possible to display images on top of a video, let me explain:
I am currently on a small Halloween project which consists of a digital board that displays a video (https://atmosfx.com/products/unliving-portraits). So I…
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tkinter button function calls: multiple presses calling same function multiple times
I'm trying to make a Raspberry Pi Media Player, using omxplayer and tkinter.
I grab upto 16 video from a USB drive(or in local folder) and display them as thumbnails on a grid of buttons. When a button is pressed, it plays that video with omxplayer…
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Python not playing Omxplayer video
I am developing a system where a Raspberry Pi plays a YouTube video on top of a PyQt GUI (I think the PyQt bit is irrelevant) (like casting - people have done this before) using Omxplayer.
Instead of playing the video, the PyQt program hangs and the…
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Create a Snapshot of a Raspberry Pi to safe its current state
On my raspberry pi there is currently running a program that is automatically looping videos using the omxplayer https://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer/ as soon as the pi finished booting.
Now i encounter one problem:
In case of a power outage the…
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Converting mp4 files and streaming them to a Viewer with the Raspberry Pi
Heads up: The goal of my project is to replace a regular Intel Core PC with a Raspberry Pi 4
I have a camera simulation that runs on a Intel PC pretty well. It takes MP4 files and encodes them into jpeg with jpegenc. Using GStreamer and its plugins,…
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How can I play random audio files based on current time in Python 2.7?
Background: I'm using as Raspberry Pi rev 2 B to run a nature sound white noise generator of sorts that will randomly play audio tracks of varying length based on the time of night/morning. Some tracks are only a minute, some are several hours long.…
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omxplayer-wrapper: Displaying video sequence based on OSC message
I'm quite new using Python & OMXPLAYER-WRAPPER and some help will be awesome! : ))
The project consist on using TouchOSC to send different osc message to the RaspberryPi and then it will display different video sequences based on the OSC…
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Is it possible to control OMXplayer based on time in Python?
I am trying to control OMXplayer during playback of a video using a Python script. I am new to Dbus on Python, and am hopefully just missing something simple.
Eventually I want to do this with a motion sensor using the GPIO pins, but first I am just…
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Trying to sync LEDs and Videos using Omxplayer - getting omxplayer.bin errors & other issues
I am a newbie with Python 3 and I have been working on code that will play 4 different videos when one of the five assigned buttons is pressed, and 3 of the videos have timed blinking of LEDs using time.sleep(). I have all the timing working well;…
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"ImportError: No module named omxplayer.player" when running Python Script from Command Prompt
I wrote a simple script to play a random video when a button is pressed on raspberry pi. It works fine with the built in Raspberry Pi Python 3 IDE. Runs just like it should
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import random
import os
import sys
from time import…
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How many instances of omxplayer are possible with 1xFHD and 2-3 smaller videos being played at same time?
I'd like to have the following setup:
Background video in seamless loop
preload x videos and keep them paused or in memory until needed
x dependent on videos in certain folder (create library)
trigger video based on filename by a serial command (2x…
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GPIO combine with OMX Player to play different videos when triggered
I have a simple project where I want to combine a motion sensor to play certain video files. So normally in an infinitive loop I want to play a flickering video and if the motion sensor is triggered I want to stop the flickering video and select a…
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