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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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Two videos - Sync one with Flashing LED; all on GPIO button push

I am a newbie with Python and I am working on a project that I would have people press a button to play a video event. Video#1 will be the default normal video while video#2 will play and flash an LED from GPIO 13 (BCM). Here is my dilemma: Button…
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Render GUI above omxplayer on Raspberry Pi 3

currently I am trying to show my own UI and a third party virtual keyboard above the video which is displayed by omxplayer. I am using a Raspberry Pi 3 (which is the reason for using omxplayer). I am starting omxplayer from command line. I found the…
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Omxplayer-wrapper problems when run from terminal

I have the following program that I've been working on (I didn't create all of it, so some of it is pretty weird) on a Raspberry Pi. It's basically supposed to open up a tkinter window with buttons, and if you click the buttons in the right order, a…
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Decrease/Increase omxplayer volume from another terminal

After running: omxplayer -o hdmi myVideo.mp4, if I wanna increase/decrease volume, I just have to type + / - Ok. That's working fine. But I have another scenario, can you help me please? How can I increase/decrease volume from another terminal?…
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Playing a video with gstreamer on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian Stretch

I tried playing videos on Raspbian stretch with gstreamer but failed. I started installing gst-omx and tried the following pipelines: gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! glimagesink -> ERROR: from element…
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OpenVG UTF8/unicode caracter

I wouldike to print some text on my screen, I really need to use hello_font ( it has to be printed above omxplayer video, it's working right now). Im displaying RSS feed trhough this, but the function to draw caracter does not work with spécial…
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omxplayer exits with 15s delay when launched using QProcess

In my Qt5.9.2 under RPi3 I launch omxplayer in the following way: QProcess *_omx = new QProcess(this); void MyQPlayer::play(QString uri) { QStringList args; args << "-o" << "0" << "-i" << "0"; args << "omxplayer"; args <<…
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How to save a text to audio in Raspberry Pi/Python?

So I am trying to write a python program to speak out a sentence . For this purpose I am trying to use the "gTTS" Python library . It works fine in my Laptop (windows 10) and the sound plays well . However , when I run the same code in Raspberry Pi…
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PHP exec() locks up live but not local

I have a raspberry pi that I'm trying to make display videos via controls on a web app. I'm using omxplayer the way described here. My PHP problem file only contains this line (modified for testing): exec("/home/pi/master/playmovie.sh…
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understanding of subprocess, POPEN and PIPE

I am new to python and programming and I am trying to understand this code. I have spent the past few hours reading documentation and watching videos on subprocessing but I am still confused (I added snidbits of information of what I found online to…
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How to make omxplayer not always on top?

I am using Adafruit's Video Looper to loop on a video using python script and omxplayer. Although, I made a few modifications. I want a popup window to appear when a GPIO button is pressed. I have the GPIO and the python script for a tkinter window…
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Sending an mp4 video over the network with avconv command to a raspberry pi in a piwall videowall

I would like to send an mp4 video from a raspbery pi to another raspberry-pi (in order to build a piwall) but the command I am using for sending a video stream (tested with correct outcome on other devices) doesn't work. Details: I am using the…
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omxplayer (raspian) playing video folder on shuffled loop

I cannot find a way to use omxplayer in a shell script to play videos in a folder in a random "shuffle" order. I would like it to loop through a "playlist" but so far I have only been able to find a way to play all folders in alphabetical order in a…
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Streaming video from ip camera by opencv or omxplayer

I tried streaming a video from ip-camera to HDMI. I wrote a code with opencv on python 3, but the times between frames is ~0.075 import cv2 as cv from time import time vcap =…
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Omxplayer fill mode not working

Working on a video project for raspberry pi. Trying to get video to fill entire screen. When I call omxplayer videofile.mp4 --aspect-mode fill it plays fine. However when I call it in my program the argument for the aspect ratio is not working. …
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