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.
Questions tagged [omxplayer]
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How to Send Hotkeys via SSH to OMXPlayer with JSch?
I want to be able to play a video on my Raspberry Pi and control it from my phone. After looking into this I decided to use a SSH connection and then play a video from a link using OMXPlayer. At first I used a session.openChannel("exec"); channel…
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Raspberry Pi: Playing multiple video files in mkfifo pipe
I have 2 files, test.mp4 and test2.mp4 that I want to play concurrently with no noticeable break in the middle. Currently I'm using
mkfifo test
cat test.mp4 > test &
cat test2.mp4 > test &
omxplayer test
However, when I do this, omxplayer just…
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Stream Video from Raspberry Pi to my Webpage
I want to live stream the video captured on my SJ 4000 Camera.
The Camera is Connected to my Rpi by Wi-Fi and the stream is available using the following address: rtsp://192.168.1.254/sjcam.mov
Now, I want to watch this stream in my webpage by…
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Passing song name to omxplayer in python
I'm passing a song name to a function and can't manage to construct the path for omxplayer
def PlayMusic(song):
#check if the process exists
is_pid = subprocess.call("pidof omxplayer.bin > /dev/null", shell=True)
if is_pid == 0:
return…
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How can I kill omxplayer player on a Raspberry Pi using Python
I'm doing a DIY project using a Raspberry Pi 3 where I need to play 4 videos using omxplayer.
Each video is played once you press a certain button on the protoboard:
Press Button 1 - Play Video 1
Press Button 2 - Play Video 2
Press Button 3 - Play…
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OMXPLAYER pause seek for 6secs with --live
When i use the live parameter in my command line like this :
omxplayer -o hdmi http://www.example.com/video.mp4 --live
If I press "p" the video is paused but seek +6s.
I doesn't have the problem when i doesn't use the live parameter.
Thanks.
J.Doe
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PID number mismatch
I spawn a process in Python with the following code (just the relevant code):
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_LAUNCH_CMD = '/usr/bin/omxplayer -s --vol %s %s %s'
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cmd = self._LAUNCH_CMD % (volume, args, file)
...
self._process = pexpect.spawn(cmd, timeout=5)
It always…
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Terminal not clearing after auto start bashscript in raspbian wheezy
I'm using a raspberry pi 2 to show all the video's in a folder. The raspberry automatically boots up (with a generic electric timer) in to console (not the gui) and after it boots it runs a bashscript I found here. This bashscript contains an…
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Python + TKinter + OMXPlayer window on top
I own a raspberry pi 2 and i start learning Python. I would like to do something very basic : the window of my Python program on top of omxplayer window like a notification system.
I have been able to make an "always on top" window with TKinter but…
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Module Object is not Callable, using a PIR Sensor
I'm trying to build a Motion Detected play video for my store as a Welcome Introduction, so I'm using a PIR Sensor connected to the raspberry, and here is my code:
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
import os
import…
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how to quit omxplayer without using terminal?
I have made an application launcher using Tkinter for the raspberry pi.I made the application launcher to start automatically after x loads by placing
@/usr/bin/sudo /home/pi/myscript.py inside /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart.
And for launching…
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Killing or stopping an active thread
I've come a long way and I'm almost there. I've converted from using Thread to Threading and can now switch videos mid-play, but I still am having trouble killing or stopping the first video. Basically, I'm making a video player controlled by…
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On raspberry my script breaking after looping some time when there was no input stream
On raspberry my script breaking after looping some time when there was no input stream
#! /bin/sh
clear
echo -n "Box ID: " ; sudo cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Serial | cut -d ' ' -f 2
sleep 2
ping -c1 -s1 www.google.com
pingStatus=$?
if […
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