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Questions tagged [omxplayer]

Omxplayer is a video player specifically made for the Raspberry Pi's GPU.

Omxplayer relies on the OpenMAX hardware acceleration API, which is the Broadcom's VideoCore officially supported API for GPU video/audio processing.

See: http://elinux.org/Omxplayer

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How can I quit omxplayer in full screen?

I wanted to play video file by doubling click on it by using omxplyaer. First time, I double-clicked on it, it asks me to choose an application to open the file. Since I cannot find omxplayer in installed application tab, I choose Custome Command…
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omxplayer video position and dimension

I'm trying to use omxplayer to play a movie file having the movie display placed a certain position and with a custom size. I was hoping this parameter would work --win "x1 y1 x2 y2" Set position of video window Whenever I try to open a file…
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Is there any GUI mode for omxplayer?

Currently I have to use terminal for media control keys while playing any video via omxplayer. However I am setting up this for a friend and he is not that comfortable with terminal. Is there any way I can enable GUI mode with omxplayer? Or any…
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on omxplayer how to change left/right arrow to seek 10 seconds instead of 30 seconds?

Is there any way to modify the arrow keys to seek to different time-jumps? I'd rather have 10 seconds and 60 seconds jumps instead of the default 30 seconds and 600 seconds.
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OMXplayer has no audio when run from shell script

When I run OMXplayer from a shell script ( called by PHP) the video output is ok, but no audio what so ever. If I run the OMXplayer from the commandline everything is ok. Both video and Audio are fine. As sonn as I start the player from the shell…
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Cross-compile OMXPlayer

I would like to cross-compile OMXPlayer, ultimately so that I can implement playlist support for personal use. Don't bother telling me that that is an unrealistic goal. Perhaps I can help out with the project in other ways. I'm having difficulty…
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How to solve the problem "Unable to locate package libva1" when compile omxplayer in pi 3b+?

When i try to compile the Omxplayer in my raspberry 3b+, i just run the prepare script as the instructions from the README.md. But I got the following error. Can anybody explain this. Thanks. pi@raspberrypi:~/omxp/omxplayer$ sh…
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omxplayer how to set video position to top right with out resizing it

I want to play the video of unknown dimensions on the top right corner of my LCD tv without scaling it. I wish --win -0 0 does that.
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Audio player for non profit

It's my first time posting here as i'm potentially looking to setup a raspberry pi audio player for a non profit event i'm working on this summer. The idea being that we are creating a sound room with a button controlled audio player that will play…
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omxplayer for i386?

I'm developing an application that runs and controls the omxplayer. I very much prefer to develop on my desktop machine, though. So I wonder if it is possible to install omxplayer for a regular desktop Debian (i386)? Are there any builds (I'm on…
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omxplayer seamless looping

I made a script to run video's with omxplayer using omxd: sudo service stop omxd sleep 0.5 sudo service start omxd sleep 0.5 omxd X omxd h omxd O --blank omxd O --no-osd VIDEOPATH='/home/pi/videos" for entry in $VIDEOPATH/* do clear echo…
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Does omxplayer save a rtmp stream output by default?

I am watching a rtmp stream using omxplayer, but I was wondering if omxplayer saves some output of the stream by default? Thanks in advance!
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Using flask to play videos

Currently, I have my pi hooked to the TV and I use it to play movies via ssh. While I love simplicity of tmux and ssh, people around me are not quite excited about it :) My plan is to have a web-interface running on the pi and hopefully control it…
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Can't capture info from omxplayer

When I do this (to capture info into a file.txt): $ omxplayer -i sounds/Maniacal_Witches_Laugh-SoundBible.com-262127569.mp3 > file.txt Input #0, mp3, from 'sounds/Maniacal_Witches_Laugh-SoundBible.com-262127569.mp3': Metadata: title …
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Controlling omxplayer with frontend-term

I use the omxplayer-console along with frontend-term. Together they offer a crude gui in a terminal window while I am SSHed into my Pi. This used to work well for me and offered a number of keystrokes from which I could skip forward, skip backward,…
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