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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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How do I change OMXplayer's default volume?

The title pretty much says it all. I am using Ubuntu MATE, which uses ALSA instead of PulseAudio. OMXplayer bypasses ALSA. Because of this OMXplayer always starts playback at 100% volume, which is far too loud (dive for cover and grab some…
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How to play mp3 on background from command line

The command: omxplayer -o local sample.mp3 works fine - sound is good, but I have to wait for return until the music stops. I want to put this in a backround. I run: omxplayer -o local sample.mp3 & It creates the new process in a background as it…
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How to view videos played on omxplayer via ssh or vnc?

Currently whenever I play a video omxplayer starts playing it. But I cannot actually see the video being played. For example I run the following command to play it. omxplayer video.mp4 How do I make it work?
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Python script does not continue after os.system command

First post and also first time experimenting with a PI & Python. I have a pi-3 model B with the 7" touchscreen and PIR sensor. My goal is to have it set up so that it constantly displays the stream from my IP camera. To save power consumption I also…
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Cannot play videos

I have the latest version of Raspbian on the Pi 3. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a Linux raspberrypi 4.9.24-v7+ #993 SMP Wed Apr 26 18:01:23 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux I have never been able to play a video (mp4, avi). I am using omxplayer. Even the…
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How to synchronize multiple video displays?

I have 4 HDMI TVs, and I want to play 4 different individual videos (or even 4 different x-y segments/tiles of a single video) on these 4 HDMI TVs, in perfect synchronous with each other. I searched a lot on the net, and found the following as…
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Video and audio out of sync when playing 1080p 60fps on Raspberry Pi 2

I have a 1080p @ 60fps mp4 video saved in a external USB HDD. I've tried playing it on Raspbian in my Pi 2 (the new one, 1 GB RAM, 1 GHz) with Omxplayer, but the audio and video are out of sync. The audio plays at least a second ahead of the video,…
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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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omxplayer works but fbdevsink doesn't -- any ideas?

I'm trying to output video content on the Pi without X11. I'd like to use tvservice to set the resolution settings then be able to run pipelines like this: gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! fbdevsink I see that /dev/fb0 exists, and I can…
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How to transcode an mkv video to mp4 using gstreamer and omg?

I have noticed that gstreamer1.0 on Raspbian comes with the omx plugins: pi@pi ~ $ gst-inspect-1.0 | grep omx omx: omxh264enc: OpenMAX H.264 Video Encoder omx: omxvc1dec: OpenMAX WMV Video Decoder omx: omxmjpegdec:…
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omxplayer alternative or subtitle support

Some general information about my Pi: It's a Pi3 Raspbian Jessie, latest updates as of 13th March 2016 The GPU has 256MB memory Situation: I am using the Raspberry Pi as a retro console (mainly Playstation 1 games using pcsx_rearmed) and as a…
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Choppy playback Kodi on Raspbian RPI2

I'm trying to setup Kodi on Raspbian to work as good as OSMC distribution. I have problem with video playback on default configuration. (no video, only sound) When I turn off hardware acceleration, video works, but it's quite choppy. I don't know…
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Install omxplayer on the commandline

OMXPlayer is a standalone commandline OMX player for the Raspberry PI. I cannot find it in the repository. How do I install it?
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