How to play video on a Pi ?


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by andy33 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:46 pm
How do you play video on a raspberry pi ? I have my sound working but cannot find a way to play video. Also which format does the video have to be? I'm using a Debian squeeze.

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by felix123 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:17 pm
omxplayer
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by andy33 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:29 pm
Do you install omxplayer via the cli or through the guy and then how do you start it? I have tried installing via get-apt and it seemed to install ok, but I can't get it to start!
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by dom » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:35 pm
Recommended is to install Wheezy, which has omxplayer installed by default:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1435
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by JeremyF » Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:48 pm
andy33 wrote:How do you play video on a raspberry pi ? I have my sound working but cannot find a way to play video. Also which format does the video have to be? I'm using a Debian squeeze.

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As dom said, for a beginner, it is easiest to get omxplayer by switching to Wheezy beta. Once you have it installed, the only formats you can play are H264 or Xvid (with any container, I believe)
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by alexeames » Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:35 pm
And once you've got it on Wheezy, go to the folder where your H.264 mp4 files are and type...

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omxplayer -o hdmi /path/to/filename.mp4


...where -o hdmi directs the sound to the HDMI on the TV
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by andy33 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:38 pm
I have now got wheezy running but I cannot find the omxplayer! Do I have to install it?
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by alexeames » Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:01 pm
you shouldn't need to find it. Just type
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omxplayer
and see what happens. :D
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by andy33 » Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:18 pm
Thanks guys I now have it playing hd video with sound. I installed omxplayer on squeeze with help from the latest issue of The MagPi. http://www.themagpi.com/
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by PaulLatham17 » Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:25 pm
Hi! I've followed andy's link to the magazine website and I followed the instructions to downloading omxplayer but nothing happens! I'm new to all this kind of stuff and I'm doing my best to teach myself using YouTube and these forums but it's painfully slow! Any easily explained help welcome please! Thank you. Paul
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by mythbuster » Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:47 am
Rasbmc,you will need to download a new OS.Go to website:www.rasbmc.com
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by f25 » Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:47 pm
I kicked the following:
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# omxplayer MyMovie.avi

Looks cool! You do not even need to have the GUI started (no startx) :-)
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