From talking to others I have figured out that the pi has trouble playing files in the AVI container. This is what was causing the lag, because the video played perfectly when I converted it to MP4.
OMXplayer ideally works with 64MB of RAM allocated to the GPU. OMXplayer used to not work at all for me - after assigning 64 instead of 16 and renaming my video files, I can watch 1080p without any lag at all. Has your movie file got spaces in it's name? Try removing them and playing it. Hope that ...
odd, what is the output of this: apt-get install -y mediainfo; mediainfo /path/to/file_with.problem; Thanks for the reply. General Complete name : nichijou24 Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 290 MiB Duration : 23mn 39s Overall bit rate : 1 712 Kbps Video ID : 0 Format :...
Hopefully this will be a pretty simple issue for some of you guys here. I'm trying to watch some HD video (720p not 1080p) on my pi and I'm experiencing some video lag and low frame rates. The audio seems fine, but the video sometimes stutters and gets behind the audio. - My current frame rate upon ...