GUI based video player PI3

[mmkw43]

Omxplayer does a great job playing videos, found that VLC does not. Would like however a GUI based player like VLC that does the trick, maybe with some options like playing all videos in a folder with a shuffle option? Anything available? Like Omxplayer and I could write a script I suppose but just want to check if I have other options. -- thank you

[dom]

Are you on debian stretch? VLC is hardware accelerated.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbi ... mber-2018/

[gkreidl]

Omxplayer does a great job playing videos, found that VLC does not. Would like however a GUI based player like VLC that does the trick, maybe with some options like playing all videos in a folder with a shuffle option? Anything available? Like Omxplayer and I could write a script I suppose but just want to check if I have other options. -- thank you

omxplayerGUI does all that.

[mmkw43]

Oh -- my bad. I thought it was just a command line player. I'll look into that. !

[gkreidl]

Oh -- my bad. I thought it was just a command line player. I'll look into that. !

It wraps a GUI around omxplayer.

[mmkw43]

Are you on debian stretch? VLC is hardware accelerated.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbi ... mber-2018/

So if I'm on the latest version of Raspian with a PI3 will that give me the platform for a better VLC ? I know Raspian is based on Debian but too much lingo throws me. -- thanks

My version of Raspian is a couple of years old -- does it upgrade with a sudo update or upgrade? or do I have to reinstall? -- thanks much

[dom]

My version of Raspian is a couple of years old -- does it upgrade with a sudo update or upgrade? or do I have to reinstall? -- thanks much

You can apt upgrade to get updates for the same rasbian version.
The raspbian versions are based on debian version.
Current version is stretch. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history

If you are on stretch (lsb_release -a) will tell you, then apt upgrade and VLC will have hardware acceleration.

If you have an older version (jessie or wheezy) then a new sdcard image would be best.