So was I, so I braved it, & installed Kodi, it has a weird interface, but it works, I can now watch videos on my desktop RPi3B setup.

If you follow suit, be aware that it starts up at full volume, needs altering pronto.

You don't need to install Kodi to use omxplayer.
"Special" as in the official optimized mediaplayer from the people that make the Pi
topguy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:07 pm"Special" as in the official optimized mediaplayer from the people that make the Pi
Its basically a commanline tool just like "mplayer" and "mpv". ( Which both are also installable with a simple "apt-get install" btw. but they have the same problem as VLC. )
As someone above posted, you can find gui for OMXplayer too.
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--vol n set initial volume in millibels
- "./" is for when you have a program/script in current directory you want to use.k-pi wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:56 amFrom using omxplayer at the command line, the help screen showed I should use ./omxplayer -p -o hdmi test.mkv
But having ./ at the front was obviously wrong, as it wouldn't start, so I went with omxplayer -p -o hdmi my.mp4
This started playing OK, but didn't respond to the keyboard.
I know ./ is for when you run from your directory, but that's what it said!