Problems with omxplayer on Fedberry

[alxprogramz]

* failed to open vchiq instance
This is the error I get when tried to open a .mov
Any suggestion????
Command ran is
omxplayer -o hdmi -- win "0 0 640 480" myvideo.mov
Tried other as well but I still get the error "failed to open vchiq instance".
I have no idea what that means. Any help?? Reason using FedBerry is that I'm studying Fedora distros.

[pcmanbob]

Hi.

Think you will get much better support for Fedberry on their chat page. https://gitter.im/fedberry/chat

[vaughan]

Tried other as well but I still get the error "failed to open vchiq instance".

As compared to other distros, security on Fedberry is a bit tighter and by default, won't allow access to /dev/vchiq for non root users. If you want to use omxplayer as a non root user, you will have to add the desired user to the 'video' group and then reboot. Eg.

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usermod -aGvideo USERNAME

[alxprogramz]

Tried other as well but I still get the error "failed to open vchiq instance".

As compared to other distros, security on Fedberry is a bit tighter and by default, won't allow access to /dev/vchiq for non root users. If you want to use omxplayer as a non root user, you will have to add the desired user to the 'video' group and then reboot. Eg.

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usermod -aGvideo USERNAME

alxprogrogrmz
[Thank you so much. Did not know it was a security issue. I switched to root and it works. Again thank you. Now I learned something new