Video output with push button advance

[chuco61]

Hi,

I am a super noob and just bought my first Raspberry Pi B.

I am working on an art project where i have several avi video clips each 10 seconds in length. I want the user to be able to press on a push-button switch to advance to the next clip. I dont need any UI that the user will work with; simply push a button to view the next slide. Ideally i'd like to have the clips displayed through a projector.

Where do i start? I am here to learn!

Thanks in advance, im super stoked to start working with this new toy!!

[PiGraham]

http://omxplayer.sconde.net/

Omxplayer works with keyboard controls.

If you don't want a normal keyboard you could wire a few buttons to the controller board from a usb keyboard, or use gpio-keys to generate keyboard input from gpio inputs connected to buttons.
I'm not sure what constitutes "next chapter".

[KenT]

Pi Presents, see sig. Use mediashow with progress=manual Wire a button between the Next/Down GPIO input and 0 volts. Advancing from GPIO is all programmed into the application. You can get rid of the Loading... messages by editing resources.cfg

[chuco61]

wow!

Both of these options look really helpful. I think im going to play with the Pi Presents later this evening.

Thanks a lot!

[chuco61]

This Pi Presentation looks amazing as i am reading the manual and readme.

Since im so new to this, do i first need to load Raspbian onto my RPi as an operating system, then load in pi presentation as i would any other application?

Thanks again for the help and the "hand holding"