Omxplayer
Omxplayer is a video player specifically made for the Raspberry PI's GPU made by Edgar (gimli) Hucek from the XBMC project.
RaspberryPI forum user spenning made precompiled binaries available on the forum see here.
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Troubleshooting
Black Screen after playback
If you get a black screen on your X11 Desktop after omxplayer is finished, you can use this command to restore your view:
xrefresh -display :0
Or you can use a small bash script for video playback to do this every time:
#/bin/bash omxplayer "$@" xrefresh -display :0
On raspian xrefresh is part of the x11-xserver-utils package (apt-get install x11-xserver-utils)
No rights to VCHIQ
On bare installations of the default distributions Omxplayer often has insufficient permissions to access /dev/vchiq. One solution would be to run omxplayer as root, but a nicer solution is to add a udev rule so that /dev/vchiq is also accessible from other users. To accomplish this, do the following under root:
# echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="vchiq",GROUP="video",MODE="0660"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vchiq-permissions.rules
Now add yourself to the group named 'video':
# usermod -aGvideo USERNAME
Reboot the Raspberry and you should be able to run omxplayer without the vchiq-error showing up.
HDMI
When using HDMI make sure to pass '-o hdmi' to omxplayer if you want the audio to playthrough the HDMI cable:
omxplayer -o hdmi videofile.mp4
Helpful Links
- Successful Raspberry Pi 1080p blog, Start->Finish
- How to install Debian Raspberry Pi
- Omxplayer Build Bot