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OMXPlayer Builds Update

http://omxplayer.sconde.net/   About OMXPlayer is a commandline OMX player for the Raspberry PI. It was developed as a testbed for the XBMC Raspberry PI implementation and is quite handy to use standalone. OMXPlayer has big dependencies that take long to compile on Raspberry Pi and usually without sucess, so I decided to make a build-bot for creating binary distributions for Raspbian (Debian with hard-float for RPi). I didn’t wrote the code, I just provide the binary packages. If you have

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Update Firmware Raspi

https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update rpi-update An easier way to update the firmware of your Raspberry Pi. Installing under Raspbian To install the tool, run the following command: sudo apt-get install rpi-update Installing on other OS Preparations You need git installed to use this too. To install run: sudo apt-get install git-core Installing To install the tool, run the following command: sudo wget https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/master/rpi-update -O /usr/bin/rpi-update && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update Updating Then, to update your firmware, just run the following command: sudo rpi-update

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MY REINTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PICTURE FRAMES

http://rberrypi.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-raspberry-pi-based-digital-picture.html MY REINTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PICTURE FRAMES About 10 years ago I got the idea to build a digital picture frame based on an old 3Com Audrey  (anyone remember those?) that I bought off of eBay. I actually did build it, and it ran for a good while.  My memories of it are a little vague, but I recall it was clunky, slow, and it crashed a lot.  Around the same time, commercially built digital picture frames were starting to flood

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HOWTO: Boot your Raspberry Pi into a fullscreen browser kiosk

http://blogs.wcode.org/2013/09/howto-boot-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-fullscreen-browser-kiosk/ HOWTO: Boot your Raspberry Pi into a fullscreen browser kiosk It seems there’s some demand for knowledge of setting up a full-screen, browser-based kiosk on the all-singing Raspberry Pi. Here at Watershed we’ve done this, to drive the screens of our digital signage system. Although we complicate matters a bit (we net-boot the pis, which requires a few extra tweaks – see our blog post on net-booting raspberry pis), we thought it’d be useful to document what we achieved: automatically running

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Looping video playlist with Omxplayer on the Raspberry Pi

Looping video playlist with Omxplayer on the Raspberry Pi http://www.cenolan.com/2013/03/looping-video-playlist-omxplayer-raspberry-pi/ The Raspberry Pi comes with an awesome little video player called Omxplayer that is very capable of playing back full 1080p video perfectly when encoded correctly in H.264/AAC. One problem is the current lack of playlist support in omxplayer, so this post explains how to create a bash script that will permanently loop through and play a directory of videos.   First install omxplayer: sudo apt-get install omxplayer Now create this script named for

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Looping videos seamlessly OMXPlayer

http://www.sundh.com/blog/2013/10/loop-videos-seamlessly-omxplayer/ Looping videos seamlessly OMXPlayer Ellen 16:30 on October 15, 2013 As I looked for different solutions for looping videos on the Raspberry Pi seamlessly I eventually came out with a solution that worked quited good for videos looping with sounds. Looking at the possiblities of using the existing example of hello_video/video.c to loop a video wasn’t an option as sound was not supported and syncing sound was not something I wanted to spend time on. Instead I looked to jbaiter’s OMXPlayer library pyomxplayer build in

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Raspberry Pi playing a video in loop

http://www.mindemedia.no/wordpress/?p=16 Raspberry Pi playing a video in loop May 11, 2013 So there is gonna be an art exibition where i work, its mainly video art, so they will need six projectors showing one piece of video each, and they are all gonna run in loop, all day long. There are several boxes that can play video, and still be cheaper than the mini-mac, but none as cheap as the raspberry pi. So i decided to see if i could

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Adding a Startup Movie to your Raspberry Pi

http://blog.sheasilverman.com/tag/pimame/ Adding a Startup Movie to your Raspberry Pi Posted on September 25, 2013 Hey All, So I’ve been playign with trying to do a boot image or a boot movie with the Raspberry Pi for a while now, and all the comments and tips keep going back to a tutorial on how to boot a static image.  It works, but there are a lot of problems with it like failing gracefully and not returning the console window back if you

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CUSTOM SPLASH SCREEN FOR RASPBERRY PI (RASPBIAN)

http://www.edv-huber.com/index.php/problemloesungen/15-custom-splash-screen-for-raspberry-pi-raspbian   CUSTOM SPLASH SCREEN FOR RASPBERRY PI (RASPBIAN) This is a quick and dirty solution for an unanimated custom splash screen during boot. First of all, you need to install fbi: apt-get install fbi Copy your custom splash image to /etc/ and name it “splash.png”. Next, create an init.d script called “asplashscreen” in “/etc/init.d/”. I chose “asplashscreen” with an “a” at the beginning to be sure it starts first. #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:          asplashscreen #

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pyomxplayer

https://github.com/jbaiter/pyomxplayer   pyomxplayer Python wrapper module around OMXPlayer for the Raspberry Pi. Unlike other implementations, this module does not rely on any external scripts and FIFOs, but uses thepexpect module for communication with the OMXPlayer process. CPU overhead is rather low (~3% for the Python process on my development RPi) and the object-oriented design makes it easy to re-use in other projects. Installation: git clone https://github.com/jbaiter/pyomxplayer.git python pyomxplayer/setup.py install Example: >>> from pyomxplayer import OMXPlayer >>> from pprint import pprint >>> omx = OMXPlayer(‘/tmp/video.mp4′)

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omxplayer play controls / input

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7987 omxplayer play controls / input   Post a reply 58 posts   Page 1 of 3   123 by alanpich » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:23 pm I’m working on setting up a mediacentre controlled over http (through a smartphone web interface). Have successfully got omxplayer set up and running to play a video on command from the web server, however i can’t seem to find any way to interact with the player while its running. Does omxplayer have any facility for user input (play/pause/fast-forward/volume etc) via

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Raspberry Pi playing a video in loop

http://www.mindemedia.no/wordpress/?p=16 Raspberry Pi playing a video in loop May 11, 2013So there is gonna be an art exibition where i work, its mainly video art, so they will need six projectors showing one piece of video each, and they are all gonna run in loop, all day long. There are several boxes that can play video, and still be cheaper than the mini-mac, but none as cheap as the raspberry pi. So i decided to see if i could make

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Install HTPC, Manage your HTPC from anywhere

http://htpc.io/installation.html   Installation Jump straight to: Osx - Windows - Linux Installing HTPC Manager can be really easy but might also cause some problems. The main requirement is you run Python. Python 2.7 is in most cases the way to go. The difficult part is installing the Python Image Library. Python Image Library The Python Image Library or PIL, is used to convert and resize images retrieved from the Xbmc Api. Installing PIL is, depending on your OS, not so easy. This guide should help

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Reading and writing from GPIO ports from Python

http://raspberry.io/projects/view/reading-and-writing-from-gpio-ports-from-python/  Raspberry IO Log In Sign Up Reading and writing from GPIO ports from Python Overview 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Created by: coderanger Published Mar. 13, 2013 This tutorial covers the setup software and hardware to read and write the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi running the latest Raspbian operating system. We will showing how to read from a physical push-button from Python code, and control an LED. Related categories: Tutorial Step 1: Install Python development tools Open

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