<![CDATA[OMXPlayer not working any more?]]>It’s almost time for Halloween and I was trying to get my spooky ghosts to show up on the mirror again. This harkens back to a really old thread and what was a roaring success the first time around.

But now I can’t get the ghost video to display on the screen. In fact, I can’t even get the test video that ships with the Raspian build to work on the screen. Has anyone else had omxplayer problems? Specifically in portrait orientation on their mirror?

Even the basic test video doesn’t work. I enter omxplayer /opt/vc/src/hello_pi/hello_video/test.h264 and I get nothing.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/11331/omxplayer-not-working-any-moreRSS for NodeWed, 13 May 2026 15:56:20 GMTThu, 10 Oct 2019 02:55:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to OMXPlayer not working any more? on Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:25:14 GMT]]>Just an FYI - I tried it today and it played the video first time, with no issues on an RPI 4. It would appear that something has changed in the default Buster installation.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/76851https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/76851Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:25:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to OMXPlayer not working any more? on Thu, 24 Oct 2019 05:15:09 GMT]]>@bhepler I have the same issue like you. Have you found a solution or fixed it?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/63195https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/63195Thu, 24 Oct 2019 05:15:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to OMXPlayer not working any more? on Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:19:52 GMT]]>@sdetweil - Ah. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/62462https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/62462Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:19:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to OMXPlayer not working any more? on Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:16:49 GMT]]>@bhepler it looks like the h264 engine has beem removed from omxplayer… and u have to build it manually into ffmpeg, and convert the h164 file to mpeg

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/62461https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/62461Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:16:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to OMXPlayer not working any more? on Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:15:45 GMT]]>@sdetweil - Does OMXPlayer require ffmpeg to work? I thought OMXPlayer shipped with Raspbian and was the default video renderer. I base this off of this article: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/raspbian/applications/omxplayer.md

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/62460https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/62460Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:15:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to OMXPlayer not working any more? on Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:12:32 GMT]]>looks like you need to setup ffmpeg

http://jollejolles.com/installing-ffmpeg-with-h264-support-on-raspberry-pi/

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/62459https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/62459Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:12:32 GMT