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    OMXPlayer not working any more?

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    • bheplerB Offline
      bhepler Module Developer
      last edited by bhepler

      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.

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        sdetweil
        last edited by

        looks like you need to setup ffmpeg

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

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        • bheplerB Offline
          bhepler Module Developer @sdetweil
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          @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

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            sdetweil @bhepler
            last edited by

            @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

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              bhepler Module Developer @sdetweil
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              @sdetweil - Ah. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

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              • FoziF Offline
                Fozi Project Sponsor @bhepler
                last edited by

                @bhepler I have the same issue like you. Have you found a solution or fixed it?

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                • bheplerB Offline
                  bhepler Module Developer
                  last edited by

                  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.

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