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    UNSOLVED OMXPlayer not working any more?

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    • bhepler
      bhepler Project Sponsor 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/

        Sam

        Create a working config
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        • bhepler
          bhepler Project Sponsor @sdetweil last edited by

          @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

            Sam

            Create a working config
            How to add modules

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            • bhepler
              bhepler Project Sponsor @sdetweil last edited by

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

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              • Fozi
                Fozi Project Sponsor @bhepler last edited by

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

                HowTo: Replace PIR Sensor with a RCWL-0516 Microwave Sensor

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                • bhepler
                  bhepler Project Sponsor 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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