OMXPlayer not working any more?

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.

sdetweil

looks like you need to setup ffmpeg

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

bhepler

@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

sdetweil

@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

bhepler

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

Fozi

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

bhepler

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.