Playing A Video

the pi comes pre-installed with omx player.it will easily play a film and loop it ,if you want, and if we use a start up script we can make a unit that will just play and loop a movie when we turn it on.

omx player has a lot of options of what it can do. they can be found here

on a basic level we can type into a terminal window

omxplayer  -o local –loop –no-osd /home/pi/Desktop/movie.mp4

this will loop the movie called movie.mp4 , which is on the desktop for ever.

!!!!! how ever !!!!! you won’t see this movie displayed when using the pi wirelessly, you have to stick in a hdmi moniter to see the film looping full screen.

If you want to view a film when the pi is being used wirelessy use VLC

open a terminal window and install it by typing

sudo apt install -y vlc

then we can play a film by typing in

vlc  /home/pi/Desktop/movie.mp4

if we want to start looping the film when the pi starts up (very handy for video instalations) we can have a look at startup.sh routines here

heres a picture of the code  to kick off the movie in this case (im triggering a full screen movie to loop kept on a usb drive – handy if you want to update it )