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adafruit / pi_video_looper

Application to turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated looping video playback device, good for art installations, information displays, or just playing cat videos all day.
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RasPiOS “Bullseye” support via cvlc #135

Open PaintYourDragon opened 2 years ago

PaintYourDragon commented 2 years ago

Installer now detects the OS version and takes a different path if Bullseye or later. omxplayer and hello_video are no longer supported in the new OS, so cvlc is used there instead, along with some required device tree overlay shenanigans. The older lightweight players can still be used by installing on an earlier OS, if hardware supports it.

PaintYourDragon commented 2 years ago

Huh, I’d been distracted and didn’t notice the release of the “Legacy” Raspberry Pi OS among canonical downloads, which includes omxplayer and allows hello_video to build and run, even on Pi 4.

Reading their blog post about this…at some point, Legacy will eventually go Bullseye-based…so it’s probably wise to continue with vlc as the more future-proof option, keeping it in the installer and so forth.

But the good news is, even without merging the PR with the new stuff, I can go ahead and update the guide and just tell them to install the Legacy option. When vlc feels robust enough and this gets merged, I can update with the Legacy vs non-Legacy differences.

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 2 years ago

no worries - I think using/including a player that is in active dev and support is generally a good idea ;) even if it can't loop as seamless as omx. but people that need this specific requirement will always be able to download an old image that supports omx. so I would vote for keeping it included in the videolooper code as long as possible.

I will go ahead and try to port as many settings as possible from omx to vlc.