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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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Video Looper for universal linux installation / remove omxplayer dependency #179

Closed alexschultze closed 9 months ago

alexschultze commented 1 year ago

Video looper is a great tool, but the prices for PI's are still very high. There is not much missing to make Video Looper a universal tool, running under Debian / Ubuntu.

I have tried to make it install and run using a recent Ubuntu LTS. For installation, i have removed the omxplayer dependency, then it install fine. Trying to run, it recognizes the USB files fine. It shows the countdown, but then enters the Desktop environment.

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 1 year ago

If we can get cvlc to work (and also systemd) then it will probably work with any platform. There is already a branch for cvlc support but it's not that easy to get all of the stuff working (cvlc wants non root / but usb mount needs root (or needs to be replaced by something else that mounts the drives) / and finally when using sydtemd and nonroot somehow it does not display any video because its outputting to the wrong terminal (I think)

mkurss commented 1 year ago

Hello. I'm also in this boat. If you look at omxplayer github then the first line is: "omxplayer is being deprecated and resources are directed at improving vlc". Trying to install adafruit looper now gives an error on newest raspian: "Package 'omxplayer' has no installation candidate". Are there some alternatives, if this won't be fixed (due to omxplayer and vlc incompatibilities)?

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 1 year ago

for now you can just install the legacy lite version as stated in the readme

mkurss commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the quick response. Got it working for video. Would you happen to know any similar (boots up, reads attached usb, autoplays) for mp3 or wav files? Sorry if this is not the right place for this question.

tofuSCHNITZEL commented 9 months ago

As a workaround I would suggest putting the audio in a mp4 (black) video - so you can still use the video looper for playback ;)