This project is abandoned, please check omxplayernode and omxplayerios instead.
This script allows to start and stop the playback of a list of movies in a Raspberry Pi computer, using lighttpd as a web server and the PHP package. It displays a mobile-friendly user interface, so that you can use your smartphone or tablet to control the playback.
It requires the "www-data" user to be part of the "video" and "audio" groups, as defined in "/etc/group":
...
audio:x:29:pi,www-data
video:x:44:pi,www-data
...
The pipe "fifo" is located in the same folder as this script; it was created using the commands:
$ mkfifo fifo
$ chmod 777 fifo
This pipe is used to send commands to the running instance of omxplayer, just as if the user was typing those commands on the command line.
Finally, it is required to chmod 777 movies to enable the correct execution
of the script.