An application to turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated looping video playback device. Can be used in art installations, fairs, theatre, events, infoscreens, advertisment etc...
Easy to use out of the box but also has a lot of settings to make it fit your use case.
If you miss a feature just post an issue here on github.
- added ntfs and exfat support for the usb drive
- hello_video now has an internal loop counter, so there will be no gap between each iteration of a video (also no wait_time)
- wait_time is skipped if the playlist is starting for the first time
- use generic application name
- hello_video returns with no_hello_video option for install.sh in case building should fail again
- add _repeat_Nx to any file to have the file repeated N times before playing the next file
- option for wait time between videos
- added enable.sh
- option for displaying an image instead of a blank screen between videos
- reworked for python3
- new copymode
- removed hello_video
- countdowntime setting
- keyboard control (quiting the player)
when a usb drive with video files is plugged in, they are copied onto the rpi. (with progress bar)
to protect the player from "hostile" drives a file must be present on the drive that has a filename as defined in the password setting in the ini file (default: videopi)
there is also a setting that controls, if files on the drive should replace the existing files or get added. this ini setting can be overruled by placing a file named "replace" or "add" on the drive. the default mode is "replace"
Note: files with the same name always get overwritten
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you can have one video repeated X times before playing the next by adding _repeat_Nx to the filename of a video , where N is a positive number
- with hello_video there is no gap when a video is repeated but there is a small gap between different videos
- with omxplayer there will also be a short gap between the repeats
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if you have only one video then omxplayer can also loop seamlessly (and wth audio)
- nothing happening (screen flashes once) when in copymode and new drive is plugged in?
- check if you have the "password file" on your drive (see copymode explained above)
sudo ./install.sh