If you are having problems with omxplayer, or any other media player, you may need to update and upgrade Raspbian, and your programs by typing In terminal, it is simpler to use it as a media player.
Playing back video in omxplayer is kind of complicated, but once you learn how to type commands like
You can add custom commands to your command like –win “0 0 1280 720” to resize a video window to 720P instead of fullscreen. I like using OMXPlayer for playing back a single media file because it is fast, and rarely freezes when I use it. I recently set my Memory Split in raspi-config Raspberry Pi 2 to 256MB to see if videos play more smoothly, and 256MB seem to work at making High Resolution video play better on the Pi 2. I usually set the memory split to 128 MB to play HD videos more smoothly, and so I can occassionally play games like Quake 3 without slowdown problems on Raspbian. OMXPlayer also tells me that my Memory Split is too low if I try playing a HD video file, and I set the memory split to under 64MB in Raspbian’s raspi-config program. It also opens files very quickly, and music and video plays very smoothly without any slowdown problems. OMXPlayer is a very basic video player which does not have a user interface, but it can play MP4, MP3, MKV, and other file types which I tried with it.
In the terminal command line program, and press enter to install omxplayer.
OMXPlayer comes installed with Raspbian by default.īut, if you do not have it, you can install OMXPlayer by typing Most media players also use less system resources like RAM, CPU cycles, and storage space compared to a Media Center program or operating system why can use hundreds to thousands of Megabytes of space. Media players made for the desktop is useful for when you want to either listen to music, or watch a video in a smaller sized window, or listen to audio from an audio file or a video file with audio on a minimize window for a media players while you are doing other tasks like browsing the web, typing, and work. Desktop Media Player programs for Raspbian Desktop Video and Audio Media Players Press p key on your keyboard to pause the video or song. Press the q key on your keyboard to stop playback, and use the left and right arrow to rewind, and fast forward the video, or song. , and press the enter key on your keyboard to play a video file called video.mp4 in your Pi’s Desktop folder. All I need to do to play a media file with OMXPlayer is type a short omxplayer command line in the Terminal command line program in Raspbian like type
The Raspberry Pi 2 is fast enough to play smoothly play 1080P HD video in Raspbian when I use the default OMXPlayer which is a command line video and audio player which comes pre-installed with Raspbian. The video, and sound playback quality is pretty good on the Raspberry Pi 2 when I use the Pi 2 which is connected to a PC monitor, and desktop PC speakers. The Pi 2 also has an wired Ethernet port, and supports USB Wifi adapters, so you can use your network or the internet to access media files to play on the Pi 2. The Raspberry Pi 2 also now has 4 USB ports which makes it possible for you to plug-in a USB keyboard, mouse, USB wifi adapter, and still have 1 empty USB port for plugging in a USB hard drive or Flash drive which you can use to access your files stored on an USB external storage drive. You can also turn the Pi 2 into a tablet, or laptop when you buy the right case, and screens for it. The Raspberry Pi 2 is also very portable, so you can move it around very easily. The Pi 2 has both a HDMI video and audio port, and a composite video and audio port for older speakers, and TVs which do not have HDMI. The Raspberry Pi 2 uses about 4 Watts of power, so you save a little bit of money on electricity by using the Pi 2 to play media files. The Pi 2 also won’t heat up your room like some computers which generate lots of heat from the CPU, RAM, and video card when turned on, and playing HD video. It makes no noise since there are no moving cooling fans needed to cool its CPU, and other parts on the Pi 2. $35 is cheaper than most TV devices like a Blu-Ray Player. The Raspberry Pi 2 is a good choice for a video and music player computer because it cost only $35. The Raspberry Pi 2 is a very good basic video, and music playback device when you have the right media players installed on it, and use the right audio and video file formats like MP4, MKV, MP3, OGG, etc which are hardware accelerated when you use the right player like OMXPlayer or Kodi, so they play more smoothly without using software decoding which can be very slow.