Looping videos with omxplayer.

[brunokruse]

How do we loop our videos using omxplayer?

There's an issue with the --loop flag on the latest omxplayer. Use our updated guide here on installing a newer version of the player that supports looping. We'll keep looking into this... maybe there's another player out there we can try?

https://github.com/justpitbulls/RaspberryPi-Workshop/tree/master/video

[judgeworks]

Hi Bruno, when I added the last line 'dpkg -i omxplayer_0.3.6git2014102498982df_armhf.deb' the reply was 'dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege'. Any suggestions?

I found this blog w/ a solution to similar problems. I'd like to try but am not clear where I enter the bash script? May be over my limited scripting skills. http://www.geek-tips.com/2014/07/30/infinite-video-loops-on-a-raspberry-pi/

[kandizzy]

try
sudo dpkg -i omxplayer_0.3.6git2014102498982df_armhf.deb

[judgeworks]

Thanks Carrie. I tried it with sudo this time. this is what I got. Maybe there's something I need to install before this? I entered each line into terminal (from the revised omxplayer loop you all posted):

pi@judgeberry /tmp $ sudo dpkg -i omxplayer_0.3.6git2014102498982df_armhf.deb
Selecting previously unselected package omxplayer.
(Reading database ...
(Reading database ... 82080 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking omxplayer (from omxplayer_0.3.6git2014102498982df_armhf.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of omxplayer:
omxplayer depends on libssh-4; however:
Package libssh-4 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing omxplayer (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
omxplayer
pi@judgeberry /tmp $

[kandizzy]

Ok you'll need to install libssh-4 and then try the command again. Here are both commands to run:
sudo apt-get install libssh-4
sudo dpkg -i omxplayer_0.3.6~git20141024~98982df_armhf.deb

After this --loop will work, however there is a black frame between loops. We are still looking into that, we will also take a look at the link posted above .Thanks!

[kandizzy]

There's an update on this issue here.