Installing OMXPlayer on Raspberry Pi

Since I didn’t have any luck playing videos on the RPi using mplayer I found omxplayer after some search. It has the ability to use the RPi’s GPU thus taking some load of the CPU.

UPDATE 2013-04-01: omxplayer is now included in the Raspbian (Debian Wheezy) repositories and can be simply installed by one line.

sudo apt-get install omxplayer

Check another article on how to install Raspbian.

OMXPlayer binary (.deb) downloads can be found here: http://omxplayer.sconde.net/

Install dependencies

apt-get install libpcre3 fonts-freefont-ttf fbset libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libva-dev libva-x11-1 libva1

Install omxplayer

wget http://omxplayer.sconde.net/builds/omxplayer_0.2.4~git20121205~ec7ac68f_armhf.deb
dpkg -i omxplayer_0.2.4~git20121205~ec7ac68f_armhf.deb

Play video

omxplayer -o hdmi video.mp4

Note: If there is no sound when playing through the HDMI interface make sure your /boot/config.txt file has the following line (and it’s not commented out).

hdmi_drive = 2

OMXPlayer Key bindings

• Raspberry Pi
• Video