Since I didn’t have any luck playing videos on the RPi using mplayer I found 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. Download roxio free version. OMXPlayer binary (.deb) downloads can be found here: Install dependencies apt-get install libpcre3 fonts-freefont-ttf fbset libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libva-dev libva-x11-1 libva1 Install omxplayer wget 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).

Jan 20, 2017  This video explains how to install VLC on the Raspberry Pi computer. To install VLC player, you must input the below command into the Pi's terminal: sudo apt-get install vlc. 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. Apt-get install libpcre3 fonts-freefont-ttf fbset libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libva-dev libva-x11-1 libva1. Install omxplayer.

Hdmi_drive = 2 OMXPlayer Key bindings Key Action 1 Increase Speed 2 Decrease Speed j Previous Audio stream k Next Audio stream i Previous Chapter o Next Chapter n Previous Subtitle stream m Next Subtitle stream s Toggle subtitles q Exit OMXPlayer Space or p Pause/Resume – Decrease Volume + Increase Volume Left Seek -30 Right Seek +30 Down Seek -600 Up Seek +600.