OMXPlayer binary (.deb) downloads can be found here: Install dependenciesĪpt-get install libpcre3 fonts-freefont-ttf fbset libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libva-dev libva-x11-1 libva1 Install omxplayerĭpkg -i omxplayer_0.2.4~git20121205~ec7ac68f_b Play video
UPDATE : omxplayer is now included in the Raspbian (Debian Wheezy) repositories and can be simply installed by one line.Ĭheck another article on how to install Raspbian. Show all 13 In these interests Raspberry Pi h/ pi 241 guides Raspbian h/ raspbian 12 guides 1. Open the Disk Utility and find your SD card. We have to do this so that RetroPie can create the rest of the subdirectories in the retropie folder. After that, eject the flash drive and plug it back into the Pi.
The upgrade process takes some time and therefore requires some patience.
If you don’t want to wait long and want to benefit directly from new kernel and software versions, you can upgrade to Raspbian Stretch in a few easy steps. To do this, only the word jessie has to be replaced by stretch. Then, on your computer, make a folder at the root of the flash drive called retropie. Since August 17,2017 the new Rasbian version Stretchbased on Debian 9 is available for download. For upgrading to the new Raspbian version, the package lists must be adapted to the Stretch release. Presumably the resolution to use is 1920x1080px. First, make sure the flash drive file system is FAT32. Copy your custom splash image into: /etc/ and name it 'splash.png'.
Since I didn’t have any luck playing videos on the RPi using mplayer I found omxplayer after some search.