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I want my Raspberry Pi to start looping a predefined .mp4 movie (/home/oliver/awesome.mp4) as soon as possible after attaching power to the device.

This has to happen without any user interaction and I would prefer it if no OSD is distracting the playback. I want to use this next to a POS for entertainment purposes.

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  • Would you be trying to set it up as a Splash page? also how long?
    – Kaminara
    Jun 13, 2012 at 0:51
  • The best way to do this varies depending on the distro. Which are you using?
    – Jivings
    Jun 13, 2012 at 0:56
  • @Jivings: I assume to be using Debian.
    – Oliver Salzburg
    Jun 13, 2012 at 0:57
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    "I want to use this next to a POS for entertainment purposes." Sorry, I couldn't help but laugh! ;)
    – berry120
    Jul 3, 2012 at 21:12

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Firstly make sure you boot straight into X. For details on this, please see this question: Auto-start X-windows / gdm on the standard Debian build

Then edit your ~/.xinitrc file. It needs to contain the command that starts your media player:

vim ~/.xinitrc
omxplayer -p -o hdmi /home/oliver/awesome.mp4

This will make the video begin as soon as X does.

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  • If you're going down this route for the answer, could you provide details on how to make your Pi go straight into X?
    – recantha
    Feb 20, 2013 at 9:08
  • @recantha I think that would be out of the scope of this question. But you should be able to find it somewhere on this site.
    – Jivings
    Feb 20, 2013 at 17:57
  • I know how to do it, it would just be a more complete answer if you provided the details.
    – recantha
    Feb 25, 2013 at 13:53
  • @recantha See this question
    – Jivings
    Feb 25, 2013 at 17:48
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    omxplayer works also from the command line, so it's not necessary to start X at all. How about starting omxplayer from /etc/rc.local ?
    – Frepa
    Feb 26, 2013 at 8:15
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As proposed by Frepa, there is a faster way.

Here a way to auto login and start a script: http://www.akeric.com/blog/?p=1976

Sust make the script to start omxplayer with the video you want.

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