Currently whenever I play a video omxplayer starts playing it. But I cannot actually see the video being played.
For example I run the following command to play it.
omxplayer video.mp4
How do I make it work?
All hardware accelerated players go directly to the video hardware (overlay). You can only view them on a monitor connected directly to the Pi.
answered Nov 11 '14 at 8:51
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1There may be an exception to this now: raspberrypi.org/blog/minecraft-pi-and-more-over-vnc – goldilocks♦ Oct 5 '16 at 19:40
To enable video output while using VNC you will need to do the following on older versions of VNC server on the Rasperry Pi.
Open VNC Server>Options>Troubleshooting. Then make sure "enable experimental direct capture mode is checked.
You should now be able to view videos over vnc.
You may also want to consider doing the following but it is not necessary. https://github.com/RealVNC/raspi-preview#optimizing-vnc-viewer-for-the-raspberry-pi
