Raspberry Pi 3 - omxplayer from python 2.7 - how to check if a video finished to play?

Question

I want to know if it's possible to check in omxplayer that it's finished to play a video file.

I use this code to start the omxplayer:

os.system("omxplayer -b /home/pi/Videos/file.mp4")

May be it is possible to run omxplayer so, that after playing the file it's closing itself and with polling to check if omxplayer process exists and if not -> to run the next file?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Use Python OMXPlayer wrapper instead of os.system().

Read docs and example how to write simple script to run file. Read about is_playing() method, will be helpful.