Questions tagged [video]
Questions related to playing or editing video on the Raspberry Pi, both in SD and HD.
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Send vlc images to the HDMI port on Pi 4
Attach a keyboard and mouse to Pi 4, log in, interface is through HDMI port. Invoke vlc on a jpeg, image also goes to the HDMI port. I want the same to happen headless. That is log in remotely via ssh,...
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Is there any way to give the Pi hardware HEVC or AV1 real-time encode support?
I’ve been working on a project for a while that requires streaming video off of the Pi over cell data with as little latency as possible. In my case the Pi4/CM4 does not have fast enough H.264 ...
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Why can’t I stream an mp4 from my RPI by opening it in the browser?
I’m new to self-hosting and am still learning what is and isn’t possible. I have a raspberrypi 4b and am running raspberry piOS Lite (bullseye). As an experiment, I uploaded an mp4 to my RPI and then ...
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Did the Raspberry Pi 5 drop hardware encoding support?
Does the upcoming Raspberry Pi 5 have any hardware acceleration for video encoding? The technical specifications only list HEVC decoding, but there's no mention of hardware encoders. The reviews I've ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 not outputting to 4K
My new Raspberry Pi 4B doesn’t seem to support 4K resolution out of the box.
I have tried two different 4K native screens and two micro-HDMI to HDMI cables, and neither works. However, if I connect a ...
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Video decoding HW acceleration broken in Kodi on Raspberry Pi 4 after upgrading to Raspberry Pi OS 12 (Bookworm)
Hardware video decoding worked fine on Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye with its Kodi 19.1. Now that I upgraded it to Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm (Kodi 20.1) (which, as I realized, hasn't been released yet) it ...
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Videos much too slow on Raspberry Pi Zero W
I have purchased my first Raspberry Pi, the Zero W for a media application. The application requires the Pi to play normal 1080p Videos at a reasonable frame rate (anything around 25 - 30 FPS). I have ...
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How do I manually find the flash chip and -c parameter? (Flashing Skulls BIOS using Pi 4)
Using a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS I'm trying to flash Skulls BIOS onto a Lenovo Thinkpad T440p using this guide.
How do I get the Raspberry Pi to detect my laptop's 8MB BIOS chip? I've ...
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Where are the the pi_bcm2835 and spidev files? Is "/etc/modules.load.ed" the same as "/etc/modules"?
Using a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS I'm trying to flash Skulls BIOS onto a Lenovo Thinkpad T440p using this guide and one of the steps states "For flashrom we put pi_bcm2835 and spidev ...
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Raspberry Pi 4: same VLC-video on two screens
I'm trying to convince my Rasp Pi 4B (latest Raspbian OS 32Bit) to display the same video on both monitors.
I've tried the screen config via drag 'n' drop, xrandr and many other things I found on ...
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4K video Stuck in raspberryPi4 (8GB RAM) even after doing required settings of config.txt
i am stuck at playing the 4K even at less frame rates (25fps) on the HMDI 0/1 of my raspberryPi4 (8GB,Cortex A7 CPU,1.5Ghz CPUspeed) even after desirable settings of raspi4 and being supported by the ...
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HDMI to HDMI monitor keeps going black every 10 seconds then comming back
So i have my Pi connected to a small 7" monitor (feelworld T7 plus), and when i turn on the pi and let the video run it will periodically go black for just a second before coming back. The ...
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Waveshare display acting wierd
I am using a waveshare 7inch display it was working well but today when i connexted it to raspberry pi the output is unexpected
Please help me out
Thanks in advance
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Can you merge graphic text with a transparent background over a video loop on raspberry pi and output to HDMI?
Is there a way to use a Raspberry Pi to play a video loop from an SD card in folder1, and then using a chroma key, remove the green screen in the background of a graphic text in folder2 (Or perhaps ...
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Can hardware decoding of h.264 be enabled in Kodi on Ubuntu?
Running Ubuntu 23.04 (and previously 22.10) on a Pi 4 doesn't seem to allow me to hardware decode h.264 in Kodi from Debian from the Ubuntu repo. I draw this conclusion from the Video decoder: f-h264 (...
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Does MIPI CSI cameras should always preferred than USB UVC cameras?
I'm attempting to DIY a car blind spot monitor system using camera + RPi board + display. For the camera part, there are cameras connected through MIPI CSI or USB UVC. I am a software developer only ...
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Download the streaming video in server
In order to stream video over the LAN, I used a Raspberry Pi Zero W. I used this MJPEG server code to stream the video over the LAN.
[mpjpeg streaming program] 1
Currently, I want to download and save ...
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Arm Arch Linux 'startx' displays black screen on Raspberry Pi 3
Context: I recently got started with Arch Linux and the whole building your own distro thing. So I put Arch Linux Arm version on my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B v1.2 from the Arch Linux Arm project. I put ...
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Can I somehow feed the camera's live image into my GUI?
I'm new to the python world and I have an RPI project where I would like to
display the camera's (Arducam 16mpx) realtime image into my GUI application.
I saw multiple projects web streaming with ...
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Playing random Videos with omxplayer (PIR) [closed]
I am trying to do the following: I connected a PIR-Sensor to my raspberry pi to detect motion. If there is motion detected my pi should play random videos from the folder "videos" (about 20-...
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Led matrix with hole cut out
I'm a student artist with a decent background in robotics/cs working on a sculpture and was hoping to use a raspberry pi and a led matrix. I was hoping to cut out a section in the middle of the matrix ...
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Netflix in Chromium freeze complete pi
My Pi 4 (8GB) has been crashing since yesterday whenever you want to watch a movie in Chromium via Netflix. However, the first five minutes of the film run through without any problems.
Other websites ...
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Video encoding on Raspberry Pi 4 via ffmpeg and h264_v4l2m2m produces corrupted video
Raspberry Pi 4, 4 GB
Rapsberry Pi OS Lite, 64 bit (2022-09-22)
Kernel 5.15.61-v8+
ffmpeg 4.3.4-0+deb11u1+rpt3
config.txt has the following relevant entry:
# Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver
dtoverlay=vc4-...
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Best way to achieve robust low latency video streaming to a browser using a Raspberry Pi Zero
I want to stream the live video feed captured from a camera attached to my Raspberry Pi Zero to some browser with as low latency as possible (<1s). My end goal is attaching the Pi Zero & Camera ...
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32 bit Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS lower GPU Memory
I have a raspberry pi 2 with ubuntu sever installed and need to know how to lower the gpu settings from 64 megs to 16 megs.
Ubuntu Server does not come with raspi-config installed.
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Setting flags for chromium-browser to optimize video stream
I'm currently running on Raspbian 11 trying to set flags for chromium-browser to enable hardware acceleration. I've tried editing /etc/chromium.d/00-rpi-vars according to this solution, yet it doesn't ...
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Enable hardware video decoding in VLC on Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye
As the title says: How can I enable hardware video decoding in VLC (or other player) in Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye?
I'm on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. Video playback in OSMC is smooth but in Raspberry Pi OS it ...
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Amazon Prime Video totally freezes/crashes Raspberry Pi 4 in Chromium
Since the Widevine support is available for Raspbian I'm able to watch Netflix and Amazon Prime Video on the Raspberry Pi just using the Chromium Browser.
I have, however, a strange behaviour when ...
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best video format for rasberry pi 4
I want to show videos via Chromium with the Raspberry Pi (Kiosk App for a school) and want to know which Video format is best for this use case.
I did some research and h264 format should be best but ...
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Does Kodi 19 "matrix" support hardware acceleration for Raspberry Pi 4?
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 (8 GB) model overclocked to 2Ghz, and I want to run Kodi on top of Kali. I have it set up with version 19, but there is clearly no hardware acceleration, (indicated by choppy ...
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Unable to play HD video using vlc
I buid an image for Raspberry pi 3b+ using yocto project. While building it I have used VLC instead of OMXplayer for playing videos, and enabled the hardware acceleration using --enable-omxil --...
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WARN:0 global /tmp/pip-wheel-2c57.../opencv/.../cap_v4l.cpp (890) open VIDEOIO(V4L2:/dev/video0): can't open camera by index
When switching from the legacy camera stack under Raspberry Pi OS with debian 10 to the new libcamera camera stack (in Raspberry Pi OS with debian 11 it is standard), I cannot use OpenCV any longer.
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Boots correctly but says "No HDMI signal" after finishing kernel boot logs
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (8GB), I have flashed the latest version of Raspbian into a USB flash drive and I boot it from there. I've had no problems so far. Today I restarted it after about 2-3 ...
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Add a wIfi antenna on a Rapsberry Pi deployed underwater [closed]
I have Raspberry Pi in a pressure case that is deployed on the ocean floor and is collecting video. I would like to be able to communicate with the Pi from the surface without having to retrieve the ...
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How to run Britbox on Raspberry Pi 4?
I was wondering how can I watch Britbox https://www.britbox.co.uk/ on a Raspberry Pi 4?
Currently, the video output is not running in chromium. I have tried increasing the gpu to 256 and this had no ...
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Raspberry Pi 3b+ Fake KMS not listed
I've been trying to follow tutorials on enabling hardware accelerated video decoding for my Raspberry Pi 3b+, such as this one:
https://lemariva.com/blog/2020/08/raspberry-pi-4-video-acceleration-...
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Recoding video files for easy (low CPU) playback on Pi4 / Firefox
I won't go into the full detail of how we arrived here but I have a need to play two (locally stored on the eMMC) video files simultaneously in Firefox running on a Pi CM4.
Right now it's struggling ...
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What is the bottleneck when I'm downloading something and playing a video?
When I'm downloading a file (torrent) and playing a video, my video will periodically freeze. The video uses the GPU and barely the CPU, the total CPU usage isn't anywhere near 50% when I'm doing ...
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Omxplayer not always starting with rc.local
I have trouble with my Raspberry Pi 4B configuration. I prepared RPI to work with TV - it turns on the TV and switches active source to HDMI1 with cec-client. After turning on the TV it should start ...
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Problem using vlc without X
After having used OMXPlayer for many years, I am now trying to install vlc for command line on a Raspberry Pi B+ (Buster Lite) without X:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install ...
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Firefox 89 on Pi - visual codec artifacts
Firefox 89 on my Pi 4 is displaying bad codec symptoms, videos can be watched but the picture is corrupted by brightly coloured patches around areas of detail.
On the Pi I am running Ubuntu 21.04 and ...
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Does Pi4 output correct video for Apple CInema Displays?
I've seen the older thread asking about a pi 2 on a cinema display, but the responses weren't helpful.
I have an old Apple Cinema display that does work - had an ancient mac up and running, but that ...
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Live streaming camera and microphone input on a Raspberry Pi 4
I got a a Raspberry Pi camera and a USB microphone connected to the Raspberry Pi 4. All of them are working seperately. But now, I would like to stream them live and combined for accessing it in HTML. ...
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What code do I need to play videos using GPIO buttons with a raspberry pi?
I am trying to make a python program that uses GPIO buttons to play videos on a Raspberry pi.
I do not really understand Python and I need some help with the code to make the videos play.
I have tried ...
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Cannot Stream From WAN remote Rpi using Python Server and Client Sockets
This is the first time I've ever asked a question to any on-line group, so apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this. I am trying to use stream live video using Python Server and Client sockets ...
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Overlay text on playing video
I am working on the following project:
I want a video playing on a raspberry pi continuously in a loop.
Whenever I press a button on the gpio, i want a text to be overlayed on the video for 5 seconds ...
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Can I record HD 1080 p 60 fps through USB on a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4?
I have a set-top box with HDMI output and want to record some programs from it on a Raspberry Pi (model 3 or 4).
I found some HDMI to USB 3.0 converters with HDMI 'loop-out' which would enable us to ...
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raspberry pi 4B: writing to screen buffer / framebuffer
In the old days you could bypass system calls, bios calls, etc. by writing an ASCII character directly to a byte in the "screen buffer". Is there something similar with the raspberry pi 4b?
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Is the quantization aka quality factor of Pi camera images an integer or floating point value?
I want to make small changes to the size of video files produced by a Pi camera. I have a feedback loop that frequently measures video file size, since I have short duration files, and adjusts q in ...
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Having trouble with SD Card Copier
I put my USB on my pi and open SD Card Copier. I select the pi's sd card and the output device to my usb (dev/sda) and I click start: I notice on the file manager it creates a ~280MB partition and ...
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