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A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 24 2019, @03:53PM   
from the just-play-the-file-already dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket submitted a link to an interesting hackaday story about a DIY video player. The approach taken is very simple, using a Raspberry Pi to do all of the heavy lifting. There's also no user interface. The Pi scans for any removable media that has been inserted, and if it finds something it automatically plays the video files contained on the card. For anyone interested in building a no-frills, portable video player this might just be the ticket.

The project is detailed on github for those who might be interested.

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• Re:problematic and limited Re:problematic and limited (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 25 2019, @09:28PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 25 2019, @09:28PM (#924644)

  I looked at Kodi and by default it seemed to want to automatically connect to various servers without asking me, which I didn't like. Other than that, I couldn't see anything much useful to me that VLC couldn't provide. I certainly didn't need it to download media. I can use a web browser and / or a file transfer client for that.

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• Re:problematic and limited (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 25 2019, @09:55PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday November 25 2019, @09:55PM (#924660) Journal

  The killer app is streaming. Streaming for free from random servers across the world.

  https://troypoint.com/best-kodi-addons/ [troypoint.com]
  https://troypoint.com/how-to-install-exodus-on-kodi/ [troypoint.com]

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