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A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 24 2019, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday November 25 2019, @10:22PM (2 children)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday November 25 2019, @10:22PM (#924670) Journal

    My original raspi had problems with videos sometimes using XBMC and it would get warm. Er, Kodi. Er, whatever it's being called now - moved on to a plex install. And when I had it running I mostly used it for mp3 playback.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 25 2019, @10:52PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday November 25 2019, @10:52PM (#924677) Journal

    Original, you say? As in Raspberry Pi 1 Model B or a later model?

    http://archive.is/BtR1u [archive.is]
    https://archive.is/BtR1u/a257318a8001d64cbde761bc8420574ffcd8c99e [archive.is]

    Performance is up tremendously and hardware decoding of video is improved. Although Pi4 will still be "hot" or warm most of the time depending on case/cooling.

    All of the older models should have been capable [wikipedia.org] of smooth 1080p30 video playback. RPi3 and a revision of RPi2B could decode 1080p60. Now RPi4 should do up to 4K60 H.265.

    Because Broadcom's chips are TV-oriented, I expect the RPi5 to decode AV1. And it might even decode 8K resolution video, something nobody is asking for with a straight face.

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    • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:43PM

      by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:43PM (#924952) Journal

      Yep, Pi 1 B. But it could handle a limited amount of playback, and of course I never had any problem with audio decoding. And sure, that's the nice thing about improved models - maybe I need to lay my hands on a new one. Haven't been much into it for quite awhile, played around with arduino a bit for a specific project. But of late have been too busy for any fun like that.

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