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Hi list<br>
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Looking for a way to control video playback on the Raspberry Pi
outside Gem's realm, i stumbled across omxplayer and <a
href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7987">this
topic</a>.<br>
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So based on it i've made a very crude [shell]-based omxplayer
controller in Pd, see attached. As omxplayer can be controlled via
keystrokes, you can expand this patch's possibilities very easily.
For now, you can choose a file, play it, pause and resume, restart
the video, quit omxplayer, increase and decrease volume.<br>
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I encounter an annoying bug when restarting a video : one can
briefly see what's behind the window, be it a console or lxde's
desktop. Happily, omxplayer has also a counter-bug thats prevents
the desktop to refresh itself (it stays black : you have to move the
mouse all over the screen to refresh). So to keep the restart
prettier, you have to launch the desktop manager.<br>
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