Build a USB Video Looper with a Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer - Auto Recovers After Power Cycle
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[Update - Video Looper Works with 'Buster' OS, check the full guide, link above, to download, flash and utilise the right Raspberry Pi OS] - Create a small-footprint, low-power
, high definition video looping monster that is capable of running 24/7. Just plug in a USB filled with videos and it will play automatically.
But what were those videos being looped?
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0:00 Introduction
0:11 The Scenario
0:37 Demonstration of the Monster in Action
0:57 What You Will Need
1:42 Plugging in for Initial Set-up
2:20 Raspberry Pi OS Set up
3:03 Raspberry Pi Terminal Set-up
5:35 Success and a Monster Demonstration
6:52 Suitable Video Formats
7:29 Outro
Thank you so much Tim for the very helpful and well organized video. My mom is disabled and now living in a retirement home and I rarely get to see her because i'm in the Army and move around a lot. I created my 'Mommy Memory Player' to send her this video looper and every few months send her new flash drives with videos of me and my family simply living life and hanging out...that way in a way she can get to experience us more.
One question. i'm taking all my videos off my Iphone and most of them were hvec H.265 so i have to convert them. Is there an easy way to update the video player for it to accept other codecs?
Man god bless! Absolutely made my day reading this. Updating the video player is a challenge due to the OMXPlayer (the backbone of the system) being a little long in the tooth. There is another solution where you can change the videos that your Iphone is capturing to be H.264 format. Then you can transfer the files across to USB and it should work straight away. I found a good guide on that here - ruclips.net/video/aqMF5fhj9hU/видео.html
Hope all the best you and family 🙂
This is a FABULOUS video. Saved me from buying a more expensive piece of kit to do the same, after I’d already bought a pi. Thank you!!
Doesnt work I just get the message omxplayer has no installation candidate
You guys are legends!! I just made my own with a RBPi 3B and thanks to your update page regarding the error with Bullseye I could make it working anyway. Thanks so much, you guys are legends!!
Greetings from across the ditch my bro, massive thanks for this. Literally only took 10 minutes to get my RPi to do exactly this. You have yourself another subscriber, amazing content dude.
Very happy to of helped mate 🙂 hope you put it to good use.
@@Core-Electronics Haha it's an in-game item that I'm building IRL, not sure how useful it is but couldn't have done it without this tutorial.
Would so totally love to see it.
@@Core-Electronics oh bro it's on my channel, last couple of posts. Please excuse my rubbish editing and recording, it really is just a build log.
This was concise and easy to follow. Plus it works a treat! Thank you...
Happy days 😊 thanks for comments!
really great tutorial, this will be my first rasberry pi project. cant wait
Man! I Love your studio! Superb audio too :)
Cheers mate! It is so good to create in this world
Awesome video mate! It was a pleasure to watch this ;)
Cheers Legend
Nice! Easy to follow instructions that also work with the Pi3 - got mine working with no issues. Using it to play Christmas music vids on the big day. Liked and Sub'd. Greetings from the UK
Great to hear! Merry Christmas
help! I think I mistakenly installed or at least tried to install omxplayer onto my ras4 because another chat board said to before I found your video. now I’m getting the following message “Package omxplayer is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source. E: Package ‘omxplayer’ has no installation candidate”
I got this error instead of it switching to the black screen so I could insert usb. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Worked exactly as stated with my pi3. Thank you!
Thank you. Have this plugged into my childhood Phillips CRT TV via a HDMI to RF converter. Running old cartoons.
Saw your RUclips video of it running! I Love It and am absolutely psyched by it! 😊
This video is awesome! I just recently got a pi zero 2 w. I’m trying to do that same thing but omxplayer was phased out. How do I get this to work with Vlc?
thank you for doing this, it really helps out :D
This is incredible thank you so much!
Glad you dig it 🙂
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I tried to do the same thing on my raspberry pi 3 and i think the video looper is not longer available on git. Can you share how to do it with current options? Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video!
Thank you very much! Amazing video! Works like a charm!
Happy days 😊
Hey, it might be a long shot but I'll ask anyway. Can this software loop multiple streams with on multiple displays? I don't really know about multiple display support on raspberry os.
Good day. could i do this with 2 monitors and EXTEND the image accross both screens. Sort of like half the image on one hdmi port and the other on the other port. Or is a MST hub the only way?
Thanks for this!
This has been extremely helpful, quick question, which format is the compatible movies?
And will this work the same with raspberry pi zero w?
Thank you for the detailled instructions. However: why does the HDMI output does not incorporate the audio info in MP4 files ? Playing video goes without problem but without sound? What am I doing wrong ? A problem in the config of the looper software ?
Thank you Greta!
Worked perfect BUT I had to read the questions here when in didn't work at first and change the operative from Bullseye to Buster. Thank's . Lars in Sweden
how to use keyboard control like next or previous video?
Love your site!
how can I access GPIO to trigger different videos with a button press?
If I create my own vids for example on an editing software will that be compatible?
Should be no problem 😊
Thanks for your work! Do you know if there is a solution to play videos directly with the same or a similar system directly from a local or online cloud?
Sort of a different ask, but is there any way to toggle between the videos on the USB stick once the looper has started?
What if i turned of the power supply of the pi and turned it back on will it automatically start playing the video. And does it play 4k videos?
WOW, incredible video. Saludos de México.
Very nice project
Cheers champ!
Quick question, does not play through the videos alphabetically/numerical order or is there a way to set it to shuffle and play the videos in a random order?
Alphabetically by file name is the order it will play in by default
I'm thinking about doing this at my school can it loop image files along with videos?
Succinct, clear and enthusing. Good job. Will the Pi and the video looper play audio (too)?
If your display has speakers it will play the audio over HDMI
Thanks a lot man!
But I do have one issue, I need to take this project in a outdoor case, so I'm wondering what can I do to update the video files trough wifi.
Is there a guide for remote update the USB stick files?
great video!
I do have a question...
I followed the istallation process, but for some reason, I can't make it work correctly...
In the Video_looper install instructions, it says it can play the videos using 3 options :
file_reader = usb_drive
file_reader = directory
file_reader = usb_drive_copymode
I want to run a simple video directly from the Boot Micro SD card, so I assume my option to select would be "file_reader = directory"
However, from the explainations, it just say that I should put the file in the path /home/pi/video...
I have to say that all this is very new to me and have no programming skills.... but where do I put that path?
From the boot Micro Sd card, I added a folder named home, then added a pi folder in it, then a video filder in the pi folder (and then left the video file there), but at boot, the system does not see it.
Can someone show me a visual as to where I have to put my file?
Thanks for the help
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Great! Worked before the video finished :)
I have a question. I need to upload the USB content remotely. Once every night a new content is ready to be shown, but the RPI is physically positioned out of reach.
Before installing the RPI with your videolooper, I have set up the RPI with a python script to look in the cloud for new content.
IF new content ready THEN download and put into the USB AND remove old videos.
Would the videolooper be able to run parallel with this setup?
I see no reason why it couldn't but probably not without starting and stopping the looping program. That is because likely it will say the videos are under use and you wont be able to delete them off the USB.
To temporarily stop the video looping software you can connect to the Raspberry Pi Via SHH (or through your phone and RaspController) and type the following into the terminal | sudo supervisorctl stop video_looper |
Then with it stopped you can upload the new USB content then restart the video looper. Hope this helps your project, it sounds awesome!
Great help. Now I want to do the same thing for a music file. It was recorded a long time ago as an MP3. I couldn't make it loop so I converted it to an MP4. It starts up and loops but the quality
sounds like there's an extra channel of interference. If I play the file in VCL it sounds fine. Any ideas? (Raspberry Pi 4)
Would it be possible to add a pause function to the video looper
Great video! Is it possible to make pi instant power on off like a micro controller or a router without corrupting OS?
Anyone know if it's possible to move the position of the title (filename) you can display on screen up a bit? I've got a frame round my monitor which cuts the off. Really appreciate any help 🙏
Does it randomize the video order go off the folder order?
Excellent video and straight to the point - thank you so much! Quick question: is there a certain length of media that will be too long for the raspberry pi to handle/loop? I guess my question is: how long of a video can you upload for it to be okay? Can I upload an hour-long movie to loop for example, with this type of raspberry pi?
A hour long movie is definitely capable of running. So long as the file fits on the USB it will happily run it 😊 hope that helps!
@@Core-Electronics That does! Thank you.
Great video! Quick question though - if there were a few images on the usb would it display them also or is it solely for video files?
Only picks up Video Files. But if you were to include the photos in a video format then you'll be smooth sailing 😊
how to do this without usb stick. so store the videos an images on the sd card ?
Hey Tim! Nice one Mate.Thank you so much for the video. The Looper works perfectly. So to get a full screen do we have to shoot the video in landscape mode? will that work?and once you switch off the Pi do we have to type the code in again?Many thanks in advance
Holla and big thanks. If the video is in landscape mode it will automatically be full screen. If your turn the pi off and on it will go straight back to searching for a USB. And if there is a USB with videos it'll start playing them straight away.
@@Core-Electronics Hi Tim, I have a landscape mode full HD .mp4 video that and the loop works beautifully, except that its in letterbox format and i can't figure out the correct commands to input, trying omxplayer water.mp4 --aspect-mode fill and omxplayer --aspect-mode fill water.mp4 and it just says "File not found" what am I missing? Also im running on an official rasp 7" screen connected with the ribbon cable to my pi 4
Thanks for great help...
:) all the best with your projects!
Great Video even for a novice like myself. 3 questions 1)does the looper have controls to access? Change screen size, scrub, etc....After a power out/or reboot I need to scrub video to a specific time of day. In other words, on reboot the video always starts at the beginning. I will need to scrub into the video for appropriate time of day. You don't want to show breakfast menu at lunch time. 2) my video is time-coded by time of day. Anyway to link timecode with on-line clock? 3) reboot pi to normal desktop. Not auto looper. Thanks
There are settings you can change in the configuration file check the PDF file I've linked here - cdn-learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/raspberry-pi-video-looper.pdf?timestamp=1626739372. Screen size will auto be detected but it will just loop through the videos in order. So if the device was turned off and on it would start back at the beginning.
Does it work with round displays?
This is fantastic! would you recommend a certain RAM size for this project? or will any raspberry pi 4 model B do? thanks!
Cheers mate and any RAM size would work for this project no problem, had the system working on a 1GB RAM perfectly fine.
I am getting an error message that "Package 'omxplayer' has no installation candidate". I am new to all of this and was wondering if anyone could help!
Hi when I put in my thumb drive it doesn’t read the videos on it, what should I do?
Hy, it s posibile to make this without usb . I want to show some image but sent to raspberry remote.?
Will this play sound too?
Will this work on Raspi Zero 2 W? Thank you.
I have a question can you do this also with photos? I can do a video with the images as a work around but would be awesome to do the photos as well
You could do it that way or this fellow Manuel goes through the process of making a picture frame slideshow with a Raspberry Pi opensource.com/article/19/2/wifi-picture-frame-raspberry-pi
Thank you for this tutorial! Was really hoping this would be possible so I could make a display for my tiki bar but wasn't sure! Can't wait to give this a try!
Would love to see the results 😊! Come post a piccy at our Forum or if you need any troubleshooting help - forum.core-electronics.com.au/
Anything like this for a 3B or 3B+?
Thank you for the video. It worked just perfect with mine. However, only one HDMI is showing the video. Can you explain how to activate both HDMI outlets? In my case I dont need different videos in each screen, just the exact same videos.
Thank you in advance.
Good question mate, I believe that is one of the limitations of this set-up but if you want multiple screens showing the same video a good approach would be using a HDMI Splitter
Hi, will it works with a Raspberry pi 2? Thank you.
Yep yep! 😊
Hi Tim, Thanks for this super helpful video. Very well explained. I have a question though. I saw some people already asked about a dual screen possibility. Has someone cracked the issue?
Hey mate, I wanted to know for sure what would happen if I plugged two HDMI cords into the RASPI and run the system so I did it just then. Unfortunately it doesn't work.
The best quick solution to fill up both screens with the same video is to run a HDMI splitter.
Hey, I know this is an older video now, but is there a way to force the videos to take up the fullscreen? this is awesome! Totally going to use this for some retro gaming videos in my arcade area!
If your videos are landscape and your screen is set to landscape they will be full sized, and the same goes for portrait. I'd love to see what you come up with for your arcade zone 😊
Thank you for this video. I just tried this and all works smoothly except for the audio. It comes out quite poorly, listening via jack. Any idea what could be wrong?
For the best audio using the Raspberry Pi 4 use the HDMI output audio. That will give a clean digital audio output.
Awesome video, thank you. Can you remove the countdown and add a custom splash screen? Also does it show the OS at all when you unplug it and plug it back in?
If you dive into the full configuration file which is stored in the /boot section of the Raspberry Pi SD Card you can alter the countdown, words it displays and background colour. And the OS is running in the background but when you unplug it and plug it back in by default the Looper Monster will open first.
Hi ! Clear tutorial, looks like is working it detect the USB with the videos but is only looping the first video, I have to name them in order or why is happening ? Thanks
Sounds like the Looper can't find the other video files in your USB. Just make sure all the files are in a compatible format/the same format that your first video is in. Then it should loop through all of them correctly.
Thanks for video. Will it seamlessly loop a video i.e. no glitch or black screen when it transitions from end of video to beginning of video?
All good mate 😊 and there will be a small black screen between each video. It will be more seamless if you alter the settings to make the played videos have no sound.
Thank You for sharing this information! Showwwwwww
Thanks for watching!
Thank you, nice video! Is it possible to skip, stop and play the videos with keyboard commands like it works with the Pi3 video looper?
Yes you can! 😊
Would it be possible for the program to pull videos from the SD card? So there’s no need to plug in a separate USB. Just wondering
You can definitely point the software to different storage locations, it is all open source. There just something very intuitive to me about utilising a Seperate USB.
does it work with Raspberry Pi 3 b+ ?
Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial!
Just wondering if the looping of the video is clean. Like is it going to be a seamless loop, or will there be a black frame between loops or such?
My pleasure buddy 😊. It is utterly seamless if your playing video without sound, if you have sound there will be a brief frame between videos.
Your animation/orchestra combination videos are super rad too!
Great video. But I had I question if instead of a monitor could I also have it replay on a 3.5 Inch Touch LCD, and how should that work.
For sure. Just make sure it connects to a 3.5 inch screen that has a HDMI 😊
Great video.
I would need to take this video looper one step further and output the video using the PI's USB emulating a webcam.
Any suggestion ?
Sweet idea 😊! For simplicity you can set up a Python Script that will boot on start up that will output the Attached camera to your display. Check here for terminal commands to make your Camera run and display forever - core-electronics.com.au/guides/raspberry-pi-bullseye-camera-commands/
Check here for Executing shell commands with Python - stackabuse.com/executing-shell-commands-with-python/
Check here on using CronTab you can get Python scripts to start on boot - ruclips.net/video/rErAOjACT6w/видео.html
Can you adjust the volume on the keyboard at all does anyone know?
This tutorial has always worked flawlessly on every other display, but I am having trouble now using a Waveshare 4 inch display. I have the orientation set to 180 and everything displays correctly (the desktop, as well as the opening countdown for the looper) but the video itself is squished on the horizontal axis. It fills the vertical axis correctly but my image is squished. Any idea how to fix?
Perhaps by altering the resolution that the Raspberry Pi OS is outputting before running the install process for the Video Looper will fix this for you. This is a new issue that I haven't seen encountered before.
@@Core-Electronics thanks so much for replying. I just reformatted the sd card and started the entire process over, making sure to set the resolution before installing the looper and it’s still squishing the video :(
Hi, si there a way to set autostart Video looper at raspberry login? I use it for some museum ad it would be great when the ac goes off ad then on)
So this set up will start as soon as it recieves power and boots up. The simplest, and possibly most reliable, solution for this case would be to use a timer switch to switch the power to the Pi on and off.
could you do the same with a raspberry pi 3 a+ and is there a big difference in the setup?
Absolutely and no changes in regards to the set up 😊
Two questions, is it possible to download new videos to the usb stick and does the software recognize the new ones or only if the stick is replugged.
And what about the second hdmi port, can it run on 2 monitors? Does it show the same video on both screens or is this randomized.
If you download new videos to the usb stick and then reboot the system your new videos will be recognized along with the older ones.
Software doesn't work with dual monitors but you can use a HDMI splitter to play the same output to multiple monitors if desired. Hope this helps 😊
@@Core-Electronics ok thanks
Thank you very much for the video. Is there a way to rotate the settings on the app that it displays the video vertically?
I believe if you change the screen orientation on default Raspberry Pi OS the Video Looping Software will match the same orientation.
@@Core-Electronics Thank you
Hi, thanks for this great tutorial! Do you know if there is any solution for 4K videos?
Thanks buddy. And unfortunately no 4K with this set up. Spent some time searching for a suitable method and nothing great came up for Single Board Computers. Hit us up on our Forum and the team undoubtedly will have something they know about - forum.core-electronics.com.au/
Hey, this was awesome! Thanks. Do you have a video on how to connect to 2 screens?
Hey mate, check out this guide here - core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/dual-monitors-raspberry-pi-4.html
hi, I have tried this many times but when I do the installer it just says could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse("six>=1.16.0 do you know how to fix this?
I'll check the installation process in the next couple of hours and report back
Cool video
Unfortunately, the PI4 are not available.
Is it also possible with a Pi Zero 2 W?
The Looping Monster System will definitely will work with the Pi Zero 2 W
Hi, very clear... but how can I start and stop the videolooper from a botton (GPIO) ?? Do you have any ideas? Thanks for your videos
The best way to start and stop the device is to simply turn it on or off. You could set up a power timer to toggle it ON/OFF automatically.
If your concerned about corrupting the Micro-SD card check out this guide here. If you set the Pi to Read only it will never corrupt - core-electronics.com.au/guides/raspberry-pi/read-only-raspberry-pi/
Can you help to rotate scree with video looper? then i will be able to see vertical videos on screen please
So the vertical videos should work straight away, just with bars on either side of the monitor. The fastest way to rotate the media is to permanently manually alter the MP4 files so that they are orientated the desired way, this can be done in VLC. (Hope this helps!)
Excellent tutorial Tim, I’ve used your guideline to install Video Looper on both a Pi 3 and a Pi 4B +, both work great! I’m curious if you think I might be able to use the same guidelines to install Video Looper on a Libre AML-S905X-CC, (Le Potato). Thanks again for the great tutorial and the great resource you are to the electronics community.
Naww shucks 😊 thanks for the very swell comment! Very glad to hear of your multiple success with this guide. If you can get 'Buster' Raspberry Pi OS to run smoothly on the Libre Board then I reckon you'll be sorted and this guide will work just fine. Best of luck! My fingers are crossed that you come back with another success story 🤞
@@David-ob5or Adafruit's pi_video_looper installs omx automatically. Don't make the same mistake I made, though - pi_video_looper ONLY WORKS ON RASPBERRY PI OS BUSTER. Not Bullseye, which is the most recent Raspberry Pi IOS, and not any version of Rasbian. You might need to update or roll back your OS for this to work - Bullseye doesn't use OMXplayer anymore.
@@KarstenBondy Thank you! I was able to get it working. Thank you for the info
It didn't work with my mp4 video files. not sure why. Also, I want the videos to play at random with no blanking between clips. Is that possible?
That is no good, random you wouldn't be able to do with the system (but you could make a whole bunch of double up files on your USB and number them at random starting at 1).
You can get them to play the videos without blanking between clips but that will stop audio. Check this under Tips for Looping Videos (cdn-learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/raspberry-pi-video-looper.pdf)
Dobthe videos still contain audio??
Totally new to this... Will a Compute Module 4 IO Board do the trick? Or only the types of raspberry pi's linked in the description? Trying to minimize the cost :)
Heyya buddy, Raspberry Pi as rad 😊 I'd steer you away from that IO board and Raspberry Pi Compute Modules in general as they are best suited for industry (where like 30+ are needed for a single worksite job). They are much harder to set up then normal Raspberry Pi single board computer.
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is like the current top tier for normal Raspberry Pi single board computer. If your just getting into this world I'd highly recommend that one. If you just want to create your own video looper monster and your on a budget then a Raspberry Pi 3 of any type will work perfect. These style of boards are a lot easier to work with than Compute modules.
Hope this helps! Tim
So if I inplug it and re plug it back in will I have to go back their the OS?
It will go right back to searching for USB devices with videos in it and playing them if found.
can this work with the 3.5 inch display that connects to the pins?
I do not see why it wouldn't. Pop us message on our forum and we can test it out here.
Is there the possibility of playing different videos on 2 screens with a single Raspberry Pi?
Anyone know if this would work with Pi Zero W or Zero 2 W? i have some of those not in use I would like to get use out of.
It'll absolutely work with Pi Zeros 😊
could it be a solution to video loop a samsung tv that automatically turn on and off?
Absolutely!
How does one undo this? I'm sure I can start over, how do you go about editing it so it'll boot back into Rpi OS?
To permanently disable the Video Looper you can either re-flash the Micro-SD card or if you have information you don't want to loose you can connect to the Raspberry Pi in a terminal/SSH session then type and enter the two following commands into it.
cd pi_video_looper
sudo ./disable.sh
Check out this video for an easy way to remotely control/access the terminal of your Raspberry Pi - core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/raspcontrol-raspberry-pi.html
I just downloaded a log burning in a fireplace video, put an older small monitor in our fireplace, and have it on a loop... virtual fireplace!!
I love it! ❤️
Is there anyone that just sells one of these already pre made? I can upload my own videos or gifs onto it I just need someone to set it up for me I have a case for it that has a screen so I would to connect it to that and display it around