Omxplayer

Omxplayer is a video player specifically made for the Raspberry PI's GPU made by Edgar (gimli) Hucek from the XBMC project.

RaspberryPI forum user spenning made precompiled binaries available on the forum see here.

Hotkeys
z          Show Info 1          Increase Speed 2          Decrease Speed j          Previous Audio stream k          Next Audio stream i          Previous Chapter o          Next Chapter n          Previous Subtitle stream m          Next Subtitle stream s          Toggle subtitles d          Subtitle delay -250 ms f           Subtitle delay +250 ms q           Exit OMXPlayer Space or p Pause/Resume -          Decrease Volume +          Increase Volume Left Arrow Seek -30 Right Arrow Seek +30 Down Arrow Seek -600 Up Arrow   Seek +600

Streaming
You do not need to download a mp4 file to watch it with omxplayer. If you have the URL of a (h264) rtmp:// stream, just stream it with: omxplayer rtmp://...

To stream a (h264) rtmpt://... URL with omxplayer just change the head rtmpt:// to rtmp://

Black screen after playback
If you get a black screen on your X11 Desktop after omxplayer is finished, you can use this command to restore your view: xrefresh -display :0 Or you can use a small bash script for video playback to do this every time: omxplayer "$@" xrefresh -display :0 On raspian xrefresh is part of the x11-xserver-utils package (apt-get install x11-xserver-utils)
 * 1) /bin/bash

No rights to VCHIQ
On bare installations of the default distributions Omxplayer often has insufficient permissions to access /dev/vchiq. One solution would be to run omxplayer as root, but a nicer solution is to add a udev rule so that /dev/vchiq is also accessible from other users. To accomplish this, do the following under root: Now add yourself to the group named 'video': Reboot the Raspberry and you should be able to run omxplayer without the vchiq-error showing up.
 * 1) echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="vchiq",GROUP="video",MODE="0660"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vchiq-permissions.rules
 * 1) usermod -aGvideo USERNAME

HDMI
When using HDMI make sure to pass '-o hdmi' to omxplayer if you want the audio to playthrough the HDMI cable: omxplayer -o hdmi videofile.mp4

Helpful Links

 * Successful Raspberry Pi 1080p blog, Start->Finish
 * How to install Debian Raspberry Pi
 * Omxplayer Build Bot