Omxplayer

Omxplayer is a video player specifically made for the Raspberry Pi's GPU made by Edgar (gimli) Hucek from the XBMC/Kodi project. It relies on the OpenMAX hardware acceleration API, which is the Broadcom's VideoCore officially supported API for GPU video/audio processing.

Raspberry Pi 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

RTMP
You do not need to download an MP4 file to watch it with Omxplayer. If you have the URL of a (H.264) rtmp:// stream, just stream it with: omxplayer rtmp://...

To stream a (H.264) rtmpt://... URL with Omxplayer, just change the head rtmp:// to rtmpt://.

RTSP
Support for RTSP was added in 2012 (for instance, allowing the use of VLC media player as the streaming server).

Example:

omxplayer -o local rtsp://192.168.3.100:8554/stream1

Audio
It is possible to select the audio output by specifying -o or --adev on the command line between:
 * local: analog output
 * hdmi: hdmi output (hdmi_drive=2 is then required in config.txt)
 * both: both outputs

Example: omxplayer -o hdmi file.qt

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 Raspbian, 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 Pi, 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 play through 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 (up to date binary packages available here)