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*[https://github.com/huceke/omxplayer Omxplayer] is a video player specifically made for the Raspberry PI's GPU made by Edgar (gimli) Hucek from the XBMC project.
**omxplayer comes pre-installed on our raspbian distribution.
***you can transcode with ffmpeg:
***<code>omxplayer ~/Movies/mouse_brain.mp4<code>
*You can control playback with a number of hotkeys:**http://elinux.org/Omxplayer#Hotkeys**Try these, and notice the responsivenessof the system. Is there any noticable delay?*We will can send those hotkeys via STDIN in python:
**http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12755968/sending-arrow-keys-to-popen