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Raspberry Pi - Week 4

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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.

*Controlling omxplayer with hotkeys: **http://elinux.org/Omxplayer#Hotkeys*Try it out, by hand.**Copy a movie file to your raspberry pi using scp. **The movie needs to be mp4 format.

***you can transcode with ffmpeg:

****<code>ffmpeg -i mouse_brain.wmv mouse_brain.mp4</code>**run omxplayer and try hotkey controls:

***<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

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