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*Ran a simple python script to synthesize speech. ([[Raspberry_Pi_-_Week_3#Festival_example | example]])*Another python tutorial: [http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ Learn Python the Hard Way]== Video Playback ==*[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.*Try it out.*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:**<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 responsiveness of the system. Is there any noticable delay? ===ffmpeg===*Install this on your computer, not the raspberry pi.**install homebrew**<code>brew install ffmpeg</code>*using ffmpeg to transcode a video file: **<code>ffmpeg -i ~/Movies/dogkiss.mov dogkiss.mp4</code> == Scripting Video Playback ==[http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/images/a/ad/Video_loop.tar video_loop.tar]*We can send the hotkey controls via STDIN in python:**http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12755968/sending-arrow-keys-to-popen*shell script to play a directory of files. (good at corporate conventions)**http://www.cenolan.com/2013/03/looping-video-playlist-omxplayer-raspberry-pi/