The last time I recorded a video I didn’t know when and where to, and I didn’t want to record it. I’ve been meaning to for so long, I’ve barely been able to find the time to do it.
Apparently, I was the first person to record a video with omxplayer in 2009, and now I’m the third person to record one without it. The fact that I’m the third person to record a video with omxplayer in 2009 is a good example of why omxplayer is so important. It prevents you from accidentally skipping a video, or from accidentally making an omxplayer file that only uses your webcam.
omxplayer is the world’s first open source, cross-platform video player that runs off of an API. It runs off of the video camera, making it easy to record video with just an off-the-shelf webcam and a few pieces of software. Using a webcam is one of the simplest ways to record video with omxplayer.
The new raspi 3 version 3 omxplayer can be found in the raspi download page. The version number is 3.0.0-RC1.
The main reason that we haven’t checked out the official release is that we’ve been unable to find any support for raspi 3.0.1 on the official developers website. In this case we know that the reason why raspi 3 omxplayer was released is because there’s no official documentation about the raspi 3 version and the developer has been unable to find a raspi release that supports raspi 3.0.1.
The error we ran into is when we try to load a mp4 file to an omxplayer that doesnt support mp4. Since omxplayers were not officially supported on raspi 3, they had to fall back on a generic omxplayer that doesnt support mp4. The generic omxplayer that we used was the one that comes with raspi. We did find however that the raspi 3.0.
The error was caused by our omxplayer not recognizing the file. Since we have the latest raspi version, we went with the raspi 3.0.1 version, which supports mp4 files. To be clear that we do not support omxplayers using mp4 files, we simply can only play mp4 files. If you find yourself with this error, just copy the mp4 file to your device and you will be able to play it.
raspi 3 may not be a good choice for all of you. It does support omxplayers, mp4, and so on, but do not expect to be able to play anything but mp4 files. There are also issues when playing with omxplayers that don’t support mp4 files.
This is just a simple error to be sure.
For now, we are running an older version of raspi (3.1) and have found that this error can be fixed by upgrading to the latest version of raspi.raspi 3 should be up next week. You can find this tutorial on our website.
