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Raspberry Pi Image: Video Looper

What is Raspberry Pi Video Looper?

Raspberry Pi Video Looper is a simple way to display seamless looping video files, for example in an art exhibition. All you need is a Raspberry Pi, an SD card, a screen and a USB stick.

We are using Raspberry Pi Imager. We have a more detailed tutorial for imaging the Pi.

1. Download the Video Looper Image

You can download the Video Looper image here. Choose the latest version that is compatible with the Pi model you are using, please refer to the "works with all boards up to" column.

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2. Using Raspberry Pi Imager

  1. Raspberry Pi Device select Raspberry Pi Model
  2. Storage select the SD card

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  1. Operation System - select Use custom - select the newly downloaded Video Looper Image customImage.png

3. Files Format

Video Looper uses the default video player, omxplayer, which can play most videos encoded with the H.264 video codec and in a video format with an extension like .avi, .mov, .mkv, .mp4, or .m4v.

Try to minimize the size of your files and export the video with the exact resolution of your display for better performance. e.g. You shouldn't use an uncompressed 4K video format on a 1080p HD display.

4. Plug and Play

You can put your video on a USB stick and plug it to the pi. Your video(s) is ready to loop!

If only one movie is available it will play continually in a loop.

If multiple movies are found then each movie will be played in alphabetical order by filename and will loop back to the first video and play all videos again in order repeatedly.

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