OMXPlayer Controls

Key bindings
Key Action
1 Increase Speed
2 Decrease Speed
j Previous Audio stream
k Next Audio stream
i Previous Chapter
o Next Chapter
n Previous Subtitle stream
m Next Subtitle stream
s Toggle subtitles
q Exit OMXPlayer
Space or p Pause/Resume
- Decrease Volume
+ Increase Volume
Left Seek -30
Right Seek +30
Down Seek -600
Up Seek +600

I could not JeffHoogland's solution to work in Raspbian, but a couple of changes made it work for me:

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/omxplayer.desktop

For it's contents paste:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=OMXPlayer
Categories=AudioVideo;Player;
Exec=lxterminal --command "omxplayer -o hdmi %f"
Terminal=false
Icon=/usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2/96x96/categories/applications-multimedia.png

Save and close the file (ctrl+x in nano)

You can choose your own icon. Note that 'lxterminal' is the default terminal on Pi - change that if you are using something else.

tried framil's solution on my copy of Raspian wheezy. it worked as described.


thanks framil. ;-)


they only thing i changed was adding the -y option to the command line arguments. i have a 1680x1050 monitor I connected with an DVI-to-HDMI cable. for some reason nothing plays with omxplayer unless I use the -y option.

framil variant works well for me!

I'm just stuck on how to extend the menu option to .mpg files...

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    Categories=AudioVideo;Player;



is a bit generic, I wonder if it supports extension regex or what else shall I do...

thanx for the help

You can directly use "xterm".

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    [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Name=OMXPlayer-HDMI
    Categories=AudioVideo;Player;
    Exec=xterm -fullscreen -fg black -bg black -e omxplayer -o hdmi -r %f
    Terminal=false
    Icon=/usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2/96x96/categories/applications-multimedia.png


And for playing using audio jack:

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    [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Name=OMXPlayer
    Categories=AudioVideo;Player;
    Exec=xterm -fullscreen -fg black -bg black -e omxplayer -o local -r %f
    Terminal=false
    Icon=/usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2/96x96/categories/applications-multimedia.png

my gui tboplayer will use omxplayer to play audio and video https://github.com/KenT2/tboplayer


I think the confusion with why this solution seems to work sometimes and not others is that the [desktop entry] file passes the entire file name to the terminal via the %f variable, but there's no consideration for file names that have spaces or other special characters. If one tries to add quotes around %f in the [desktop entry] file to deal with this issue, the desktop entry won't work at all due to limitations of the desktop entry file with regards to quotes and variables.

Solution:
Create a bash script that adds the quotes around the file name and call the bash script from the desktop entry file.

For Example...
/home/pi/.local/share/applications/OMXlauncher.desktop

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    [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Name=OMXPlayer
    Exec=bash /home/pi/scripts/videoplayer %f
    Categories=AudioVideo;
    MimeType=video/mp4
    Terminal=false
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Icon=applications-multimedia
    NoDisplay=false


/home/pi/scripts/videoplayer

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    #!/bin/bash
    lxterminal -t "OMXPlayer (Video Control)" -e "omxplayer -b --display :0 \"$1\""