Play video on raspberry pi5

[supergigi]

Hello everyone,

I have a raspberry pi5 with QLC+ for raspos 4.14.1. I need to manage video files (mp4 or other format).
I tried on my system but I only get black screens. I searched on the forum and I read that an alternative solution is recommended using scripts and omxplayer. Unfortunately omxplayer is no longer supported.

How can I do it?
Do I have to use the windows version?
Thanks

[Laparforce]

Hey, I have the same issue. Would be really glad for an answer, whether its dependening on the video formats or just not an enabled feature.

[mcallegari]

This can be solved by installing additional codecs for gstreamer like this:

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sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-libav

Also, it is true that omxplayer has been removed. However, vlc can be used from command line instead:

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sudo apt install vlc-bin vlc-plugin-base 

I'll update the documentation and relevant posts

[supergigi]

Thanks Massimo,
I installed the codecs and it works great.