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So I have been doing a bunch of research on this and it seems that some people have gotten 'looping' to work seemlessly with the OMX Player.
Unfortunately it crashes after a certain amount of time.
Here is a discussion of the looping
popcornmix/omxplayer#187
This is of course looping 1 video so I am not sure how it would handle a list of videos.
So I did some more research and found this method from years ago that works well, Here is the link to the post http://www.sundh.com/blog/2013/10/loop-videos-seamlessly-omxplayer/
It is pretty straight forward.
You start 2 videos and play the first and pause the second.
When the first ends you start the second and there is no gap in playback.
Then you start a 3rd video which could be the first video again and pause it.
Then you repeat to infinity.
I wonder if this Python method could be implemented for the RPiVideoLooper.
This method uses a duplicate copy of the video so it can go back and forth.
So if you are using just one video it would be recommend to duplicate it and rename it.
This method is rather straight forward but I am not sure if some other issue might come up as it did with the OMX Player looping with a log file getting to large and crashing things.