Cannot figure out how it is supposed to work.

[ArosPrince]

Hello,
the deamon looks promising but I just cannot figure out how it is supposed to work.

First of all, the deamon is not started on startup (after reboot) as the README claims.

And then, I just cannot seem to understand how to control the playback.

Even this simple example:

I start the deamon myself:
omxd

Then add first file:
omxd a ~/1.mp4

The file starts playing... So far so good.

omxd a ~/2.mp4

OK, now the file should be appended after the current file.

omxd n

This I believe should now jump to the second file. However what really happens is that the current file (1.mp4) stops playing and closes the window and then it shows PAUSE 0:0:0 / 0:3:10 (which is the length of 1.mp4, not the next one) on the screen and nothing happens.

Do I get it wrong is there something broken?

I use RPi 3 B+ with the latest Raspbian Stretch.

//BTW It's not caused by the fact that 2.mp4 would not be playable, if I add the files in reverse order, it behaves the same, the first file plays but it doesn't jump to the second one.

[subogero]

How did you install omxd? Debian package? make install?

[ArosPrince]

As written in INSTALL:

git clone https://github.com/subogero/omxd.git
cd omxd
make
sudo make install

[subogero]

Some ideas fo troubleshooting:

• After each omxd command, also do omxd S all. It prints the playlist and highlights the current track
• If you're in the omxd repo folder, also try make ps. It prints omxd related processes.
• Have you started the daemon as root or a simple user?

[ArosPrince]

Hello thanks for the tips...

At this point is is difficult to test it because it stopped working altogether. No video is displayed at all... I am not sure what changed. omxd is running and when I do omxd S all, it prints the playlist and says Stopped 0/0. If I run omxd p, nothing changes. Will probably have to reinstall from the scratch as I really don't see what could have broken it. I also tried normal Pi 3, it behaves the same...

As for the root / common user. I was running it as a normal unprivileged user. If I try it with sudo now, I cannot write to the FIFO using omxd anything.

[subogero]

If you change from a normal user to root, you have to clean up the omxctl and other runtime files from the current folder.

Also, please check your omxplayer.

[ArosPrince]

I have now tried it on RPi 3 (normal, not B+) with older raspian jessie and it seems to work.

Although the gap less mode is not really gap less, it takes about a second to switch the videos...

[subogero]

Are you using the -g option? It's for "gap" mode, not gap-less mode.