I’ve been running Omxplayer (video looper) with Buster OS on rasp pi3A+ - 2018 version. I have just bought some newer pi3A+ 2022, - my video looper no longer starts up at all. I’ve tried various versions of buster OS - and my new pi3As do not run. Any suggestions?
Hi Nicci,
I’ve had a bit of a look into this and I was unable to turn up much on getting OMXPlayer working again. It looks like there may have been changes to the firmware that make it incompatible with older version of Pi OS
It may be worth looking into upgrading to Bullseye and see if you’re able to get it working using changes to the libraries used by OMXPlayer.
Other than that the only other solution might be to use Bullseye or Bookworm and VLC as a solution as OMXPlayer is no longer being supported. It might be worth doing this in the long run to ensure you don’t run into these kinds of compatibility issues in the future.
Hi Aaron
Thanks for looking into this.
Luckily I stumbled across this, which works on the new 3As:
Raspberry Pi Video Looper
videolooper.de
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Good find @Nicci188928!
It looks like this is a somewhat common issue to run into so hopefully your fix will get others out of trouble as well.
Thanks for keeping us updated!
