G’day All. I am very new to this area and appreciate your patience. I have recently purchased a Pi 4B and a 3.4 inch Waveshare Round screen.
I would like to achieve the following. 1. Have the Pi display on the round screen. 2. Use the Pi as a media player. If you could help with some starter points or video links it would be great. All I have done so far is run the Pi4B through the basic setup linked to a monitor via the mini HDMI port. I imagine I have to connect via the 15pin DSI ports and download a driver.
This is basically all you need to do. The product wiki has more instructions on how to get it all set up with the various functions working and is a really good place to start.
As for Media plays, Deciding on the one you want to use is probably going to be the hardest thing. Do you have more details as to what you want the media player to be able to do?
Thanks for the reply Aaron. I will try and follow the Wiki tonight and see how I go. Once i successfully get a display, I will let you know. I recently saw a link on a video Looper. What would be cool is if once the Pi is powered on, it continually plays chosen video files or gifs of my choosing.
Hi Aaron. No Luck. I am sure it’s an experience level thing as I am un-used to following instructions that assume some level of acquired knowledge. Here is what I tried:
FYI it looks like you opened the file as Read Only as well by using the graphical interface.
To edit the file directly in raspberry pi you can open it from the terminal:
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
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