Beginners • Re: Need help with setting up.

With the Lite version, can you actually see text on the monitor?
I was confused by “ since I have not been able to get any display on it.”

It is based on my tests in the past with Debian Testing on a Pi3B. ARM has no concept of 80x25 text like PCs, only 1 graphic console. So with Bookworm, you need to set/get/have that. It at least must do the output of H264 decoder directly to the 'screenbuffer', like OMXplayer did, otherwise, it won't be able to do 1080p30. Although lower resolution and just 1 FPS might also be OK for this use-case.
Basically in ARM Linux with resolution set by KMS , you go textmode by or permanent setting also after rebootSo I would use the desktop version, unless you don't take RPIOS but some dedicated image that does 'emulate STB'. I am sure people made such in the years the Pi exists. Or get a mediaplayer box maybe that can be pointed to a video server URL. I have an old internet radio with good speakers, with some push buttons and patience, you can enter a URL of local media server, so at power on it will play that audio. I saw mediamtx can play a media-file in a loop via rtsp and so on. Easy for cvlc or mpv.

Statistics: Posted by redvli — Thu Sep 26, 2024 8:59 am

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