Interrupting the omxplayer playback in python

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I am trying to change the video of omx player in python based on an event. But the problem is the next video gets loaded only after the first video finishes.

import os
os.system('omxplayer video1.mp4')
if(flag==1):
    os.system('omxplayer video2.mp4')

Is there a way to interrupt video1 in middle of playback and start second video. Note:I am working on a raspberrypi with debian wheezy and python 2.7

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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Omxplayer has keyboard controls so you could send the corresponding keystroke q to stop it normally before opening the next instance. Here is a similar post where a person tried to achieve similar feature, it could be helpful.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Oct 21 '14 at 07:33

Rudolfs Bundulis

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Is there a way to send the keystroke in python – slaveCoder Oct 21 '14 at 08:16
See the second link with the Python example and look how `Popen` is done - there the author retrieves a pipe to stdin and then just writes to it. – Rudolfs Bundulis Oct 21 '14 at 08:25

Interrupting the omxplayer playback in python

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