This is the start of a simple video player for the Raspberry Pi.

The C source code is currently the Raspberry Pi's hello_video sample app with a Makefile that builds with Nerves.

To try, add this project to your deps and add a small .h264 movie to your rootfs_overlay. Anywhere is fine. If your movie is too big (>100 MB), it will be too large for the default Nerves images. If that's the case, try uploading it to the application partition using sftp or some other way. I've been using test.h264

Boot your image and try running:

iex> RpiVideo.play("/path/to/test.h264")

If your video isn't an H.264 video, you'll need to convert it.

Try installing ffmpeg and running:

ffmpeg -i /path/to/input.mov output.h264