Raspberry Pi 5/4 – Presentation Video Playback Engine with VLC and Web Control on Alpine Linux
This video is a bit meta, but if you give video presentations and want a simple video player that outputs HDMI full screen, while being easy to update video assets and control through a web interface, this video is for you. We are configuring an Alpine Linux installation on Raspberry Pi 5 to reliably play videos with the ability to manage videos through SMB (Samba), control the UI through VNC, and provides easy playlist asset selection all in one tiny Raspberry Pi 5, if it works…
We do end up having to change to a Pi 4 because of a bug with Pi 5 support for the desktop environment driven by hardware detection issues, but we push through. It should be a fun exploration of the capability of the PI and you might learn something along the way, but first we have to overcome the challenges with trying to implement our own project. Can we do it? You will have to watch to find out.
Check out attempt 2 where we try using Raspberry Pi OS on a Pi 5 to overcome the kernel compilation and driver issues we experienced with Alpine Linux in this video. It is not a full end to end example, but covered indicative testing which proved that the Pi 5 hardware is up to the task.
Attempt 2 Video Link: https://youtube.com/live/F-k7urP1aRE
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Check out attempt 2 where we try using Raspberry Pi OS on a Pi 5 to overcome the kernel compilation and driver issues we experienced with Alpine Linux in this video. It is not a full end to end example, but covered indicative testing which proved that the Pi 5 hardware is up to the task.
Attempt 2 Video Link: https://youtube.com/live/F-k7urP1aRE
Beautiful! Youtube really lacked of a Alpine Linux channel!
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"Alpine Linux because basically the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't run anything else"??!!
What about the default Raspberry Pi OS? Is Debian just not any good? VLC is included with the recommended packages if you do the full install.
I'm thinking I've seen a lot of other distros running on the RPI 5 including Ubuntu and Slackware.
Again, everything you added is included in a full install of Slackware.
Alpine is a fine, light version of Linux, but I'm even running Raspberry Pi OS (Debian) on my old RPi Zero-W.