Possible to use as a minimal video player?

[omid-313]

Hi,

I want to use RPi B+ as a minimal video player that automatically starts to play videos after boot for an infinite loop.

I tried Raspbian; it was OK, but the boot time was too long (nearly 90 seconds).
Then I tried Xbian; it was better, but still the boot time was long (nearly 50 seconds).

So I searched the net for minimal distributions, and I found Minibian!
Now the following are my questions, and I would be really thankful if you help me find their answers:

1. How long is the average boot time of Minibian on a Class-10 micro-SD card!?

2. Does it have omxplayer by default? If not, is it possible to install omxplayer and LIRC easily, using the following commands (as we do in Raspbian)? Or we should install some other packages and libraries first!?

   sudo apt-get install omxplayer
   sudo apt-get install lirc
   

Thanks for your time and support.

[omid-313]

No one to reply here !!!?

[omid-313]

Somebody please help!!!

[Rob]

Minibian is a stripped down Raspbian so if you put all the right pieces back into it then it should play videos.

omxplayer is not in Raspbian by default. You need to get that from the
http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/

So you will need to add the repos to your sources.list then if omxplayer is properly packaged to install its dependencies those will come along for the ride. But I am not sure as it is not in the standard Debian repo.

That Raspbian boot time was to a command line? or GUI? It boots quickly on the Pi 2 to command line.