Hey gang, Tim here at Core Electronics and today we're going to make a video looping monster with the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Raspberry Pi 4 Model Bs are perfect tools to use as a low power, small footprint video looper. Be it for a promotional kiosk, art installation, storefront or home gamer project, having a device that you can turn on, stick a USB filled with videos and have it loop through all those videos endlessly is super valuable. No faffing around with controllers or settings, plug and play.

Let's get started!

This guide I will go through the process of turning a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B easily into a veritable plug and play HD video looping monster. There are a couple objects you need to get to get this Raspberry Pi 4 to run as a video looper starting with naturally the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. We're also going to need an SD card with NOOBS installed. We're going to need a HDMI to micro HDMI plug. We're going to need a thumb drive, whatever you'd like to call it, filled with videos that we're going to play. We're going to need a charging cord USB type C and for the initial setup we're going to use a mouse and keyboard peripheries and we're also going to connect the Pi to the internet.

So before doing anything make sure that the latest version of NOOBS is installed to your microSD card. A great tutorial on how to freshly download and set up NOOBS to an SD card can be found in the description of this video. Now I will teach you how to directly transform your Raspberry Pi 4 Model B into a HD video looping monster.

We will start by plugging in all the necessary cords into both the Raspberry Pi, the monitor and the peripheries, mouse and keyboard and the final cord to plug in is the USB-C which will give juice to the Raspberry Pi and power it on. So everything's plugged in except for the thumb stick with the videos that we'll do real soon and the USB-C which we're going to plug in right now and Raspbian OS will greet us and once the booting sequence is over we will be welcomed with that familiar background.

Now first things first we're going to connect it to the internet using the internet connection button which you can see up here. Close that we don't need to pay attention to that currently and click here. We're in Australia. Select for wherever you are then we're going to connect it to the internet using the internet connection button found in the top right and following through some prompts. In my case I'm going to connect it to my phone.

Once you've connected to the internet we're going to open up the Raspberry terminal using this black thing over here. You can close that. That black button opens up this. So with this open we're going to type a couple things directly to the console to update all the installers and to get the media looping software. So follow along with me. Starting we're going to type sudo apt-get update. Make sure to type all of the space bars as well. Once you finish that line press enter and you'll see it's installing some packages. So this will only take a minute or two. Nice.

Now that's done we're going to type sudo apt-get install spacebar hyphen y git. Nice. With both of those we will now download all the code for the video looping software by typing the following git clone https semicolon double slash github.com forward slash adafruit god bless them forward slash Pi underscore video underscore looper dot git enter. And from there we're drawing all the software from the internet to do what we want to do. Nice. And that's already done. So with all the code in the system we're going to finish the looper installation process by typing the following cd p p I videoThe setup involves accessing a folder and clicking on an icon using the terminal. Upon pressing enter, the video looping software installation will commence, taking less than five minutes. Once completed, a message "finished" will appear, followed by a prompt to insert a USB drive with compatible movies. If the prompt is displayed, the setup is ready for use.

The Raspberry Pi is shown with only two connectors, as all unnecessary peripherals have been removed. Following the prompt to insert a USB drive with compatible videos, a USB drive is inserted, initiating a five-second countdown before the videos start playing. The system is demonstrated to be plug and play, with the Raspberry Pi automatically playing videos from the inserted USB drive.

The supported video formats, including.avi,.mov,.mkv,.mp4, and.m4v, are specified, and it is noted that the Raspberry Pi will continue playing media until it loses power or is shut down. To change the videos, the USB drive can be replaced with a new one containing different videos, and the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B will seamlessly adapt to the new content.