Black screen

[SmilestonesCH]

Hello,
I installed on a Raspi 3A+ the light (Legacy) Raspi OS.
I installed the omxplayer and the vidlooper
I can play a video using:
omxplayer /home/pi/testvideo3.mp4
but when I try:
vidlooper --no-loop --countdown=5 --video-dir /home/pi/

I have the count down and after simply a black screen... I should get the video played or do I forget something? what can I do?

In advance thank you for your support.

[kimballw]

To get your video to play (for instance /home/pi/1.mp4), with the default pins, you need to short (or have a button) connected between gnd and pin 26 (the default first pin). This will trigger the video to play.

[alubbock]

Did you get anywhere with this?

By default, the --autostart option is set, so the first video should start playing after the countdown. If omxplayer is running separately, check it works the same way that vidlooper is invoking it: omxplayer -b -o hdmi /home/testvideo3.mp4. If that's working, try running vidlooper with the --debug flag to get more output to narrow down the problem.