OMX image viewer

A GPU accelerated image viewer for the Raspberry Pi.

Building

You will need the development header for libjpeg and libpng (Debian: libjpeg8-dev, libpng12-dev). Then build it on the Pi with:

make ilclient
make

And install with:

sudo make install

Synopsis

USAGE:

omxiv [OPTIONS] image1 [image2] ...
omxiv [OPTIONS] directory

Without any input it will cycle through all
supported images in the current directory.

OPTIONS:

-h  --help                   Print this help
-v  --version                Show version info
-t                  n        Time in s between 2 images in a slide show
-b  --blank                  Set background to black
-T  --transition   type      type: none(default), blend
    --duration      n        Transition duration in ms
    --win     'x1 y1 x2 y2'  Position of image window
    --win      x1,y1,x2,y2   Position of image window
-m  --mirror                 Mirror image
-a  --aspect       type      type: letterbox(default), fill, center
-o  --orientation   n        Orientation of the image (0, 90, 180, 270)
-l  --layer         n        Render layer number
-d  --display       n        Display number
-i  --info                   Print some additional infos
-k  --no-keys                Disable keyboard input
-s  --soft                   Force software decoding
    --ignore-exif            Ignore exif orientation
-f  --file-list              Read a list of images from a text file
-r  --randomize              Randomize the list of images
    --once                   Only show the image(s) once, exit after the last

KEY CONFIGURATION:

ESC, q  :   Quit
LEFT    :   Previous image
RIGHT   :   Next image
UP      :   Rotate right
DOWN    :   Rotate left
m       :   Mirror image
p       :   Pause slide show

Supported images

• JPEGs

  • non-progressive: OMX.broadcom.image_decode
  • progressive: libjpeg

• PNGs

  • libpng

• BMPs

  • libnsbmp

• GIFs

  • libnsgif

• TIFFs

  • libtiff

Credits

Thanks to:

• Matt Ownby, Anthong Sale for their hello_jpeg example
• Jan Newmarch for his blog: Programming AudioVideo on the Raspberry Pi GPU
• Various authors of example code and other parts (marked in the source files)