Ustream videos from the command line on a RaspberryPi

As i’ve just got my hands on a 7″ offical Raspberry PI display and a PI 2.0 i was playing around and thought what is the easiest way to get some interesting video on the screen. So i though as a test i would use the live ISS HD feed from NASA as that is on Ustream and is a pretty cool thing to have on.

After some quick research omxplayer was the way to do this. And http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/watch-live-video-of-earth-on-your-raspberry-pi did exactly what i needed

So I installed omxviewer, python-pip and livestreamer (using python-pip) and the basic command is livestreamer http://ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload mobile_480p --player omxplayer --fifo

I changed it to

livestreamer http://ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload mobile_480p --player omxplayer --fifo --player-args "--blank {filename}" to ensure it blanked the unused parts of the screen.

 

NASA ISS HD feed running on omxplayer on a Raspberry Pi

NASA ISS HD feed running on omxplayer on a Raspberry Pi

Lots of playing to be done, but for the moment on with some serious work…

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