{"id":42,"date":"2026-06-23T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hal-art.io\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:05:03","slug":"hal-media-player","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/hal-media-player\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL Media Player"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HAL Media Player<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Free and open source media player for Raspberry Pi<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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HAL Media Player is made to run on Raspberry Pi 3 and 4, fully networked controlled, giving a turnkey solution to cover all capacities of a basic media player<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Playback<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Network controllable transport functions, audio level, audio\/vid\u00e9o sync<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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File upload<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Upload through web interface or copy from USB stick. Media file is read from system SD card<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Network<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ethernet and\/or wifi network fully configurable<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Outputs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Audio output through jack, HDMI, USB sound card or Hifiberry DAC.\n\nVideo output through HDMI or Analog<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Video output through HDMI or Analog<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Installation<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n

Flash the disk image onto an SD Card with tools like Balena Etcher or Raspberry Pi Imager.<\/p>\n

The player boots with wifi disabled, Ethernet set as DHCP, and hostname raspberrypi.<\/p>\n

To access the web interface, plug an ethernet cable between your computer and the raspberry pi, set you computer as DHCP client, wait to get a link-local IP address (169.254.xxx.xxx), then type raspberrypi.local<\/span> in a web browser. You will find documentation in the \"About\" section of the web interface.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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For power users<\/h1>\n

The web interface lets your edit \/boot\/config.txt without having to access the Pi with SSH. The config.txt files allows setting parameters such as video overscan, output resolution override, Hifiberry DAC configuration. Please refer to this page<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>pour la for documentation.<\/p>\n

If you still need to access the Pi in SSH, login is pi<\/span> and password raspberry<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Read-only file system<\/h1>\n

Once you are done configuring your player, you can make the system read-only with a control in the web interface. This will allow you to turn on and off the Pi simply by turning on\/off the power supply, with no risk of corrupting the SD card.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Media formats<\/h1>\n

The Raspberry Pi 3 cand read 1080p videos encoded in H264. To get video codec settings well adjusted to the Raspberry Pi's capacities, we provide this preset<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span> for the free and open source Handbrake video encoding software. We recommend starting from high quality media files (for example Prores) and transcode them with Handbrake.<\/p>\n

The Raspberry Pi 4 is also capable of reading 4K videos encoded in H265.<\/p>\n

The player can also read audio files without video.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Compatibility<\/h1>\n

HAL Media Player is compatible with Raspberrys Pis 3 (3B, 3B+) and Raspberry Pis 4.<\/p>\n

It is not compatible with Raspberry Pis 1 et 2, nor with Raspberry Pis 5.<\/p>\n

The OS is Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye, media playback engine is VLC.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Control protocols<\/h1>\n

The player can also be controlled with HTTP requests (refer to the ones used in the web interface), or with OSC (OSC dictionary is available in the web interface).<\/p>\n

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Contribute<\/h1>\n

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HAL Media Player is an open source project. join us on Github !<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Looking for alternative projects without network control ? Check out mp4museum<\/a><\/span> or videolooper.de<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hal-art.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}