New Version

The next version of the omxwebgui is ready. https://github.com/brainfoolong/omxwebgui-v2.

No more active development

Because v2 is ready, this version is not maintained anymore.

Simple Web GUI for Omxplayer on a Raspberry Pi made in PHP

Currently in alpha but should work. If you like it please give it a upvote here: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/27805/27119

Features

• Play/Stop videos through the browser - Also mobile browser compatible
• All hotkeys from omxplayer mapped to the webpage
• Multilanguage
• Permanent playlist - Just add folders and streams
• Search for filenames with wildcards
• Autoplay next video
• Mark of already viewed videos

Requirements

sudo apt-get install php5-cli

Run

To create a simple php webserver listening on port 4321, you can change the port to whatever you want.

php -S 0.0.0.0:4321 -t YOURPATHTOOMXWEBGUIFOLDER > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Open the page with http://IPTOYOURPI:4321

Autostart

Add the following line to crontab with sudo crontab -e to start the simple php webserver on reboot

@reboot php -S 0.0.0.0:4321 -t YOURPATHTOOMXWEBGUIFOLDER > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Troubleshooting

• Permissions for files and folders: Make sure that the root folder and the folder "tmp", where you have installed the omxwebgui, have the rights CHMOD 777. For example you install it under /home/pi/omxwebgui than the folder /home/pi/omxwebgui and /home/pi/omxwebgui/tmp need chmod 777. If that does not work for try to set all files and folders to 777 but that shouldn't be necessary.
• If you using a own webserver that runs under www-data and you have some /dev/vchiq permission problems than you need to run sudo usermod -a -G video www-data to give that www-data user the correct permissions (thx to Sergio). More information here: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/19436/how-can-i-permanently-fix-dev-vchiq-permission-errors
• If you are using a webserver maybe you need to set the owner of the files and folder to www-data if you have permission errors

Screenshot