Added image and html support

[Orava2]

We mainly display video video files and use PowerPoint to create animated presentation which are converted to videos. We also needed to display images and in special cases web pages. I added image and html support.

[anilgulecha]

I updated your script slightly, to add subtitles in videos, and remember position of PLAYING index after restart. https://gist.github.com/anilgulecha/e9737b8801980ae4f6d8097bc2422b22

prebuild image is also at https://www.dropbox.com/s/htqass1vgl3jd7l/rpi-videolooper-3gb.img.gz?dl=0 -- contains chromium/fbi and the script.

[Orava2]

Thanks! I added those feature to my source also. Have you used HTML pages with video looper? I used parameter -r with omsplayer so eg. interlaced video was sent directly to TV and TV did all deinterlacing but that caused a problem. HTML page was displayed only once and after that display stayed black.

ps I did not have yet check your image but I found Apache and PHP filemager very handy to organize media files. Upload, delete ja preview files.

ps 2 I would be great if there was a way to reduce Chromium loading time. I have been thinking about converting web pages to images. I

[timatron]

Finally looked through this, only thing I didn't like was the changing of the default directory from ~/videos, maybe just add a config var for the cmd line and show a sample cli run with the other folder name?