RPiPlay doesn't support Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye

[a7mad3bdullah]

After several tries to get it working, it seems that due to the out-phasing of OpenMax on Bullseye, the video renderer will not work.

During the installation of RPiPlay, specifically when compling the app command
cmake ..
it will thtough an error:
-- OpenMAX libraries not found, skipping compilation of Raspberry Pi renderer

This issue is mentioned in issue #296 and issue 294.

After trying to install OpenMAX or ALSA (The new replacement for OpenMax) with no luck to get RPiPlay to work, the only way was to install Raspberry Pi OS Buster on a new SDcard/USB.

After installing Buster OS, the install of RPiPlay went very smooth without any additional dependencies or tinkering.

I've tried it on RPI 4 (4GB) and RPI 3B+ using the same SD card, and it worked fine, only needed to re-compile the code
cmake ..
then
make -j

Here is the OS image to download:

So we might conclude that RPiPlay doesn't support Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye, and may need to be updated to work with ALSA.
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[fduncanh]

@a7mad3bdullah
Yes, OpenMax (32bit only) is not supported in RPiOS Bullseye. (OpenMax is for video, ALSA is for sound, so ALSA is NOT
a replacement for OpenMAX)

It is possible (I believe) to install unsupported OpenMax on 32-bit RPiOS Bullseye (search the issues on this site for how to do this). I believe ALSA is supplied with RPiOS Bullseye (?).

Or use UxPlay which is a descendant of RPiPlay, that uses GStreamer and Video4Linux2
(instead of deprecated and abandoned OpenMax) to access hardware video decoding in the Pi's GPU.

Since uxplay is packaged in Debian and Raspian 12 (bookworm) it is likely that it will be supplied
in the bookworm update of RPiOS expected in mid-October, to accompany the new R Pi model 5 that is just announced.