Start VLC video player after boot

General Discussion
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Hi,

I’m trying to run VLC with dietpi on a Odroid C4 to show a rtsp stream from a local security camera.

Before I got it working running Ubuntu and running a bash script in Auto start. I faced the problem that the sd cards died quickly ( in a few months). I found a tutorial on this forum to install dietpi on the odroid and boot it from a usb stick instead of sd card. This is working so far.

Now i try to get VLC running on start which is not working. I’m using LXDE as desktop interface.

I’ve tried to add the bash script to the auto start of dietpi. I read that the autostart is running from root which gives problems to VLC which doesn’t run in root.

It’s not a requirement to use VLC. I’ve tried mpv, but it activated sleep mode in Ubuntu and i wasn’t able to disable that.

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I guess you need to autostart the desktop and create an autostart item within the LXDE desktop themselves.

Using DietPi autostart bash script might be wrong way.

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Thank you for the reply will try this out.