Looking for help starting and stopping a pre-recorded video

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I've searched the internet, but I am not finding what I am looking for. Maybe it is because this isn't possible or practical.

Say I have a small "TV" screen and a video recorded on an SD card. I would like the ability to start and pause that video via an arduino board.

I have found a lot of tutorials on playing the video on small low quality lcd screens or with very bad refresh rates. I would like to use the playback ability of the screen and just interact with the play and pause functionality.

Am I out in left field? Am I searching for the wrong things? The closest that I have found are tutorials on the processing.org site, but I think that would need to be a computer screen and would require the entire computer which seems like over-kill.

Thanks in advance,
Chris S.

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Might seem like overkill but it is the simplest way to do things.

Why not use a raspberry Pi and a 7 inch Pi display? You can still run Processing on that.

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I will look into it. I've never used a raspberry pi before, but if that makes the most sense, I'll give it a try.

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chrissmithspresence:
interact with the play and pause functionality.

What exactly is this "play and pause functionality"? Are you talking about physical buttons on the device?

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Arduinos can not handle video (well, very low resolution low refresh rate maybe).

Arduinos can send a signal to another device to start/stop/pause video. How? That depends largely on the device the command has to be sent to.

Depending on what you really want to do, an RPi could be a good solution as it can handle video by itself.

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Depending on what you really want to do, an RPi could be a good solution as it can handle video by itself.

And it can also read physical push buttons like the Arduino can.