h264 mp4 video not playing on Raspberry PI with ofVideoPlayer

something else to take into account is the colorspace conversion, since 0.9 there's facilities in linux to do this in the GPU. by default formats like h264 or jpeg will come in yuv color space but OF by default asks for RGB so there's a conversion that happens in the CPU which might be what is making things so slow.

before loading the video file, call:

video.setPixelsFormat(OF_PIXELS_NATIVE);

and that will set the video to load pixels to the gpu directly in the format they are encoded and then do the conversion there through a shader.

you'll need to use GLES 2 for this to work othereise you'll see a b&w texture. in you main.cpp change the default main function with:

ofGLESWindowSettings settings;
setting,setGLESVersion(2);
ofCreateWindow(settings);

ofRunApp(new ofApp);