Newbie: Making a random playback position raspberry pi video player. My options?

opencv is for computer vision. you are not supposed to make a video player with it merely because it can decode video files. wrong library. it’s like using a wrench to steer a car that lost its steering wheel.

you could control VLC:

or you might want to look into doing this in a web browser instead.

if your “button” can act like a regular key on a keyboard (or you can send key press events), then some javascript in a page in the browser can just handle that key event.

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