Download standalone info-beamer pi software

You can download the software info-beamer pi here. It's the software that powers info-beamer hosted service. Learn more about the different versions. Head over to the documentation to get started once you have downloaded the software.

Prerelease 2.2.0.7a6e78 Released 2025-04-22

Free for private use only. Commercial use requires a license.

Download for Pi OS Bookworm 64bit
(KMS/DRM/FFmpeg/Mesa stack only)
Download for Pi OS Bookworm 32bit
(KMS/DRM/FFmpeg/Mesa stack only)
Download for Pi OS Buster
(using legacy Broadcom stack)
Download for Raspbian Stretch
(using legacy Broadcom stack)
Download for Raspbian Jessie
(using legacy Broadcom stack)
Free for private use only. Learn more. Commercial requires a license for each device. You currently own 0 licenses. Purchase additional licenses in the shop. Not sure which version to download? Have a look at the help page.

Stable Release 2.2.0.60787b Released 2025-04-22

Free for private use only. Commercial use requires a license.

Download for Pi OS Bookworm 64bit
(KMS/DRM/FFmpeg/Mesa stack only)
Download for Pi OS Bookworm 32bit
(KMS/DRM/FFmpeg/Mesa stack only)
Download for Pi OS Buster
(using legacy Broadcom stack)
Download for Raspbian Stretch
(using legacy Broadcom stack)
Download for Raspbian Jessie
(using legacy Broadcom stack)
Free for private use only. Learn more. Commercial requires a license for each device. You currently own 0 licenses. Purchase additional licenses in the shop. Not sure which version to download? Have a look at the help page.

Old Release 2.0.0.9838e9 Released 2024-12-16

Old Release 2.0.0.1198f4 Released 2024-09-23



Release Notes

Version 2.2.0 [2025]

 * Various internal optimizations.

 * Uses custom VPU assembler code for faster 90/270
   rotations on KMS/DRM based playback on Pi3/Pi4.

 * Fixed RTSP stream playback potentially getting stuck.

 * Optional dithering using shaders to maybe avoid color
   banding.

Version 2.0.0 [2024] https://info-beamer.com/lnk/2.0.0

 * Completely recreated the video playback and surface
   management mechanism. info-beamer now uses KMS/DRM
   for setting video modes and controlling video output
   composition. OpenGL is now provided by Mesa.

   It now uses FFmpeg together with V4L2 for full
   hardware decoded video playback.

   As a result info-beamer is no longer reliant on
   any of the proprietary broadcom libraries.

 * HEVC playback on the Pi4 and Pi5 and now render videos
   into GL textures (non-raw videos).

 * H264 playback on the Pi5 is implemented in software
   as hardware support is no longer available.

 * Rotating raw videos by 90 or 270 degree now mostly
   transparently falls back to rendering into a texture
   and rotating that. This is necessary as rotating
   video output planes by 90 degrees is not supported
   by the hardware.

 * Screenshotting is now embedded into info-beamer
   itself. This is necessary for the new Pi4/5 versions
   as it's no longer possible to acces the video subsystem
   while info-beamer is in control. Snapshotting works
   using a new *screenshot/<dpy> command via the TCP
   interface. The screenshot is returned as JPEG data.
(For the full release notes of previous releases check the file CHANGELOG.txt in the downloaded file)