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.
Releases
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)
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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.
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Not sure which version to download? Have a look at the
help page.
Old Release 2.0.0.9838e9 Released 2024-12-16
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) Download for Raspbian Wheezy
(using legacy Broadcom stack)
Free for private use only.
Learn more.
Commercial requires a license for each device.
You currently own 0 licenses.
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Not sure which version to download? Have a look at the
help page.
Old Release 2.0.0.1198f4 Released 2024-09-23
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) Download for Raspbian Wheezy
(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.
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)
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What's new
Jul 12 2024 - info-beamer hosted 14 releasedJun 29 2022 - info-beamer hosted 13 released
Feb 09 2021 - info-beamer hosted 12 released
Feb 28 2020 - info-beamer hosted 11 released
Feb 21 2020 - info-beamer pi 1.0.0 released
Sep 30 2019 - Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support
Feb 15 2019 - info-beamer hosted 10 released
Jan 04 2019 - The 35C3 info beamer setup