SD Card/Thumb Drive Picture Viewer

Fishinfiend

Hi, I am building a Game Boy using the Pi CM3 board (it will have an USB port accessible on the outside of the case) and I would like to be able to be used as an picture viewer as well.

What I want is to be able to plug in either a flash drive or a card reader and view any pictures on storage device. If it is not to difficult to add as well, a video player would be nice as well.

I somewhat understand code and command line (just enough that what I read I can do and makes some sense), so I can add and edit files and code, but I can't create code without a reference, so that would have to be provided (or at least tell me where to search to find the info required to create it).

Thanks for any and all replies in advance,
Fishinfiend

EDIT: I currently only have a Pi2 for testing because I am still waiting on the board to make the CM3 work.

mitu

You can use the File Manager to browse the cards's contents and associate pictures and videos with programs that can view/play them

for pictures, you can use fbi as picture viewer (https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2017/02/how-to-display-images-on-raspbian-command-line-with-fbi/)
for videos, you can use omxplayer.

RetroPie already comes with usbmount already installed, so you just need to make sure it's enabled so that whenever you insert an USB stick it's automatically mounted by the system. You could probably customize the usbmount actions to always mount the USB device to a fixed location.