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Usefull Mplayer options

Hi,
which are the best options for Mplayer for N770?
In the much to big Mplayer-thread there seem to be many different mplayer call.

Thanks
bsterix

Is it best to call Mplayer without any options at all???

I find the following works well for 400x240 videso (this is all from memory, will correct any mistakes tonight):

Code:

-vo x11 -ao gst -ac dspmp3 -framedrop -autosync 1 -volstep 10 -cache 2048

or in /home/user/.mplayer/config:

Code:

vo=x11

ao=gst

ac=dspmp3

framedrop=true

autosync=1

volstep=10

cache=2048

there are times you will want to use -playlist

any new options with mplayer rc1.5 (except -vo nokia770)?

i tried to open a .wmv file with mplayer, and got jibberish and no video. was this version not compiled with the wmv extensions enabled or am i missing a config option?

Quote:

Originally Posted by bsterix

any new options with mplayer rc1.5 (except -vo nokia770)?

No other options yet, if they were added, they would be added for some reason (implementing some new feature), and that new feature would be announced for sure :)

As for complete reference of existing maemo mplayer additional options, I may update maemo mplayer webpage and add this information there if I find some spare time for this. The original plan was to have a wiki page for documenting these options, but apparently garage wiki can be modified by developers only and that defeats the whole idea :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by brendan

i tried to open a .wmv file with mplayer, and got jibberish and no video. was this version not compiled with the wmv extensions enabled or am i missing a config option?

I tried to find some .wmv samples and test them on Nokia 770 a few minutes ago (took sample from http://www.jhepple.com/support/sample_movies1.htm), it seems to me that everything is compiled in properly. But I would not call it very much usable as unfortunately wmv files seem to contain wma audio in them, and wma is not optimized for architectures without hardware floating point support in ffmpeg library (the engine that is used for mplayer) see some more details here: http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-dev...er/006437.html

What result exactly did you get with your wmv file? Can it be watched if you disable audio (using '-nosound' option)?

I wonder how many people would like to have .wmv video support in mplayer? Is it worth trying to fix it at all?

By the way, I found some link to a discussion about fixed point wma decoder patches: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/4984 (it may be interesting to those who would like to experiment with optimizing wma playback)

I'd love to see the ability to select multiple media files to play one after the other.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Texrat

I'd love to see the ability to select multiple media files to play one after the other.

Yes, it would be a nice feature. It would be very good if somebody skilled in GUI development decided to join our team to work on user interface usability. That would turn MPlayer into a killer multimedia application for Nokia 770.