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2faber: What version of OS are you using? This binary is compiled for IT2006.

2ttz: I remember trying gmplayer some time ago on desktop pc, did not like it. Anyway, console version works fine as long as it is started to play video and does not necessery need gui there

And anyway, this binary is just a proof that ARM core is also quite fast and can be used for playing video too (I'm not the first to notice that, see http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-dev...y/002457.html). Nokia 770 has a dualcore cpu: ARM + DSP. Default media player uses DSP core only, mplayer uses only ARM. Now imagine that the work of decoding video is balanced between these two cores, for example ARM core is only responsible for decoding video, DSP core is responsible for scaling video and colorspace conversion and also for audio. So using both cores we can improve video playback quality. But it will also consume more power and reduce battery life.