Thanks for the clarification aflegg, I am not very linux literate and am slowly increasing my knowledge of xterm and mplayer usage via reading various threads and improving understanding of command line options etc.

I fully appreciate that Serge has confirmed that mplayer is not yet end user ready, but believe there to be great potential for mplayer on the Nokia 770.

On a related note, as you are possibly already aware I am using TVersity to select and subsequently present live internet "transcoded" mpeg1 streams to the Nokia 770. (TVersity specifically utilises mpeg1 as live transcoding on PC in real-time is quick with a reasonably powerful PC) at the moment the basic parameters of any prepared mpeg1 file for the Nokia 770 are:-

Max Video, Width: 176, Height: 144, Bitrate: 768000, FPS: 24
Max Audio, Samplerate: 44100, Bitspersample: 16,Nchannels: 6 Bitrate: 320000

The reason for the existing above values is because these appear to work consistently well when utilising the built in Video player of the Nokia 770 and transcoded/downloaded Tversity served content.

Using mplayer and "streaming" content what is your opinion of the sensible transcoding parameters at the Tversity end with the subsequent mplayer parameters to provide the best streaming experience with mpeg1. I am working my way through various threads but the -vo -framedrop -cache mplayer options have me pondering?

Thanks for your time aflegg.