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2006-09-20 , 08:27
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#54
Originally Posted by Mike Cane
I don't know what would be involved with this mplayer and Python script stuff. I'm not a Linux person (nor is the 770's intended general audience!). Is there a tutorial somewhere?
OK, here are some instructions:
1. go to https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=54 and download mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.5_armel.deb
2. in the file manager find this file and double click on it, it will launch application manager that will ask you some confirmation and will install mplayer on your Nokia 770
3. download some *.flv file from youtube and put it on your MMC card
4. in the application start menu find 'MPlayer' in 'extra' category and start it
5. find your *.flv file in the list and double click on it
6. enjoy
7. report bugs and feature requests here: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=2405

My goal? To be able to grab a video -- from YouTube or whatever -- and convert it via a web interface into a version that I can then play on the 770.
Well, if you want to play youtube videos, it is probably better to watch them directly without transcoding. They already have a poor quality and transcoding reduces it even more.

But as a generic and universal solution, transcoding web service is a great thing.

I want to do away with the desktop (and Apple Store!) for this. Why should this be difficult to do? Is Video Player simply *that* bad? I don't see why those 3gp conversions wouldn't work...
Well, you see, developing a good video player which supports a lot of video codecs decently is very hard. It is the work that can be done by very highly qualified (and highly paid) professionals and requires a lot of time to develop. If you check ffmpeg (the engine used my mplayer), it was developed for many years and involved dozens or even hundreds of people working on it. The costs can be reduced if you use already existing solutions, but Nokia 770 is a new device. It is hard to be pioneers and right now Nokia 770 software is not so advanced as the software on competing platforms. It just needs to catch up and you should understand this. I not, this device is just not for you. But a good thing about Nokia 770 is that it is based on linux, so it can use linux software after it gets ported. MPlayer is one of such examples. I just wonder why Nokia decided to start making their own video player from scratch instead of just porting existing linux solutions (though it uses gstreamer framework, but most of video and audio codecs in it are non open source)?