Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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Serge is offline Serge
2006-09-20 , 15:58
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#191
Originally Posted by =DC=
Nice. This UI is a good improvement over Mauricio's solution, but it could still use a little polish [do we really need to see the full path of videos?].
Yes, it still needs some polishing, so suggestions are welcome. Do full paths really annoy you (other people)? As least they provide precise information about the location of each file.

I had some problems with one of my mp4 videos going "double speed" and one going "half speed". I don't know if this is a know issue, but since those are the only two in that format, it's really not a problem for me.
Well there are many different formats and codecs, each one of them can potentially contain bugs. Please try these files with mplayer 1.0pre8 on your desktop computer (it can be downloaded here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu). If you see the same speed problems, we need to check if it is not fixed in SVN yet and report them to upstream mplayer maintainers. If the problems are in maemo build, I would like to see at least mplayer log for them and probably download the files themselves for my test collection. But please submit this information as a bugreport at garage trackers: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mplayer/

The flv files from Google Video and YouTube play fine, and all my avi files play just fine as well.
That's good to know. If you notice any problems with youtube videos, please provide this information too.

Thanks for all your hard work again Serge.
Actually I'm not the only one who took part in porting and improving mplayer for maemo. Ed Bartosh created deb packages and Josep Torra optimized mpeg1 decoder for Nokia 770. Not to mention numerous upstream developers of mplayer and ffmpeg I think we still really need a proper credits tab in mplayer gui.

Oh, by the way, what's the report button for? It didn't appear to do anything when I tapped it. [I hope I didn't remotely launch an underground missile somewhere in the world.]
It just displays mplayer output for the last played video with the detailed information and performance statistics. If you press it just after start, it does not have anything to show yet.

Originally Posted by =DC=
I just noticed if you leave the GMPlauncher open for longer than ~30 seconds it closes automatically. Is it suposed to do that?
It is not supposed to do that. That's the first bug you have noticed, congratulations In order to workaround it, you can start 'gmplauncher' from xterm and it should work fine.

A bugfix package will follow really soon after we make sure there are no other critical bugs. Did anyone test installation of mplayer package on a fresh OS2006 device? Does it work ok?

Also, is there any way you could get the launcher to detect mp3 files as well? Thanks.
Technically - yes, it is not hard. But maybe just using audio player for mp3 files is better?

Anyway, I tried to design gui so that you need as little stylus tapping as possible to start playing some video from your MMC card. No need to prepare playlists, just put a bunch of your video files on MMC card and you can start watching them right away. I borrowed this design from FBReader which also autodetects e-books in 'Books' subdirectory on MMC card automatically.