Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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Serge is offline Serge
2006-11-08 , 11:57
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Originally Posted by ioan
actually I think is the memory card (and/or swap file). If I take out the memory card, the MPlayer starts right away, if the card is in... nothing happens if I try to run the application.
I have the memory card almost full with maps for maemo-mapper, over 200k of map tiles... maybe the MPlayer is searching for videos on the mmc and just take time (lots of time) until starts? If this is the case, can you disable the option to search for video files?
Yes, most likely. Scanning all these files can take quite a lot of time, I have only about several hundreds of files on MMC card, so GUI starts with almost no delay. Disabling automatic scanning for files can reduce usability as you will have to perform many extra operations just to open video files to start watching them. The goal of this GUI was simplicity, but looks like it fails when there are too many files. Maybe we can either restrict scanning for video files in some subdirectory on MMC card such as 'Videos'? One more option is to have some limit on MMC card scanning (limit either time or the number of files before giving up). Anyway comments about how to resolve such issue are welcome.

Now one more question, do the MPlayer works with the xm online satellite radio broadcast? I think they broadcast in wma format, and the mime is video/x-ms-asf.
Don't know, it is better ot try it You can run mplayer from XTerminal by providing url in its command line.

By the way, I'm going to upgrade maemo mplayer package to upstream version 1.0rc1 on this weekend, it should have better flv and wmv support and also support some new other formats.