Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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konttori is offline konttori
2007-02-08 , 08:09
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Originally Posted by Bobaganoush View Post
Please forgive me for not tracking back through this forum...
I plan on purchasing the 770, with the primary reason of watching training videos on the move... all the videos I have are in WMV format, and I have no desire to convert them to AVI... how simple would it be for someone like me (I'm an IT guy, but know little of programming) to get this MPlayer up and running for it?

Additionally, is the input code a one-time thing (like installing an add-on), or is it something I'd need to input everytime I wish to start up a WMV video.

Any additional words of advice would also be appreciated (as you can tell, I'm pretty much ignorant in this field).

Thank you in advance!

mplayer is easy to setup. Just click on the installation file, wait for app installer to open, click install and you're done with it. It has wmv support built in.

Might help to know if you have wmv7,8,9 or 10 videos? I think mplayer might have 7 and 8 support, but not sure about 9. Definately not wmv10 support.

In any case, for example media converter allows you to drop all your video files for conversion in the evening, choose resolution, then click on convert and you'll have all videos converted by next morning (well you'll have converted versions as well, it doesn't consume the originals).

While you are thinking about buying N800, you might want to see if your training videos can be converted:
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=26

While I think wmv files might work well on the mplayer, I still recommend converting them.