I have a new 770 with OS 2006 and have been looking through this and other threads, trying different methods to stream .flv to MPlayer. Downloading and playing .flv works great, but I have not had much success playing .flv directly from YouTube without fully downloading first.

I followed the instructions here:

Nickster's Opera Mplayer setup, but I chaged runmplayer to contain:

Then I added this [File Type] to opera.ini:

With these settings, I managed to get a couple videos to play in MPlayer by clicking the .flv link in Opera, but the playback was very jerky. Downloaded files play smoothly. I don't think it's a network speed issue, because when I download .flv files they seem to download faster than real time. I thought changing the "-cache 800" value might help, but I didn't have any luck. Videos were still equally jerky or didn't play at all.

Also, I tested a few dozen other .flv links from Youtube and none of them even started to play. Why do many .flv links refuse to even start MPlayer?

Does anyone have suggestions to change my settings above to get more consistent and smooth streaming playback of .flv videos from the internet? Or is that goal beyond the limits of the Nokia 770/Opera/MPlayer?


Also a related question, when I add File Types to the opera.ini the setting below will always try to directly open and start playing MPlayer. Is there a way to modify this line, so I can see a "Save or Open?" dialog when clicking .flv file links? Otherwise, I have to go in and change the opera.ini everytime I want to switch from streaming to downloading.

By the way, I have tried orb streaming, but I would prefer to be able to stream .flv directly to my 770 with as close to the quality of playback of a downloaded .flv as possible.