Notices

Have you got mencoder on your path? That's the most common reason for "Failed to get movie info". If so, let me know and we can investigate further.

The settings for each preset can be seen in the source:

http://www.bleb.org/software/770/770-encode.pl:source

I set the path to have mencoder in it as well all execute from the same directory. It makes it past the first block "Failed to get movie info: $@\n";" but fails when parsing the info. Keep in mind perl isn't something I do so newb alert.

I notice set dest to nul: but don't see you use it plus I havent a clue what the 2 is for at the end

I use those settings but not being a perl man I thought I might/probably have missed one of the params being pushed.

Apologies, I've noticed a stupid mistake. I've uploaded a new version to the same URL.

FWIW, line 242 changes '/dev/null' to '$dest'.

HTH,

Andrew

You have an evil mind, did you know that?

Updated MPlayer build is available at https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mplayer/

It contains improvements to gstreamer sound output support (-ao gst):
* added volume control
* fixed audio/video synchronization problems

Please test it and report any problems with -ao gst -ac dspmp3. If it works ok, the next build will have gstreamer sound output enabled by default (that's why -ao gst should be also tested with other decoders like -ad mad and non mp3 audio). By the way, the next build is likely to be packaged in .deb

It has been mentioned before to me, yes ;-)

And, in fact, usually in relation to Perl scripts.

Hi guys,
I have been reading this forum for quite a long time. You guys are doing a really great job here! I haven't got a 770 device yet...but soon. The problem is that I don't know a thing about linux and programming in general and it seems that you need to do a lot of...tweaking. Anyway...here are my questions:
1) Is the video player in OS2006 able to play internet real video such as...rtsp://ugcurec/filename.rm ???
2) What about the Mplayer?
Your answers will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

D.

Yes. Works very well with the BBC's video on demand.

No, as the RealVideo codecs aren't open source and so it only works with mplayer on x86 with the Windows codecs.

HTH,

Andrew

Thanks Andrew for the info!
I went to a local Compusa to try out the tablet and I tried streaming rtsp://212.54.100.33/video/DATA-2006-08-22-1-19.rm but it didn't work. Is this different than the BBC format?

D.

What error message did you receive?

The media player is notoriously picky about resolutions and bitrates.