Notices

This sounds too good to be true, so here's a ton of questions

1) Does it work on v2006?

2) Can it play videos of any resolution?

3) Can it scale videos up(down?) to full screen?

4) What about codec compatibility? Is it the same as mplayer on other platforms where you just drop the codecs into /usr/local/lib/codecs/ and it will play just about anything that there's a codec for?

5) Including .MOV and .WMV?

6) And, for completeness (I'm paranoid about not getting enough info!): MPEG1, MPEG2, Xvid, Divx?

7) Not essential, but how about the Live.com RTSP support?

8) Does it handle VCD, SVCD and 16:9 movie files at full frame rate?

9) I'd like to stream videos from another machine - how would I go about that with mplayer? Can it be done over HTTP?

I know I could try this out myself, but I won't be able to for a few days and my mouth is salivating enough to float my keyboard. It was the movie capabilities that I thought let down the 770, but if mplayer does the job... well...

Many thanks for any answers you could give me

is this scaled to full screen 640x480 or it draws only small 320x240 rectangle when the CPU is at 80%?

Can't launch mplayer: "./mplayer: not found"

Nickster: yes, yes (but not smoothly; a 640-wide 24fps DivX is effectively unplayable), yes, not sure, not sure, yes, not sure, unlikely, yes.

fanoush: That's scaled to full-screen.

faber: you've not changed to the directory containing mplayer.

HTH,

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I put mplayer binary in home/user/MyDocs/mplayer and play abc.avi from it (./mplayer abc.avi). But XTerm returns: Can't launch mplayer: "./mplayer: not found". I'm obviously sure to be in the right directory. Any idea?

2faber: First ensure that both mplayer and abc.avi files are in the current directory, run 'ls' to get the list of files there. Also it might be a problem with missing executable attribute (depending on the way you extracted mplayer binary, if you precisely followed the instructions, you should not have any problems). It mplayer binary does not have executable attribute, it can be fixed by running 'chmod +x mplayer'.

Well, I guess packaging mplayer into a .deb packet is unavoidable. But as a gentoo linux user, I will have to finally learn this alien system

I remember there's a GUI called gmplayer, so you don't have to package just mplayer as a command-line utility. I haven't used it, but judging from the number of "I can't find ./mplayer" complaints a lot of this forum's readers may need it.

Ted

Tried to decompress precisely following instructions and chmoding mplayer (chmod works and finds mplayer), but still nothing

2faber: What version of OS are you using? This binary is compiled for IT2006.

2ttz: I remember trying gmplayer some time ago on desktop pc, did not like it. Anyway, console version works fine as long as it is started to play video and does not necessery need gui there

And anyway, this binary is just a proof that ARM core is also quite fast and can be used for playing video too (I'm not the first to notice that, see http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-dev...y/002457.html). Nokia 770 has a dualcore cpu: ARM + DSP. Default media player uses DSP core only, mplayer uses only ARM. Now imagine that the work of decoding video is balanced between these two cores, for example ARM core is only responsible for decoding video, DSP core is responsible for scaling video and colorspace conversion and also for audio. So using both cores we can improve video playback quality. But it will also consume more power and reduce battery life.

Uh, I have IT 2005
Could you compile mplayer for IT 2005?

Thanx a lot.