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Garrrrhhh... you're right! When I ran the tests in post #438 I had not sudo'd to root on the device running the stock xserver - when I sudo to root on the device with the stock xserver, the blanking is reproducible.

I really don't think this is an issue that warrants further investigation unless you can fix it without spending much time on it - under normal circumstances users shouldn't be running apps as root, and other than when I'm testing I would typically use the GUI anyway.

Serge, I just installed the latest version of Mplayer and the replacement xserver and I'm truly amazed. For the first time I can enjoy smooth video playback on my N800 at a resolution that really does its great display justice (400x240 at 25 fps). I've been watching a couple of minutes of "28 Days Later", which was extremely choppy and teary before and is now absolutely smooth an thoroughly enjoyable (in a slasher-psychopathic sense, obviously).

Also, I found this latest version of Mplayer so stable that you should really consider dropping the "RC" and go v1 full-on.

There is still one thing missing on the N800 that I use extensively on my Archos: a resume play-function. My Archos remembers where I stopped watching the last movie and can resume it from there.

I've always said that this is an indispensable function for a portable media player and I'm wondering whether this sort of functionality can be incorporated in Mplayer.

hi,
sorry for the delay; I will get you a sample clip tomorrow !

-dave

One thing I noticed was that somehow, if I used KMplayer as the frontend, and switched to full screen, the video is not as smooth as just using Mplayer alone (ie. without kmplayer).

I don't understand why the front end would cause Mplayer to play things differently though...anyone else noticed this?


Luke

Thanks a lot, just upload it somewhere and provide me with a link, or contact me in PM, so we can discuss how I can get this sample. We just recently had this audio/video sync bug story which took too much time to resolve because nobody cared to report it properly. So I was worried that we might be getting something similar repeated

I also installed the latest version of Mplayer and the replacement xserver (http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/xserver-x...o31_armel.deb), they work fine. However i am too lazy to do benchmarking.

I don't grok benchmarking. When I can watch a movie without being annoyed by hickups or artefacts, and when that movie plays clearly enough to make me think I'm watching it on a bigger screen than I'm really doing, then I'm good.

Mplayer and the xserver upgrade give me that feeling. I'm good.

As Serge says, if no one bothers to respond with proper bug reports or benchmarks, then the person/s programming the software will not be able to fix any issues more effectively and efficiently. We're helping ourselves when we help the programmers.

Ok i will post some tests tomorrow or someday next week when i have time.

Thanks, but I think we have enough benchmarks for .16 version already Bugreports if something does not work properly are always welcome though.