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mplayer is used actually, but embeds its output in MediaBox. This does not work on 770. It's possible to have mplayer open a separate window, which would work, but toggling between MediaBox and mplayer windows would be awkward. UKMP e.g. did it like this while it still supported video.
On the other hand, Canola1 (unfortunately closed source and a dead version) embedded the video output of osso-media-server quite well on the 770. So there must be a way.

Here are 2 screen shots of the theme I'm working on.

Looking nice.

Thanks mfortner, but it's not much work...

Theming for mediabox is easy, because you only provide the very png files and color/font definitions you want to change from default.

I started by modifying all text and background colors (very fast), and then I've been spending more time on png's (icons and such).

I hope to make a deb of it one day.
Come on guys, we can have hundreds of themes available !

http://pycage.blogspot.com/2009/01/m...-mediabox.html

Release notes for the upcoming version 0.96.3:

Back button closes embedded album listing.

"All Tracks" option in artists view for listing all tracks belonging to an
artist at once

Configuration option for changing the player backend per media format

Revised mediaplayer backend implementation making creation of new backends
easier

New experimental player backend for GStreamer

Thumbnails and the ID tag cache are stored on the medium where the associated
files are located

Fixed bug that stopped thumbnailing after an error

Use insanely high number for parameter RequestedCount when browsing UPnP
server in order to retrieve all items even from UPnP servers misinterpreting
the RequestedCount part in the ContentDirectory specification (fixes ORB)

Fixed bug that broke compatibility with Microsoft's UPnP media servers


I hope to get 0.96.3 into maemo-extras soon.

Look in the kmplayer sources kmplayerprocess.cpp. Basically you can't embed, only set a rectangle. For mplayer you can use the nokia770 output driver like
nokia770:fb_overlay_only:x=20:y=40:w=320:h=240
For media server instead of passing the Window, you pass x, y, width and height in set_video_window dbus call.

must have been what I was missing.
I knew that mplayer can set a rectangle, but I have no idea how or whether it could be changed at runtime without having to restart mplayer. The rectangle needs to be changed for entering fullscreen-mode.

Send it the 'vo_change_rectangle x y w h' command. Note that it may leave some artifacts behind if you make the window smaller. With kmplayer and using mplayer+omapfb, returning from fullscreen quite often leaves some video stuff on the window title/menubar.

Thanks a lot! I'm gonna try these with osso-media-server and mplayer.

Finally got time to dive into 0.96.3...
1. I've got suggestion: change icon in 'By Artist' from folder to something else (e.g. a head, like in its button at the left side) and same with 'By Folder' (change icon from CD to folder).
2. What did happen to WorldTV plugin? I mean, I can't find it in extras/extras/devel and thinking of making a deb for if from SVN.
3. Broken thumbs are still written to ~/.thumbnails/mediabox... Is it supposed to be so?
4. Thumbs generation in Images is still failing... Or it's not the generation, but the fact is that all images after broken one have no thumbs shown.