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Yes, it still needs some polishing, so suggestions are welcome. Do full paths really annoy you (other people)? As least they provide precise information about the location of each file.

Well there are many different formats and codecs, each one of them can potentially contain bugs. Please try these files with mplayer 1.0pre8 on your desktop computer (it can be downloaded here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu). If you see the same speed problems, we need to check if it is not fixed in SVN yet and report them to upstream mplayer maintainers. If the problems are in maemo build, I would like to see at least mplayer log for them and probably download the files themselves for my test collection. But please submit this information as a bugreport at garage trackers: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mplayer/

That's good to know. If you notice any problems with youtube videos, please provide this information too.

Actually I'm not the only one who took part in porting and improving mplayer for maemo. Ed Bartosh created deb packages and Josep Torra optimized mpeg1 decoder for Nokia 770. Not to mention numerous upstream developers of mplayer and ffmpeg I think we still really need a proper credits tab in mplayer gui.

It just displays mplayer output for the last played video with the detailed information and performance statistics. If you press it just after start, it does not have anything to show yet.

It is not supposed to do that. That's the first bug you have noticed, congratulations In order to workaround it, you can start 'gmplauncher' from xterm and it should work fine.

A bugfix package will follow really soon after we make sure there are no other critical bugs. Did anyone test installation of mplayer package on a fresh OS2006 device? Does it work ok?

Technically - yes, it is not hard. But maybe just using audio player for mp3 files is better?

Anyway, I tried to design gui so that you need as little stylus tapping as possible to start playing some video from your MMC card. No need to prepare playlists, just put a bunch of your video files on MMC card and you can start watching them right away. I borrowed this design from FBReader which also autodetects e-books in 'Books' subdirectory on MMC card automatically.

Great app, installed the Beta and everything is fine, the only quibble I have is with regards to fast forward and rewind which can require a lot of key presses, especially if the last place you watched the file was in the middle or near the end of a film. A progress bar would be great so that you could drag the timeline to wherever you wanted.

Bugfix release is available, GUI should be stable now, everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

I can't start the gmplauncher from the apps menu. Loads fine from xterm.

It works for me, but it still closes after 30 seconds when not doing anything with it. I'm going to see if it has anything to do with the settings for the automatic shutdown of the screen. Everything else is cool. I guess having the full path of videos is fine. In fact, I kind of wish the built-in player had something like this. Maybe with an option to view small icons of each like the image viewer does.

Excellent, a lot more responsive than the built in media player, and I see less artifacts on the screen.

I do have one small request though. I realize everything is in it's infancy, but could functionality be added to type in a path/filename to open? Or just a path and have it scan for media files in the destination like it does for the RSMMC card? (A full blown file browser would be a lot to ask for at this point)

I only have a 512mb card and don't have much on there... but what I'd like to do is hit my CIFS mountpoint (I haven't tried mounting any shares onto a directory residing on the RSMMC card).

Otherwise great work, this weekend I'll experiment with other media types and see how playback goes.

I use HTTP and a slightly modified opera.ini file (details in this thread somewhere). Just run a webserver on the machine hosting the files, set it to display directory listings, and once you've clicked on the relevant filename hyperlink, you're watching the movie in a few seconds

BTW - is installation of the new version just simple "install the .deb and magic happens", or do I need to do something else? I think I'm two or three releases out of date.

MPGUI is no more required.

Yes, that was a dead branch. Unfortunately its author did not publish the sources so we had to make a new gui from scratch. On the other hand he emphasized the necessity of gui so also helped to improve mplayer in some way

The next step in providing a complete video support solution for Nokia 770 is to ensure the availability of a good and user friendly media convertor capable of producing files optimized for mplayer.