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Title: Getting Mplayer to Play Smoothly on 5600
Post by: joebeaudoin on February 11, 2004, 02:36:30 pm

Ok, here\'s the deal...

I\'m trying to be cheap and don\'t want to buy the Dr. Z Video Player, so I\"m trying to get mplayer to work.   While I\"m not too much a fan of running things from CLI that could be run from a GUI, I\'m willing to deal with it.  I\'ve tried switches (e.g. -autosync, -cache 8192, -nobps) and the file I\'m trying to play (an DivX encoded AVI I downloaded off the net, which plays fine on both my laptop and my makeshift media pc) is out of sync with the audio when I play it back on the Z.  

Has anyone had this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?

Title: Getting Mplayer to Play Smoothly on 5600
Post by: zbones on February 11, 2004, 03:15:16 pm

check out this site :-
http://home.earthlink.net/~cresho/start.htm (http://home.earthlink.net/~cresho/start.htm)

Title: Getting Mplayer to Play Smoothly on 5600
Post by: Anonymous on February 11, 2004, 05:30:30 pm

\"-framedrop\" od \"-hardframedrop\" might also probably help.

Regards,
Rainer

Title: Getting Mplayer to Play Smoothly on 5600
Post by: tumnus on February 11, 2004, 06:20:55 pm

Which CPU do you have in your 5600? The PXA250 performs really poorly at video playback unless you use a kernel with the PXA250 cache bug workaround turned off.

Title: Getting Mplayer to Play Smoothly on 5600
Post by: Anonymous on March 02, 2004, 07:03:07 pm

I reencode movies to divx using parameters that I find work best to play it on the Z