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Everything Else => General Support and Discussion => Zaurus General Forums => Archived Forums => Software => Topic started by: Legodude522 on February 18, 2006, 02:27:38 pm
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Hello. I encoded some videos to VGA. looks like Kino2 sucks. Hehe :-) Could I get some help installing mplayer. The site is in Japanese. I downloaded the binary and I go to install the package but it won't let me on the Zaurus. I have installed VLC already but that appears to just be command line.
Any recommendations for mplayer? Direct download links?
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I have installed VLC already but that appears to just be command line.
Any recommendations for mplayer? Direct download links?
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mplayer is command line as well. Best player for the Z in kino2, I have had no problems with it on my c3100. By the way, kino2 uses mplayer. Without it kino2 DOES suck
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Which ROM are you running on your C1000? The latest Cacko includes mplayer and Kino2 ... having major fun with that already.
Hello. I encoded some videos to VGA. looks like Kino2 sucks. Hehe :-) Could I get some help installing mplayer. The site is in Japanese. I downloaded the binary and I go to install the package but it won't let me on the Zaurus. I have installed VLC already but that appears to just be command line.
Any recommendations for mplayer? Direct download links?
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don't expect you will have HD performance with Zaurus
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kino2 is a graphical interface for mplayer. if you run kino2, you are running mplayer. vga video performance varies and it is best if you can overclock (though overclocking is a risk) it. running mplayer from commandline uses less ram.
I've just started experimenting, but I was able to get decent vga resolution and "not too bad" 25 fps with 1000 vbitrate. Over 2 hours of ghost in the shell (1.7GB disk space) using vobsub (subtitles) killed ram so now I encoded it 320x240 at 750 vbitrate and all is decent enough.
mplayer general playback command line on a pxa 270 zaurus
mplayer -vo bvddor to expand 320x240 encoding expanded to 640x480
mplayer -vo bvdd -vm x 640 y 480
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hey bluedevils, what do you use to encode wour videos? If mencoder, then what are the options? It would help to know what options provide the best results.
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actually someone a while ago posted this script and I have been playing all over the place to find the best settings. I also added the options to extract english subtitles, but you should take that out if you're not using it. Everybody has their preferences of what they want out of video and there are way too many compromises that need to be made.
just remember if you use the subtitles option, you have to use the -sub -slang english on playback
#!/bin/sh
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# dvd2z
#
# This script is a front end for mencoder to convert a track of a DVD
# into a format suitable for playing on a PDA using Kino2 or equivalent.
# The resulting AVI requires about 80MB/hour using the settings below,
# so a full feature film will fit comfortably onto a 256MB flash card.
# (Terminator 3 needs 188MB)
#
# Some things you may want to alter:
#
# The track number is usually 1 for the main feature of a film.
#
# The video bitrate is set here at 192kbps ("vbitrate=192"). Try
# experimenting with lower values until the quality is unacceptable.
#
# The audio bitrate is 64kbps ("br=64"). Can be reduced but not a lot
# to gain.
#
# Brightness usually has to be boosted for PDA; here it's set to 6
# using "eq=6". Leave this option out for standard brightness.
#
# Frame size is 320:240. Can be changed but the scaler may not like it
# on replay.
#
# Frame rate can be reduced to 15 ("-ofps 15") to give player less
# work. Makes a small saving in file size.
#
# Mono audio - a small saving - can be done using "mode=3".
#######################################################################
if [ $# -lt 2 ]
then
echo "Usage: dvd2z
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you might need to change the encoder settings until you find something you like.
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you might need to change the encoder settings until you find something you like.
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I am. I encoded to VGA. hehe. I'll go lower.
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hey bluedevils, what else do you do to get smooth playback? I encoded with the script above but my playback is very choppy and stuttery and video laggs behind sound slightly.
I even tried 15 fps but have the same problem. This is on my 3100 with cacko rom.
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overclock to 624
a little stutter, but I don't notice lag. I have a feeling it has just as much to do with cpu as encoding
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I use 700 kb/s and 320x240 res. DivX 4 seems to be the best codec for me.