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Title: Mplayer Movies - Audio Limited To 10 Minutes
Post by: wasilvers on April 25, 2006, 11:50:50 pm
Using Hentges rom 3.5.3 and mplayer - my audio drops out after 10 minutes.  Consitently 10 minutes.  I ripped some movies (that I own) to test out my z as a portable player when I get bored.  I encoded the movies as MPEGII video and MP3 audio  These play fine on my windows XP machine.  When I run them on the Z, the audio stops after 10 minutes.  It doesn't matter if I skip forward in the movie, it stops in the same place.  The video plays fine, the audio just drops out.

Here are some details - Sharp Zaurus 5000D (yes it plays videos!)

mplayer -nortc -noaspect - framedrop -quiet -quiet - cache 1024 -ac mad - vf mirror [filename]

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
Title: Mplayer Movies - Audio Limited To 10 Minutes
Post by: Cresho on April 25, 2006, 11:54:46 pm
try divx. i have over 12 movies on my c3200 and on my old z, use to carry around 4 on a 1gb flash
Title: Mplayer Movies - Audio Limited To 10 Minutes
Post by: wasilvers on April 26, 2006, 12:08:11 am
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try divx. i have over 12 movies on my c3100 and on my old z, use to carry around 4 on a 1gb flash
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Thanks for your response!

Would I play these in Mplayer with different commands - getting rid of "-ac mad" and the like?  

I haven't used any divx stuff in years.

Will
Title: Mplayer Movies - Audio Limited To 10 Minutes
Post by: Cresho on April 26, 2006, 12:56:28 am
ask in the hentges/openzaurus forum.  They have more expirience than I do.  I'm just saying that mplayer supports divx codec from v3 to 5
Title: Mplayer Movies - Audio Limited To 10 Minutes
Post by: wasilvers on April 26, 2006, 08:22:51 am
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ask in the hentges/openzaurus forum.  They have more expirience than I do.  I'm just saying that mplayer supports divx codec from v3 to 5
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Thanks, I'll do that.  
Title: Mplayer Movies - Audio Limited To 10 Minutes
Post by: speculatrix on April 28, 2006, 02:20:44 am
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Using Hentges rom 3.5.3 and mplayer - my audio drops out after 10 minutes.  Consitently 10 [div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=124584\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]


are you using a shareware encoder that's expired and deliberately ruins the output file - try playing the same file back on the machine used to encode it?
Title: Mplayer Movies - Audio Limited To 10 Minutes
Post by: wasilvers on May 07, 2006, 07:57:15 am
No, the file will play fine with different players, it's just in mplayer on my Z that it cuts out.  I suppose I could recut the files to be less than 10 minutes each, but that would be some workaround. =)