OESF Portables Forum
General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: tuxmonkey12 on July 03, 2004, 02:17:42 pm
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Hi, Zaurus newbie here, just wondering if there's a mediaplayer for sharprom3.0 that can handle more than like 5fps... i'm severely pissed off at the default media player, because all my movies look like i'm downloading them off a 56k... any help? it would be nice if it handled more file types too, and didn't run from console...
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Well it depends on what machine you are running, what kind of video you are playing etc etc etc.
I had a 5500, I bought tkcVideo from theKompany, it worked fine, just remember when playing videos you need to encode them right, if you take a video encoded for something else, it will probably play poorly. I used MPEG-1 at a rate of 1.5-2MB/per min and used tkcVideo for watching entire movies off a 512MB CF, only a few frames were visibly dropped in the movies, usually during action scenes with a lot of movement. Each Star Wars movie rolled out at about 120-130MB.
On my 860, it's worse though, I haven't tried tkcVideo on it because the tight fisted gits at theKompany said I'd have to buy all the products I'd just bought for the 5500 all over again. I'm stuck with the default players and Kino2/mplayer which feel much worse to me and I've not found a combo which comes close to what I had before with the 5500.
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You don't say what machine, but I assume it's a 5500.
You might try opie-mediaplayer2 (there's a version available for the Sharp ROM somewhere).
Mplayer also works, but it is console based.
As an aside, which probably won't matter to you (but if you actually have a C machine then it might), the difference between the bog standard version of mplayer and the optimised one (which uses the C machines graphics chip) is pretty significant, at least on the Star Wars trailer I had scudding around.
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ok, yes i do have an sl-5500... i've been trying to run opiemediaplayer2 on the latest sharprom, it installs and reads the files, but whenever i click play on video or audio, the program shuts down... help! opie looks awesome, but i don't have a cf card, so i can't flash oz over and use opie in rom designed for it.