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Title: Video C860
Post by: gabrielsenzsain on October 10, 2004, 09:49:08 am

I have a C860 and I want to play video on it.
Currently I have nothing but the original Zaurus ROM in English.

How may I play videos on the default video player?
How may I convert videos to the format supported on the default video player? (I'm a Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) user)
Is there a way to convert videos to the Zaurus supported video format using mencoder or transcode (http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/)?
How may I install other more caplable players like vlc (http://www.videolan.org/) or mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/)?

Title: Video C860
Post by: sigmaX on October 10, 2004, 10:27:53 am

Your answer is inside these forums. Use the search function. There are TONS of posts answering your questions.

I suggest you to install mplayer and then use Kino2 graphical front end.

Title: Video C860
Post by: iamasmith on October 10, 2004, 12:23:29 pm

I also recommend Kino2/Mplayer combination.

I use the following script to encode from DVD and find it gives pretty reasonable quality and not too huge file sizes.

#!/bin/bash
mencoder dvd://1 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=200:abitrate=112:vhq:vpass=1 -vf scale=320:240 -ofps 15 -alag eng
mencoder dvd://1 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=200:abitrate=112:vhq:vpass=2:vb_strategy=1 -vf scale=320:240 -ofps 15 -alag eng

By the way, this isn't a typo, you need to run mencoder twice for two pass encoding.

+ You may want to try mplayer dvd://1 first to check that the track you want to rip is actually on title 1. - if you want to convert another file just replace the dvd://1 with the filename. The above script produces a file called test.avi which you can move to whatever name you want.

Hope this helps,

- Andy

Title: Video C860
Post by: gabrielsenzsain on October 10, 2004, 12:49:58 pm

Quote

Your answer is inside these forums. Use the search function. There are TONS of posts answering your questions.
I suggest you to install mplayer and then use Kino2 graphical front end.

Sure there are tons of posts but I could only find:
http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/search.php?q=mplayer (http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/search.php?q=mplayer)
Is that version of mplayer (from 2002) the most up to date source?
What about Kino2?

Could you point me to the exact packages you are using?

Title: Video C860
Post by: iamasmith on October 10, 2004, 02:53:46 pm

I'm actually using Cacko 1.21b ROM and the version of MPLAYER and Kino2 that ship in that distro.

It works for me and I see no reason to upgrade until the next Cacko ROM ships which will probably have the later version.

- Andy