Messages

1

Sharp ROMs / Video Player Success stories

« on: November 23, 2004, 03:59:56 pm »

In the end I decided on vlc, since it turned out to be the easiest code to handle. I built myself a nice statically linked binary using ffmpeg, libmpeg2, theora, faad2, libmad and Tremor. Granted, it's almost 2MByte in size (and that's stripped and compressed with uclx!), but it's the first player that will happily play most of the files that I want it to play (with the exception of 3GPP files with AMR audio -- but that's an issue with vlc, as it seems) ... on my (somewhat patched, I'll admit) 2.38G ROM.

I even QAD-hacked a bit of code into the QTE video_out module that allows skipping forward/backward 30s or a playlist item and quitting the player using the Zaurus keys.

If you're interested, I'm sure I could find some way to provide you with the binary.

Best regards,
Chris.

Just started playing around with VLC on win32 yesterday to get a streaming server up at my home.  Pretty impressive code.

Mr. Chris, if you can .ipk your setup for the rest of us to try it would be AWESOME!  

I'm trying to resurrect my 5500 as a portable multimedia player.  It turned out that my work and lifestyle wasn't lacking a PDA as I thought 2 years ago.

I wish somebody with more linux experience than I (windows power user rather than *nix programmer  ) could put together a dedicated multimedia ROM...