mplayer version??? file type

[tumnus]

mplayer can play divx fine. The MPlayer Shell comes with a binary called \'redraw\' that refreshes the entire screen. Mplayer Shell basically replaces launching mplayer from the console. It does nothing special with the output. That\'s why it has that \'redraw\' binary to refresh Qtopia after playing a video.

[Anonymous]

When I invoked the java app shell, nothing happens, just get the gui but it doesnt play anything...

[tumnus]

Which ROM are you using? I do remember one thing now. The mplayer ipk that comes with the shell puts the config files in /home/root/.mplayer . The Sharp ROMs now run everything as the \'zaurus\' user, so /home/root/.mplayer needs to be moved to /home/zaurus/ and owned by the \'zaurus\' user. Run these commands as root if you are using the Sharp ROM:

mv /home/root/.mplayer /home/zaurus
chown -R zaurus.qpe /home/zaurus/.mplayer

Sorry, forgot about that one. It was so long ago that I set it up.

[Anonymous]

I find that videos need to be reencoded in order to play at an acceptable framerate on the zaurus 5600.  I use mencoder to do this and I create a .ogm  video file (divx video with ogg audio) and need to play this with a mplayer version that uses the tremor (integer only ) codec. I am using it successfully with transcoding recordings from mythtv.   Using a kernel zImage with the xscale cache errata turned off significantly speeds up things too.  Here are the details for anyone interested.  http://cmisip.home.insightbb.com/zaurus.htm

[Anonymous]

HI,
 on desktop to encode videos what is a windows based equivalent to do the encoding? does mencoder run on windows too?