I just upgraded my C760 to the Cacko 1.22 ROM. Great ROM, however, I'm unable to playback my video files that I've created from EyeTV. I'm creating this on my Mac using the EyeTV->File->Export->Web Movie option. This creates a 240x180 MP4 video that's suitable for putting up on a web site. The video plays back fine in Quicktime and on Windows Media Player for Mac.
When I go to play this file on my Z with Kino2, it first shows a white background with some info on the file and then the screen goes black with a small green rectangle in the middle of the screen. It just stays there until I hit the "Cancel" button.
The File Info shows:
Media
Length: 00:00
Video
Size: 240x180 Codec: mp4v
Bitrate: 0 FPS: 15
Audio
Codec: faad Rate: 44100
Bitrate: 128000 Channels: 2
Looking through the forums, I decided to borrow a suggestion on one post where he had used mplayer from the command line. I started with
mplayer -cache 256 -vo fbdev -framedrop -quiet -ses 0 -slave -fs -vop scale=320: -2 abc.mpg
I believe there was a typo in this post since the -2 and -ses options were not recognized. So, I next tried
mplayer -cache 256 -vo fbdev -framedrop -quiet -slave -fs -vop scale=320: abc.mpg
Using this, I got some weird audio blips for a while and then some garbbled sound from the movie. Eventually, mplayer displayed a warning that my Z was too slow to play this movie. Some of the suggestions it gave was to increase the value of -cache and to use -ao sdl or another audio driver.
So, my next try was:
mplayer -cache 8192 -ao sdl -vo fbdev -framedrop -quiet -slave -fs -vop scale=240:180 abc.mpg
This was a big improvement except 1.) there was no audio and 2.) the movie was rotated 90deg on its side (would work in portrait mode).
I don't have the mplayer man available at this time (I'll google later when I can reach the site... funky network issues at work now). In the meantime, could someone help me out and answer some of these questions?
1.) What combo of mplayer options should I be using?
2.) How could I modify Kino2 to use those options?
3.) Is there a better video player I could be using? (I'd like to try VLC, but have yet to find decent docs for installing on a Z... that'll be my next search)
4.) Decent software (for the Mac if possible) for reencoding videos.
5.) If I could reencode my raw EyeTV files, what settings work best on the Z with players like Kino2?
Thanks
Curt
