Mplayer Running 640x480 On 3100

[jerrybme]

I just upgraded to a 3100 and was surprized that I am able to play .avi files encoded @ 640x480 at 500 kbps    The default mplayer from the 3100 pdaxrom feed was very choppy, but after reading that the Cacko version was able to do this, I downloaded the Cacko bvdd version; untarred it and copied the binary over (it was over 6 mb compared to the  almost 2 mb pdaxrom version). I also copied over the mplayer fonts & config files, but it worked without them (just no more complaining about missing fonts)

Running it within fvwm (no need to drop out of X anymore!) with

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mplayer -vo bvdd *.avi is enough to run at full screen! Very cool.

I wonder what the difference is between how the Cacko version and the pdaXrom are compiled? It would be wonderful if mplayer could be compiled for pdaXrom that performs as well as Cacko's version.

Meanwhile, I feel like I have High Def on my Z!

Cheers

[desertrat]

I downloaded the Cacko bvdd version

Interesting. Could please tell us where you downloaded it from? There seems to be so many different versions floating around.

-- cheers

[jerrybme]

I downloaded the Cacko bvdd version

Interesting. Could please tell us where you downloaded it from? There seems to be so many different versions floating around.

-- cheers
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Sure from the Cacko site : [a href=\"http://web.mol.ru/~zaurus/feed/]http://web.mol.ru/~zaurus/feed/[/url]

[TJBK_TJB]

What codec are you using? I can't get any suitable results w/ the Cacko mplayer. I usually just use bvdd w/ the pdaXrom 3100 feed mplayer. By the way, I'm using MPEG-4.

[jerrybme]

What codec are you using? I can't get any suitable results w/ the Cacko mplayer. I usually just use bvdd w/ the pdaXrom 3100 feed mplayer. By the way, I'm using MPEG-4.
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To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm lazy and am using PocketDivxEncoder [a href=\"http://divx.ppccool.com/]http://divx.ppccool.com/[/url] It's open source and uses mencoder. It's very easy, just chose the Palm Tungsten format, reduce the video quality down to about 30% (500 kbps) and audio to 1 or 2, click on the Advance settings adjust the frame rate down (I've been using 20) and away you go..

[TJBK_TJB]

That's what I was using, except I used VGA Pocket PC mode at 500kbps. I tried that, and it seemed to work fine with the C1000-C3100 mplayer for pdaXrom here.  I didn't really test the Cacko one. My only problem is that it doesn't use the whole screen, as the Tungsten's resolution is 320x480. And I fear that it will not scale as well because it is not an even factor of 640x480. By the way, PDXE uses MPEG-4 by default.

[desertrat]

Sure from the Cacko site : http://web.mol.ru/~zaurus/feed/

OK I installed it (all the files go into /opt/QtPalmtop and doesn't overwrite anything), the playback of video sure is a lot better than the mplayer in the pdaXrom feed

Any idea how I can get the video to fill the whole screen?

I tried all sorts of combinations of "-vm -zoom -fs" but they all play a 352 x 288 movie in the middle of the screen

I also tried using the zoom key (Fn+2) in matchbox to put screen in 320x240 mode first, but then mplayer gives an error: "FATAL: cannot initialize video driver"

-- cheers

[Meanie]

Sure from the Cacko site : http://web.mol.ru/~zaurus/feed/

OK I installed it (all the files go into /opt/QtPalmtop and doesn't overwrite anything), the playback of video sure is a lot better than the mplayer in the pdaXrom feed

Any idea how I can get the video to fill the whole screen?

I tried all sorts of combinations of "-vm -zoom -fs" but they all play a 352 x 288 movie in the middle of the screen

I also tried using the zoom key (Fn+2) in matchbox to put screen in 320x240 mode first, but then mplayer gives an error: "FATAL: cannot initialize video driver"

-- cheers
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The following link contains mplayer options that allow you to watch movies fullscreen using the cacko/bvdd version of mplayer

[a href=\"http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/custom.html#mplayer]http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/custom.html#mplayer[/url]

[jerrybme]

Sure from the Cacko site : http://web.mol.ru/~zaurus/feed/

OK I installed it (all the files go into /opt/QtPalmtop and doesn't overwrite anything), the playback of video sure is a lot better than the mplayer in the pdaXrom feed

Any idea how I can get the video to fill the whole screen?

I tried all sorts of combinations of "-vm -zoom -fs" but they all play a 352 x 288 movie in the middle of the screen

I also tried using the zoom key (Fn+2) in matchbox to put screen in 320x240 mode first, but then mplayer gives an error: "FATAL: cannot initialize video driver"

-- cheers
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If you encode the video @ 640X480, it'll fill the screen, I miss typed above & was using the PocketPC_Vga setting in PocketDivxEncoder. However, the file sizes are of course larger. If you encode at small resolution use the command line options Meanie lists.

Also, I noticed that mplayer struggles with playing the larger resolution within Matchbox. If you're using Matchbox/Openbox as your WM, you'll want to drop out of X. However, it works fine in fvwm and I would assume also work fine in other light WMs.

Jerry

[desertrat]

Also, I noticed that mplayer struggles with playing the larger resolution within Matchbox. If you're using Matchbox/Openbox as your WM, you'll want to drop out of X. However, it works fine in fvwm and I would assume also work fine in other light WMs.

I tried Meanie's settings and none worked

One magic incantation that does scaling is

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-vf scale=640:480. Unfortunately that results in extremely poor performance (even when not using X, and even when overclocking to max in matchbox).

I wonder if there are any other of mplayer's myriad of options and settings that will scale (any) video to 640x480?

It's a shame that TCPMP for wince machines is so much better - it plays almost anything I throw at it and scales to fullscreen (VGA size on my Asus A730W).

-- cheers

[desertrat]

OK I gave up, I decided to re-encode the videos to 640x480.

Now they play fine even in matchbox and even with no overclocking.

-- cheers

[jerrybme]

Also, I noticed that mplayer struggles with playing the larger resolution within Matchbox. If you're using Matchbox/Openbox as your WM, you'll want to drop out of X. However, it works fine in fvwm and I would assume also work fine in other light WMs.

I tried Meanie's settings and none worked

One magic incantation that does scaling is

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-vf scale=640:480. Unfortunately that results in extremely poor performance (even when not using X, and even when overclocking to max in matchbox).

I wonder if there are any other of mplayer's myriad of options and settings that will scale (any) video to 640x480?

It's a shame that TCPMP for wince machines is so much better - it plays almost anything I throw at it and scales to fullscreen (VGA size on my Asus A730W).

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Yes, scaling requires lots of extra work. Have you tried encoding @ 640X480? It works fine for me. I did try one of my 320X240 avi's with scale=640:480 and it crawled. However using

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mplayer -vo bvdd -vm it filled the screen and played fine. Note, trying -vm outside of X did bad things & I had to pull the battery & reboot. Of course, YMMV

Are you running mplayer in KDE?

Cheers,
Jerry

[silencer51]

Mplayer from the Cacko feed works better for me too. I have a problem though (with both versions of mplayer).

When I try to open a really big avi file from the HD (around 260mb), even if I set the cache to only 1mb, it takes ages for it to open - I eventually quit with ctrl+c. What could be wrong?

[desertrat]

When I try to open a really big avi file from the HD (around 260mb), even if I set the cache to only 1mb, it takes ages for it to open - I eventually quit with ctrl+c. What could be wrong?

On my desktop mplayer I usually get this when the file in question is "incomplete". Say you're downloading a 500MB avi file, and you only managed to get 200MB of it. If you play this truncated under mplayer (and indeed even windoze media player) it will scan the whole file before starting to play. Usually these incomplete files does not allow you to skip back and forth (although with various combinations and versions of mplayer and kmplayer that functionality seem to appear and disappear).

Now on a modern desktop, scanning a few hundred MB shouldn't take too long, but for the Z I'm sure it'll be a different matter.

So are you saying all files over a certain does not play at all, or only some files. FWIW I just tried a 300MB+ file from CF and it worked fine, it starts playing within about 5 seconds.


-- cheers

[silencer51]

You were right, the file was corrupted (it was incomplete and thus missing the index). ;-)