Mplayer Running 640x480 On 3100

[anunakin]

I use -vo sdl and overclock to 624MHz, and can see xvid in a perfect frame rate and fullscreen

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$ mplayer -vo sdl -zoom -fs filename.avi

[maslovsky]

Scaling doesn't really work well in any mplayer version for Zaurus (both bvdd and w100 versions). To get optimal results encode your video in 320:240 (to scale x2) or 640x480

[danboid]

I use zplayer to play movie files under Cacko as kino2 didn't scale them up to full screen. kino2 is the best music player for Qtopia tho. I would like to see the video scaling probs ironed out in the next version of kino2 and i'd like to see a shoutcast browser/player integrated into kino2 so then I'd only need the one media player app under qtopia.

All the video resizing methods suggested here involve using windows software. Is there not a Linux GUI for resizing MPEG4 files? If not, what is the best mencoder command to get a 640x480 mpeg4 optimised for playback on the Z?

[adf]

avidemux2.

[silencer51]

Can anyone reccomend a good frontend for mplayer? Cacko has Kino2 which is really good, but is there anything similar for pdaX?

[Meanie]

Can anyone reccomend a good frontend for mplayer? Cacko has Kino2 which is really good, but is there anything similar for pdaX?
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xmms with the media plugin uses mplayer to play videos

[jerrybme]

xmms with the media plugin uses mplayer to play videos
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Only downside to using xmms for a frontend is controls don't work. Anyone know a solution?

[silencer51]

The controls do work for me. Use the keyboard shortcuts (i.e. V for stopping playback etc.)

[scheck.r]

kino2 is the best music player for Qtopia

Maslovsky, any chance to have kino2 ported to pdaxrom ?

[silencer51]

kino2 is the best music player for Qtopia

Mavlosky, any chance to have kino2 ported to pdaxrom ?
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Indeed! That would be awesome!

[jerrybme]

The controls do work for me. Use the keyboard shortcuts (i.e. V for stopping playback etc.)
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You're right they work. Wierd. Time before I flashed pdaxrom, they didn't work for me. I had to reflash and didn't bother installing the xmmsmplayer plugin. However, once I installed the plugin they now work.  

[CktRider]

When I run mplayer -vo bvdd -vm *.avi to play a 320x240 file at full screen, after a few minutes the screen fades to white and I have to cold-cock my Z to restore operation.  I don't seem to have that problem if I skip -vm and play at 320x240 size.  Anyone have an idea why?

[adf]

what happens w/ no "vm"?

failing a port of kino.... has anyone tried compiling the mplayer gtk gui?  as I recall from the days before I discovered nerim (Debian mplayer stuff) all that is needed is compiling --with-gui  or seomething very similar.  Is there some severe weirdness involved in compiling mplayer on a z? or could we all just beg sashz or pgas to whip one up and post it at their convenience? Would the gtk front end be too resource hungry?  possibly something curses or dialogue based with backend scripts to find files & streams and setup radio buttons for commonly used settings?

[CktRider]

what happens w/ no "vm"?

failing a port of kino.... has anyone tried compiling the mplayer gtk gui?  as I recall from the days before I discovered nerim (Debian mplayer stuff) all that is needed is compiling --with-gui  or seomething very similar.  Is there some severe weirdness involved in compiling mplayer on a z? or could we all just beg sashz or pgas to whip one up and post it at their convenience? Would the gtk front end be too resource hungry?  possibly something curses or dialogue based with backend scripts to find files & streams and setup radio buttons for commonly used settings?
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With no vm option, I get centered 320x240 full-motion video inside a black border extending to screen edge, running flawlessly for as long as I checked.  Also, when quitting, the display was restored as though X were in control again, rather than whatever it is that happens when bvdd 'takes control'.  You're of course hearing my newbie-speak.

So any idea what happens when the screen goes white?

Thanks!

[vimes]

Someone mentioed it before (not sure it was in this thread though), pymp (http://jdolan.dyndns.org/jaydolan/pymp.html) works great as an mplayer frontend - you'll need pyhton-shell and python-netclient installed to use it (and make to compile/install). Also, with a bit of playing, rox-desktop will play with mplayer straight from rox.
for info my .mplayer/config contains;
vo=sdl
fs=1
vm=1
zoom=1
framedrop=1

... now for my question...
when I first installed pdaxrom, bvdd was working fine and movies played fast and wonderfully... however I did something (can't work out what though) and bvdd will no longer load - moans about tainting the kernel then init_module: Device or resource busy... no bvdd module = no -vo bvdd for mplayer, sadly -vo sdl is nowhere near as good.
I have checked through all ipk's I've installed since it went wrong and can't see anything that would affect bvdd... I have also gone through every version of bvdd I can find - manually extracted bvdd.o and tried to load that in case I'd accidentally overwritten it but no joy...
so... can someone explain why bvdd has broken for me or at worst please suggest a fix because bvdd is just so much better than sdl for video.