Playing Video on pdaXrom

[Synfin0]

Great info padishah.  
Not sure what version of mplayer you\'re looking for, but from cacko QT:

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# mplayer -vo help

MPlayer 0.91-3.3.1  (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory

Reading config file /home/zaurus/.mplayer/config

Available video output drivers:

        fbdev   Framebuffer Device

        png     PNG file

        null    Null video output

        pgm     PGM file

        md5     MD5 sum

        mpegpes Mpeg-PES file

        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")

Edit: Sorry if this isn\'t relevent for pdaXrom (ignored thread title)

[padishah_emperor]

sorry I mean from pdaXrom  ;-)

[hwkeye]

Hi guys,

look at this thread (veedub post)
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...&highlight=qvga

he talks about QVGA and X11 incompatibility.

Maybe an issue is to play Mplayer outside X11.
But we have to found the good mplayer version.
i got mplayer 1.0.3 but it seems to not enable QVGA.

Maybe another issue is to make fbdev:vidix driver working on Zaurus,
anybody know how to ?

cheers.

[eonblueapocalypse]

Thx padishah.I dont forget too that zaurus is also a PDA and watchin videos still is a priority even if programming on it was the main attraction in the first place.the help you asked for:
...
...Reading config file /home/root/.mplayer/config
Available video output drivers :
 

x11    X11 (XImage/Shm )
        fbdev  Framebuffer device
        png     PNG file
        jpeg    JPEG file
        null     NULL video output
        pgm    PGM file
        md5    MD5 sum
        mpegpes  MPEG-PES file
        yuv4mpeg   yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to \"stream .yuv\")
        xvidix      X11 (VIDIX)

[ScottYelich]

is there a summary of how to make/convert/encode video for best performance on the pdaxrom?

Scott

[ikm]

If someone could help us to find an issue for enable QVGA, it could be very useful.

It is very simple actually. It is supported out of the box by the Zaurus framebuffer device driver. You just need to know how to tell it about your needs

There is a standard tool to perform mode switching on framebuffer devices, it is called \'fbset\'. Pdaxrom includes a version of it, but unfortuately, the version supplied (from the busybox suite) is not configured right and so is quite useless.

It has to be recompiled to be useful. With normal \'fbset\', you just do

fbset -xres 320 -yres 240

or

fbset \'mode name\', where mode configurations reside in /etc/fb.modes

and it works

Pdaxrom developers, would you please turn on one option in your busybox configuration?  It\'s \"Linux System Utilities -] fbset -] Turn on fbset readmode support\". The tool would be useful then.

The other problem is that changing current video mode would screw up the running X server. And it has no use with X11 applications

I would actually very much enjoy if the pdaXrom X server supported mode switching via xrandr. ATI Imageon chip supports both 320x240 and 240x320 in hardware. We would have a nice fullscreen performance with games and video, that would be totally awesome!

[padishah_emperor]

ikm

Have you actually done this? Are you able to run mplayer fullscreen? Do you have a compiled binary or ipk?

I could reflash pdaXrom again :-)

I wouldn\'t mind the hassle of quitting X, changing fb mode and running mplayer if that is all that is involved.

[doublec]

Found this page with a newer version of mplayer with support for the Zaurus graphics chip (apparently). I haven\'t tried it though:

http://wiki.self-core.org/atty/?MPlayer

[ikm]

ikm

Have you actually done this? Are you able to run mplayer fullscreen? Do you have a compiled binary or ipk?

Yes. It works fullscreen and plays smoothly.

You can just grab the binary from the Debian project, it works.

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/...2.1-6.1_arm.deb

It\'s in Debian .deb format though, you will have to have linux on the desktop to use either \'dpkg-deb -X fbset_2.1-6.1_arm.deb .\', or \'ar x fbset_2.1-6.1_arm.deb\' and then \'tar xfz data.tar.gz\'. Alternatively it maybe possible to install .deb with ipkg, but I would not recommend.

If somebody\'s willing to put that binary for download somewhere, I can send it. Or he can just extract it himself and put it somewhere

p.s. Beware that console would be screwed up too. It just screws up everything because everything is supposed to work in 640x480 only. The video plays fullscreen perfectly, either from X or from console. It just leaves a mess after itself =) Changing framebuffer to 640x480 right after mplayer exits would help, but not entirely.

[hwkeye]

Hi ikm,

could you give us the right coammand line to play mplayer with fullscreen ?

which command you use starting from scratch ?

fbset -xres 320 -yres 240,
and ........

thanks a lot.

you can send me the package here richardtfr@yahoo.fr

[amrein]

A script to launch it with \'fbset\' and \'clean\' before and after?

[ikm]

Hi ikm,

could you give us the right coammand line to play mplayer with fullscreen ?

which command you use starting from scratch ?

fbset -xres 320 -yres 240,
and ........

Yes, something like

fbset -xres 320 -yres 240 && mplayer -ac mad file.avi && fbset -xres 640 -yres 480

you can send me the package here richardtfr@yahoo.fr

Will you put it somewhere for public download? I don\'t like to be bothered with mass-mailing.

Btw, it\'s not the package, just one executable. To install, assuming it lies on your CF:

rm /usr/sbin/fbset
cp /mnt/cf/fbset /usr/sbin/fbset
chmod +x /usr/sbin/fbset

[amrein]

fbset -xres 320 -yres 240 && ( mplayer -ac mad file.avi ; fbset -xres 640 -yres 480 ; clean )

[ikm]

fbset -xres 320 -yres 240 && ( mplayer -ac mad file.avi ; fbset -xres 640 -yres 480 ; clean )

Yep, that\'s better

[hwkeye]

Hi,

Thanks for yours command line, but ikm, should we use the new fbset package, because there is already one in pdaXrom.

Don\'t worry about mass mailing !!! I don\'t have any FTP to upload the file, but you can send it to me, and if someone ask me for this file, i can give it to him.

Regards,
hwkeye