Cacko 1.21B- should I be able to play video?

[cgrieves]

As the title says: I have a C860 with Cacko hotfix B and neither Kino2 or XMMS as installed by default seem to be able to play any videos (I've tried various .wmv, xvid and divx files). Kino's play button depresses then just pops back off again. XMMS sits there for 30 seconds or so then just says it's unable to play...

Do I need to install mplayer, codecs or something behind the scenes to get them working?

[stupkid]

Hmm, I have Cacko 1.21b on my c860 and I watch Divx5 AVI's all the time with Kino2.  Sorry if you did this already , but did you install the Cacko ROM and the hotfix package not just the hot fix package on to the default Sharp ROM?

Hope this helps.

[cgrieves]

Yup, I installed the whole shebang!

[stupkid]

Can you play any of the movies from http://www.pocketmovies.net ?

I'm not at a place were I can upload a sample DivX movie so, it will have to be later tonight before I could provide a sample.

[maslovsky]

What are the  resolution, codec and  bitrate of your movies? the best you cna get form mplayer (which is the back end for kino2) is 320x240, MGEP1, MPEG2 or DivX with bitrate at about 300-500 Kb/s.

Also, in kino2 make sure to use Full Screen, overlay, doubel bufer, no scaling and  QVGA mode.

[sigmaX]

I installed Kino2 0.3 in my cacko 1.21 hotfixB, and nothing else ....

I had video right away  No problem at all...

[cgrieves]

What are the  resolution, codec and  bitrate of your movies? the best you cna get form mplayer (which is the back end for kino2) is 320x240, MGEP1, MPEG2 or DivX with bitrate at about 300-500 Kb/s.

Also, in kino2 make sure to use Full Screen, overlay, doubel bufer, no scaling and  QVGA mode.

When you say "best you can get", do you mean it won't play at all with higher res videos , or will it just play badly, i.e. stuttering? In my case the play button registers then immediately cancels itself...

[maslovsky]

When you say "best you can get", do you mean it won't play at all with higher res videos , or will it just play badly, i.e. stuttering? In my case the play button registers then immediately cancels itself...

If video does not start to play at all, the probllem is somewhere else - unsupported video or audio codec, etc. You can launch kino2 from console to see some messages coming out. They may give you a clew on what's happening.

[mr596]

Try running Mplayer at the command line.  This should point out the actual issues.  I've had problems with longer filenames so maybe try reducing the length.