Movie Playing

[DaMightyWhightyMan]

thanks everyone for your help

xrandr -s 1; sleep 1;  mplayer -fstype fullscreen -fs movie.avi; sleep 1; xrandr -s 0

froze my c860 while trying to seek, seems to be a better solution ATM though.

Is there going to be any movie watching improvments in the next pdaxrom release?

[gromituk]

I presume, as nobody mentions 640x480, that this resolution of video replay is impossible on the Z - not enough hardware acceleration or something?

[DaMightyWhightyMan]

I was able to play at .5 fps

[gromituk]

Ha ha ha!  Presumably there's something more wrong than just four times the data rate. though, or you'd only be able to play QVGA at 2fps!

[scoutme]

the fact is that there is NO possibility to use direct frame buffer acceleration in 640x480, since the ati chip has 384 k of vram embedded

[rgrep]

EDIT: Videos are still freezing once in a while, I'll keep at it...

I think I might have solved the freezing problem by disabling use of the RTC device with the -nortc option.  My movie playing script is:

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#!/bin/sh

xrandr -s 1
sleep 1
mplayer -nortc -framedrop -fstype fullscreen -fs "$@"
sleep 1
xrandr -s 0
It's still early days in my testing but so far I haven't had any movies freeze on me.

Matt

[Laze]

We have also discovered that turning of transparency and other "eye candy" in aterm removes the need for sleep 1 - also try using xterm - it seems to be alot more stable when resizing the screen up and down.

[Xumbi]

EDIT: Videos are still freezing once in a while, I'll keep at it...

I think I might have solved the freezing problem by disabling use of the RTC device with the -nortc option.  My movie playing script is:

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#!/bin/sh

xrandr -s 1
sleep 1
mplayer -nortc -framedrop -fstype fullscreen -fs "$@"
sleep 1
xrandr -s 0
It's still early days in my testing but so far I haven't had any movies freeze on me.

Matt

The -nortc switch seems to do the trick!  I've played through a simpsons mpeg, and another divx movie without any freezing.  Before they would freeze about half way through.

Thanks for writing a better script than I did by the way.

Now all we need is a gui, and some simple instructions on how to encode DVDs into the best format for mplayer pdaXrom.  I'm guessing it would be divx.

[pgas]

Now all we need is a gui, and some simple instructions on how to encode DVDs into the best format for mplayer pdaXrom. I'm guessing it would be divx.

You can start looking at the video howto  here on the ZUG

[hwkeye]

Hi guys,

Anybody knows how to increase font for subtitle ?

Thanks a lot.

[Newbix]

the fact is that there is NO possibility to use direct frame buffer acceleration in 640x480, since the ati chip has 384 k of vram embedded

So, how does the X server gets 640x480 ?

[scoutme]

simply, the chip uses ram instead of videoram

[Zumi]

Hi guys,

Anybody knows how to increase font for subtitle ?

Thanks a lot.

Download one of the font packs from here and follow the instruction in the file. It works for me on my desktop computer this way, haven't tried on my Z so far.

Hope it works,
Zumi

[hwkeye]

Hi Zumi,

Thanks for your tips. I will try when I go back home.

Have you ever tested the subtitle ?

mplayer -vobsub subtitle_file movie_file

warning : you must have subtitle_file.idx and subtitle_file.sub in the same directory.

Of course you can use all parameters (for fullscreen) talking above on this thread.

[Zumi]

Hi Zumi,

Thanks for your tips. I will try when I go back home.

Have you ever tested the subtitle ?

mplayer -vobsub subtitle_file movie_file

warning : you must have subtitle_file.idx and subtitle_file.sub in the same directory.

Of course you can use all parameters (for fullscreen) talking above on this thread.

I'm using subs with the mplayer quite frequently. You're using wrong options. "-sub <subtitlefile>" goes for subtitles which are in regular subtitle format (.sub, .srt for example). You need -vobsub only when you want to view subs ripped from a DVD. (which consist of a ".idx", ".ifo" and a ".sub")

From the mplayer man page:

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     -vobsub
              Specify a VOBsub file to use for subtitles.  Has to be the  full  pathname
              without extension, i.e. without the ".idx", ".ifo" or ".sub".

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      -sub
              Use/display  these  subtitle files.  Only one file can be displayed at the
              same time and the files can be switched with "j".