[...] and I have had no luck installing mplayer and vlc. Any success stories? Any help/suggestions? [...]
I started tinkering around with Video just recently and had similar experiences. Most of the stuff out there either requires you to run some sort of patched ROM or, even worse, OpenZaurus
The remaining stuff seems to be fairly flaky --
if it works at all. In the end, I gave up on the idea of using something pre-built and decided to do what I should have done from the start: build my own binary.
In the end I decided on
vlc, since it turned out to be the easiest code to handle. I built myself a nice statically linked binary using
ffmpeg,
libmpeg2,
theora,
faad2,
libmad and
Tremor. Granted, it's almost 2MByte in size (and that's stripped
and compressed with uclx!), but it's the first player that will happily play most of the files that I want it to play (with the exception of 3GPP files with AMR audio -- but that's an issue with vlc, as it seems) ... on my (somewhat patched, I'll admit) 2.38G ROM.
I even QAD-hacked a bit of code into the QTE video_out module that allows skipping forward/backward 30s or a playlist item and quitting the player using the Zaurus keys.
If you're interested, I'm sure I could find some way to provide you with the binary.
Best regards,
Chris.
