Watching videos on neo freerunner (openmoko 2008.12) mplayer-glamo

[Yorick Moko]

I agree

thought that by now there should be a +/- reliable video player gui
and mpeg4 hw accelerated mplayer ipk standard available
same for mp3 player...
there are a few that work, and those that work are rather extremely basic....

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM, kimaidou <kimaidou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> +1 for the package in opkg
> thanks in advance
>
> 2009/1/11 Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net>
>>
>> can someone package this in an opkg?
>>
>> pottwal4 wrote:
>> > Hi again.
>> >> pottwal4 wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> root at om-gta02:~# mplayer -vo xover:glamo -fs
>> >>> /media/card/big_buck_bunny_320.avi
>> >>>
>> >> mplayer doesn't know on which display it should open the video.
>> >> Try (one line):
>> >> DISPLAY=:0 mplayer -vo xover:glamo -fs
>> >> /media/card/big_buck_bunny_320.avi
>> >
>> > Thanks Daniel, you was right! There was a problem concerning the
>> > $DISPLAY-Variable. But there was an other one, which I fixed, choosing
>> > the output device "-vo glamo" instead of "-vo xover:glamo".
>> >
>> > So for everyone, how cares this what I do to get the example video
>> > running on the freerunner (inspired by
>> > "http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Video_Player"):
>> >
>> > 1. Download an unpack mplayer-glamo
>> > (http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/openmoko/mplayer-glamo.tar.bz2)
>> >
>> > 2. Write a short bash-script "vidplay" to start the video (and save it
>> > on the Freerunner and make it executable (with chmod +x vidplay)):
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> > DISPLAY=:0
>> > xrandr -display :0 --output default --mode 240x320
>> > mplayer -vo glamo "$1" > /dev/null
>> > xrandr -display :0 --output default --mode 480x640
>> > reset
>> >
>> > 3. Encode a video-file on my PC with:
>> > mencoder video-file -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=300
>> > -vf scale=320:240,eq2=1.2:0.5:-.025,rotate=2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts
>> > br=64:cbr -o video-file-FR.avi
>> >
>> > 4. Transfer this file from PC to Freerunner (using scp)
>> > scp video-file root at phone:/media/card/
>> >
>> > 5. Considering that the video-start-script and the video-file are now
>> > both located on the Freerunner in directory /media/card/, start the
>> > video with:
>> > cd /media/card
>> > ./vidplay video-file
>> >
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