Ok, Not quite working yet . This is the next big thing I want.. video on my deblet so I can watch movies and what-not. We got sound.. now video.

This is what I've figured out so far... the mplayer binary from the maemo package runs. I built an mplayer package from the maemo garage one and modified some of the file locations (IE: desktop file, remove osso-back config files..) and modified the control file to remove dependencies not in deblet (hildon-something) and changed ones with different names.. (libsdl1.2 = libsdl1.2debian; and a different version of libgtk2). Also I believe we need to same hack that I've described to get flash working (for esd): here. (haven't tested on stock deblet without that change yet)

The config file on maemo needs some changes to work right...

I left the menu.conf file alone. Now using the debian mplayer and playing an AVI file gets choppy sound... but using the maemo binary plays perfect and sound works great. (for avi's... FLV's for some reason not-so-much.)

Now.. I say it plays perfect.. which is true - except not in full screen mode. If you full screen mplayer you just get a little box with the colors all distorted and messed up (same problem I think happened in maemo after applying one of the many useful tricks around here.. like rotation kernel or something.. don't recall).

You can drag and resize the window and it'll look fine.. but flipping to full screen = broke. And also we need to come up with a way to make it so that before mplayer is launched it turns off the 30 second screen dimming... having to hit the screen every 30 seconds while watching a movie gets really annoying . I'm thinking some kind of "mplayer" wrapper script and rename "mplayer" to "mplayer-bin" or something.. the script turns off DIM, plays, and turns on dim when you close mplayer. Soon as we get a package that works I will add it to my deblet repo.

Any thoughts? Comments? Helpful hints?