Thanks Serge, I did follow the instructions to remove the config file before installing the new .deb version of mplayer but then tried to run the old ./mplayer command from the previous directory where an old version of mplayer was still stored. I imagine this could have re-created the file? (What else should we delete from an old mplayer install i.e. the old mplayer executable?)

Anyway config was there again, I removed it and now mplayer playback is very good and it looks like audio is fine with a quick test thank you for your help! :D

--edit-- It seems I do not need the -bandwidth option now either :o Thanks very much Serge it works very very well streaming from TVersity.

Tried the new .deb package. It installed fine, but all I get when I try to run mplayer in xterm is "Segmentation fault" message. Any ideas why this happens?

2itkach: Do you use swap? Some problems with crashes on start have been observed before: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...8&postcount=96
Also you can try to reboot the device to see if it helps.

Rebooting didn't help. Turning swap off didn't help. Rebooting after turning off swap didn't help. It doesn't even get to the point of printing out something meaningful like in the other thread. All I get is

Can mplayer play .rm files? Is there any particular command line to input?

how do I play video on memory card
 

I am a newbie to Linux and Xterm, I understand how to run mplayer in Xterm, but have a few questions.

Do I need to be root to run a video off my memory card? If so, does 'sudo su' solve that issue.

I have a video in a folder 'Videos' on my memory card. Do I need to have mplayer installed somewhere specific to access it, like I have seen in this forum, about moving it to the /usr/bin? So to run the video off the memory card, what would be the path I need for mplayer to access it?

Thanks

If you have latest mplayer installed just start xterm session and type

mplayer /media/mmc1/Videos/<filenameandextension>

If you have used a combination of upper and lower case characters for your video folder and filename then type the same in xterm.

Thanks MikeL, you keep saving me. Next I will try the Opera to mplayer that you are doing with TVersity. That I need to gain root on for that to work correct? Which means I will need Dropbear and work with Wiki directions for gaining root, right?

Wait, If you are just trying TVersity from inside your own network you do not need Hamachi etc. Its just simply a matter of pointing the browser to ***.***.***.***:41952/LIB Then if you traverse the Tree and select a video URL pasting it in xterm i.e. mplayer -bandwidth 10000000 <TVersity provided URL> it should work more or less. Take a look at this thread over at TVersity forum http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic...er=asc&start=0

Please read end of thread as this is more relevant with regard to profiles.xml settings in TVersity when using mplayer.

Please do bare in mind I have been testing so thoughts ideas and collection of information may be a bit hap hazard at this stage.

When trying the new deb version I cannot seem to get the same performance with the mplayer.conf setup as I can with the following script I was using

It seems to ignore the gst also and uses esd unless I specify in the command line. Same goes with x11.

So what am I doing wrong?