Most of the videos i play with mplayer are very slow (i.e. more a slideshow than a video). Without sound its a bit better, but some videos still hang.

What could be the reason?

2bsterix: A short answer: Nokia 770 hardware is not fast enough to play any random video you can feed to it. So for best performance with highest visual quality it needs to be transcoded anyway. But now properly transcoded video plays much better in MPlayer than the same video transcoded for use with the default video player and frame rate does not need to be halved (I find 15 fps video not very enjoyable).

Check these links:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...&postcount=158
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...&postcount=128

I think it is time to prepare some FAQ or we will get flooded with the same questions.

PS. There is still a lot of potential for performance optimizations, but don't expect any miracles.

Please use MPlayer garage page to submit bugreport or support request with the detailed description of what you did and what you have seen in the process, we'll try to help you. This forum thread is just getting too long and unmanageable.

As for older versions of MPlayer builds for maemo, they were not packaged for application manager. And considering that you are not very familiar with linux in general, it would be hard for you to try them and just even more questions can arise.

[QUOTE=Ed_]It seems that you have some packages unconfigured on your device.
Could you show me the output of this command: 'dpkg --configure -a" please?
You should run it from root account.

hi ed - ran the abv command and got this output

/home/user # dpkg --configure -a
Setting up libncurses5 (5.5-1) ...

Setting up libvte-common (0.12.1-1mh9) ...
Setting up libvte4 (0.12.1-1mh9) ...

Setting up osso-xterm (0.13.mh13) ...

ran the application mgr and now it works!!!! You guys are great. Thanks for your help all.

does anyone have maba's MPGUI file hosted somewhere? Maba - your link is down so cant acces the file

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If any of you are having strange crashes and buggy behaviour, please also have a look at this thread: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=3040

MPlayer has quite a big code size ~5MB, so theoretically crash on start may be caused by it being loaded to a faulty region memory.

OK, done!

thanks mate.

Hello,(sorry for my english, im a swiss boy ;) can anyone help me to show youtube videos without slow video? I try tihs code always: mplayer -ao gst -vo sdl /home/user/MyDocs/get_video.flv
This code plays video and sound. But the video is slower than sound. Can anyone help me?

2nokkiaa: Don't use '-vo sdl' option, it is slow. Also '-ao gst' is not needed as it is already used by default. The only option you may want to use in some cases is '-vo x11' when playing video with non-optimal resolution (it will disable scaling, but will work faster). By the way, if you find youtube video clips that have playback problems (even after adding '-vo x11'), please report links to them here.

WMV file
 

Hello, thanks for the latest 4 Beta. I'm running into missing codecs on a WMV file. Can you guys advise how to tell if my file is WMV9 and therefore not supported? I'm creating the file from a Slingbox stream recorded by Applian Replay A/V/At Large Recorder formerly called Slingcorder.