A new release of MPlayer build for maemo is available. It was upgraded to upstream release 1.0rc1 and now has better FLV support. At least now I can't reproduce these lockup problems on some FLV files that were reported before. Audio delay can now be configured from the OSD menu. Also WMA playback should be supported now but as the decoder heavily uses floating point, only very low bitrates can be played normally (see http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-dev...er/006437.html).
There were no improvements for GUI due to lack of free time, also I'm not very good at GUI programming, so any help would be welcome
Forgot to mention that because of upgrading to a new upstream version, lots of things have changed/improved internally but we can expect more bugs. If you notice any regressions, please report them. Next releases should be much more stable.
Could it be useful with the 770 version of MPlayer too ? Gtk2+Python sound like a good fit...
Thanks for this link, I already evaluated this frontend when considering what to use for MPlayer GUI on Nokia 770 (along with others from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html). It worked somewhat, but was not very usable and still needed a lot of tweaks anyway, in addition it has python as a dependency and that may be not very desirable. So current GUI was written from scratch and is specifically tuned for Nokia 770 (it matches my vision of best usability - requires minimum efforts to find and watch any video stored on mmc card and is also usable without stylus).
Surely, alternative GUI frontends (and improvements for the current one) are very much welcome. Don't forget about mplayer garage trackers, they can be used to submit bugreports, feature requests and patches, so that issue reports do not get lost in a long forum thread
A new version of maemo mplayer package (mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.4) now contains video output method which uses hardware YUV colorspace. For normal users it means that mplayer got some noticeable performance improvement and it can handle some more complicated and previously unwatchable videos better now
It is important to reboot your device after installing this new mplayer package for the new video output method to become active. Unless you reboot, you will just get the good old x11 and sdl video output methods just like in the older versions. Installer just adds 'user' to 'video' group, so that mplayer can access /dev/fb0 device, but unfortunately these changes take effect only after reboot.
Just like any release with some big improvements, this version is still considered experimental and may contain bugs. If you notice any issue, please report it here.
Also it is worth to mention that unlikely some other software for 770, mplayer is a standalone and nonintrusive package, so the risk of getting your system screwed up after installing it is extremely low
Just uploaded a new build (mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.5). It contains only a minor tweak which eliminates any need of rebooting the device after installing mplayer package. So now installing mplayer is just as easy as it was before
After playing with these new versions a bit more, I think that it is quite good and if no problems get reported in the next few days, it will be promoted to 'stable' and uploaded to garage extras repository. So feedback is very much appreciated.
After playing with these new versions a bit more, I think that it is quite good and if no problems get reported in the next few days, it will be promoted to 'stable' and uploaded to garage extras repository. So feedback is very much appreciated.
I've been having a bunch of 'unresponsive' dialogs but I havin'g verified the culprit (recently did the maemo 2.1upgrade). Not enough info to report outside of this mentioning.
