A few MPlayer tips for the weekend
Posted on April 21, 2007
Filed Under Maemo, N800, Tips, Tutorials |
The MPlayer from maemo has become a higly usable and pretty stable piece of software. I’m using the currently latest version 1.0_rc1-maemo.14.800 in my N800 thats available from the garage. I use a modified 770-encode.pl to transcode vidcasts etc. in my linux server.
This is the trascoding setting in the script that i use:
n800 => { abitrate => 128, vbitrate => 640, width => 400, height => 240, fps => 30 },
I also used sync those files to my device with a grsync configuration, but recently I’ve been mainly streaming through an http server.
The tip part of this post comes here.
Most of you probably know that mplayer is able to stream video, by simply cut’n pasting the url to the textarea, and pressing the play button. But sometimes when you’re using your tablet over 3G data, or the connection to the server is for some other reason too low, the streaming fails.
In this case, i’ve found it useful to first start to a video download from the browser, and then starting mplayer. Even though the file isn’t finished, it shows up in the mplayer filelist, and you can start watching. The time-delay between starting a download and watching it should be adjusted according to filesize/connection speed etc. for obvious reasons.
Happy downloading and fave a nice weekend!
PS. Please also tell me about your own tips and tricks when it comes to tablet video.
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