AFAIK mplayer has a gui frontend however I never use it since I preffer the CLI. On 7/5/07, Juha Kuikka <juha.kuikka at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7/5/07, David Rudder <drig at noses.org> wrote: > > > The media player finds my MythTV server, but it refuses to play any > > videos. It turns out that the videos are stored in standard definition > > format, which the Nokia can't play. Why do they advertise it's video > > capabilities if it can't play standard videos? I'm using a WinTV > > PVR-500 to record MPEG-4 videos.They play great on my Linux desktop > > and my Windows laptop, but they refuse to play on my N800, even though > > Nokia advertises that it plays MPEG-4. > > > Hauppauge's PVR cards have MPEG2 encoders in them. So by default the > generated video is MPEG2 which the n800 does not support. At last it did > not support the last time I looked into this. > > Can anyone help? > > I've tried transcoding files to flash, but they look awful and are very > > choppy. Not watchable. I also tried transcoding down to a lower > > resolution with similar problems. At least they play, but what good is > > a 800x600 screen if the videos have to be 288x160? And, even then, the > > fast forward doesn't work and it regularly hangs and the video and audio > > doesn't sync. > > > My experience is now six months old so things may have changed but I was > able to view and play transcoded mpeg4 videos from MythTV using the n800 > UPNP client but only after tweaking MythTV's UPNP server a bit. > > In general, looking at the list it seems that n800's video decoding > performance is not very good with the default codecs. What I have read on > the list about n800 mplayer port it looks very promising but of course it > does not support UPNP. Maybe some kind of UPNP frontend for mplayer would be > feasible solution. At least with MythTv it would be pretty trivial because > it only support the http transport which mplayer is able to use natively. > > / Juha > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > -- Kahlil Johnson "Ya tengo GMAIL!!" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070705/e382b91f/attachment.htm
