MPlayer, a video/audio player ported to the Zipit 2

Introduction

This is a quick port of MPlayer for the Zipit 2. It is not optimized. It is simply proof-of-concept work. You may want to use the latest OpenEmbedded build instead of the port documented here.

Compile

This release was compiled in Scratchbox with the following ./configure options. This is based of the MPlayer 1.0 RC1 source with a couple tweaks to work around linking issues.

CFLAGS= ./configure --enable-fbdev --enable-static --charset=US-ASCII --enable-theora

Installation

First, you'll need a shell environment to run MPlayer in. Then, copy the "mplayer" executable (in the archive attached to this page) to the "bin" folder on the SD card.

Use

Once the Zipit 2 is booted with your SD card, enter "mplayer" into the terminal, along with the multimedia file you want it to play. The best options to use MPlayer with on the Zipit 2 are the following:

mplayer (multimedia filename) -vo fbdev -vf rotate=2,scale=240:320

Remember to replace "(multimedia filename)" with the name of the file you want to play.

Notes

• Video rendering is slow
• Sound does not work at this point
• The terminal cursor blinks while videos are being played

Download

The latest release is available ClemsonLinux.org. The latest source is available also at ClemsonLinux.org.

Changelog

• v0.1 (21/01/2008)
  • Initial Release

Todo

• Fix Sound
• Find optimizations to speed up video playing