2006-06-18 – v0.4.3c ∞

Seems to work ok. It could have some UI improvements just for polish.

Full-screen video ∞

The bare minimum is:

File > Preferences > Video > Enable smart crop (and uncheck all other video options)

View > Scale to screen

Most videos work just fine with these settings.

Exceptions:

One wmv file I tried didn’t play video, presumably because of a codec issue. The audio played fine. When trying ‘movie player’, I just got a blank screen.
The Black Eyed Peas – Pump It (mpeg) — will not play. The screen fades out, then there is a pause and it fades back in.
Deathstars – Cyanide (avi, 640×256 25fps xvid+mp3) plays poorly.
- Without double buffering it will have rectangles flying through it as it plays.
- With double buffering it has video/audio syncing issues. If frame-dropping is enabled then the dropping is too agressive. When overclocked, it will play better but not good enough. The system will probably hang afterwards though.

using FFmpeg.

For an aspect 4:3 using msmpeg4v2 codec
320×240 or 352×264 with 128kbps mp3 audio

For an aspect 16:9 using msmpeg4v2 codec
352×198 with 128kbps mp3 audio

To rotate in landscape in mplayer : -vop rotate=1 or in mplayer.conf do vop rotate=1

To play a video at full screen in landscape mode from commad line you have to:

1. Create a file called fb.modes in /etc

this is the file’s body

mode "qvga"
geometry 240 320 240 320 16
timings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
endmode

from the command line you can now:

mplayer -really-quiet -framedrop -cache 512 -vo fbdev -fbmode qvga -vm -vop rotate=1 <film_name>

also: