[maemo-users] [maemo-users] extending 770 video player

[From: Jeremy Mcnicoll]

What is the objective of this exercise?

Depends on what kind of video you are using.  As well it depends on
the way that you are encoding it.  Take a look at the VideoEncoding
link on the wiki.  You should do some experiments using the info from
there.


On 6/11/06, Loreno Oliveira <lorenooliveira at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the answer!
>
> Well, can you tell something about the performance of VLC on 770?? I did
> some tests with the Familiar Linux version of VLC on an iPAQ 3900 series (I
> do not remember the exact version right now...). The basic test was to
> reproduce a video, stored in the device itself, and the performance was
> terrible. The video was not displayed continuosly. There were delays of 3 to
> 5 seconds for updating the image. I did not tried to playback network
> streams. If playback of local files performed so poorly, i believe that
> reproducing network streams will not be better...
>
> Well, the question is: should I spend some more time trying to compile VLC
> for 770 or do I will have also problems with performance??
>
> Loreno
>
>
> On 6/11/06, Jeremy Mcnicoll <jeremymc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been successful at cross compiling VLC for the N770.  Though
> > its not for the faint of heart.  Shortly I will post some instructions
> > on how to do this, or maybe I will redo it for Maemo 2.0... .  There
> > is someone that has some instructions for cross compiling VLC 0.7 I
> > believe here:
> >
> > http://n770galaxy.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Then you can easily take the plung into 0.8.4a ;-)
> >
> > As well if you search the mailing lists people have had success with
> > mplayer using the Zaurus packages.
> >
> > You can even stream to mplayer using something like this.
> > Assuming you have VLC streaming some video file on another machine to
> > the location http://192.168.66.199:8001/blah.avi
> >
> > /var/lib/install/usr/bin/wget
> http://192.168.66.199:8001/blah.avi -O -
> > | mplayer -cache 8192 -
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry I could elaborate further on any of these since I am getting
> > ready for a presentation to a local LUG that I attend.  The
> > presentation will be on the 770 of course... ;-)
> >
> >
> > On 6/11/06, Loreno Oliveira <lorenooliveira at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I'm getting started with nokia 770 and maemo programming. Well, I need
> to
> > > write a lightweight video player for 770. The idea is to create a player
> for
> > > reproducing different kinds of streams of audio/video. I've tried to use
> the
> > > 770's video player, but I was not able to reproduce my mms stream. I've
> also
> > > tried to compile VLC for 770, but it was taking me a lot of time and I
> > > aborted this idea. So I tried to compile some small examples of the
> live555
> > > api, and they do worked fine with 770, but for audio only, because the
> > > examples have not a visual interface implemented for reproducing videos.
> > >
> > > Well, instead of creating a new video player from scratch, is there any
> way
> > > of extending the 770's video player? is there some document where I can
> > > start reading for doing this? The idea is to utilize the 770's video
> player
> > > interface itself and just implement the stream reception module.
> > >
> > > I've searched the maemo site and didn't find any manual in this sense.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > Loreno
> > >
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