[Angstrom-distro-users] mplayer woes

[Oliver Fels]

Oliver Fels wrote:
> Tim Chick wrote:
> > I can confirm the overlay stuff works fine on the 6 akitas we tried it on
> > at work. It was built into the kernel in just the same way as for spitz.
> >
> > I'll update the recipes and rebuild properly, then give that a test. The
> > tested akitas used a 2.6.21 kernel.
>
> I can also confirm that it works with a 2.6.23 kernel.
> It did not build automatically as the defconfig-akita file did not contain
> the PXA_OVERLAY option and the patch did not get automatically applied.
> However patching manually made it work.
>
> mplayer is playing it right (must be rotated in most cases, -vf rotate=1)
> giving -vo pxa as long as the movie does not exceed the resolution limits
> in which case one has to scale the movie before playing it.

OK, that was too quick. It plays well the first time and brings the Akita to a 
halt the next time mplayer is run even with the same parameters.

Oliver