[Angstrom-distro-users] mplayer woes

[Tim Chick]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 16:43, 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.
>
As before, if you give the -vm option it will swap into 320x240, crop to the 
centre of the video, and rotate if the video is wider than tall.

The reason why the rotation is needed is the *actual* hardware screen 
resolution is 480x640, (portrait), not 640x480 (landscape), and there is no 
hardware rotation.

I can extend the Vm to use 480x640 mode above a certain video size if it is 
useful to anyone? Video playback is not good at this resolution though.

Thanks,
Tim