[Angstrom-distro-users] movies on a Zaurus?

[Paul M]

On 08/03/2008, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
>  mplayer dies with vo_pxa: could not open /dev/fb2: 13

this is nothign to do with encoding, it's mplayer missing something.
you might need some specific module for pxa video? try "find
/lib/modules -name "*pxa*" and see if anything looks like a video
driver, check see if loaded with "lsmod" and if not, "insmod" or
modprobe it.

try telling mplayer to use x11 video driver to prove it will do
anything at all.

>  This thread seems inconclusive....
>
>  http://www.mail-archive.com/angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org/msg00261.html

I recall people said there was a problem with the driver on the C1000,
but others found it was OK and loaded it anyway.

>
>  Do I need to rebuild my kernel to include the various pxa_fb* modules?

possibly.

>  Or redo the avi to 320x240? Or rotate it?

I'd optimise the encoding of video once you've seen how well it plays back.