Mplayer

Introduction

Every Armadeus motherboard is capable of playing small MPEG videos with the help of the great Mplayer tool. It was successfully tested with 320x240 and 480x272 LCDs. Mplayer is using the Linux Framebuffer to display the videos.

Installation

• Activate mplayer package in Buildroot configuration:

[armadeus]$ make menuconfig

• save your configuration and then build it:

[armadeus]$ make

• finally reflash your rootfs

Usage

• Fullscreen (centered) with no sound:

# mplayer -fs -nosound video.mpg

Troubleshots

• disable blinking cursor

To see Mega Therion from the band Therion on The lcd screen of the Armadeus Board. (played from nfs) http://e-ghosting.com/~jujun/080119_202525.3gp

Converting videos

To convert your videos to fit the board's LCD format, you can use ffmpeg on your PC:

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

• To show current video format:

$ ffmpeg -i my_video.mpg
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
.......
Input #0, mpeg, from 'my_video.mpg':
 Duration: 00:00:01.7, start: 0.220000, bitrate: 2522 kb/s
 Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p, 352x288, 1150 kb/s, 25.00 fps(r)
 Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Must supply at least one output file

• To convert it to 320x240 format:

$ ffmpeg -i my_video.mpg -s 320x240 my_video_320x240.mpg

Links

• Framebuffer configuration
• Mplayer website