Re: [beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-12-03 Thread Scott Force
Sorry for the delay but I have been very busy of late. I just finally ordered my BeagleBone Black today so I can't try any of this out, however I find something to try. Apparently mplayer has a framebuffer that has been optimized for the OMAP platform -- omapfb. I don't have time to search

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-12-03 Thread Scott Force
This seemed to help someone else with a log output similar to yours from mplayer: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/mplayer-us...@mplayerhq.hu/2012-07/msg00162.html Also found a mention of the above potential fix on mplayers website: 2010-06-06, Sunday :: Updates and workarounds

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-12-03 Thread Scott Force
As far as the alternative live555 option, I found this informative webpage: http://www.live555.com/mplayer/ On 3 December 2013 16:58, Scott Force scooby.fo...@gmail.com wrote: This seemed to help someone else with a log output similar to yours from mplayer:

[beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-11-28 Thread Brent
Scott, I tried building VLC using: bitbake vlc, but it fails, and I have no idea how to fix this. The output from the bitbake recipe is below. Any suggestions? ERROR: Function failed: do_compile (see

[beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-11-27 Thread Brent
Here is my output from mplayer: It just sits there and does nothing... root@beaglebone:~# mplayer -vo fbdev2 -zoom -x 800 -y 480 rtsp://184.72.239.149 /vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_115k.mov MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team

[beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Force
If VLC doesn't work or you don't want to try it then it would help if you could post the log\output from one of the video players. On Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:34:49 UTC-5, Scott Force wrote: VLC does have a console interface via ncurses. I have used it on my desktop system before under

[beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-11-23 Thread Brent
Has anyone had any luck playing videos on the Beaglebone? It it just a setting or codec I'm missing? On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:15:06 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: This should be straightforward, but I'm having some problems getting this to work. Using mplayer, I use the following command:

[beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-11-23 Thread Scott Force
I am in the process of ordering my very first BeagleBone Black so I can't attest to how it plays videos. Maybe try a different video player such as VLC and see if it makes a difference. On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 15:15:06 UTC-5, Brent wrote: This should be straightforward, but I'm