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For a number of years I have been running an old linux laptop as a media server. Using a few basic tools like get_iplayer, mplayer, vlc and a tv tuner,
I am able to play video/audio/live tv locally and also stream that content over
the internet. I am fairly familiar with the tools I use and prefer to stay with what I have in terms of software, at least for the present, maybe take a look at XBMC further down the line...

I am in the process of moving to a RasPi. Now I find, I can't do the simplest things satisfactorily, for a start, I am having problems playing video with mplayer, I have always used just something like $mplayer -cache 1024 filename.flv and the video played perfectly, even with iPlayer HD content. With the RasPi it is unwatchable, with a jerky frame-dropped effect. I suspect this is only a matter of configuration or codec options or something similar but, seriously, at my age (63), I don't have the patience to
dig around searching the internet and experimenting.

For starters, can someone help me with the following:-
1: Playing videos with mplayer. (in best quality).
2: Making the video image full screen ( using the HDMI o/p) the mplayer -f
option just gives a mid-size pillar-box effect in the middle of the screen with a wide black border...
3: Directing the mplayer video output to hdmi o/p when operating remotely,
I know that this probably involves piping mplayer o/p to /dev/fb0, just need the syntax.

Help much appreciated,
regards,
an old mainframe sysprog..

Hi,

I believe the only movie player software that makes use of the gpu is omxplayer. This is what xbmc uses under the covers.

Hope that works for you.

RobHenry wrote:Hi,

I believe the only movie player software that makes use of the gpu is omxplayer. This is what xbmc uses under the covers.

Hope that works for you.

Ok thanks for that. I have been playing around with omxplayer.
How do I get the o/p to go to the hdmi output socket? I am logging on via wifi.

When I first ran omxplayer it gave me an access violation on /dev/fb0,
great I thought, that's the hdmi o/p. I added group 'video' , end of violation.
I thought, just start an x session on the hdmi monitor and run omxplayer
on a file and the output should be on the hdmi monitor..... No such luck!

Have you tried running omxplayer with the '-o hdmi' option.


Regards

Nick

nickon314 wrote:Have you tried running omxplayer with the '-o hdmi' option.


Regards

Nick

All working now thanks, had to give GPU more memory, I had set it to minimum.
Thanks anyway...
Richard.