[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer can't run under arm's framebuffer

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On 9/22/06, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 05:02:37PM +0800, tony li wrote:
> >
> > I am porting mplayer to ARM platform. And have compiled it successfully, but
> > failed in running under ARM platform. The problem is the following, anyone
> > have some idea about this. It is urgent.
>
> It seems that some sort of ARM port already exists:
>
> http://atty.skr.jp/WebSVN/listing.php?repname=mplayer-w100&path=%2F&sc=0

As Guillame already mentioned, it is not ARM port (MPlayer already
works on ARM fine), but Zaurus port. Most problematic things are video
and audio output which should be tweaked for each platform separately
and specialized video and output modules can really help much to
improve performance or just to be able to see some video or hear some
sounds. Just imagine for example an x86 box with a very strange and
nonstandard videocard (which does not have a working output driver, or
supports only a fixed resolution with no hardware YUV and scaling by
default with horrible performance), does this box need 'porting
mplayer to x86'? So we need to know more details about target platform
of the original poster, knowing that it uses ARM cpu is just not
enough.

> Somebody should get in contact with that guy and make him submit patches
> to us...

If my information is correct, this guy just can't speak English. So
the best way to get his patches integrated is to find somebody in
Zaurus community who can do that. Just waiting and blaiming him for
being noncooperative will not bring us anywhere :)