[vlc] Re: CANNOT play avi and asf with opie-vlc in iPAQ

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Andrew leung wrote:
> Dear Jean - Paul Saman,
> 
> I see. So If i type "opie-vlc xxx.mpg" is it using ffmpeg to decode it (by default) ?
> But I am using MPEG1 from the streaming server, how can I know what codec the opie-vlc is in fact using? I really can't change it so far . 

VLC detects from the stream itself what the best decoder plugin is. If 
you use MPEG-1 it uses it's builtin MPEG-1 decoding plugin. You can 
indeed override this with the commandline. Look at the page: 
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ at the bottom it lists vlc user 
documentation. You can get more information about its commandline syntax 
there.

The see which codecs are builtin in opie-vlc_0.4.6 you type:
$> opie-vlc --list

with
$> opie-vlc -p ffmpeg

you get more information about parameters of the ffmpeg plugin.

> 
> You said no need to have plug in for MPEG4 but are there plug-in in opie-vlc for other codecs?
> 
> 
> I have asked people who develop bluez and posted questions in ffmpeg mailing list, 
> It is quite sure that MAX rate for bluetooth is ~ 700kbps, I am finding out the actual bitrate that ffmpeg stream out from the server, and I am using method to test bluetooth's actual using some built in command.....still working
> 
> 
> Thank you very much, it seems that you are really very very busy!!! thanks for sparing time and answering my questions, :->
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jean-Paul Saman <saman at natlab.research.philips.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:37:58 +0100
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc] Re: CANNOT play avi and asf with opie-vlc in iPAQ
> 
> 
>>Andrew leung wrote:
>>
>>>Dear Jean - Paul Saman,
>>>
>>>Thank you very much for your valuable advices!!
>>>
>>>
>>>for lower bitrate on ffmpeg, I am trying to ask it to do so but I am still working on it, seems that I shall make the picture from 360 X 240 to a smaller size one, but one problem is when ever I call opie-vlc it give me a fullscreen, this strech the small picture to the screen size and resulted in poor resolution, does opie-vlc support non-fullscreen?
>>
>>Opie-vlc does not support non-fullscreen yet. I am busy with improving 
>>the qte native video output plugin, but this takes time. I only have a 
>>couple of hours in the evenings to do all my experiments ;-)
>>
>>
>>>As I mentioned before, I would like to ask vlc to decode H.263 or other codec, but when I type --codecs options, iPAQ complain that unknowned options.....any other plug in required to be intalled into the iPAQ for using H.263 or MPEG4?
>>
>>Not for MPEG4/DivX because that is handled by the ffmpeg builtin plugin 
>>in vlc-0.4.6. For H.263 I cannot tell, because I have no experience with it.
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Kind greetings,
>>
>>Jean-Paul Saman
>>
>>Software Architect
>>
>>e-mail (work): saman at natlab.research.philips.com
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>>------------------------------------------------------------
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>>
>>
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-- 
Kind greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman

Software Architect

e-mail (work): saman at natlab.research.philips.com
phone  (work): 040 27 42909
------------------------------------------------------------
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Science Park Eindhoven 5602, Postbus 293, 5600 AG Eindhoven
e-mail : jean-paul.saman at ordina.nl
phone  : 040 2601200
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