[vlc] Re: vlc on ipaq

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Mildred Frisco wrote:
> thanks. but is there somebody on the list who has actually done it?  can i
> have an assessment of its performance and how easy is it to install?
> thank you

I am the port maintainer for iPaq. VLC for iPaq supports GTK+, GPE and 
Opie for Familiar Linux distributions. Only the GTK and GPE package 
support an user interface.

The Opie support is not yet finished. It lacks a GUI but is usable from 
the commandline and can be started by the script opie-vlc. If you want 
to use vlc with Opie just do:

for network: opie-vlc udp://@:1234

or for local file: opie-vlc <myfile.mpg>

Installing is just downloading the ipk files and using "ipkg install 
<package.ipk>"
- for GPE: gpe-vlc, libffmpeg packages are needed
- for GTK: vlc, libffmepg packages are needed
- for Opie: opie-vlc, libffmpeg, opie-sdl packages are needed

As you must know the iPaq has limited CPU horsepower, so it cannot and 
will never decode a video that has requires a big bandwidth. Best 
results can be obtained with a scaled down video in bandwidth and screen 
size. Personally I use video with screen size 240X192 but 240x320 will 
also do fine, however 1024x768 will not work well. It requires too much 
CPU to decode.

Further DivX support is present but it is requires more CPU to decode it 
then MPEG1 or MPEG2.

Bottomline is for successfull demos use a small video (small in 
bitrate/bandwidth and screensize).

-- 
Kind greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman

Software Architect

e-mail (work): saman at natlab.research.philips.com
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