VDPAU: stable 180.44 and 185.19 beta driver
There are two major highlights about the two last released Nvidia VDPAU drivers. The first one is, that the stable driver 180.44 fixed an ugly bug in the x86_64 branch, concerning the VC-1 playback....
View ArticleVDPAU and Window Manager on Jaunty Jackalope – Ubuntu 9.04
Today I did it. I’ve upgraded my system from Intrepid Ibex(8.10) onto Jaunty Jackalope (9.04). My Ubuntu x86_64 installation offered me, as always, a couple of new packages for update, and as I wanted...
View ArticleHowto Map Mplayer Subtitle Commands on a Remote Control
I’ve been looking for a example where I could see, how subtitles for mplayer can be mapped on a remote control. But my search have been quite unsuccessful. Looking for lircrc, example, subtitles and...
View ArticleSed – Renaming with Linux [Part 2]
Some time ago I wrote an article about renaming multiple filenames [1]. Now it happened I needed to rename several subtitles for Star Trek Enterprise because, I’m using a self-made mplayer-wrapper...
View ArticleCreating 3gp Videos with Linux
For the impatient: Read here the compendium. Recently I’ve bought a mid-range mobile phone for my wife. It’s a Nokia 2700 Classic for about 100€. At this price level you don’t have a sophisticated...
View ArticleHOWTO: Missing Audio on Playing Back 3gp Video Files
I’ve recently reported about creating 3gp videos for playing them back with an average mobile phone. I’ve done this by using ffmpeg. Now – since my attention came onto 3gp video files, I was wandering...
View ArticleNew Mplayer slows down AVCHD footage
I’ve built the latest mplayer trunk (r29664) in order being able to play back 3gp videos with sound. All was fine and my 3gp videos had sound after I’ve installed the appropriate libraries, built and...
View Article[HOWTO] Workaround for a broken AVCHD playback with VDPAU on Karmic
The release of Karmic Koala inspired me to upgrade to this new Ubuntu 9.10 version and also to install the latest My Media System (a light Media Center for Linux), wich is version 1.1.2 actually. All...
View ArticleMplayer-vaapi on Oneiric (Ubuntu 11.10) for AMD/ATI HowTo
Mplayer-vaapi is an official branch from the mplayer project team and can be checked out via subversion. VAAPI is an video output device for hardware accelerated HD content playback (VC1, H264). VLC,...
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omxplayer for MMS on Raspberry Pi
Since mplayer doesn’t support accelerated video playback on Raspberry Pi, we have to use omxplayer. This HowTo describes how you can make omxplayer work for MMS on a Raspberry Pi, since MMS won’t...
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