[APP] Zmplayer 1.0: optimized mplayer and frontend for a1200

[bragon]

We are pleased to announce the release of zmplayer version 1.0 a package that includes:
- an accelerated version of mplayer based on v1.0pre8 with the following enhancements:
1) zaurus patch including the zaurus PXA27x iWMMX acceleration code making use of the Intel Integrated Performance Primitive
2) bring 18bpp support for a1200/a910 phones
3) prevent fbdev initialization since it crashes on 19bpp phones
4) accelerate YUV2RGB conversion using Intel IPP library for 16bpp phones (a780/e680)
5) perform cache optimized 8x8 block rotations and also adds contextual rotation based on aspect ratio (rotate=9 or rotate=10 option)
6) allow osd and subtitle rotation through subrotate=1 or subrotate=2 option
- a minimalistic ezx mplayer frontend: zmplayer that consists of the launcher and an event handler communicating with the mplayer process. This frontend takes care of disabling power management to keep the screen backlight on.

Note that enhancements 2 through 6 are custom patches made by us which basically ensures that the mplayer binary provided is the fastest one for ezx phones
More details are available at http://www.courville.org/mediawiki/index.php/EZX

Though distributed as a separate package you can build your own latest mplayer binary version by using the mkezx http://dev.jerryweb.org/mkezx/ which provides a distribution debian like packaging framework for creating native applications.
Unfortunately the source code of the ezx mplayer frontend: zmplayer will not be distributed for now.

In order to install this package you need to:
1) if and only if you own an A1200, first install yan0.rar archive available here http://www.motorolafans.com/index.ph...wnload&id=1872 from the forum topic http://www.motorolafans.com/index.ph...ewtopic&t=3307 providing the mpkg installer (MPKG_A1200.rar) that enables the installation of unsigned .pkg packages.
Don't forget the make the right association by touching the package icon you wish to install until a menu appears and select "open with" mpkg striking the "always use the program..." box.
2) install the provided package through the use of mpkg program for A1200 or the native installer for A780
3) if you own an A1200, switch your phone off and on to see the zmplayer icon in the application manager
4) download an avi video in your phone transflash and make the association with zmplayer application. The association is performed by touching the avi file to play until a menu appears and select "open with" zmplayer striking the "always use the program..." box.

If you wish to convert a video for the phone an example script: mkvideo-ezx.sh based on mencoder is included in the package.

A1200/A780 key/function mapping:
- Volume select: toggle Volume/Brightness/Contrast/Speed/Audio delay/Subtitle delay
- Volume+: decrease volume selection
- Volume-: increase volume selection
- Navigation up: slow rewind
- Navigation down: slow forward
- Navigation right: fast forward
- Navigation left: fast rewind
- Navigation select: pause
- A1200 specific Camera: toggle OSD
- A780 specific Camera: quit
- A1200 specific End (Off): quit
- Send (Home): toggle menu

Global shell variables:
ZMPLAYER_BACKGROUND: specifies the location of the background.avi to display if zmplayer is called without argument.
ZMPLAYER_LEFT_HANDED: if not empty then assumes the phone is turned the other way. rotate=10 and subrotate=2 need to be specified in .mplayer/config file.

Based on this contribution we would like to investigate if it is sufficient to gain developer status on this forum

Authors: bragon and dbateman

Enjoy!

Revision: post edited to take into account dbateman's remark, the attachement has been replaced with the correct one

[linelock]

Wow, great news. Can't wait to get this installed. Thanks for your effeorts.

[dbateman]

There is a trivial bug in this version. The file zmplayer/.mplayer/config perhaps shouldn't include "ao=null" that was there only for test so as to not annoy nearby neighbours. Can you upload a new version. For those that can't wait the way to fix the package on a unix like system is to run the commands

unzip zmplayer-a1200-v1_0.zip
tar xpBvf zmplayer-a1200-v1_0.pkg
cat zmplayer/.mplayer/config | sed -e 's:ao=null::g' > config.tmp
mv -f config.tmp zmplayer/.mplayer/config
rm zmplayer-a1200-v1_0.pkg
tar cvf zmplayer-a1200-v1_0.pkg zmplayer

and then you can upload the pkg file to the phone..

D.

[Alpha43]

Any screen shots of the player in action?
~Alpha~

[bragon]

dbateman,

thanks for pointing out the issue. I have replaced the attachement with the hopefully correct oone. The original post has been edited and thus it is not necessary for the new downloaders to apply dbateman patch.

Sorry for the invovenience.

[lazyivan]

dbateman,

thanks for pointing out the issue. I have replaced the attachement with the hopefully correct oone. The original post has been edited and thus it is not necessary for the new downloaders to apply dbateman patch.

Sorry for the invovenience.

Thanks you so much, I will try it and post the screen shot later

[inijohan]

@Bragon, Dbateman
What's the difference between this ZMPlayer and E680i's EPlayer and CMPlayer? Could you please tell me? Thanks.

[bragon]

inijohan,

zmplayer is a minimalistic qt frontend that does nothing fancy like cmplayer, it is more comparable to eplayer (as a frontend): it handles power management and key events to pass them to mplayer. We have chosen to handle file selection and playlist through the mplayer osd menu itself.

The big difference with this package is the new version of mplayer that is so far the only one running on A1200 since we contributed a patch for supporting 18/19bpp screens (A1200 has one). We brought other speed enhancements to the mplayer core (rotation etc...) that are described in the announce I made. This version of mplayer should be the fastest one for ezx phones (it is compatible with A780/A1200).

[inijohan]

Ok thanks for the info. Cool. So, it's not compatible with E680i, ya?

[bragon]

I think we can derive a e680i working version using the a780 version by changing the key mapping. I will investigate if there is a need.