[APP] Zmplayer V1.1 - video player

[bragon]

Please find attached to this post a new version of the zmplayer package that
should work now on all the latest firmwares for A1200 and A780/E680.

The Changelog includes the following:

* Update the menu.conf file to correct the key mappings. Should all work.
* Run-time selection of E680/A780 key bindings based on/etc/modelnum.txt or /etc/ap_version.txt. This basically assumes that on a E680 the first 4 letters in /etc/ap_version.txt are "E680", and so might fail. This probing of the phone type can be overridden by setting the environment variable ZMPLAYER_PLATFORM to A780, E680, or anything else for the default bindings.
* Added code to menu to probe whether the menu was on the screen. This removes certain bugs with the menu code
* Re-enable the power management on the A780 when flip-closed to allow battery save when listening to audio playlists (feature already in A1200 version). For A780 due to missing functionality this was done by trapping the FocusIn and FocusOut events and switching power management on them. In general use these events should only happen on a flip, and so this should be ok, though is a bit ugly.
* Changes to allow playlists and in particular audio playlists to work correctly.
- Added a "-bgvideo" option from geexbox to allow a background video for audio only tracks
- Save and restore volume across elements of the playlist
- Fix framedrop issue in geexbox bgvideo patch
- Don't use high-res mp3 seeking as it doesn't work across elements on a playlist
* Do the environment initialization in the zmplayer binary itself, removing the need for basename and sed. This also addresses the SE Linux security of A1200 China Mobile firmware's as the QT application can now be directly called from the application manager.

The original post for zmplayer is there: http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4941
Please do read this post for detailed installation instructions.

Enjoy!

Authors: dbateman and bragon

[admin]

why does the software always refresh?
just wondering..

and thanks bragon

[dbateman]

why does the software always refresh?
just wondering..

and thanks bragon

The frontend is really very minimal, and only handles the QT eventfilter (keypresses, flip status, and in the future many other events like incoming calls) and the power management. The menus are handled in mplayer itself. For mplayer to update the menus it needs a running video in the background that is in the distribution as background.avi. This means that if you don't like our background you are free to customize it

The flicker is that after 6 seconds the background avi loops, and the playtree code of mplayer being quite complex results in a small delay. I have a trivial fix that will be in the next very in a few weeks time..

D.

[yxye]

thanks。its greatly for A1200

[hekey]

oh, thanks

[rayray987123]

It's a great player and plays a lot smoother than the built-in realplayer for A1200. I use to use the Voice Recognition hack to play movies through bluetooth mono headset, which can be done with realplayer. For zmplayer, I seem to only able to get it to play to the speaker, or the earphone plug. Is it able to play the sound through bluetooth?

[V.Razr.X]

It's a great player and plays a lot smoother than the built-in realplayer for A1200. I use to use the Voice Recognition hack to play movies through bluetooth mono headset, which can be done with realplayer. For zmplayer, I seem to only able to get it to play to the speaker, or the earphone plug. Is it able to play the sound through bluetooth?

VOICE RECOGNITION HACK??? Please explain!

It drives me crazy that I cant play my music through my mono BT or watch movies through my mono BT either.

If you have a hack for this, please list it out and tell us how you did it! I know a lot of members would really be interested.

[rayray987123]

It's quite simple. Turn on your bluetooth headset and then pair it to A1200. On A1200, press the Voice Recognition button (bottom one on the right), you will hear on your headset a voice message telling you to say a command or something. Ignore the message and now go to task manager (lower left menu on the application page), delete the task "VR". Now open your mp3 with realplayer, you've got music on your mono BT!

[V.Razr.X]

Will this also work for watching movies?

Also, do you have to do this all the time, or just one time?

One more thing, this doesnt delete the VR all together does it?

I'll have to wait to try it out in the morn. :P

[rayray987123]

Don't worry, it won't delete anything, it just stops the VR process.

This works for watching movies as well, but for some reason the sound will be delayed. On my HS820, the delay is exactly 3.9s, so I just encode my movies with sound advanced by 3.9s

You will have to redo the trick when there is phone call in, as it'll lose effect after the phone call.