[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer can't run under arm's framebuffer

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On 9/22/06, tony li <tonyli10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I am porting mplayer to ARM platform. And have compiled it successfully, but
> failed in running under ARM platform. The problem is the following, anyone
> have some idea about this. It is urgent.
>
> /mnt/config/mmcdir # ./mplayer -nosound -vo fbdev silverstein.mp4
> MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: ARM
>
[...]
>
> FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).
>
> Can't restore text mode: Invalid argument
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> Thanks and best regards,

Which exactly ARM platform are you using? It can make a big
difference. For example
framebuffer works fine on Nokia 770 if you run MPlayer as root. It
does not show anything
on the screen though as you need to do some omapfb specific ioctls to
tell it to move
actual pixel data from the framebuffer to LCD controller. Here is an
example of using framebuffer on Nokia 770:
https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/osso-af-utils/src/fb-progress.c