Movie Playback On Gp2x


danboid

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I don't personally own a GP2X but a friend of mine does and we often use it for watching movie files. However, I'm sick of showing up at his house with a movie on SD only to find out that it doesn't play when the movie plays fine under mplayer on a PC Linux box. Yes, as most of you will know already normal Linux mplayer supports many more codecs than the mplayer included in the 2X firmware or MP2X. Last time I tried ffplay on the 2X the picture was corrupt and it didn't seem to be able to output any higher than 320x240 and so is no use to us yet.

I know there is this page on the wiki:

http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Video_Player

and there is this page for MP2X:

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,6,1679

but neither page has a complete, comprehensive list of all the different audio and video codecs supported so that I could check to see if my movies will play. The official player wiki page says it only plays back .AVI with Xvid or Divx video codec and Ogg or MP3 audio codec but I'm sure I've had it play back other formats too.

I don't suppose there is a Linux x86 port of the gp2x mplayer so that I could try playing files at home using that to verify they will play before taking movies round to my friends? I have found avidemux to be the best tool to convert movies into GP2X compatible format under Linux- its very fast!
 
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The official player wiki page says it only plays back .AVI with Xvid or Divx video codec


That is the complete list of video formats supported for the official player.
 
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