[Gllug] Familiar Linux on Ipaq 3850.

[Richard Cohen]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Andy Young wrote:

> Hi again all.
>
> I'm just dipping my toes into the water of Familiar Linux on my Ipaq, to
> give me something new and techy to play with over the Chrismas break :)
>
> I've got the basics sorted out and have a wireless CF card winging its
> way to me.
>
> A few questions....
>
> Do any of you guys run Familiar (if not then I'll go away and shut up!)?

Yes! :-)

> Has anyone got Mplayer compiled and working?

Yes! :-)

> If not, any tips for a good player (I've gone for the "OPIE" GUI if
> that's relevant)

No! :-)

I don't use OPIE... I understand the OPIE media player is half decent, but
you have to remember that *OPIE isn't X* and is therefore not compatible
with anything but command-line (and curses-style) software unless you're
prepared to do some porting.  For example - mplayer just isn't going to run
under OPIE - you can point it at the framebuffer if you're feeling hackish,
but it works okay under GPE/X...

> I do a lot of video work so any video related pointers would be great.

I know that the older iPAQs have little-to-no video acceleration, so they
can struggle at video stuff.  I think some of the newer ones are better at
this - which device do you have?

> Many thanks as always.
>
> Andy.
>
> Andy Young
> Design Systems Administrator
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Cheers
Richard

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