Hello from Vienna, On Raspbian the application omxplayer will do the job from the command line. This player is pre installed with Raspbian. If you want to play MPEG-2 or VC1 video you need to buy codecs.
Peter Bauer http://bitkistl.blogspot.com On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 20:17 +0200, Rüdiger Leibrandt wrote: > Having heard a lot about the Raspberry Pi I got myself a pair. > They're very nice things, but one thing drives me mad: > They suck for Video playback. > Having tried mplayer, vlc, XMMS and basically everything I get with > apt-cache search video | grep player > I am out of ideas. > > A static picture with stuttering sound is not exactly what I consider useful, > especially not from such lowly formats as a VCD compliant MPEG1 or > a DVD compliant MPEG2 stream. > > Is there any player that makes proper use of the hardware? > I read its capable of doing HD playback, but maybe it needs some very low > compressed video format for that? > > I'm using Raspian with armhf kernel, which I think should do the job better > than a softfloat armel kernel. > > Any help most warmly welcome! > -- > Rüdiger Leibrandt > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1365274207.2543.11.camel@peter-laptop
