Monday, November 10, 2008

new mplayer for iphone is comming out

Almost two month after the first release, new mplayer for iphone is comming out. comapred with previous versions this one is great improvement in performace, you can also enjoy network streaming in this version. you can download it from cydia soon.

Installation
. Install mplayer from Cydia
. create a folder /private/var/media (lowercase)
. upload media files to the created folder
. now you can enjoy movies and musics with mplayer

Supported Firmware
. Jailbroken iphone/itouch firmware 2.x
. 2.1 seems not working, not tested.

Supported File formats
. avi, mp4, mov, flv ...

Supported Video codecs
. mpeg4, h264, wmv, realvideo, flv

Supported Audio codecs
. mp3, aac, wma, realaudio

Supported Network streaming protocols
. mms, rtsp, http, ftp

Network streaming with mplayer
. create a plain text file with .m3u extension
. copy URLs to the file line by line
. upload the file to /private/var/media
. now you can enjoy network streaming with mplayer

Screenshots

. playing music















. full screen mode















Known issue
. video is slower than audio while playing high bitrate movies

Streaming related issue
. stop button may not work, you have to press home button to exit mplayer
. may crash when press stop and then start again

15 comments:

Luciano said...

mplayer is crashing when playing the follwoing URL: mms://itatiaia1r.128k.audio.upx.com.br/itatiaia1

Unknown said...

I'm using it on iphone 2.1. Previous version was working well but newest one is cutting sound.

Anonymous said...

In previous version I was able stream audio trough http_proxy, but now I can't :(
Direct connection to the stream plays not music but clicking sounds
(stream http://live.galaradio.com:8000 )

Unknown said...

Really nice, but seems to lack MJPEG support. I would need it to view an Elphel network camera. http://www.elphel.com/ & http://wiki.elphel.com/

Seyyed Shah said...

Works really well for me- downloaded files (xvid+mp3 from eztv.it) play in sync with frame skip "on". (there is some difficulty/skip in high motion scenes and with some key frames)

Thanks!

Unknown said...

plz man, add the m3u support for playing music. Why the "Play All" option for music folders has disappear?
Thx and well done for ur work!
Cheers,
Tieum

Unknown said...

hey, why don't you just let us choose to put in our specific directory ?

volume in /root is just tiny compared to /home !!!

Amine Takieddine said...

this is an awesome player but i s still getting chuppy avi playback really baad and wmv is great but it freezes like every 7 deccs and then resumes

tential said...

When skipping in WMV files now audio cuts out. This was working fine in the previous version.

nambrot said...

Yeah,
DivX/Xvid with Frame Skip on is go delicious....
good work man

Unknown said...

Have you had a look at the tricks ARM put in it's "openmax" implementation?I am not saying the performance is already impressive, but the ARM people really should know these things best.

Anonymous said...

This new mplayer doesn't work for me. The previous versions worked fine, but the new one just crashes to the spring board no matter what. This problem is there for me on 2.1 and 2.2 firmware and even after I did a clean restore to 2.2 the problem is still there.

Anyone have any ideas?

Unknown said...

I've got the same problem as PCwiz.

also i was wondering if in de next version maybe
tv-out is added? like
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/transforming-iphone-into-tv-gaming-device.ars/2

and if it is possible to loop a movie?

Angel F. said...

I have an iphone 3g with 2.2 and jailbroken. when i click mplayer it just opens and closes. i rebooted many times and ive reinstalled it many times and still doesnt work

skiman100 said...

you need to create a folder /private/var/media (all lowercase) first.