How to have full Clone view in TV-OUT
 

Change of plan:
Since i cannot get my BT keyboard to work with my N900 (have in the past tho....) then lets change the mission to change the way TV-OUT displays video.

Don't want to make a new thread so lets use this one.

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is there any way to have control (seek, quit etc) in a video player and still play smoothly, i normally use KMPlayer and it works just fine, but i want to control seek with the keyboard/BT keyboard.

I tried mplayer (CLI) and no matter what setting i try i cannot get it to play as smooth as KMPlayer, but i can seek using arrow keys.

KMPlayer uses GStreamer & Mplayer in the select player setting

Anybody got any ideas how to get key commands to work in KMPlayer or how to get mplayer to play as smooth.

EDIT: the videos i play are baseline H.264.

Additional info:
Other players tried:
SIB
Internal media player

Re: Keyboard controls in video player (KMPlayer / MPlayer)
 

overclocking works well with mplayer

Re: Keyboard controls in video player (KMPlayer / MPlayer)
 

Yes i can believe that, running 850MHz and still can't play probably via mplayer CLI, but again kmplayer will.

Re: Keyboard controls in video player (KMPlayer / MPlayer)
 

Again, looking for tweek to MPlayer or how to configure keyboard commands to KMPlayer

Re: Keyboard controls in video player (KMPlayer / MPlayer)
 

nobody got any idea to this "issue"

Re: Keyboard controls in video player (KMPlayer / MPlayer)
 

Just tap on screen in KMplayer and keyboard presses will go to mplayer

Re: Keyboard controls in video player (KMPlayer / MPlayer)
 

that didn't work, and i want to be able to operate the player by keyboard only, this would be when using TV-OUT and using BT keyboard because N900 is over by the tv.
My BT mouse works but not when watching movies with kmplayer. when playing movies on tv-out it uses fullscreen video ln tv only, on the N900 i can text or go on the net and the picture on the TV stays in fullscreen.
So if i cannot use any keyboard commands to skip etc, then i would like to know how to disable the video out on tv-out... meaning that no matter what is going on on the N900 it shows the same on the TV.
Clone view if you will.....

Re: Keyboard controls in video player (KMPlayer / MPlayer)
 

hmm cant seem to get my BT850 BT keyboard to work.....

so im changing the title and "mission" to get Clone view instead of TV fullscreen view....

Re: How to have full Clone view in TV-OUT
 

Bumping this thread again, would really like if we could override the TV out so that when watching clips/movies then it will not use the separate video out mode, but would have full clone view like when doing every thing else.

Re: How to have full Clone view in TV-OUT
 

Well, that "could" be achievable and I will try to do it someday. But don't hold your breath, currently I am running pretty enough projects, so won't try before some of them is completed. In the meantime you can try to play with values under "/sys/devices/platform/omapdss" and "/sys/devices/platform/omapfb"

BTW having resolutions larger than 576p(or so) on TV-out is possible by downsizing (in real-time I mean) frames before they enter framebuffer. There are two options for that:

1. Using CPU (and that is what videoscale gstreamer element does). I am not sure whether it is NEON-optimized, but if it is not then NEON optimized videoscale should be fast enough (hopefully) to downsize 720p to 576p @ 30 fps. Currently it is too slow.

2. Using camera (ISP) resizer module. In theory ISP resizer is capable to resize images(frames) in memory/memory mode. I don't know if that functionality is implemented (and working) in our kernel, but anyway at least HW is there. So if it is not working/implemented then ISP resizer driver backport is needed along with some new gstreamer element utilizing the functionality.