Beaglebone as media player

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Prefacing this with me be an absolute noob on anything Linux (but ! interested)…

I was able to get android installed on the [original] beaglebone attached to the LCD7 — This played full screen video very nicely!

In an attempt to try using the bone in its intended state I reverted to Angstrom but cannot figure out how to simply play a video file. Having some difficulty finding info online, so, apologies in advance if this is readily available info.

I am imaging the steps are something like, install VLC on bone, play video, but, am not even sure how to do that.

Any help or pointing to tutorial much appreciated!

Evan

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I just received my BBB so I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. I do know that Angstrum Linux comes with mplayer. Someone on this forum has already been trying to use it with the following parameters … just put your filename at the end.

mplayer -vo fbdev2 -zoom -x 800 -y 480

If you are still stuck then try checking out mplayers website. Myself, I much prefer vlc but there are issues getting it to compile for Angstrum and I don’t know the steps.

Hope this helps,

Scott

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Thank you Scott!

I will try that…

Best

Evan

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Thank you Scott!

I will try that…

Evan