MPlayer comes to iPhone

[Kyle Matthews]

MPlayer, the multi-OS media player which supports mpeg4, h.264, wmv, mp3, aac, wma, real media, and t-dmb formats, has been ported to iPhone and is now available via the ModMyi.com Cydia source.

Ported by skiman100, MPlayer will read any files in those formats in /private/var/media, and play them back. Combine that with dTunes or the MobileSafari download plugin and video sites, etc - and you've got yourself a pretty solid mobile media device. Mplayer is a great way to boost your iPhone's media abilities.

Hosting your app or theme on the ModMyi Cydia source is easy - just fill out this form.

[b3nny]

SWEET will test it out now!

EDIT:

ok so i threw an mpg at it and it wouldn't play it, and then i threw an avi at it, and its playing it at about 1 frame every 5 seconds.. :/ and at about 15 seconds in, it rebooted my phone... now i'm looking at the original post closer and seeing that maybe it doesn't support those formats... but if it doesn't support mpg and avi... whats the point? **waits for vlc**

[solarstar101]

thx gonna install it right now

[miq228]

SWEET will test it out now!

EDIT:

ok so i threw an mpg at it and it wouldn't play it, and then i threw an avi at it, and its playing it at about 1 frame every 5 seconds.. :/ and at about 15 seconds in, it rebooted my phone... now i'm looking at the original post closer and seeing that maybe it doesn't support those formats... but if it doesn't support mpg and avi... whats the point? **waits for vlc**

nope... it wont play avi.. i tried it too
it wont even go 15seconds.. like 3~4 seconds, then boom..
guess its not supporting avi..

[Dingle777]

played .avi CSI episode downloaded off the net ok but when you tap the screen to change aspect ratio it does funny things (skipping frames/ scrolling screen effects)

[llol_slim]

i've been trying some wmvs and none of them work either. Audio works, but no video.

[sikdaz]

had the same problem frame skipping/ picture keeps scrolling...

[Hokman]

tried with mp4s and it doesn't work... only sound.

[addybgrilla]

lol sounds awesome based on the comments above!

[Nefarious]

Think I'll pass based on the comments alone.

[z3r01]

I've been trying it since yesterday (there is a thread I posted on) and I used an avatar avi, it works ok but a little audio sync problem at times, and I created a symlink to the downloads folder and all is good

[schnedi]

var/media doesnt exist....
you mean var/root/media or var/mobile/media

[z3r01]

var/media doesnt exist....
you mean var/root/media or var/mobile/media

thats why you have to create the folder /private/var/media.......

its not gonna find your videos on var/root/media or var/mobile/media

it has to be private/var/media
and media cannot have a capital M

[schnedi]

thanks for your fast answer i had cretated it but Media jajajj
im sorry i dont know if its good written i think so, cause im spanish thanx again

[BecomingxInsane]

Hah, and to think, I first saw MPlayer on the Wii!

[lillewis51]

does it work now that the folder is added?

[z3r01]

schnedi, yo hablo español tambien, pues el programa es bueno pero necesita algunos arreglos con el sonido

[gadjet0]

Just what I've been waiting for, no more converting AVI files.
It played the File OK but not smoothly and the audio was out of sync.

Tapping the screen caused the video to start rolling like an out of sync tv.

I'll keep an eye on the thread, hopefully an improved version will come soon.

Good effort.

[schnedi]

z3r01 bonito nombre jajaja
pues yo puse un wmv y se escuchaba bien pero el video no avanzaba mejor borre el programa y espero a una mejor actualizacion.. aora estoy es con los strings como customize no va pos manualmente pero nada

[z3r01]

si , mi customize ahorra no me quiere trabajar tampoco, pero tu no e tratado vlc4iphone? Yo se k hay una copia flotando por ahi, pues con los wmv se k tal'vez funcionara mejor