[Sugar-devel] MP4 playback on XO-1.75?

[Kevin Mark]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:34:26AM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just tried playing back the downloaded version of the recent littleBits TED
> talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/
> ayah_bdeir_building_blocks_that_blink_beep_and_teach.html ) on an XO-1.75 but
> couldn't get it to work regardless of what I tried. In the past I always used
> the mplayer version that came with Flavio's JAMedia Activity to watch videos on
> XOs but that doesn't seem to work. Under Gnome the Movie Player asks for
> additional codecs but upon trying to install them there's a long error message
> which I think is trying to tell me that the necessary codecs aren't available
> for the ARM architecture.
> 
> To make a long story short: Is there a way to watch MP4 videos on an XO-1.75 at
> this point in time? :-)

I dont have an 175 but I'd hazard a guess at first transcoding to ogg theora?
there are IIRC online media converting sites.
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