MPlayer Comes To The iPhone

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Posted October 22, 2008 at 11:29pm by Shalom Levytam

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.

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BRIKZ - October 24, 2008 at 11:55am

Hi, Will this help me play streaming music from sites that use realplayer? I listen to bbc radio one, and they stream music through real player. I tried doing this on the iphone and it wouldn't let me download it. Any help would be appreciated?

screambama - October 23, 2008 at 10:41am

Anyone: I am trying to figure out how to be able to listen to a live audio stream through MobileSafari that uses Windows Media Player. The website streams the audio using Windows Media Player - any plugins out there to allow me to listen? The site is finebaum.com -- then I click LISTEN LIVE at the top, Safari comes back with "Safari can't download this file".

Guest - October 23, 2008 at 9:51am

just create a folder named "media" without "" and put the files there. the idea is great, but i just tested with a sample from american dad. sharp picture, men totaly unsync with the audio.. terrible. hope they are fixing this soon!

Alex - October 23, 2008 at 3:36am

MPlayer played my avi-file. But it was an 5 years old avi...

aa2007 - October 23, 2008 at 3:03am

Tank you James But do you know how I can make a symbolic link with WinSCP??

James - October 23, 2008 at 2:50am

Delete the download folder and just make a symbolic link with the name of the download folder that links to the media folder. Is there anything out there that will play .avi??

Ruda - October 23, 2008 at 2:40am

Anybody knows how I can make via SSH a Alias/Link from the Dowload-Folder from the MobileSafari Plug-In to put it in the Media-Folder from MPlayer, so I have directly the downloaded movie-files from MobileSafari Plug-In in the MPlayer Library to watch?? Thanx a lot!

trip - October 23, 2008 at 2:02am

Ah! Thank you!

kah wai - October 23, 2008 at 1:12am

create the media folder urself..

trip - October 23, 2008 at 1:04am

there isnt any private/var/media in the iphone when i ssh into it. only private/var/mobile/media any help?

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