 Welcome back. Now this video is part of a series where I'm just going over my first day or so using the chip computer, things I've come across, testing to see what it can do. We'll get more in depth on stuff, but I just want to show you how it can perform out of the box. And again, it's part of a series. I would definitely check out the playlist in the description to view the previous videos. But today we're going to test video playback. Now there's lots of different compressions out there. One, I've downloaded one of my home videos from YouTube to see how it plays. It's going to be an MP4 format. And I figure people are going to want to stream or at least watch YouTube videos. Let's see how it performs. So to get networking, I don't want any network delays. I've actually downloaded two copies of the video. This is a 720p video and the other one is a lower resolution of 640x360, somewhere around there in resolution. Let's see how they perform. And I do want to stress that this is just out of the box using Mplayer, which was already installed on this. I have the HDMI board and these little speakers hooked up. If you watched the last video you understand this device cannot, as far as I know, do audio through the HDMI. That being said, also something like a Raspberry Pi. I know that you can set some boot configurations so that it uses some of the RAM as you can partition stuff for more power to the GPU. And that's how you can get better performance for video playback on a Raspberry Pi. Haven't done anything like this to this. I don't know if it's possible. Right now, out of the box configuration, there's also special compiles of video players for the Raspberry Pi to allow it to use some hardware acceleration. Again, this is just using default Mplayer that was already installed on this, I'm assuming, from the Denbian repositories. So here we go with the 720p video. So not even full 1080p. And SSH didn't through my phone and that's how I'm starting the video. I got the music going and the video is playing. Now, it might be hard to tell on the camera. It's not playing at full speed. The audio is playing fine. We're at 10 or 15 seconds in the video. The actual video for maybe 5 seconds into it is playing in slow motion. So as of right now, it's not playing properly. So I'm going to go ahead and kill that because it's just not working in the way the video is supposed to be playing. Here we go with the lower resolution video that's again 640x360, I think. It's playing properly. Audio, video and sync. But we have a big black border all the way around the video because it's playing at the resolution it is and it's not stretching it to fill the whole screen. So let's see what we can do about that because Mplayer does have options to zoom and stretch the video. Although, I don't know how it's going to affect performance. So let's go ahead and play around that a little bit and see what we can do. Okay, so I SSH'd back into my chip computer and let's go ahead and first thing I need to do is change my display. If I try to run any GUI programs now, if I had X-Talling and X-Forting enabled, it would display it on this computer here. But we want to display it on the regular display there. So we're going to type in display equals colon 0.0 and then I'm going to say export display. So those two commands will now, any GUI application I run, will display on the actual TV screen, not on the computer I'm on currently. Hopefully that makes sense to you because I'm logged in through the network if that wasn't clear. Okay, so at this point I need to figure out what is the resolution that I'm actually playing at on my TV right now. So I'm going to say on the chip computer, so I'm going to say X-Rander. I'm going to hit go ahead and hit enter. It's going to tell me all my different video options that I have. But right now you can see that I am currently running at this resolution here. So that's important because we're going to tell Mplayer to zoom in on our video. So I'm going to say Mplayer and I'm going to say Fs to help to go full screen. And I'm going to say zoom and on X I want to zoom 1360 and on Y I want to zoom to 768. And then the file that I want to play. So I'm going to go ahead and hit enter and we'll see how that plays out. So again this is the lower resolution video that's 640x3 something. We've got rid of the black border but now it's having the same problem that the 720p video did which is that it's playing slow. So now we're going to add a drop frame option to Mplayer which isn't really great but it should allow the video to play at least in sync with the audio but it'll be, well, you'll see. As you can see back here in the console it's even telling me your system is too slow to play this. So I'm going to hit Q to quit out of that. We're going to run the same command so I hit up arrow once. And I'm going to add right here a option dash frame drop. That's all we have to do. Let's go ahead and give that a try. Well now we've got the audio playing, the low resolution video playing full screen and it's keeping in sync with the audio but it is very, very jerky. It looks like 3 or 4 frames, maybe 5 frames a second or it should be 30 frames a second. So as of right now I'm unable to play video full screen on this. The only other thing I can think of is to lower my display resolution down to about what the video is and then play it back because it does play smoothly with the black border. So if I decrease the resolution my display is at it should fill the screen and play smoothly. So that's an option I'm going to play around with. But let me know what you think. Again, I've had this thing for a day and a half. I haven't really looked into it. I haven't looked up online how to play video on this thing. I'm just going by my own knowledge. So let me know what you think. Have you been able to do it? Am I doing something wrong? Or is this video, or is this just how this device works? It's not a big deal. Again, at this point I don't plan on using this as a media center, but some people might. And there might be configurations and different compiles of software that give you better performance. So that's it for today. Thank you for watching. As always, please visit FilmsByChris.com. That's Chris with a K. There should be a link in the description to that where you can search through videos from both my channels. And this is mainly a hardware channel. Right now we're just looking at an overview of the chip computer. But in future videos, we're going to get a lot more into microcontrollers like Arduinos and a lot with the ESP8266 module, which you're not familiar with that is. We're going to have lots of fun with that. But since I just got this, I'm very excited to play with it. 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