More Uses For An OLPC

Video player for toddler.

Meghan likes watching DVDs in the minivan and she likes banging on the keys of the OLPC so I combined the two. I used Handbrake to rip one of her favorite DVDs then loaded mplayer onto the OLPC and played back the movie from a a thumb-drive.

VLC and mplayer had similar problems with freezing before announcing the file was longer available. I tried turning off power management with no improvement. It wasn't until I disabled the radio that playback was successful .. then I found the defect mentioned earlier.