[OLPC-Chicago] XO help

[Jason Rock]

mpg123 or mplayer are both *nix media players that can handle mpeg4 files.
I'm not sure how you could go about getting them for the XO, but they are
both command line interface, so you wouldn't have to do that much to make it
work.

Jason

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jeffrey A. Schwartz <jasermd at comcast.net>
wrote:

>  Looking for some help! I carry my XO around the country with me and it is
> always the topic of interesting conversations and pledges by others to
> contribute to the OLPC cause to make them available to deserving kids
> everywhere.
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> Here is my problem – I must be incredibly dense because no matter how much
> I have tried I have not been successful in understanding how to program some
> basic stuff that would make the XO incredibly useful for me. For example,
> the following are things that I would like the XO to be able to do and from
> what I read it is possible if you know how to add the programs (which I do
> not).
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> -media player to play mpeg4 files
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> -enhanced web browser of some sort
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> -ability to use a program called GOTOMYPC so that I can connect into my
> desktop when traveling
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> Any ideas on how I can easily download this type of stuff to a USB drive
> that I can then just install on the XO?
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> *Anyone interested in earning a few bucks to program this stuff on my XO
> for me? *
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> Thanks, JAS
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> Jeffrey A. Schwartz (708) 848-8880
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