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Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

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Originally Posted by handful (Post 158713)

Scar, this has been widely discussed in the "streching video" post. What happens : mplayer is in "embedded" mode in canola, and due to a bug, it wasn't able to figure out correctly the format, thus stretching the video. There were hacks we could do (open mplayer 2 times) but we decided to patch (small fix) mplayer to work correctly, we did we submited to mplayer and we are waiting to it to be applied.

Thanks, I wasn't aware. :o

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Originally Posted by handful (Post 158713)

About performance, there's also a loss (thus for example any media player that embedds mplyaer will have a slightly worse performance than the real mplayer. We are actually not changing confs etc.

Scar: do you have n810 ? if so have you already formatted your internal disk ?

Marcelo

I have an n810 w/ 4gb minisd card installed that I boot from. I haven't reformated the internal space yet. Would that make a difference?

Thanks!

Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

Hi Moon,

yes there's a known bug, that n810 maybe have a interal disk that is not working proprly until you reboot, and format it.

Re: Beta7 is out with Youtube plugin is Ready! Update also all themes you use!

Same here. did everything by the book and I can search but when I try to play nothing plays.

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Originally Posted by ghoonk (Post 158193)

Followed the instructions, and did a search for a youtube favourite of mine (achmed the dead terriorist by jeff dunham), but the video does not play.

Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

Dude thanks a lot. I have a a 2gb sd card just for this now :)

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Originally Posted by Tantris (Post 158343)

@handful, cLin
Is there anything contrary to a symlink from the canola youtube-temp-dir to, say, /media/mmc2/youtube-temp? I tested it on my device and it worked flawlessly

for those of you who want to try it (on risk and so on, and *remember* that you did this change, so you can revert it when canola has a folder chooser for this)

open an x-term shell: you are in your home direcory now.
cd .canola/youtube
create a new youtube-temp-directory, e.g. on /media/mmc2:
mkdir /media/mmc2/youtube-temp
now the "crucial part": this one deletes your normal canola temp-dir
rm -r videos
and now we create a symbolic link called "videos" which points to our newly created temp dir:
ln -s /media/mmc2/youtube-temp videos
(in caps this would be LN not 1N)

after this you should be able to do a
cd videos
echo 1 > 1

and if you open your filemanager and go to the folder in which the youtube temp-files should be stored (internal mem. card/youtube-temp)
you should see a very small file called "1" now.
Delete it, as we don't need it anymore and test your youtube videos...

To revert this change:
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open an x-term shell: you are in your home direcory now.
cd .canola/youtube
rm videos
mkdir videos

this will only delete the *link*, so your "new" youtube-temp directory is still there and can be deleted.

Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

Guys, it is just my device, or does beta 7 take a lot longer to load than beta 6? beta6 took approx 15 seconds to load, while beta 7 is taking 2 to 3 minutes.

Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

Hi, good work there.
I know a fix for many of the A/V sync problems with youtube (when video stream play a little fast, audio is ok).
Is a mplayer little problem, not canola.
For some videos in flv container (youtube for example) mplayer needs the experimental parameter -correct-pts. It works in the last version of mplayer, maybe in the older one too.

Note: Some videos in youtube have true sync problems, this fix is only for the mplayer bug with some flv videos.

I don't know how to config atabake to add extra parameters to mplayer. But maybe this can help the Youtube Plugin team.

Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

Ok, one more problem with the new beta, this time dealing with podcasts.

under beta 6, two rss feeds that I made worked.
Now, they no longer work. This is a regression
http://www.dubfire.net/feeds/tal.xml
http://www.dubfire.net/feeds/tal-no-reruns.xml

The error I'm given is: "URL is no feed: application/xml"

Please look into this.

Thanks

Chris

Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

Genome : we will take a look, but this message indicates that the server is returning the wrong mime-type. did you change anything your servers that host your feeds?

Anyways we will look and see, but we have a huge list of "problematic" podcast that acts like a test, to avoid this kind of stuff, but unfortunately podcast feeds are so messy, that we may have fall into a regression indeed.

Marcelo

Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

Marcelo --

Every once in a while, while browsing YouTube (mostly), the program becomes semi-unresponsive. By that, I mean that I can scroll through the list of videos presented, but cannot select one. Usually the "back" button also becomes inactive at this time, so the only way out is to close canola from the pop-up home menu (which I can reach via the hardware 'home' button).

When this occurs, the application is still getting keystrokes (finger strokes?? ;)), because the highlight will 'follow', as I'm scrolling, and (momentarily) highlight when I try to select. The audio feedback ("click") is also present when this happens.

I don't have a fully repeatable scenario... but it seems to happen after I've been playing in canola for a while, perhaps 15 or 20 videos, a couple searches, etc. Please let me know if you need further description (or testing, experimentation, etc) regarding this...

Re: Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in

I experienced the same as briand last night. Canola remains fully operational, I'm able to play musics view pictures and streaming audio. When I go back to youtube, Canola returns to the last state youtube was. Restarting canola seems to remedy the plugin for another 10 to 15 video downloads and playback.

Thanks,
Jabastien
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