Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

Okay, my bad - it is optified... in all the wrong places :)

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

How do we use the built in media player to view stations?

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

Same question I have..

After installing kplayer & worldtv apps it works for me. Good app. Can see a couple of local USA channels. A lot of dead links though...
How do we report them & add new links?

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

Thanks for the heads-up. I've just installed KMPlayer and WorldTV99 on my N900 (haven't installed mplayer). It sort of works but isn't quite ready for prime time yet.

The KMPlayer UI is, well, perfectible. But it's still usable.

I opened the France folder and tried to play the first station, France BFM TV over wifi. It buffered for a couple of seconds and then played for about 5 seconds. The video quality was excellent. But then it stopped playing without any explanation.

I then tried to play the second french station, France 24 eng. It didn't play and instead it started to scroll though all the stations in the France folder, failing to play them all. It stopped scrolling when it reached the last station in the folder. So I tried to play the first station again (BFM TV) which had worked fine just a few seconds earlier but it failed to play it and instead went into its mad scrolling thing - trying to play every station in the France folder and failing to play any of them.

KMPlayer then completely froze for about a minute. Once it got defrosted, I tried to play BFM TV again and, this time, it played fine.

I closed KMPlayer and relaunched it. Opened the France folder again and played BFM TV again. It worked. The Pause button didn't work though. Pressing Pause caused the button to turn into a Play button but the video kept playing nonetheless.

So I closed KMPlayer again. After having closed it, the hildon-thumbnailerd process went completely mental and started to use up 100% of the CPU - killing my battery in the space of a few minutes (only had a third or a quarter of the charge left to start with). That could be unrelated to KMPlayer though - not sure (come to think of it, I took a screenshot of KMPlayer while it was running so maybe the thumbnailer daemon is related to this instead).

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

Why exactly do you say that?

/MyDocs/DCIM $ ls -l /usr/bin/mplayer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Dec 8 18:49 /usr/bin/mplayer -> /opt/maemo/usr/bin/mplayer
~/MyDocs/DCIM $ ls -l /usr/bin/mencoder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Dec 8 18:49 /usr/bin/mencoder -> /opt/maemo/usr/bin/mencoder

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

just click the folder then the tv station, KMPlayer will automatically call for the built-in ossomp and, voila, you are watching TV :-)

1st please vote
2nd post comments or question

enjoy,
bun

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

I do not see "too many" dead links, mostly it uses the "other" player, so if ossomp does not play, try mplayer, or lastly flashplayer, if all 3 fail, then it is a dead link. For both dead and new links, please post it here, we will take care of it.

enjoy,

bun

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

Seems to be an odd issue with it. Can't quite put my finger on it.

If I open the Discovery Channel folder, it just spams the heck out of the channel list and I can never actually play anything from it.

Any ideas?

P.S. - VERY COOL though! :D

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

I think you should report this as thumbnailer bug. Whatever kmplayer may do wrongly, if this process consumes 100 CPU after closing kmplayer, then this process is hanging somewhere.
I've just checked 'France BFM TV' and it keeps on playing for me. After skipping to the next link, which fails for me too, it goes to the next one and on until 'Labelle TV'. Every step takes about two seconds, probably a dead link or unsupported format. Judging your description, it seems gstreamer crashes on startup. Cause I can't tell, but may be related to the thumnailer bug.
That may also explain kmplayer frozen for a minute or so. The gstreamer process may have been spamming kmplayer with lots of output.
If you want to look at what gstreamer outputs for kmplayer, start kmplayer from the XTerminal application as 'run-standalone /opt/kmplayer/bin/kmplayer'. Most of the output is echo'ed in the terminal.

Re: WorldTV99 for N900 - works!
 

Was unable to get any channel in the US to work including the CNN channels - Good idea if we can get it functioning.

Ok scratch that - guess its just all the US channels.

Oh and the BBC news headlines needs updating according to the little message I get.