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Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

i looked at the documentation of handbrake and i can't see m4v as container. there's only mp4 and mkv?! huh?

EDIT: aaaah... m4v is enabled under mac... i see...
BUT: m4v is the exact same as mp4 when it doesn't contain DRM - which your case should be.

so just rename movie.m4v in movie.mp4 and give it another try :)

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

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Originally Posted by b666m (Post 473702)

mhm... m4v is similar to mp4... just with additional DRM..
m4v isn't recognized by gstreamer (the built-in player)
mplayer seems to have trouble with this container.

you only have to change the container from m4v to mp4.
if it has DRM information in it remove it with requiem like stated in this wiki-entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4V

changing the container format should be done very quickly.

Yes I did that already, had to search the interweb for xterminal commands :)

so now:

- mplayer plays the file but again the video is very jumpy and the sound is out of sync
- built in media player still refuses to play the file
- SiB recognises the file and actually plays it, but again the audio is out of sync and skipping frames all over the place

Its probably worth re-mentioning that these movie files played directly on the N900 with the built in media player before the 1.1 update, but they were very jumpy then...... but the audio has always been in sync

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

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Originally Posted by b666m (Post 473712)

??? indeed when the program output the file they are m4v, at least on the mac version

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

try to rename movie.m4v to movie.mp4 and the default player should recognize and play it (!?)

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

Lol, ok I'm getting out of bed gimme a few minutes.

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

Did you try Kmplayer mplayer frontend? It seems to find m4v files for me just fine (and mplayer plays them ok).

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

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Originally Posted by sadfist (Post 473729)

Lol, ok I'm getting out of bed gimme a few minutes.

LOL nice one

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

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Originally Posted by b666m (Post 473728)

try to rename movie.m4v to movie.mp4 and the default player should recognize and play it (!?)

it plays in mplayer but choppy video and audio out of sync

plus media manager still isnt finding the video as mp4

WTF in going on

LOL

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

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Originally Posted by starman (Post 473746)

it plays in mplayer but choppy video and audio out of sync

which bitrates do video and audio have?
average for video is 1500kbps in documentation.
if audio bitrate is relatively high too... could be causing the problems.

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plus media manager still isnt finding the video as mp4

mhm.. reboot? *smile*

maybe kmplayer has optimized commands for m4v videos?!

Re: Getting tired of Maemo/N900 movie playback

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Originally Posted by trotor (Post 473730)

Did you try Kmplayer mplayer frontend? It seems to find m4v files for me just fine (and mplayer plays them ok).

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, kmplayer seems to be playing the video perfecly, its smooth and the audio is in sync....

you are a GENIUS among men.. but theres a horrid black bar along the bottom of the screen in-between the dark grey bars....

but at least its progress :D