Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

This might come soon. See here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=314

The Maemo sound system has no hooks for an equalizer. So Maemo has to properly support equalizers first.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

pycage: brilliant work with latest version (volume fix in particular).

Re the stuttering problem (I'm actually getting it when jabber messages come through as well as backlight shutting off), would increasing the esd/pulseaudio buffer size help? I'm assuming there is a way to, but I guess it depends on the API (pulseaudio? gstreamer?) Mediabox uses for playing back audio..

Thanks again for the awesome work.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

No, increasing the buffer size unfortunately does not help. It's Maemo taking over sound routing control and maybe application freezing during these events.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

@pycage

Loving the player so far but one of my biggest beefs with it is that it takes about 1 to 2 seconds to switch tracks. Kind of a bummer when you're listening to an album where the songs flow into each other.

My previous player was an Archos Gmini400. It's an HDD-based player. Obviously switching songs would be way longer but what it seemed to do is preload/buffer then next track about 5 seconds before the current track ended. The result was pretty seamless transition. I couldn't even count it in milliseconds. But if I could I'd say it's around 24ms.
Would that idea work with the N900? Is it difficult to program such a feature?

Another issue is resources. It takes almost two times as much resources as the regular maemo5 player. It's kind of a battery drainer...
Anything that can be done about that?
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Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Can someone explain to me how I can make Mediabox access the music I have on my computer's HDD?

I realize there is this thing called UPnP - but I have no idea how to actually making the MB see files on my computer.

Sorry if this is a dumb Q, but I'm used to just sharing a folder on my PC in windows, and the wireless device can see it. I guess I'm missing a few steps with MB.

Anyway I like MB otherwise, it's more featured than the standard mplayer in N900 (browsing folders is the main thing lacking there).

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Bumping this :)
So I just updated to the latest version. Any release notes on what's new?
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Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

See here for a changelog and compare the version number you have with the dates in there:
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scm...ox&view=markup


Preloading might be possible. This would be something to consider.

Don't forget that for the maemo5 media player you have to take the mafw processes into account, too, for computing the amount of resources it takes. In MediaBox the memory consumption is more obvious because it's not split across several processes. I'm constantly trying to reduce the memory consumption and it already came down a lot. There's always a tradeoff between UI performance and memory.
What's draining battery so much? PulseAudio or the media codec? Apart from updating the progress bar, scrolling a label, and maybe presenting lyrics, MediaBox doesn't really add much to it. Or maybe you have found some bug?

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Windows Media Player e.g. can act as UPnP media server so that you can access your media from the N900.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Thanks for the reply pycage.

For some reason I noticed an improvement for switching between tracks - it's much faster. Also when the backlight turns off the track seems to stutter less. Sometimes it doesn't stutter at all!
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Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Thank you for your help here.

The problem is, when I open Windoes Media Player (v11) and go to "Tools/Options/Library Tab/Configure Sharing", in the "Share my media to" box, I'm not seeing the N900, nor MediaBox.

I do have UPnP turned on, I'm fairly sure. I found a MS help site that explained that, and I enabled UPnP on my XP Pro machine. And have rebooted all devices, yes.

Is there anything I need to do on the N900 end, maybe, to make WMP see it in WMP's "share my media to" box?

Thanks for your (or anybody's) help. This does sem like it should be something that happens automatically. But I've never needed to use UPnP to enable sharnig from my previous wireles device (although I can't remember specicifally what I did differently - I think all I did was enable sharing of folders, and the folder showed up in the media player without further action from me. That's not happening in MediaBox for me, though, this time)