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That did it Niwakame, thanks!

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Will it be possible to watch streaming videos with OVP in the future?

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There is no reason why it can't be done. :) What kind of streams do you have in mind?

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Well my operator provides mobile television and with the player that's built in and takes care of the stream i get a smaller picture and i'd like to stretch it through the screen but there's no option to do that. it makes no difference if i go to settings -> applications -> videos and select the "always in full screen" option, seems like that doesn't apply for the player that plays the streams or something.

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I vote for raw mpeg2 streams with user adjustable buffer length and m3u and pls playlist integration for those :)

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I vote rtsp as supported by the default video player and/or ts muxed http like vlc can do. Both using h264 avc and aac codecs.

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Support will be subject to the limitations of the QtMultimediaKit APIs.

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I don't know if it's just me but i notice stuttering in videos played with OVP but the same videos are played smoothly with the default video player. I'm playing a show, 56min length, 370MB, 624 x 352.

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What about UPNP/DLNA? I read somewhere that this already exists on N9, but without UI. Would be cool if we can browse Media collections with the Open Video Player!

UPNP availability on N9 was mentioned here: http://www.nokiablog.ch/dlna-flash-beim-n9/3612/

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I have a slight word of warning to those considering OVP as a 1:1 replacement for the stock player.

OVP uses texture streaming to render the video, wheres the stock player uses a video overlay. Easy way to detect that is to swipe the window, and if the video content moves with the window, it's using texture streaming. If the video content doesn't move, it's using the overlay. Gallery also uses texture streaming BTW.

The major drawback of texture streaming is that it's less efficient than the overlay path. You can easily just check 'top' output during playback, and you'll see that with texture streaming the CPU alone is significantly more busy than with the overlay path, most of which can probably be attributed to driver overhead. There's also the fact that with texture streaming there is more memory traffic.

The energy profiler can be used to check the difference in power consumption. I did a quick test by playing the same h264 clip in each of the players. The power readings were ~1.0 W for the stock player, and ~1.2 W for OVP. It's not quite as bad as I feared, but it would still mean ~1h extra playback time with the stock player with this clip. Assuming I can trust what the energy profile tells me.

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I tried to install it in my N900 but however it shows below:

Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs# dpkg -i openvideoplayer_0.0.4_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 50975 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace openvideoplayer 0.0.4 (using openvideoplayer_0.0.4_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement openvideoplayer ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openvideoplayer:
openvideoplayer depends on libqtcore4 (>= 4.7.4~git20110516); however:
Package libqtcore4 is not installed.
openvideoplayer depends on libqtgui4 (>= 4.7.4~git20110516); however:
Package libqtgui4 is not installed.
openvideoplayer depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.3.0); however:
Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.2.1-4maemo13+0m5.
dpkg: error processing openvideoplayer (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
openvideoplayer
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs#


Is it possible to be in the future?

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marxian can You make Your Open video Player for n900?

I would love to see dlna/upnp to!

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Also, in overlay mode you probably wouldn't be able to draw certain GUI elements.

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How to play the subtitles with this player?

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I was wondering if you may add the repeat feature please.

Thank you.


@cypherinfo

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I installed OVP 0.0.4 on my 64GB N9, but some videos don't play properly (the Nokia Pure video that came with the phone, for example). I can hear the sound, but I get a black screen instead of a picture. When I pause it and rotate the device, I can see a garbled "screenshot" of the video. The other video that comes with the phone (Dolby Soundscapes) plays fine. Both of these videos play fine with the default video player. I also noticed these lines in my dmesg, which might have something to do with the problem:

I also got some complaints from aegis while installing it:

I tried reinstalling gstreamer0.10-plugins-* but that didn't help...

EDIT: Forgot to mention I am running PR 1.1.

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Hi,
I used video player and UI is great, those additional features are indeed very welcome.
On the performance side tho, it seems to be worse than the built in video player: a video I shot on my Nokia N8 plays mostly fine (with a couple of stutters) on the built in, but plays constantly at more or less 1 fps on OVP. The feeling is that hardware is barely able to keep up with the video using the built in player, and OVP adds some computational load to the already intensive clip that definitely kills performance. Otherwise, it's a great piece of software.
PR 1.1

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I had performance problems (stutter) with video+subtitles on Nokia N9. There was no stutter when the subtitles were disabled.

I changed the 0.04 code to process the srt file and subtitle-seeking in C++ instead of javascript. (I noticed the complete subtitle list is iterated at every position change event)

Anyway I can now play video with subtitles with no/much less stuttering. If the author is interested I can send the diff.

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OVP seems broken on PR1.2: all videos have length of 59:59 and won't play. Curiously enough, for me, cutetube keeps working great. I thought they shared the same core for video playback.
Btw it's good practice to answer people when they talk to you, expecially when they do kindly and with good intentions.

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I have explained on multiple occasions that the QML Video plugin is fundamentally broken, hence the playback problems. That is the limiting factor in this project, and I am not prepared to waste any more of my time on it. However, since it is open source, there is nothing to stop anyone else from downloading the source code and doing whatever they want with it.

Btw, I cannot monitor these threads 24 hours a day. I have nine threads here dedicated to my projects, plus all the emails, tweets, DMs and PMs that I get.

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Well first off thanks Marxian for all you've done on this app, Since I updated to PR 1.2 I was having the same issue as Etchelon, so I took your advice and downloaded the source etc. It's worth pointing out for others sakes not to expect any real fixes from the fact that I'm looking at the code, anyways I'm not sure if it made a difference but I aready had OVP installed, where it would just load with it's spinning circle instead of playing any video.
Long story short I installed OVP from the source code via QtCreator and sdk mode etc, and it now works like it did before I updated to PR 1.2, not sure how it compares bug wise since I was using an earlier version of OVP before I updated to PR1.2, but yeah that's a bit of a work around for anyone that has the QtSDK handy. Whether it made a difference that OVP 0.04 was still installed when I installed it via SDK I don't know, though I thought it would be more trouble than anything at the time lol.
Have to say I'm relieved since OVP's one of the first app's on my wish list, being able to play vids in the background and while the phone's locked.

Edit/PS... I didn't edit one line of code before installing.

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I thanked you

you're a good person

:)

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I didn't know that sorry, couldn't read 15 pages, and I only wrote here because before the update this app worked, so I just thought it was a quick fix for you due to the update, not a problem radicated in QML.

And I was referring to my own PM, but doesn't matter, wasn't important.

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ok since doing another fresh flash, due to an unrelated app, I found that OVP 0.04 installed and worked correctly first pop, so I think my issue was actually that I had 0.02 installed on PR 1.2 before I installed 0.04, so yeah turns out that it was 0.02 that didn't work on PR 1.2.
Not sure if 0.04 would work if 0.02 had've been uninstalled first, or if it was the fact I updated to PR1.2 while 0.02 was installed.

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I have no problems after updating to pr1.2 as mentioned in this thread. I guess it only applies to version 0.0.2

I attached source & deb of 0.04 version with better performance for showing subtitle files.

*update : I forgot to add the compiled deb file

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Sadly I have tried everything (within my limited ability) to get this working. with the above zip file, do I have run this via terminal? I was using this player everyday as I need subtitle function. No version will work! are there any legacy files left from older installations that I should remove?

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I have Harmattan 1.2 and OVP 0.0.4 and it works as good as before I updated to 1.2.

Marxian, have you stopped develop OVP entirely? Just asking out of curiosity because I love this player and it would rock if there would be a streaming option in the future.

Thanks for the best video player for N9.

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I addded the deb file, so you can install it by clicking the file in the browser on the N9.

What exactly is the problem? You can't run the app or video won't play?

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Hi, videos wont play, just the spinning circle. Any thoughts? I had 0.0.2 prior to pr 1.2, after update it didnt work. Un-installed, installed 0.0.4 same thing. This is a great application and I miss it! I have started usingmy N900 again!

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might take a flash to start fresh again, I had that problem when I upgraded to PR1.2 with 0.02 installed, but I hadn't really set my phone up again at that stage so wasn't really a hastle to clear then flash again.
Just yeah avoid 0.02, 0.04 is fine so long as 0.02 isn't involved.

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I'm sure you've figured this out by now but just incase, that bug with the mystery bar appearing, if you're watching a vid in landscape, switch orientation to portrait, then back to landscape, the bar will be there every time, not exactly a dealbreaker since you can just click the back button then back to playing without the vid stopping.

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Exact same problem here ... but that's all right, not the end of the world ...

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I Agree. There will be another player along soon I am sure.

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problem solved. mplayer + kmplayer gui= subtitles again. Is ovp going to be updated?

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PR1.2 has certainly broken OVP - version 0.4 does not change that.

If you try playing a video with OVP after PR1.2 on my phone it will continue to look like it's just loading the video (The rounded rectangle will be moving around in circles endlessly, showing you to wait)

I miss OVP!

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read my post again, the fact that I flashed my phone to brand new is probably the defining part here, but I use ovp 0.04 daily on PR1.2. I can say that the first time I flashed my phone then installed ovp0.02 I had exactly the same issue, even after installing 0.04. I flashed again and the last time installed ovp0.04 only, and it's back in working order. I'm almost ccertain it's the 0.02 version having been installed that's causing issues, maybe 0.03 aswell? I skipped that one so I have no idea with that version. It probably takes completely wiping the phone and/or flashing like I did since there's probably traces of the old version left even after uninstalling it.
Again, I use ovp0.04 daily on pr1.2. I spent ages getting this to work the day I upgraded to PR1.2 because this app's a must have for me.
Now, how much do you want it........ enough to wipe your phone and start over?

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I can confirm this. I've never installed OVP 0.0.2 before so I installed OVP 0.0.4 on PR1.2 and it works.

Marxian, there is no need to do much work as your OVP works fine on PR1.2. Have some pity on those who installed 0.0.2 and have no other option than to reflash PR1.2 to get OVP 0.0.4 to work. Just a minor adjustment in the install to wipe out the offending traces of 0.0.2 should do it.

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Just installed it. Works fine on PR 1.2, though I've never had any previous versions installed before.

Was wondering if there's a gesture to stretch the video to fit the entire screen of the N9. You can do that with the stock video player, but I can't seem to do it on OVP. Was there an option I missed?

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There's certainly something up with 0.0.4 on PR1.2. Sometimes the player simply crashes and then hangs up in the background. Sometimes during playing a video the pop-up menu hangs and is stuck only half-hidden. In such case after closing the player it also remains stuck in the background.

Finally, sometimes playback is okay and OVP seems to work okay, but after closing it keeps running or at least hanging in the background blocking e.g. USB access to MyDocs.

Note that any "sometimes" can mean here a few days or few hours. I was using the player for a few days without any issue and then it hanged up on me 3 times in a row on another day, so its random.