Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread
 

Just wanted to let you know that I have the most current version of the Canola 2 beta on my 770 Gregale. When it works, I love it!
However, there have been numerous occasions when it locks up my unit requiring either a hard button shutdown or removal of the battery. I guess it is just wearing the memory out!

Neil

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nspeer : we are aware of that. Unfortunately as we have been saying here, the 770 version is almost a miracle =) The fact is that some of the most important components for Canola, like the Dbus (the component that helps canola 'talk' to other components), are very very old in the 2006. Imagine that they were improved in 2007 and vastly improved in 2008, so it is really almost a miracle that it's still "working"

So, in the end I cannot commit myself or the team to improve the 770 version more that we already did. I did asked to check if there was a way to speed up the first video playback (quite quite quite slow) and some other details but if they are bugs / lack of feature on the components we depend on, that we can't do much...

and we do a lot of "memory consumption" tests, and in the 2008 we didn't find a leak like you're saying... and I think the problem must be also (speaking from our experience in the canola1) that some other component is dieing, and thus locks the device.

There's a file that shows you why it froze last time.

BR

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Hi Howardcb : we will take a look, the .pls link should work, and if it is not working, then it's a bug.

did you try these ones and also failed:

http://www.sky.fm/mp3/newage.pls

We will look deeper!

Marcelo

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread
 

Just installed latest Canola on N800/OS2008 yesterday. Very impressive but no sound when playing the N810 video. Will try some other vids later.

Edit: also how do I get canola to see upnp server?

Edit2: sound is ok on same vid on N810

PS: Just trawling this whole thread. Will recheck the N800 problem from the cmd line and report any errors later.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread
 

Helo muki,

Couple of question (sorry if they seems dumb)

a. Did you checked the master volume in the tablet?
( canola cannot sets the master volume device, and if the volume is zero or sometimes if the volume in the media player is zero this can influentiate canola) so make sure both volumes are in maximum

b. Did you reboot the system (without being plugged on power) before installing ( just to make sure all the services are started correctly) if it was first time installing canola... theres no need to do so.

UPNP : is already in final testing, it's a third party pluggin that we are adappting to canola, we plan to release in the next big, feature based update

Marcelo

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Thanks for the response. I added the above link to Canola, and the program accepted it and listed it as "sky.fm". However, it just shows "no items found" when I try to play the station.

Howard

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread
 

I tried it here with our beta4 version that is in the works, and it added without problems and it shows one item when I enter the feed.

The internet radio support was rewritten since beta3, so please tell me if works when the new release is out.

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Hi Marcelo,

a. I did check volume levels and again after your post because I do occasionally have my "dumb" moments :D

b. Nope, I did not reboot before installation but this is the first Canola installed on my N800. Have rebooted now but still no vid sound (songs play ok). Running from terminal the only feedback from canola is "[]" (that's it I swear).

Edit: forgot to mention that sound is ok when played via Media Player.

UPNP: Good to hear, looking forward to it. Would be nice to have an all-in-one solution.

On another note, if I read some of the previous posts correctly it has been requested to be able to select directories. I understand that this has implications for GUI design but I would settle for an interim/ alternative solution: restrict canola to only scanning directories containing ".canola" (empty file) or simply a user editable text file stating specific directories to scan?

PS: I am online for the next hour so if you want to get to the bottom of the vid sound problem let me know what I can do to help, otherwise it may be ~3 wks before I am back.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread
 

Thank you for Canola. It really is a great piece of software.

Is there a way to cut a podcast feed from the web browser into Canola? I'm used to holding down the stylus until a context menu comes up and I can paste from there.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread
 

There will be soon ;-) We are working on it! Good to hear that you enjoy our software!