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Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

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Originally Posted by Tomaszd (Post 488309)

No, streaming is not supported, but I'm pretty sure that at least the .RM (as well as RMVB by the way) format is supported if you try playing the file locally. Unfortunately streaming is a different beast and the Media Player is closed-source, so we can't do anything about this.

I'm aware that different modules are responsible for streaming RealMedia content rather than playing it back locally, they are not included, but according to my sources, they will not work anyway.

Hi,
I want to share my experience, as hopefully it can be of use for Real Media- related issues.
When still running PR 1.01, I installed Extra Decoders Support 0.3 and managed to run some .rm streaming files (for example, this one: http://www.radio.rai.it//grr/gr_3/ar...00119.1845.ram )

The procedure was:
1) Download the file (1Kb - pointing to the streaming content)
2) Open File Manager
3) Open the file with "Media Player (Extra Decoder Support)"

The file would play ok, including showing the title, provided I didn't try to pause it, stop it or fast forward through it. When attempting to do so, the interface of the Media Player would become unresponsive. The same file would not play from KMplayer. But the bottom line is: the N900 was able to play the file, somehow.

Yesterday I finally updated to PR 1.1 and to my surprise the .rm files now no longer play following the method above. When attempting to open a file in the same way, the Media Player would return a black screen with options to play the file but nothing happens if I hit play.

All this said, is there anything we can learn from this? It looks to me as if it's not impossible to play Real Media audio content on the device, but maybe something in PR 1.1 conflicts with Extra Decoders Support 0.3?

By the way, Extra-Devel and Extra-Testing are not enabled on my device.

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

Extra Decoders Support 0.3.4-1 is now in Extras, update your devices :)

@maemomatic, I've no idea, did you try with the newest version?

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

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Originally Posted by Tomaszd (Post 503812)

Extra Decoders Support 0.3.4-1 is now in Extras, update your devices :)

@maemomatic, I've no idea, did you try with the newest version?

What's the changelog? I'm being lazy and can't find it sorry :) Also Do I have to uninstall anything first?

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

Hi.

I bought the N900 and I've been trying to install the extra decoders support, but when i try to download it (regardless whether it's from extras or from maemo.org/download) it says that my installation packages are contradictory (or something like that, my phones in Finnish). How could i solve this?

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

@Tomaszd, I did try the new version just now, but I still can't play the real audio stream. This is a mystery...

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

when will there e support for m4v? vlc coming soon huh

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

"Extra Decoders Support 0.3.4-1"

i have v0.3, and it couldn't update because the package manager whinged about some gstreamer dependency...........

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

Same here!
"gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-extra"

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

Solved! Had some download catalogues inactive, activated them and the installation worked

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900

do you want to explain what that means to me? :)