Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Hello kontorri and any one who can get this going....

i love the clarity of the videos on stage6.com and i was hoping if kontorri can add stage6 support to ukmp..... for that first mplayer should be able to play divx.....

hope it works..

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Somewhere along I remember seeing a post of mplayer problems with Divx. Apparantly Xvid is friendly with mplayer though.


bun

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Actually i tested a divx file and it plays very well on mplayer. I tried going to stage6.com and it says for linux use mplayer. I tried using ukmp to download the file using url ..... but it never worked(did'nt expect it to work anyway). i tried running the url in xterm using mplayer..... nothing there either.
If only kontorri can do something about this.....

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

hi!

Well, I can try to take a look at the stage6.

No promises though.

If anyone else has the time to look into the stage 6 and how to make python download the video files, it would be appreciated. You can just modify the uktube code as you wish and just send me a patch. If no-one else has the time, then I'll try to squeeze this in to some idle moment.

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Thank you kontorri..... you are so sweet!!!

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Ok, i've done it and it seems to be working for the few videos that I've tested. however, the resolution is pretty huge and video playback seems to be having problems handling the files. Perhaps ssvb should become involved in this project to see if the divx protocol used in stage6 could be optimized somehow. It's like it's just around the corner of being able to play the video smoothly. As long as there is not much action, mplayer is able to play the videos. If there is much action, then: hello 2 fps.

Anyway, the latest ukmp + uktube is here. Try it out and let me know if you get performance issues on 770. I have only tested that on n800. I'm not sure which has more performance for the stage6-like videos.

Took me 30 minutes total. But testing will take longer time, so, please help me with that.

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Where is the link for the latest player... do you mean latest player in maemo?

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

yeah, it's the 6c one:
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_...release_id=876

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

So, the current version download link is here:
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa....70Alpha6C.deb


Have a few test runs on the stage6 with it and let me know how it works.

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

some thing is wrong there... i cant get to download it. i tried downloading it on the pc and run it on the n800.... it says could not install.

thanks for the effort

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Have you installed a previous version? Do you have python-2.5-runtime on the device?

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

You can download and convert for N800 from stage6 with
Nokia N800 Video Convert:

http://xoomer.alice.it/sepaolo/n800vc/

Press Open URL button, insert the video URL and a description, then press OK
A little tip, stop video preview (or press the red X button, to stop the preview) and start the conversion.

Paolo

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

I dl the one with ....6c, and installed without any problem. It worked somewhat. Upon streaming, it only sees about 5s then the audio keeps on going, but the video is frozen. Upon dl, it plays the video and audio. The audio works good, but the video is playing about every other frame, or even less, looks like a poor animated cartoon. Hey, this is divx, I am excite, Konttori, excellent job and thank you!


bun

app manager mediacenter 1.7 installed.

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Yeah, I am hoping that ssvb could have a look at the divx optimizations for that stage 6 variant.

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

I can suggest using '-hardframedrop' option to get higher framerate. It will cause some artefacts on screen, but will allow you to get higher framerate. Both DIVX and XVID are MPEG4 ASP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_2

The difference between them is that XVID uses B-frames when encoding by default and DIVX does not. A good thing about B-frames is that they can be skipped on decoding when cpu is not fast enough, so when you are watching XVID video, some percent of frames can be safely dropped and you will not even notice that. But if the video does not have B-frames, almost all the frames need to be decoded as every sequential frame depends on the previous one. The only exception are keyframes, but they only appear in video once in 10-15 seconds. So if you try to play video which is too heavy to decode, you will only hear audio and see keyframes as a slideshow. It is possible to force mplayer to skip decoding of some frames (-hardframedrop option), but the result is often not very pretty as reference frames get missing and correct decoding is impossible in this case.

To sum everything up, XVID is more friendly to CPU limited devices.

PS. I've done some additional video decoding optimizations which should speed up mplayer. Also mplayer 1.0rc2 was released upstream recently, I'll try to switch to it in the next few days and provide the next build for maemo.

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

i think there is a problem with maemo site. I just cant seem to complete the download. Ill try later when i can download the complete file.

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

finally got a chance to try it. Unfortunately it was unwatchable. It streamed the first two fremes and then on it just showed a slide show. I think it is too processor intensive to work properly on a n800. I evn tried downoading the video and playing it. But the results were not that good because it skips a few frames. Anyway thank you for trying kontorri. May be the next tablet is just powerful enogh to do it.

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

What about the B-frame Serge suggest on Xvid? Or some optimization, please?


bun

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Yeah i tried with hardframedrop also. It looked more ugly!!!
Actually i wanted this because there is a website callled joox.net which streams high quality divx videos!! Imagine how wonderful it would have been to watch high quality streaming movies with uk tube???
Unfortunately it is not possible now. May be in the future....

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

Hopefully in the next update for uktube stage 6 will work. I love stage 6 and to watch
it on the
n800 would be sweet, but i do watch video's from stage6 but my way of watching
stage 6 video's on my n800 takes some what of
an project, first i download the video then i use SUPER© to convert the file some
quality is lost. But it works for now.




pef

Re: Does mplayer play divx??? can we get stage6.com in ukmp?
 

well, I can add the joox support pretty easily, but there is still the need to get more ooph from mplayer to be able to play stage6 videos without framedrops. Hey, serge, can you compile mplayer to work on chinook? Some dependencies seem to have changed.