A new Boot Video
 

Hey guys ,

I got some good reviews for a video I made for booting up your phone:

http://vimeo.com/8029351


Enjoy, and if you are looking for someone to help you out with some graphics, give me a shout.

Cheers

Raul
:D

--------UPDATE-------------

Here is the version in .AVI
also 1 frame if you want to set it up as your background.

Download @ :

http://raularellano.ca/maemo/maemointro-h264.avi.zip

http://raularellano.ca/maemo/maemoBG.jpg

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Re: A new Boot Video
 

That video is freakin' sweet! But if I may make a humble suggestion?

The MAEMO text is kinda... flat. Any chance on making it nice and shiny like the other boot videos?

Re: A new Boot Video
 

I guess I can do a render with different materials and render setting, Ill post t here when I get around that.

thanks for the input

Re: A new Boot Video
 

It's awesome dude!!

Re: A new Boot Video
 

chicle
what an amazingly cool video!
i wonder if the same sort of spinning logo or charging logo could be used as a busy indicator in certain places?.

if you want to get involved in an ongoing event and offer some graphics, take a look here.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36198
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36698

people are getting involved concepting and designing a new unique maemo game :)
have a go, nothing is concrete and everything is possible.

Re: A new Boot Video
 

AWESOME!

Now someone tell me how to install that instead of the nokia handshake?

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Originally Posted by eivind

Step By step boot video change for N900:

1- go to the repository menu of N900
2- Install ssh server on N900
3- ssh on installation will ask you for a password (choose one)
4- go to your main PC and download a free ssh client with a graphic interface (it's much easier to use for a newbie) like winscp.
5- in your N900 launch xterminal and type: sudo gainroot
6- in x terminal type then: ifconfig
7- ifconfig will show you r ip address (of course you MUST be connected to a wireless lan with your N900 )
8- open winscp and login to this ip address.
login:root password: your passord
9- go tho /usr/share/hildon-welcom/media and copy the boot video you want.
10- ho to /etc/hildon-welcom.d/ and copy default.conf to ypur PC
11-open in your PC default.conf with notepad and modify it with the name of the new video
12- save without changing name of the file
13- replace the file .conf in N900
14- disconnect and restart N900.

That's it...

I hope to have been useful

Corto Maltese

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Thank you... but I fear that's well beyond my capacity. Yet.

I'll wait till I'm a lot more competent. But I do want to see this eventually.

Re: A new Boot Video
 

*boring comment about maemo.org logo that is a standalone trademark, it does not represent maemo os itself is placed here*

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Nice video, Corto.

For those who just want to skip the welcome video (faster boot time), place a hash (#) in front of the filename (to comment that line out):

[hildon-welcome]
#filename=Hands-v32-h264.avi

Re: A new Boot Video
 

RevdKathy,

Steps 1-7 above are one time things that will enable other likely useful tasks. The results of 7 might change from time to time. Installing the ssh client/server package and setting root password is really only one step. (You have installed other packages and know the drill.)

I would also recommend getting both ssh client and server in one go (that is one of the repository choices).

This does not have to be done all in one sitting. Divide and conquer!

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Oh I will. Eventually. I know these are things I need to do if I'm really going to get the bext from My Mo. But baby steps, I think. And not on a Sunday evening. ;)

Re: A new Boot Video
 

I'm afraid this video won't play anyway because it's in .mov format.

Re: A new Boot Video
 

thanks for the replies, I did not know I had to make it a .avi :mad:

anyone knows what compression for .avi is recommended?

I use a mac so it is more .mov friendly, and Quick time pro is not helping out much with .avi

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Haven't tried it ma'self, but supposedly VideoLAN Client (VLC) supports transcoding from a wide variety of formats (I've only used VLC when I find myself on a Windows machine and in need of playback). There's a Mac OS X version.

Re: A new Boot Video
 

do the videos need to have a specific length?
or can you also just remove them so no video plays at all?

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Check out post #10 in this same thread.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...5&postcount=10

Re: A new Boot Video
 

d*oh....^^
reading helps, i guess :D

Re: A new Boot Video
 

I got it working on mine. Looks pretty good. I used SHAPE to change the container to AVI and change the aspect to 800x480 (your file is 900x480). Used h264 since that is what the Nokia default welcome is.

Also, rather than moving the config file to your machine to edit, in WINSCP, just right click the file and choose edit.

If anyone wants a copy, just shoot me a PM with your email.

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Is it possible to just put symbolic links in the /usr/share/maemo-welcome/media folder and the actual video files somewhere else, for example in /opt/mybootvideos? This way it could be possible to keep lots of videos on the device without having to fear that root partition fills up. I don't want to test this myself since I don't know if the welcome system breaks the whole device if the video is behind symbolic link :D

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Hey Greg,

Thanks for doing that, is it possible to receive that .avi so I can post it on my website and add the link here to download?

Cheers,

R
raul@raularellano.ca
:D

Re: A new Boot Video
 

It is on it's way.

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Thanks greg,

I updated my first post with the link.

Re: A new Boot Video
 

I have a question @ step 8 when i have to put my login and my password in the ftp client, the login is root but what is the password? I don't have set any passwords to my n900 eccept for my sim card. Can you guys help me? Isn't there a stock password?

thnx a lot,

Martijn

Re: A new Boot Video
 

i believe its the password you created at step 3

Re: A new Boot Video
 

oh lol i missed that step im sorry thnx!!

EDIT:
When im connecting to my device it says:
Could not connect because the target machine actively refused the connection.
Connection failed.

What did i do wrong?

Re: A new Boot Video
 

nobody got any ideas?

Re: A new Boot Video
 

I've done everything from N900 itself without using computer. If someone want to try, this is how it goes:

We need:
-rootsh
-unzip
-PyGTKEditor

1. Open this site from N900

2. Save zip file with video from first page of this topic in main folder of N900

3. Unzip that file.
In X-Terminal:
go into MyDocs folder:

then unzip:

4. Copy video to right location.
In X-Terminal:
become root:
then copy the file:
5. Copy config file to MyDocs

6. Start PyGTKEditor
7. In PyGTKEditor open file "default.conf" from main N900 folder.
It'll look like this:

8. Edit that file, so it'll look like this:

9. Save changes

10. Copy this edited config file back to proper location.
In X-Terminal:
11. Close X-Terminal, PyGTKEditor, Browser etc.

12. Restart N900

Re: A new Boot Video
 

sweet!

All I need now is a N900 ;)

Re: A new Boot Video
 

It works thnx to you

Only one thing is not good in your script:

10. Copy this edited config file back to proper location.
In X-Terminal:

Code:
cp /home/user/MyDocs/default.config /etc/hildon-welcome.d/default.conf it must be default.conf, not default.config

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Thanks, post edited. :)

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Hi
I have a problem. I got my phone with the SSH SERVER installed and I dont know what the password. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the ssh server, but without result. Application don't ask me for a password.... What can i do ?
Thanks.

Re: A new Boot Video
 

Hi
I tried this option too, but I don't know where the MyDocs folder. I transfer the video file from my PC (with cable) to the phone. I do not put it in any folder.... But when I try to copy (in the X-TERMINAL) I get the result: No file or directory...
Where's my mistake ?
Thanks

Re: A new Boot Video
 

It's okay, I did it :D

Re: A new Boot Video
 

how do i add this one?
http://www.4shared.com/file/21374037...0_short_3.html

Do i do it the same way?

EDIT*
K nvm i got it =)