[Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Hello,

This boot video is made by Nokia and was used on the Maemo 5 videos which can be found on maemo.nokia.com.

All I did was to trim/convert the video so it can be used as boot video for our devices.


How to install:

PREVIEW OF BOOT VIDEO: MAEMO.AVI

1) Download default.conf and maemo.avi OR muted version: [ default.conf & maemo_muted.avi ]
2) Copy these files on your N900's Documents folder
3) Open xterm and type (rootsh required):
How to install MAEMO 2.avi:

PREVIEW OF BOOT VIDEO: MAEMO2.AVI

1) Download default.conf and maemo2.avi
2) Copy these files on your N900's Documents folder
3) Open xterm and type (rootsh required):
Optified thanks to Flandry.
Quoting him:
"Be careful not to delete the movie file in opt. I don't know what happens if it fails to find a boot video... hopefully nothing at all, but i don't want to test".

If you want to revert back to the default nokia boot video(Hands-v32-h264.avi) copy this default.conf
to your N900 Documents folder, open xterm and type:
Enjoy.

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Very cool, cant wait till its optified to use, good work, i will be using this.

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Yeah, I would quite like to see some other options for the boot video other than the quite literally paternalistic default one. Nokia is quite often accused of being arrogant and the default video doesn't exactly help. A lot of people were royally pissed off about Nokia's condescension towards the developing world in their CES presentation.

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Updated first post on how to install it optified.

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Thanks. Keep it up!

I'm using this now. I suggest that you modify it a bit to have a proper fade out because it ends so abrupt.

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I'm totally lost with this one. How is the default video Nokia have been using on it's devices for more than 10 years arrogant :confused:
Anyways great work with the video.

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

you can 'comment' out the original line by adding a '#' in front of the original line
'filename = ' to become '#filename='; and add your file as the next line
'filename = the video file you want'

In this way, when you want to revert, you just have to 'uncomment' the 2nd line, original file, and 'comment' out the 3rd line, your file.

I would move out the Hands file somewhere else to save precious space.

bun

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

What are the 'accepted' encoding settings for a boot video? I've got one that I'm trying to get working, but when I upload it to the device, all I get is a blank screen..

So far I'm encoding as an h264/AVI with MP3 audio, so I can't quite figure out what's wrong, but video isn't my area of expertise.. does it have to be 800x480 or something?

TIA :)

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

I use xvid avi codec. I even increased the resolution and it worked.
Program used: iMedia converter

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Thanks -- I guess I just need to keep fiddling with it.

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Yeah I tried to fade it out on Final Cut Pro but I am getting an error.
If anyone else knows how to do it, let me know.

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looks nice.keep it up.
yes,the ending is abrupt. If possible upload high quality version of this video and add some effects.

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

I have tried that (accidentally), and nothing bad happend, it just keep booting without problems. :)

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So cool :) Works like a charm.

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Soundless version added on first post.

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Added another version:

How to install MAEMO2.AVI:

PREVIEW OF BOOT VIDEO: MAEMO2.AVI

1) Download default.conf and maemo2.avi
2) Copy these files on your N900's Documents folder
3) Open xterm and type (rootsh required):

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

cool boot videos :)

i'd like to use the first one but the end is too abrupt :/
hopefully you or one of the users will find a way to fade it out nicely :)

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Same here, love the first vid.

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sweet work Lacedaemon! BIG thanks!

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Hey Lacedaemon ... I know about a Matrix bott video ... Where can i download the Matrix boot video ?

Lg Jan. (Germany)

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Here is a wallpaper/desktop set (.zip 224kb) that goes along with it.

http://www.twisted-promotions.nl/mae...aper-Nokia.jpg

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I will see if I cant edit maemo.avi and add a nice fade effect!

Thanks very much for this though.. The Nokia handshake is getting rather old..

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

how bout a nokia fist bump?

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Great work :)

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Click on the links in his sig.

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Not sure if this is helpful to anyone in this thread, but here's a one-liner that you can use to create those symlinks for ALL videos you may have stored in your little optified area.

I created a subdirectory called /opt/bootvideos and have been collecting ones I see on the forums there. I like the idea of symlinking to save rootfs space, so wrote this to help out create them all on the fly.

for i in /opt/bootvideos/*; do ln -s $i /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/$(echo $i | awk 'BEGIN { FS="/" } ; { print $4 }'); done

The result is you get a directory that looks like this, and now can just use any video you want in your config file.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1457954 Feb 26 2009 Hands-v32-h264.avi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Feb 2 15:38 Maemo5Splash.avi -> /opt/bootvideos/Maemo5Splash.avi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Feb 2 15:38 maemo.avi -> /opt/bootvideos/maemo.avi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 2 15:38 maemo2.avi -> /opt/bootvideos/maemo2.avi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 2 15:38 maemo_bright_xvid_lame_r1.avi -> /opt/bootvideos/maemo_bright_xvid_lame_r1.avi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Feb 2 15:38 maemo_dark_xvid_lame_r1.avi -> /opt/bootvideos/maemo_dark_xvid_lame_r1.avi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Feb 2 15:38 maemo_flyby_xvid_lame_r3.avi -> /opt/bootvideos/maemo_flyby_xvid_lame_r3.avi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 2 15:38 n900_TV.avi -> /opt/bootvideos/n900_TV.avi

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Ok, so I did everything as described in the original post...Now I have no video at all. Any idea???
Help is appreciated.
Thanks

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

same here... !?

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

copied the Hands-video to /opt/media/, deleted the media-folder in /usr/share/hildon-welcome/ and made a sym-link from /opt/media/ to media/ in hildon-welcome - didn't work as well...

but everything is shown fine in x-term... every file is there where it's supposed to be :/

EDIT:
is it possible that if you changed the indicator_updateX.pngs to something else with bigger filesize that it's too much data and the n900 isn't able to buffer everything and so just skips the video? o.O

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

*grmlz*
changed back to default images but it still won't show up. hmpf :(
help?! ^^

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly?
I have tested it myself and it worked fine.

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

definately.
everything is placed correctly and the symlink-command also did it's job obviously.
don't know why it isn't loading at all.

i'll go back to default and check if the nokia hands are still playing.

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ok... nokia hands video no longer shows up too....

mhm... i had powatool installed before but reverted the changes before i uninstalled it.... but maybe there went something wrong?

albeit... the only changes made by powatool where a new folder and a .disabled extension on the nokia hands video (it renamed the video so .avi.disabled so it wasn't loaded at bootup). but like i said: every single change is undone. o.O

i'm crawling in the dark ^^

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hi guys is there anyway to get ya vid on using ssh, after a ton of readin i have figured out how to use it and its much easier, its more of a "windows" feel, the terminal just baffles me. so if it would be possible could ya please just tell me what to put where through winscp. i can find the folders and move whatever to whereever. and also i was wondering why cant i just remove the welcome video and just replace it with mine? doesnt it just play whatever vid is in that folder? i have tried this but it dont work, it just skips the vid i put in, but as soon as i put the original vid back it works, even if i name mine in the exact same way and encode it the same, how is that possible. anyway would appreciate any help thanx.

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

ok... nokia hands showed up again... i deleted the default.conf and made a new one in x-term with vim.... and taaaadaaaaaa... there it was :)
(maybe there was something wrong with the copied default.conf?!)

after that i edited the file and changed the name behind filename= to maemo.avi but that doesn't seem to work at all. :/

EDIT:
after all it worked but i don't know why it didn't at the first attemp. ^^
i only copied the video again to MyDocs and moved it from there to /opt/media/ (which i symlinked to /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/) and blapp.... the video showed up smoothly :D

strange behaviour though.... but now i'm happy ;D

Re: [Boot Video] Maemo 5
 

It can be done via SSH yeah, and there are instructions on other threads about it.
What you have to do is edit the default.conf file found on: /etc/hildon-welcome.d/

You want to change the name of the hands video with a custom one(for example boot.avi).
Then you need to place your custom boot video(e.g boot.avi) on: /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/

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cheers ok i understand the placement and renameing. its just the editing the config file no idea how to do do that. do i just download the one mentioned at the beginning of this thread and replace it with that?

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No, the one on this thread is supposed to be used with the boot video included in this thread.

If you want to use a different boot video, you need to edit the name of your default.conf file by yourself.
That can be done through your device terminal(you need leafpad or a different text editor application to do that) or via Terminal on Mac/Linux PC(sudo pico default.conf)

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ohh right im starting to understand now. thanks for all your help and patience lacedaemon looks like i got a lot to learn i only know windows.

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I have pretty much everything figured out by now. But here is the deal. The vids only show if I place them directly in the media folder. If I place them somewhere else e.g. /opt and link them into the media folder....no go. Nothing shows. Tried like 50 million times. Somehow my simlink won't work. Strange.
Guess I just have to use the space on my root (bummer, but for one vid not the end of the world).