(workaround available) Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

Hi.

I have several MPEG files (MPEG1), that played just fine on my N900 until PR 1.1. After carelessly assuming that since PR 1.1 has some issues on some people's N900 with extra decoders, I blamed them, likely for nothing. (sorry)

So. My N900 no longer plays MPEG files. They are listed in the list. They have thumbnails (from the previous version), but now pushing the thumbnail gets me five dots for a second then the ding and the format not supported.

I KNOW they played before. Also, MPlayer plays them just fine if launched from MC or via KMplayer Open dialog. PC (W7) plays them fine, MPC-HC reports MPEG video and MP3 audio.

So, ideas? Options? Known issues? Who is responsible for MPEG? Can I check the codec is there? Can I see if it's registered OK? Anything?

Thanks.

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Video: MPEG1 Video 352x240 (107:80) 29.97fps 1600Kbps
Audio: MPEG Audio 44100Hz stereo 224Kbps

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

Perhaps:
"media player won't play any video files now (.avi) divx / xvid"
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6823

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

"Actual outcome:
at the bottom center there 5 "loading" dots. This goes forever."

I have an unsupported message. Also, not an AVI/XVID but an MPEG/MPEG.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

Vote for bug 8254 - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8254
named "PR1.1 lost MPEG and MKV playback (and some WMV)"

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

I suspect that "Five-dots-of-death" is actually bug 8165 (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8165). Unfortunately 6823 specifies Divx/Xvid but I suspect it is something else which blocks gst-video-thumbnailerd and it blocks media player.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

Help me please !!!! my mediaplayer doesnt work anymore it dont do anything i had downloaded media subtitle support and again i removed it but now it doesnt work and i am going crazy here i cant have entertainment !!!!!!!!

please help me i beg u people !!!
i dont want to bring it to the repairshop so please is there a sulution for it??
any one who knows how to delete all media data from N900 to let the damn mediaplayer workk again?????

i need helppp

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

:):):):mad::mad::mad::mad:my media player dont do anything can some one please help me!!!

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

a) This is a forum not a help line, a minute is not enough to get an answer.

b) This is the wrong thread. This is about inability to play MPEG on PR1.1. Start your own thread if you want help. But,

c) Remember to search the forum, there are at least 20 or so threads on media player.

d) There's always reflashing at home, that should fix everything. Make a backup

e) Perhaps you shouldn't be installing stuff that is untested?

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

Thanks, I'm not alone. Voted.

Also, 8165 is not my bug, since KMPlayer plays them, they aren't locked.

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/media/mmc1/Video $ mplayer ./Alicia\ Keys\ -\ Fallin\'.mpg
MPlayer SVN-r30099-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing ./Alicia Keys - Fallin'.mpg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 352x240 (aspect 12) 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/15.87% (ratio: 28000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
================================================== ========================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.34:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 352x240 => 352x262 Planar YV12
[AO_ALSA] Write error: Broken pipe 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
[AO_ALSA] Trying to reset soundcard.
[AO_ALSA] Write error: Broken pipe 0.000 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0
[AO_ALSA] Trying to reset soundcard.
A: 3.4 V: 3.4 A-V: 0.036 ct: -0.004 97/ 97 31% 22% 29.5% 53 0
Exiting... (Quit)
/media/mmc1/Video $

Oh, it played, though I'm not sure it's obvious from the output.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

If you use only KMPlayer the gst-video-thumbnailerd doesn't start it there is no graphic accelerator lock. But if you play once with system media player you may expect a lock for KMPlayer too because system media player starts damned gst-video-thumbnailerd.

BTW, it is a problem only if you have an "unplayable" video on your N900.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

Just install again gstreamer0.10-plugins-base via "apt-get install --reinstall gstreamer0.10-plugins-base" (remove Extra-devel repository, of course).

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

I have several unplayable videos, that's the point :P

And yes, I had some unplayable before. Still don't understand why, they seem fine on the PC. I may have an XVID that started all this.

Also, edited my post with MPlayer output.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

Already voted.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

After firmware upgrade xvid playing stops...

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

That is a known bug

also

FIXED!

It works after installing the new decoders support 0.3-1.
WooHoo!

I now have MPEG play capability AND the FLV files are shown in the player thumbnails.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

I don't know who to ask for this, but could please one of the mods rename the thread to [workaroud available] Help: etc or something similar? There were a few complaints on missing MPEG and FLV functionaity on PR1.1, maybe this would help. TIA.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

Please look into http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39299&page=5
and don't forget to vote in http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...pport/0.3.4-1/ to promote Extra Decoder Support.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

I noticed that in PR 1.1 when you attempt to play a non-playable video, the media player will fail to play any video from then on.
A workaround for people affected by this (until the bug gets fixed) would be reboot. Or kill the process mafw-gst-renderer, if you feel safe/experienced to do so.

Re: Help: MPEG no longer plays on N900
 

No, it is gst-video-thumbnailerd which stacks and grabs video hardware. BTW, it also grows in memory --> device slowdown and consumes more battery. See and vote for bug 8165 -
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8165