Playing .ogv on N900
 

Just downloaded 480p ogv version of trailer from
http://durian.blender.org/download/
The only player that opened it was KMplayer and it was veeery slow, about 0.3fps :(
(Media Player, mplayer, vlc and ffplay without options failed)

What can you recommend?
Package for ogg is installed (forgot it's name), maybe there is another one for ogv?

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

What the hell is OGV? You shouldn't be surprised you can't play it on the N900...it's not a regular format, not even on PC.

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

It's Ogg Theora. So it's a regular, albeit not widespread format. Any modern Linux PC is able to play it out of the box, though.

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

Same question here. Any solution for ogv?

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

try install package ogg-support from extras-devel

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

In game stratagus/wargus is all vides converted to ogv format and wargus play all videos without problem. (But yes, it has own simple video player glued into engine - using theroa library).

So HW in N900 can play video without problem, but there is maybe problem with players... I try investigate where is problem and how to easy play ogv videos.

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

So here is solution how to play theora videos using gstreamer libraries.

What is needed: theora and vorbis decoder for gstreamer; simple gstreamer utility which connect buffer pipes togeter.

Installing packages (as root):
$ apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ogg gstreamer0.10-vorbis gstreamer0.10-theora gstreamer-tools

Playing theora video and vorbis audio from file (file may have extension .ogv):
$ gst-launch filesrc location=<video.ogv> \! oggdemux name=demuxer demuxer. \! queue \! theoradec \! xvimagesink demuxer. \! queue \! vorbisdec \! pulsesink

Q: What?? Why this very long command??
A: gst-launch is very simple program which only connect buffer pipes togeter. '\!' means similar as s pipe '|' in shell/bash. First is needed to demux file into audio and video part. Video stream needs to be decoded from theora format to RGB/YUV images which can be shown on screen by Xv. Next audio stream needs to be decoded from vorbis format to uncompressed RAW/WAV which pulseaudio can play.

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

I already installed ogg-support. Where is that videopayer?

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

I was not able to play my ogv videos with ogg-support and default media player. I think that ogg-support adds only support for ogg/vorbis (not for theora). Next I tried mplayer on n900. No success too... Only what played audio+video from ogv file was gstreamer libraries (with above program gst-launch).

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

I get this using your command:
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Nothing more happens.

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

Is your video in ogg format with vorbis audio and theora video?

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

I tested gst-launch with downloaded videos from:
http://www.sintel.org/download/

This working fine without problem:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/graphics/ble...ailer-480p.ogv

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

Yes, it is.
On the other way, it it too complicated to use a command like this.
Ok, I could use a script <filename> for this.

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

i tested sintel_trailer-480p.ogv with the stock media player, and it is working without a problem. mplayer played audio only.

I have installed:
extra decoders support
ogg support
and a bunch of gstreamer plugins, among which:
gstreamer0.10-theora

Maybe you need to restart the tracker/media player somehow if you have just now installed the gstreamer theora support?

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

Yes, the above video runs with the stock player. But try this one:
http://blip.tv/file/get/Llelectronic...00Teil1258.ogv
This video does not run.
Also no luck with mp4 videos. Most video podcasts are in this formats.
Edit: It runs now, too.

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

aren't two demo videos that come with n900 in mp4?
9.mp4 and Nokia_N900.mp4

I checked now, and they have mp4v video and aac audio. maybe the podcasts use some other video codec. Try and see what are they using.

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

They are using h264 @ 640 x 480 with mp4a. This is a format for
ipods.
For example the mp4 files provided here:
http://techviewpodcast.wordpress.com/

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

I tried downloading a podcast from that site, but it is going quite slow and I don't have time to try it now. Also, I'm on a trip for the next 10 days, so if this is not resolved by then I will check again.

Best of luck,
Ivan

Re: Playing .ogv on N900
 

even there a simpler solution??