adaviel is offline adaviel
2008-07-20 , 23:49
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#1
A colleague just got an iPhone on Rogers (Canada, first day on sale I think) and was enthusing about the voicemail app where the messages are downloaded to the phone and you can use a media player on them (with the advantage of being able to seek in the file).

I though "hey, I should be able to do that". I've been using a Web
interface to our Nortel Meridian PBX on my desktop for some time. I use
Realplayer to handle WAV just to get the GUI seek control - if someone leaves a rambling message with their phone number right at the end, you can seek to it, plus you can archive useful messages etc.

I got the callpilot page on my tablet, and can list the messages, but media-player won't play WAV if I click one. mplayer plays them OK, but I haven't figured how to launch it from the browser. If I save the file and play from the command line, I can seek in 10s steps with the arrow keys
but a GUI with a slider would be more convenient.
play-sound won't work for me at all (hangs). maemo-recorder has
a GUI but won't seek, only pause/play/restart.

Anything better out there ?
Anyone have a generic DBUS launcher to launch command-line programs from the browser ?
 
D'ohboy is offline D'ohboy
2008-07-20 , 23:56
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#2
I am not sure if this is what you want but if you search for "How To : Associate MPlayer, Transmission, and other apps as default handlers" it has a program that "intercepts those messages for certain mime types (file types) and passes them over the command-line to programs which were not coded for dbus (like mplayer and transmission)."
 
adaviel is offline adaviel
2008-07-21 , 08:02
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#3
Excellent: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...d.php?p=173560
App is dbus-switchboard
I've been trying to figure out how to do that for a while.

It turns out that my problem is slightly different. media-player will in fact play a WAV file
on the Web - if it's a regular file. What seems to happen is that when the user says "open with media player", the browser does an HTTP GET with Range: 0- and gets a partial
copy. Then gnome-vfs does a full GET and the sound plays.

But when I try to get my voicemail file, the partial get looks OK on a URL like
/mycallpilot/open.asp?f_MsgNum=10&f_Format=WAV, but the
GET done by gnome-vfs has the wrong URL - /mycallpilot/message.wav - and fails.
Which shows in media player as "media stream not found at given address"
 
adaviel is offline adaviel
2008-07-22 , 20:13
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#4
Stream URL passed to media player has no cookie, referer or authentication information so "open with media player" will fail if you needed to login to get media. Save to file works. Or the website could use embed, prompting the plugin to run (I never had much luck with media plugins on my desktop, trying to play things like Yahoo videos )

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3483 authentication problem
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3482 content-disposition problem
 
fishybythesea is offline fishybythesea
2010-01-06 , 11:38
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#5
Originally Posted by adaviel View Post
A colleague just got an iPhone on Rogers (Canada, first day on sale I think) and was enthusing about the voicemail app where the messages are downloaded to the phone and you can use a media player on them (with the advantage of being able to seek in the file).

I though "hey, I should be able to do that". I've been using a Web
interface to our Nortel Meridian PBX on my desktop for some time. I use
Realplayer to handle WAV just to get the GUI seek control - if someone leaves a rambling message with their phone number right at the end, you can seek to it, plus you can archive useful messages etc.

I got the callpilot page on my tablet, and can list the messages, but media-player won't play WAV if I click one. mplayer plays them OK, but I haven't figured how to launch it from the browser. If I save the file and play from the command line, I can seek in 10s steps with the arrow keys
but a GUI with a slider would be more convenient.
play-sound won't work for me at all (hangs). maemo-recorder has
a GUI but won't seek, only pause/play/restart.

Anything better out there ?
Anyone have a generic DBUS launcher to launch command-line programs from the browser ?
similar problem with wav files playing on n900 where nokia's specs (like the n800) say wav files are supported. nokia customer service tech is aware-read here nokia's rec is to play emailed n900 wav files on office desktop
 
attila77 is offline attila77
2010-01-06 , 11:53
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#6
@fishbythesea: don't create zombie threads on unrelated issues. Thank you.
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fishybythesea is offline fishybythesea
2010-01-09 , 00:51
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#7
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
@fishbythesea: don't create zombie threads on unrelated issues. Thank you.

not sure where you think that high horse is at exactly. you should be more knowledgeable in owning the N900 rather than spreading incorrect info. there are wav file issues which nokia technical confirms itself as do nokia's own support forums:

not playing wav file attached problem/nokia support forum

as to where that 'unrelated issue' is, perhaps it's not related to you however it remains unknown as to where your expertise is in regard to a problem you claim not to experience.
 
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