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Originally Posted by handful

Scar, this has been widely discussed in the "streching video" post. What happens : mplayer is in "embedded" mode in canola, and due to a bug, it wasn't able to figure out correctly the format, thus stretching the video. There were hacks we could do (open mplayer 2 times) but we decided to patch (small fix) mplayer to work correctly, we did we submited to mplayer and we are waiting to it to be applied.

Originally Posted by handful

About performance, there's also a loss (thus for example any media player that embedds mplyaer will have a slightly worse performance than the real mplayer. We are actually not changing confs etc.

Scar: do you have n810 ? if so have you already formatted your internal disk ?

Marcelo

Originally Posted by ghoonk

Followed the instructions, and did a search for a youtube favourite of mine (achmed the dead terriorist by jeff dunham), but the video does not play.

Originally Posted by Tantris

@handful, cLin
Is there anything contrary to a symlink from the canola youtube-temp-dir to, say, /media/mmc2/youtube-temp? I tested it on my device and it worked flawlessly

for those of you who want to try it (on risk and so on, and *remember* that you did this change, so you can revert it when canola has a folder chooser for this)

open an x-term shell: you are in your home direcory now.
cd .canola/youtube
create a new youtube-temp-directory, e.g. on /media/mmc2:
mkdir /media/mmc2/youtube-temp
now the "crucial part": this one deletes your normal canola temp-dir
rm -r videos
and now we create a symbolic link called "videos" which points to our newly created temp dir:
ln -s /media/mmc2/youtube-temp videos
(in caps this would be LN not 1N)

after this you should be able to do a
cd videos
echo 1 > 1

and if you open your filemanager and go to the folder in which the youtube temp-files should be stored (internal mem. card/youtube-temp)
you should see a very small file called "1" now.
Delete it, as we don't need it anymore and test your youtube videos...


To revert this change:
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open an x-term shell: you are in your home direcory now.
cd .canola/youtube
rm videos
mkdir videos

this will only delete the *link*, so your "new" youtube-temp directory is still there and can be deleted.