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Originally Posted by ukki

Knots uses MPlayer which doesn't utilize dsp so it's not as power efficient or fast as the default player. Also http streaming takes its toll.

Originally Posted by ukki

I tried using gstreamer as a backend, but I never got it to properly play anything except theora and even that buffered like every 2 seconds. If anyone wants to experiment with it, it's easy to test different profiles from the commandline, just start a stream with the browser and try to play it gst playbin2 from the command line on N900.

Originally Posted by ukki

Please share the profile if you are happy with it. I'd like to test it on OS X too. I know most encoders don't utilize multiple cores, but do the default profiles work in Windows if you add 4 threads to them?

Originally Posted by wildt

Having said that I'd love to try it out - I have a feeling that the codec combo I mentioned would work perfectly with gstreamer (as it's the compo Nokia chose to showcase the devices video playback abilities).

Originally Posted by ukki

It seems to be a VLC bug, since it works on other platforms. Want to test with a version from nightlies if it has been fixed there?

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/...20100415-0203/

do a git pull and run migrate.cmd, then set the Using VLC 1.1 or newer to true in settings and save and close the server. Install the nightlies version and start server.

EDIT: So I was wrong, I just commited a fix to git that will hopefully fix the subtitle problem on Windows.

Originally Posted by ukki

Ok, here are quick instructions to test, it isn't too hard actually. I just tried it myself and passthough seemed to work fine for xvid, but rest not so much. On your N900, run the following command as root:

Code:

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-tools

Then use your browser and select your profile from the dropdown list and start the stream. It doesn't have to work on your browser, most important thing is that it starts the stream (switch to log_level 1 and start Knots in terminal if you want to see the stream address, but it's usually the one listed below)

Then on your N900, run the following command (on same line):

Code:

gst-launch-0.10 -v playbin2 uri=http://desktopip:19780/stream.asf

Stream extension depends on stream_extension field in the profile so if you use ts mux and ts extension, it's stream.ts. Try different muxes that can be used with http (ts, ps, asf) and see what plays and what doesn't. If you get h264 working with gstreamer fine, I could consider switching to it on N900 version of Knots.

Originally Posted by wildt

Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
/GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: connection-speed = 0
/GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: download = FALSE
/GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: subtitle-encoding = NULL
/GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: uri = "http://desktopip:19780/stream.asf"
/GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: buffer-duration = -1
/GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: buffer-size = -1
/GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: source = (GstSoupHTTPSrc) source
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
ERROR: from element /GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstSoupHTTPSrc:source: Cannot resolve hostname
Additional debug info:
gstsouphttpsrc.c(913): gst_soup_http_src_finished_cb (): /GstPlayBin2laybin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstSoupHTTPSrc:source:
libsoup status code 2
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...