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	pycage	2008-02-25 , 15:20
	Posts: 3,404 \| Thanked: 4,474 times \| Joined on Oct 2005 @ Germany	#81

Originally Posted by Grayman

Hi, just tried MediaBox and am very impressed. However I noticed 2 things:
1. As noted before on this thread the FM Radio remains on. This leaves the chipset powered up and drains the battery. I didn't notice initially as I had not plugged the headphones in, so I guess it boosts the power to try and get a signal. My fully-charged battery ran flat in just 10 hours with the device in off-line/locked mode.
2. I started some videos from my camera - these played fine, but the mplayer instance remained and responded to the play/next/prev buttons, playing over the songs I was actually trying to listen to (both video and audio!).

I noticed that if you have the FM radio desktop applet enabled and exit MediaBox, the applet sometimes switches on radio by itself (even though MediaBox switched it off).

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dwforslund	2008-02-25 , 20:17
Posts: 78 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Dec 2007	#82

What more details to you need? I'm running on N810, OS version 50-2. I installed MediaBox from the Application Manager and am running it from the Application folder. (I've not seen how to run it from within xterm, if that is possible). My music, photos, etc are on the external memory card and are accessible from Canola, and other media applications. MediaBox doesn't seem to see any of this. The only icon that seems to work is the internet radio icon. Is there some kind of diagnostic I need to run?

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	polossatik	2008-02-26 , 01:33
	Posts: 126 \| Thanked: 23 times \| Joined on Jan 2008	#83

fyi, the media box entry on http://maemo.org/downloads/list/OS2008/ has "developed by nokia" tag, I'm doubting this is true

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dwforslund	2008-02-26 , 06:13
Posts: 78 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Dec 2007	#84

Other people talk about it hanging trying to load media files. I can't tell if it is trying to load media files at all. It comes up and says it is loading components, but then with line at the bottom with version/author and web site, it shows only the music icon. If I press the full screen button, it shows a gray box on the left and some icons with "-" after them in the middle and nothing on the right. There also is a black band along the bottom. The app always takes up the entire screen. If I press the full screen button again, all I get is a white screen with a black band at the bottom. If I press the "+" rocker it shows a row of icons at the bottom (where the black band was). The only icon that seems to do anything (other than the date/time icon) is the internet radio icon. The other icons do cause a change in the top part of the panel, but no content is displayed. There is an arrow icon on the bottom left that seems to change the icons along the bottom. I guess this is all supposed to be intuitive, but not having it show any content makes it pretty non-intuitive. If it is hanging, how can I tell what is hanging? Is there some other way to start the application? One other person said they have to remove and reinsert the removable media. This is pretty strange as I don't have to do this for any other application and see no real need to do so. Any suggestions?

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	pycage	2008-02-26 , 13:48
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Originally Posted by dwforslund

Other people talk about it hanging trying to load media files. I can't tell if it is trying to load media files at all. It comes up and says it is loading components, but then with line at the bottom with version/author and web site, it shows only the music icon. If I press the full screen button, it shows a gray box on the left and some icons with "-" after them in the middle and nothing on the right. There also is a black band along the bottom. The app always takes up the entire screen. If I press the full screen button again, all I get is a white screen with a black band at the bottom. If I press the "+" rocker it shows a row of icons at the bottom (where the black band was). The only icon that seems to do anything (other than the date/time icon) is the internet radio icon. The other icons do cause a change in the top part of the panel, but no content is displayed. There is an arrow icon on the bottom left that seems to change the icons along the bottom. I guess this is all supposed to be intuitive, but not having it show any content makes it pretty non-intuitive. If it is hanging, how can I tell what is hanging? Is there some other way to start the application? One other person said they have to remove and reinsert the removable media. This is pretty strange as I don't have to do this for any other application and see no real need to do so. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your detailed description. It sounds as if you're really experiencing some hanging during loading. That's why there's only one icon visible. Running MediaBox from the Terminal may reveal more information on what went wrong. So if you see anything there, please let me know.

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	pycage	2008-02-26 , 13:50
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Originally Posted by polossatik

fyi, the media box entry on http://maemo.org/downloads/list/OS2008/ has "developed by nokia" tag, I'm doubting this is true

All I see there is "Server Error". And that since at least a week ago. maemo.org/downloads is really buggy.

But I can assure you, MediaBox is not connected to Nokia in any way.

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dwforslund	2008-02-26 , 15:27
Posts: 78 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Dec 2007	#87

How do I run mediabox from the terminal? I didn't see how to do this. What is the command to run from the terminal prompt? There doesn't seem to be anything called mediabox. And I've not found any documentation or information on this thread of how to do this.

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	pycage	2008-02-26 , 21:45
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Originally Posted by dwforslund

How do I run mediabox from the terminal? I didn't see how to do this. What is the command to run from the terminal prompt? There doesn't seem to be anything called mediabox. And I've not found any documentation or information on this thread of how to do this.

Just enter

Code:

MediaBox

with capital M and B and press Enter.

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dwforslund	2008-02-27 , 03:44
Posts: 78 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Dec 2007	#89

Thanks! I ran MediaBox from an xterm and got the following. It behaved the same as when I use the application launcher. The first log is the error log from the application. The second is the output of the application.

~Error log
~
~ $ MediaBox > media.log&
~ $ Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/mediabox/mediabox/App.py", line 248, in __load_viewers
viewer = viewerclass(self.__window)
File "/usr/lib/mediabox/viewers/preferences/Preferences.py", line 58, in __init__
self.__add_card(CardMediaRoot(esens, "Media Collection"),
File "/usr/lib/mediabox/viewers/preferences/CardMediaRoot.py", line 25, in __init__
self.__mediaroots = config.mediaroot()
File "/usr/lib/mediabox/mediabox/config.py", line 21, in mediaroot
roots = _CLIENT.get_list(_PREFIX + "mediaroot", gconf.VALUE_STRING) or \
GError: Type mismatch: Expected list, got string

log:
headphones disconnected
clock /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers/clock
image /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers/image
music /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers/music
radio /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers/radio
video /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers/video
preferences /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers /usr/lib/mediabox/viewers/preferences
... handled by _DummyPlayer
... handled by _DummyPlayer
... handled by _DummyPlayer
unknown-stream ... handled by _MPlayer
Starting MPlayer
running
Started Player
Started Player
CTX 1
Playing
.ram ... handled by _OSSOPlayer
Killed Player
Killed Player
CTX 1
seekable: 0
length: 0
has_video: 0
Playing
seekable: 0
length: 0
bitrate: 1000
has_video: 0
Playing
unknown key F5

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dwforslund	2008-02-27 , 03:52
Posts: 78 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Dec 2007	#90

"rightmost icon with the wrench"? What are you referring to? I don't see any preferences section. I see a set of icons at the bottom of the screen when running MediaBox and the rightmost one is the icon of the time/date. How would I get to the preferences section? There is a curved arrow on the lower left, which seems to change the bottom display depending on which icon has been selected. I cannot make the program come up with less than the entire display. There is no normal control panel (unlike any other IT application I've run). I have no images or media files in MyDocuments.