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#1
A new version of mplayer is available at garage downloads page: https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_...release_id=776

It is an incremental update which improves performance a bit and also fixes a bug with inconsistent display state on exit which could be observed with mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.17 in some circumstances. Check release notes at garage downloads page for more details about the changes which have been introduced in different mplayer releases.

This release is mostly interesting for the projects which use mplayer as a backend as it adds support for making PNG and JPG screenshots and enables ALSA sound output in N800 build (for use with A2DP). An important thing to take care when upgrading from mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.16 is that framebuffer based video output is now set as default for N800 ('-vo nokia770'). If Xv video output is desired, it should be explicitly specified with '-vo xv' option when running mplayer.

This release will get uploaded to garage extras repository very soon unless regressions compared to mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.16 are reported.
 
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Serge: Milhouse suggested I forward to you my query to him of today. Any advice? Regards, Jim

"Milhouse: This is a new query, unrelated I believe to anything above, but as it concerns A2DP, I believe it is appropriate that I put it here.

"It concerns my inability to play ogg-formatted music on Kagu using my Bluetooth headphones. Without burdening you with the details, I had to rip one of my cd's using my Linux box as my PC's cd-player wouldn't recognize that particular cd! When I transferred the ripped music to my N800 and scanned with Kagu, it was readily accepted and played by Kagu -- except when I tried listening to it using my Bluetooth headphones (which of course were enabled for Kagu use by your wonderful A2DP application). Can you see any reason why your application wouldn't be equally viable for ogg-formatted music as it is for MP3? Any help would be appreciated, as usual."
 
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Originally Posted by Serge View Post
A new version of mplayer is available at garage downloads page: https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_...release_id=776

It is an incremental update which improves performance a bit and also fixes a bug with inconsistent display state on exit which could be observed with mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.17 in some circumstances. Check release notes at garage downloads page for more details about the changes which have been introduced in different mplayer releases.

This release is mostly interesting for the projects which use mplayer as a backend as it adds support for making PNG and JPG screenshots and enables ALSA sound output in N800 build (for use with A2DP). An important thing to take care when upgrading from mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.16 is that framebuffer based video output is now set as default for N800 ('-vo nokia770'). If Xv video output is desired, it should be explicitly specified with '-vo xv' option when running mplayer.

This release will get uploaded to garage extras repository very soon unless regressions compared to mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.16 are reported.
Does this mean we can use a2dp directly without having to run kaju in the background??

If yes.... that is great news.... now may be i can browse while simultaneously using a2dp via stereo bluetooth....
 
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Great stuff serge!

Any chance you could make a chinook compatible version?

edit:
missing dependencies during install:
hildon-fm1
libdbus-1-2

Yeah, did force install on n810 and tested uktube with it. Result:
error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file

Anyhoo. Would be great if you could publish the n810 comparible version soonish, so that I could make sure uktube plays nice with it.

Last edited by konttori; 2007-11-04 at 18:51.
 
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Originally Posted by konttori View Post
Great stuff serge!

Any chance you could make a chinook compatible version?

edit:
missing dependencies during install:
hildon-fm1
libdbus-1-2

Yeah, did force install on n810 and tested uktube with it. Result:
error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file

Anyhoo. Would be great if you could publish the n810 comparible version soonish, so that I could make sure uktube plays nice with it.
Yes, N810 and OS2008 will be supported in mplayer eventually. But mplayer uses a few hardware/system specific optimizations, so it might require some tuning and testing on real N810 hardware. It took some time before mplayer could work on N800 more or less acceptable, hopefully N810 and OS2008 does not differ so much and it will require less work. As soon as OS2008 FIASCO image gets available, I'll ensure that mplayer works on N800 with the new OS.

You can try to build mplayer for OS2008 youself. Just run
Code:
svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/mplayer/tags/1.0rc1-maemo.18.n800 mplayer
cd mplayer
make deb-n800
or
Code:
svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd mplayer
make deb-n800
in scratchbox with maemo 4.0 SDK to get deb-package. I still did not test it myself though, but I hope that there will be no compilation issues (mplayer is not heavily dependent on hildon).
 
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Great! I love mplayer, on my laptop and on my N800. Thank you!

What does framebuffer or xv based video output do? Is one faster or more stable?
 
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Originally Posted by ldrn View Post
What does framebuffer or xv based video output do? Is one faster or more stable?
Framebuffer output is faster, but it may break on major OS upgrades. Xv based output is somewhat slower (unless https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278 was fixed, which I suppose should be done in OS2008). Xv is a standard API for video output, so it should always work.
 
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Originally Posted by Serge View Post
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Code:
svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd mplayer
make deb-n800
in scratchbox with maemo 4.0 SDK to get deb-package. I still did not test it myself though, but I hope that there will be no compilation issues (mplayer is not heavily dependent on hildon).
Sorry, but I have hext result
Code:
[sbox-CHINOOK_ARMEL: ~/deb/mplayer] > make deb-n800
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=n800 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us -sa -D
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is mplayer
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.0rc1-maemo.18.n770
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Siarhei Siamashka <ssvb@users.sourceforge.net>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture armel
dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 1.0rc1-maemo.18.n770
: Using Scratchbox tools to satisfy builddeps
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: x-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
make: *** [deb-n800] Error 3
because
Code:
[sbox-CHINOOK_ARMEL: ~/deb/mplayer] > apt-get install x-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package x-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  x11proto-core-dev
E: Package x-dev has no installation candidate

Last edited by gLobster; 2007-11-12 at 09:50.
 
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#9
gLobster: Try editing 'debian/control' removing the libraries which fail dependency check from 'Build-Depends:' until mplayer starts compiling. All the libraries needed to build mplayer should be included in SDK theoretically.
 
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#10
Thank's, I replace x-dev with x11proto-core-dev and can to build project! Now I am waiting OS 2008 realese for N800
 
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