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2010-04-01
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#142
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Originally Posted by qwerty12
you're probably right.
Maybe they weren't even referring to sound servers at all. Check out the closed-source and undocumented (save for Doxygen comments in its headers) libplayback, and the closed-source policy plugins that go with it.
it seems that the default media player is very greedy when it comes to audio output (i never noticed that before, as i don't use it). no other audio sources get through as long as it is playing.
mediabox and mplayer f.ex. can both send audio at the same time no problem, but the media player seems to take precedence over everything...
damn proprietary implementations :P
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2010-04-01
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#143
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Originally Posted by zehjotkah
i wasn't aware that the media player doesn't just send its output as a normal pulseaudio client...
Thanks SubCore for your response!
I've just quoted, what Sygic said to me. I've forwarded your answer. Lets see, what they think.
so the issue was probably just (very *g*) badly expressed in the mail you received and quoted...
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2010-04-01
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#144
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edit: you got PM, SubCore 
Last edited by zehjotkah; 2010-04-01 at 10:40.
Last edited by zehjotkah; 2010-04-01 at 10:40.
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2010-04-01
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#145
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do you mean that if we use an alternate audio player, it might not pause the music to send gps messages ?
gonna try to see how it behaves
gonna try to see how it behaves
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2010-04-01
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#146
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Originally Posted by jesuska
tried mediabox..
do you mean that if we use an alternate audio player, it might not pause the music to send gps messages ?
gonna try to see how it behaves
same behaviour as with default music player, sound pauses.
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2010-04-01
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#147
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Originally Posted by jesuska
Maybe not...
do you mean that if we use an alternate audio player, it might not pause the music to send gps messages ?
gonna try to see how it behaves
However, an independently developed media player front end could possibly be launched with bare bones controls (advance song. etc) from within Sygic's menu's I would think.
The interruptions are not too bothersome for me though.
The songs on my N900 are basically the sound track of my life. I use the British dude as my Sygic voice. So when when this dude interrupts Tull's "Locomotive Breath" or Santana's "Europa" with
Please turn slightly to the left
I do think launching things like media player controls, a specific web page or Internet radio station from within Sygics main menu or a user defined sub-menu page, would be useful and could be community developed.
>> http://panucci.garage.maemo.org/
As far as rotation is concerned, Easily moving the status bar to the top of the page in portrait view may also be problematic. Perhaps they should take a cue from MicroB's browser rotation and develop a different style sheet or configuration for portrait mode.
That is, leave the status bar on top in landscape to comply with Maemo, but go to full page view in portrait just as the browser does.
This doesn't eliminate the "minimize to dashboard" problem but it could be done as it is in MicroB by simply returning to landscape mode, if auto-rotate is implemented .
In the mean time, just like when I'm using the browser in portrait mode, I return to the dash board by using the "Proximity sensor" configured through the Shortcutd app.
Last edited by YoDude; 2010-04-01 at 14:41.
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2010-04-01
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#148
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Originally Posted by jesuska
yes, in the second mail zehjotkah quoted (for a short period of time, now edited away *g*) sygic said that they currently _don't_ use pulseaudio.
tried mediabox..
same behaviour as with default music player, sound pauses.
both mediabox and mplayer directly send their output to pulseaudio, whereas the media player and sygic use the proprietary libplayback library, which uses ALSA.
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2010-04-01
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#149
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Originally Posted by YoDude
When the device is rotated, the status bar moves accordingly to the top.
As far as rotation is concerned, Easily moving the status bar to the top of the page in portrait view may also be problematic. Perhaps they should take a cue from MicroB's browser rotation and develop a different style sheet or configuration for portrait mode.
That is, leave the status bar on top in landscape to comply with Maemo, but go to full page view in portrait just as the browser does.
This doesn't eliminate the "minimize to dashboard" problem but it could be done as it is in MicroB by simply returning to landscape mode, if auto-rotate is implemented .
In the mean time, just like when I'm using the browser in portrait mode, I return to the dash board by using the "Proximity sensor" configured through the Shortcutd app.
Exactly as the phone application does.
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2010-04-02
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#150
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Originally Posted by zehjotkah
Cool. Now if they could move the zoom buttons down a tad that would be nice.
When the device is rotated, the status bar moves accordingly to the top.
Exactly as the phone application does.
Oh and please don't forget to mention to them how the app closes incorrectly from the "X". This is easy to do when trying to maximize it from the dashboard. The annoyance is that closing it this way doesn't save settings changes and the most critical of those would be recent history and memorized locations.
You could spend a day marking spots to add to a POI later on but then loose all this info with a misplaced touch... major suckage.
Otherwise I'm liking the heck out of this app in portrait mode.
Back to the topic: Is there a way to change the speeds that trigger auto zoom? When I cruise at 60 MPH. POI's do not show up until I am right on top of them. If I drop my speed below 50, they show up (in 3D view) a good 900 yds further ahead giving plenty of time to react if I want exit for gas or a meal. But cruising at 50 MPH is not looked upon nicely by my fellow drivers on the road at the time.
I would like that sub 50 MPH zoom level to be the maximum rather than having it zoom out above 50...
I've just quoted, what Sygic said to me. I've forwarded your answer. Lets see, what they think.
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