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Canola2 beta 5 won't read the .mp3 files on the external media card. All other multimedia apps do, as did the previous Canola2 beta 3.

I just installed it and I tried to play a 4:3 video. It works fine, but it stretches to wide screen.

Recently I upgraded to the latest version I think and now for some reason non of my podcasts will play at all any suggestions.

I have always had a very big problem with choppy podcasts. Can anyone suggest what types work best and if I should install some other media player or something in the back end to help.

I really like the idea of Canola getting slower and slower on video playback.

Here is what I currently have installed
Canola-tuning 0.3.0-maemo2
Canola2 2.0.0~beta5-meamo4

If it matters I’m running all this off a scandisk ExtremeIII 8gb

Also note I’m really new at all this

@Ogar : please can you provide more info, and do one small test: without marking the " top " level card (eye) mark the eye on the folder inside the media card. It seems that we have a small issue with this top level " watch folder " : /

@drizek : This is a known issue, a small bug on mplayer. There's a "hack" to solve it, (that's why you probably can test on other plays like media box and see the video perfect) but we prefer doing the right away, we wrote a patch (contribute) to Mplayer, the maintainer accepted and is going to be integrated on Mplayer so it's just a matter of time.

@k4kman : Can you send some of the feeds you use? But bare in mind: the new version support many more feeds, we fixed a lot of bugs, and we are improving it a lot on this version. Still not what we aim, but its getting better (Current download, "today's episode", top rated etc, "new" label, description short text on list optional.)

About the choppy send some feeds to us, lets see what we can do

"I really like the idea of Canola getting slowe and slower on video playback"
-> what's happening? getting slower? what is happening? can you provide more info?

So you have a n800 or a n810?

thanks for the feedback, we are always needing them

Marcelo

Wow thanks for getting back to me ok as for the choppy stuff send me a link to one you think works well as I have yet to find any that are smooth now the voice stuff is fine even with choppy video the voice is always really nice.

As for the slower and slower I found that I had added one that had about 100 days in the list and as soon as I removed that pod cast from my list it seems to have fixed the slowing down of thing as this is most likely a known bug just did not notice it before as most only show 5 or 6 in the log.

i'm using a N800

Marcelo, I have a freshly flashed N800 with OS2008. The external memory card was erased, music and video files were reloaded, and the tablet was rebooted.

Following the re-flash, Canola2 beta 5 was installed fresh. I fired up Canola2, then selected the "music" folder on the memory card, following your instructions, as the source for the audio files. Still did not work. I also re-stared Canola2 after setting the music folder on the external memory card just in case an app restart would help . It didn't. Nor did another tablet restart.

I can't think of anything else to try. Do you have any other suggestions?

Marcelo, I had this issue (that Pause, once a feature-length movie is far along, turns into Stutter Forward) with the prior release as well as with Beta 5. And I've had the problem on several movies (actually, I'm not aware of any movies where I haven't had the trouble), but never until they've been running quite a while.

As for whether I am using mplayer: I have it installed, but I don't run it when I run Canola2.

And BR to you too!

Hi Marcelo,

I have problems with the potcast function in Canola. I tried to use the potcast "http://static.orf.at/fm4/podcast/soundpark.xml". I can see all the songs, but I can't download it. For example the other potcast from this site is working (http://static.orf.at/podcast/fm4/fm4_projekt_x.xml).

There is also a little volume problem. The first second of the song (ogg) is always at 100% of the volume. Then it goes to the suspended volume level.

In the photos-thumbnail-view: I can't see all the thumbnails. It just show the little-gray icon of a camera. I think all this empty thumbnails are PNGs. When I click on this thumbnails it shows the image perfectly. For example: I saved the Blue-Theme-Image of Canola that you have posted in another tread and I can't see a thumbnail.

My configuration:
canola2-cleanup, ogg-support 0.6, ogg-support-lms 0.4, N800, OS2008, all the updates

Johannes

I'd like a way to force a DB refresh from the command line, as I update files outside while canola is running and don't want to have to use the GUI to force a refresh.

Hi !

To do this, you can send a dbus message to canola-daemon.
Using python it would look like this:

obj = bus.get_object("br.org.indt.canola.Daemon", "/br/org/indt/canola/Daemon", introspect=False)

iface = dbus.Interface(obj, "br.org.indt.canola.Daemon")
iface.start_monitoring()
iface.scan_all_paths()

So, it's important to call "start_monitoring" so canola-daemon start's looking for sd changes and then just call "scan_all_paths" to refresh the database.

If you have any further questions, just send an email to me (artur.souza AT openbossa.org).

BR,