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tinkertinker is offline tinkertinker
2007-12-22 , 03:05
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WOW, thanks you guys! I installed Canola2 today and was so excited, then disappointed when it choked on videos. Turns out it's because I had installed mPlayer, which didn't work either. All I had to do was uninstall mPlayer and Canola uses the bundled media player as default, and voila! special thanks to Reggie!
 
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2007-12-22 , 03:26
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Originally Posted by tinkertinker View Post
WOW, thanks you guys! I installed Canola2 today and was so excited, then disappointed when it choked on videos. Turns out it's because I had installed mPlayer, which didn't work either. All I had to do was uninstall mPlayer and Canola uses the bundled media player as default, and voila! special thanks to Reggie!
Ok, but this method doesn't allow to play xvid/divx files any longer... Mine does allow me to play the mp4 files with the default player in Canola, and the avi files encoded in xvid/divx with mplayer also...
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2007-12-22 , 15:17
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Ok... I found and edited .atabake's config file & changed general = mplayer to general = oms but my videos are still stretched . Did you also change the line: mplayer = mplayer ? What are you doing that I am not. Just for the record, I did try to reboot after changing the config, but didn't fix it.

Thanks
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2007-12-22 , 15:53
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Sorry, but "mplayer = mplayer" is a typo from our part, it should read "video = mplayer", ok?

@e-motion: could you please edit your post, since it's the first, in order to add how to fix it? Also, it's weird some guys here having problems with MPlayer, most people just love it in order to play avi/divx encoded with 770-encode ;-)
 

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2007-12-22 , 16:23
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I've also changed the config file to use OMS Media Player... but now it doesn't go to full screen when you tap the screen.

You can use the full screen button on the top of the device (n800) but it doesn't feel quite as nice from a usability point of view.

Anyone know how to fix this ?
 
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2007-12-22 , 16:45
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Originally Posted by barbieri View Post
Sorry, but "mplayer = mplayer" is a typo from our part, it should read "video = mplayer", ok?
I changed this in the .atabake config file as well now my config file looks like this:

audio = oms
video = mplayer
general = oms

Yet whenever I open an .avi video in mPlayer the screen displays correctly (not stretched). However, if I open the exact same .avi video in Canola it opens stretched. The same file won't even open in the builtin Media Player (probably a Divx - it's been a while since encoded it).

What am I doing wrong so sorry to be so dumb
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2007-12-22 , 18:04
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Originally Posted by PinCushionQueen View Post
I changed this in the .atabake config file as well now my config file looks like this:

audio = oms
video = mplayer
general = oms

Yet whenever I open an .avi video in mPlayer the screen displays correctly (not stretched). However, if I open the exact same .avi video in Canola it opens stretched. The same file won't even open in the builtin Media Player (probably a Divx - it's been a while since encoded it).

What am I doing wrong so sorry to be so dumb
Effectively, Canola will stretch the video if opening an .avi file. The built-in media player will not open an xvid/divx file. By just changing general = mplayer to general = oms, my mp4 files are not stretched and play properly because they use the built-in media player instead of mplayer (which can't play .mp4 files any faster than 1 frame per second anyway).

All this is on a final N810/OS2008 released this week, no idea why it wouldn't work for some of you but works fine for me. I didn't, however, change the mplayer = mplayer line in my config file. To sum up, this is what I have in my config file :

audio = oms
mplayer = mplayer
general = oms
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2007-12-22 , 18:07
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Hmmm... The only difference I can really see is that you've upgraded the OS and I'm haven't (I'm holding off until the repositories are fixed & Maemo Extras is still b0rken).

I'll try this again, after I've upgraded. Thanks for the reply & help
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2007-12-22 , 18:17
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Originally Posted by PinCushionQueen View Post
Ok... I found and edited .atabake's config file & changed general = mplayer to general = oms but my videos are still stretched . Did you also change the line: mplayer = mplayer ? What are you doing that I am not. Just for the record, I did try to reboot after changing the config, but didn't fix it.

Thanks
Are you using a .mp4 file ? This will only work with mp4 files... AVI files will still be opened via mplayer and be stretched.
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2007-12-22 , 18:31
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Originally Posted by e-motion View Post
Are you using a .mp4 file ? This will only work with mp4 files... AVI files will still be opened via mplayer and be stretched.
Ah... no, I'm trying to do this with an .avi file. When I open this file in mPlayer it's not stretched though - so Canola2 must be doing the stretching then. Thanks again for your help
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