Notices

Originally Posted by Soppa

Hmm, I can't get the voice guidance working properly.

I'm using the openstreetmaps and openrouteservice for the navigation, I've extracted the voice files and am able to select them from the menu dialog. However nothing is spoken, I just get the directions on the screen. The voice files are in English, the directions are in Finnish on the screen. I tried to select device language as US English, but that doesn't seem to make any difference, the routing instructions still appear in Finnish and no voice is played. Any ideas what to check?

edit: fixed now, apparently my ogg support was broken

Originally Posted by earthwings

Hi Soppa,

do you remember what you did to fix the ogg issue? Any additional packages to install (or remove)? Which of the extras repositories do you have enabled?

Originally Posted by earthwings

Hi Soppa,

do you remember what you did to fix the ogg issue? Any additional packages to install (or remove)? Which of the extras repositories do you have enabled?

@all: There seems to be a problem with playing mono .ogg files on the N900 now. It's a bit strange because that used to work fine some months/weeks ago. Converting mono .ogg files to stereo ones makes them work in Marble, however. I'll try to find the source of the problem. If I don't find it, I'll make the web converter do a conversion to stereo to work around the problem.

There's an easy way to test if you're affected: Choose "Play a sound" in Marble's routing config dialog. If that works (plays a sound to announce a turn point), but a converted speaker file does not work, you're likely hit by that problem. If playing the sound does not work either, you may be missing the ogg-support package.

Update: Screw the mono vs. stereo theory. Some .ogg files play here, some do not, but I don't see where things go wrong yet.

Update 2: I got it running again. Unfortunately I'm not sure what exactly fixed it. Here's a couple of things to try:

• Try to play one of the .ogg files from the voice in the media player. Not working?
• Make sure ogg-support and decoders-support are installed. Still not working?
• Downgrade ogg-support from the extras-devel version (1.0.7-rc1) to the testing version (1.0.5). Still not working?
• Move /home/user/.gstreamer-0.10 away. Still not working?
• Reinstall all gstreamer0.10 packages

Originally Posted by mmarks

Hi all,

Still trying to get marble working as my everyday sat nav.
I can (I think) get the voice working but it seems to repeat the same instruction and breaks up.
Does anybody have a GB voice that they have converted and works that they could post up so I can download it and try again?

Also, I wondered if I was missing something as I haven't seen the following facilities (maybe they don't exist - yet!)

Direction of travel upwards when navigating (rather than north up all the time)

Auto zoom in when close to an instruction or junction

Auto recalculate route

When I zoom in, the track track is often well off the road, can marble have some sort of 'align to road' option

And finally, will there become a way of downloading the maps for offline use? I know I can download a map for offline routing and can download maps section by section, but I would ideally like to download 'Ireland' for both offline routing and offline map viewing/navigation.

I know there are a lot of asks here, having tried (I think) every sat nav out there on N900, Marble is the closest to being ideal. with these additions, it would replace sygic, ovi maps and any other on the N900 and be just as good in daily use as tomtom or google maps etc.

Thanks in advance,

Mike