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Nickster	2006-12-04 , 10:53
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I've been sleeping under a rock for the past month or so, and have just noticed a lot of noise about Canola, but haven't yet found a page that summarises what it is and what it actually does.

Can anyone please give me a quick run-down of what it is, and how it compares with MPlayer in terms of features and quality?

Thanks,

Nick

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	anidel	2006-12-04 , 10:59
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The comparison is just plain wrong.
Canola is NOT a player. Canola is just an UI that shows you the "list" of music or videos you've got on the device (or shared via your UPnP server) and "tells" the Nokia 770 to just play it.
That's it.

MPlayer, instead, is a player.

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Milhouse	2006-12-04 , 17:09
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Canola instructs the standard audio player to play audio, and the standard video player to play video, therefore Canola has all the limitations of the underlying players. Eventually Canola may support mplayer and thus support a wider range of codecs, but until then Canola is just a very nice UI atop the extremely limited Nokia standard audio/video players.

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Nickster	2006-12-05 , 10:58
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Originally Posted by Milhouse

Canola instructs the standard audio player to play audio, and the standard video player to play video, therefore Canola has all the limitations of the underlying players. Eventually Canola may support mplayer and thus support a wider range of codecs, but until then Canola is just a very nice UI atop the extremely limited Nokia standard audio/video players.

Aha... I see...

I just get the same functionality by putting all my media onto a webserver, set Apache to make the directories browsable, and everything's point-and-click from thereonin.