Active Topics
-
Camera phone competition March 2023 "Endless" (35)
to General by Maemish - 21 hrs, 46 mins ago -
TLS 1.2 for N9 is ready (28)
to MeeGo / Harmattan by smartblu9 - 23 hrs ago -
Maemo repository (3)
to Community by torsen - 1 day, 14 hrs ago -
Error after installing Leste on sdcard (11)
to Maemo 7 / Leste by Maemish - 2 days, 12 hrs ago -
Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader) (1,393)
to Alternatives by smatkovi - 3 days, 18 hrs ago - more...
|
2010-04-30
, 16:45
|
|
Posts: 106 |
Thanked: 136 times |
Joined on Apr 2010
@ Switzerland
|
#2
|
Probably the name of the video the media player shows you comes from the metadata stored inside the video file - not from the file name on the file system.
What is your video format / extension ?
What is your video format / extension ?
|
|
2010-04-30
, 16:56
|
|
Posts: 30 |
Thanked: 0 times |
Joined on Jan 2010
|
#3
|
Originally Posted by ymartin59
AVI and WMV
Probably the name of the video the media player shows you comes from the metadata stored inside the video file - not from the file name on the file system.
What is your video format / extension ?
|
|
2010-04-30
, 16:58
|
|
Posts: 726 |
Thanked: 345 times |
Joined on Apr 2010
@ Sweden
|
#4
|
Changing file name while media player is running might give unexpected results.
Changing the name of the file, over USB or locally, should work just fine.
Could you please specify, step by step, how you do it.
Last edited by Joorin; 2010-04-30 at 16:59. Reason: Typo
Changing the name of the file, over USB or locally, should work just fine.
Could you please specify, step by step, how you do it.
Last edited by Joorin; 2010-04-30 at 16:59. Reason: Typo
|
|
2010-04-30
, 17:02
|
|
Posts: 30 |
Thanked: 0 times |
Joined on Jan 2010
|
#5
|
Originally Posted by Joorin
You mean how I did it?
Changing file name while media player is running might give unexpected results.
Changing the name of the file, over USB of locally, should work just fine.
Could you please specify, step by step, how you do it.
let's assume that the video name is "Youtube - bla bla bla bla"
Well, I plugged my n900 via usb and then I chose mass storage, I navigated to where the video is and renamed it to "bla bla", unplugged the device and went to media player on the n900 and the video is still "youtube - bla bla bla bla" so then I cleared the media player cache using xterminal and the video is still name youtube - bla bla bla bla...
 |
|
2010-04-30
, 17:18
|
|
Posts: 1,169 |
Thanked: 1,174 times |
Joined on Jan 2010
@ sunderland
|
#6
|
copy it to your pc, then delete it from device,
open media player until its been removed from the videos list,
then transfer the 'renamed' video back to the device
(bit of a nightmare, but that should work)
personally i cant play wmv on my device
even with 'extra decoders support' installed?
open media player until its been removed from the videos list,
then transfer the 'renamed' video back to the device
(bit of a nightmare, but that should work)
personally i cant play wmv on my device
even with 'extra decoders support' installed?
__________________
born to rage against them
born to rage against them
|
|
2010-04-30
, 17:18
|
|
Posts: 94 |
Thanked: 15 times |
Joined on Dec 2009
|
#7
|
i agree with ymartin .. it might be the metadata .. can you navigate to the file and do a listing of the directory to verify the file name ?
edit:
default path is /home/user/MyDocs/.videos
Last edited by pyromaniac; 2010-04-30 at 17:38.
edit:
default path is /home/user/MyDocs/.videos
Last edited by pyromaniac; 2010-04-30 at 17:38.
|
|
2010-04-30
, 17:31
|
|
Posts: 726 |
Thanked: 345 times |
Joined on Apr 2010
@ Sweden
|
#9
|
Originally Posted by trohax
How do you "clear the media player cache using xterminal"?
You mean how I did it?
let's assume that the video name is "Youtube - bla bla bla bla"
Well, I plugged my n900 via usb and then I chose mass storage, I navigated to where the video is and renamed it to "bla bla", unplugged the device and went to media player on the n900 and the video is still "youtube - bla bla bla bla" so then I cleared the media player cache using xterminal and the video is still name youtube - bla bla bla bla...
As someone wrote, the command to rename things is "mv". If you're already using an XTerminal, cd to the directory with the file and use that command. Stop the media player before doing that. If the media player still lists the files in the directory with the wrong name, something is very special.
 |
|
2010-04-30
, 17:37
|
|
Posts: 1,665 |
Thanked: 1,649 times |
Joined on Jun 2008
@ Praha, Czech Republic
|
#10
|
Originally Posted by trohax
Media Player only displays filenames if no other name/title is available (e.g. embedded in the video file).
I renamed it from the file manager and then I went back to the media player to see it unchanged
Originally Posted by trohax
Whatever that means (too vague).
then I reset the media player caches using xterm and then re indexed the files and they still weren't ****ing changed.
So did you try resetting the index of tracker?
__________________
maemo.org Bugmaster
maemo.org Bugmaster
How can I rename a video file in the media player?
I literally tried everything possible. I renamed it from the file manager and then I went back to the media player to see it unchanged, so I tried renaming several other files from my computer using mass storage mode and it was still unchanged, and then I reset the media player caches using xterm and then re indexed the files and they still weren't ****ing changed.
Help? I used search.