MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

[pycage]

OK here is the beginning of the file:

[ar:Scorpions]
[ti:The Game Of Life]
[Encoding:iso-8859-15]
[00:03.28] THE GAME OF LIFE

[00:05.46] Klaus Meine, Desmond Child, Mikael Nord Anderson and Martin Hansen

...



Yes, this looks valid. Can you send me this file, so I can check for parsing errors?

[pycage]

1. hardware button control of seeking is great. it isn't working for me though; the time will initially jump forward by about 15 secs, but when you let go of the button it ends up in the same section of the stream that you started in. this is for mp3's. on ogg's it seems to work correctly.

You're right, this doesn't work too well. I'm gooing to improve this.


2. love the scrollbars. in "car" view, i'd still like a fat thumbable seek bar and indicator.

I put it on the TODO list for 0.97.


3. any way to remember what song/playlist was loaded, and where you were in a stream when MB closes, and then revert to that upon opening again?

Not yet, but maybe soon.


4. i haven't played around with it enough yet, but when you open a bookmark, it only loads that file, instead of loading the playlist that that file was a part of?

Yes, bookmarks are only per file.


again, keep up the great work! MB is finally fast enough and robust enough to be my sole music program. oh, is there a change log anywhere? i'm sure there are some new features that i haven't found yet on my own...

You can read the change log at http://mediabox.garage.maemo.org/data/release-notes

[pycage]

That "fc" byte must be doing it. It should be a u-umlaut, and indeed "fc" is a u-umlaut, in Windows 1252 encoding. Removing that one file lets the index scan process complete.


Good work on figuring this out! :)
ID3v1 doesn't know about encodings so MediaBox has to assume an encoding. When converting to UTF-8 for output on screen (Gtk/Gdk/Pango use UTF-8 internally) it may cause trouble.

[bluesubaru]

Yes, this looks valid. Can you send me this file, so I can check for parsing errors?

File attached. Could it be having problems with the name?

[pycage]

File attached. Could it be having problems with the name?

The file name is OK. It's a problem with the text encoding. The encoding got recognized as ISO-8859-15, while it's UTF-16, indeed. Try converting the file to another encoding to make it work. I saved the file in ISO-8859-15 and suddenly it worked.

[qkall]

um i've been messing around with mediatomb and medbiabox... works well however i converted pretty much all my videos to mp4 with mobile media converter (found this produced the best quality without any frameloss) and medbiabox doesn't support mp4's... this confuses me as it uses mplayer.. any suggestions?

[pycage]

You can switch the backend for MP4 to osso-media-server in the preferences viewer.
Maybe this helps with MP4. If MP4s aren't event listed from mediatomb, then maybe mediatomb reports a MIME type for them that isn't recognized by MediaBox.

[daperezg]

I tried mediabox with lrc files and it worked correctly HOWEVER the lyrics were showed in small text box in the bottom side.

I think the lyric should be showed in the central panel and maybe in fullscreen mode.

Other feature necessary is to configure font size, colour and background colour. Music+lrc files are a good to learn languages.

is there a command line options list?
config files?

Thank you

[ezmendriz]

hi
good work with MediaBox.
I have a question: is there a way to play all the music libray randomly? I know can do it with a playlist but I havent find a way to add all the music in my library to one. thanks in advance.

ezmendriz

[pycage]

I tried mediabox with lrc files and it worked correctly HOWEVER the lyrics were showed in small text box in the bottom side.


This is going to change in a future version.


is there a command line options list?
config files?


You can run MediaBox -h to see a list of command line options, but the options in there may change, so don't rely on it. It's a private interface.
Every theme has a *.def config files where fonts and colors are defined.

[pycage]

hi
good work with MediaBox.
I have a question: is there a way to play all the music libray randomly? I know can do it with a playlist but I havent find a way to add all the music in my library to one. thanks in advance.

ezmendriz

Currently if you have lots of music you might not be able to add all to a playlist due to some limitation to keep thing responsive. The next version will be better at that. I'm also thinking of a special playlist that already contains all your music.

[munky261]

Where does mediabox read the album art from...does it read embedded?

[pycage]

Where does mediabox read the album art from...does it read embedded?

It reads it embedded from MP3 ID3v2 tags or from an image file in the same directory as the audio file.

[fullofsurprises]

Hi there,

I would love to use MediaBox to listen to my music but can't seem to get it to organize my files the way I would like. Any ideas?

I can't figure out why it organizes many of my files with the correct genre, etc., but not all of them.

I use Windows Media Player on my desktop and have a fairly large collection (about 8 GB), all very well organized in Windows Media Player, with accurate tags, but in MediaBox, oddly, only some of my organization is recognized.

As an example, I have dozens of audio books in my Audio Book genre, but only one of them is accessible through the genre path in MediaBox. For the others, I have to locate them through the author(artist). Same for Christmas music.

I have tried reinstalling and reindexing many times.

I can't seem to find any differences between these files, but MediaBox seems to not see the tag information on some. Also, I think this might be the same reason that not all of my cover art is recognized, even though I can't seem to find any difference in how I have saved the cover art in Windows Media Player.

Any help would be very much appreciated. I am not sure if this is the right place to post this question, but I have read through this thread (and several others) in search of help, and this seemed to be the best place.

Thank you in advance,
Nicole

[maacruz]

What kind of files? mp3? ogg? wma?
Happens to only one filetype?
Forget windows media player, have you tryed using a decent audio manager/tag editor? mp3 has different tag standards, are you sure all your files use the same standard (ID3V2)?

[pycage]

WMA tags are not supported by MediaBox at the moment.
ID3 tags (all versions), Ogg tags and FLAC tags are supported.

[N(9)00bie]

Hi pycage,

after installing MediaBox it superseded the built-in media player - thanks for that :-)
But one thing left: I'm VERY interested in the UPnP AV server function that allows me to stream my media on the phone to another media renderer in the network. Unfortunately there's no GUPnP-Media-Renderer (which was tested) in the network - neither in mine, nor in my buddies' networks. I tried to push MP3s to WMP 12, XBMC & Foobar2k - all renderers were found by MediaBox, but nothing happened when I selected another renderer than the local one. The actual tune paused ... and a dark silence was around me - DAMN! ;-)
So is there any possibility to get one of the three called media renderers to work with MediaBox? That'd be AWWWSOME! :-D

Thanks in advance,
N(9)00bie

[pycage]

Hi pycage,

after installing MediaBox it superseded the built-in media player - thanks for that :-)
But one thing left: I'm VERY interested in the UPnP AV server function that allows me to stream my media on the phone to another media renderer in the network. Unfortunately there's no GUPnP-Media-Renderer (which was tested) in the network - neither in mine, nor in my buddies' networks. I tried to push MP3s to WMP 12, XBMC & Foobar2k - all renderers were found by MediaBox, but nothing happened when I selected another renderer than the local one. The actual tune paused ... and a dark silence was around me - DAMN! ;-)
So is there any possibility to get one of the three called media renderers to work with MediaBox? That'd be AWWWSOME! :-D

Thanks in advance,
N(9)00bie

The Media Renderer support is still very fresh and yet needs to be fine-tuned with more renderers. Thanks for listing some renderers.

[N(9)00bie]

Hi pycage,

thanks for your answer.
I just tested the renderer 'TMMPlayer' that comes along with Twonky Media Manager - same problem here.
I experienced following: when a MP3 is played in MediaBox, no matter wich renderer I'm going to select (even the LOCAL one), the MP3 is immediately set to 'PAUSED'. Is this behaviour intended? So maybe the renderes aren't the real problem, but the pausing of the media file? :-)

N(9)00bie

[944play]

Any way to get MediaBox to index AAC (.m4a) files? I know in Canola you have to include paths containing aac in your "Video folders" to get them indexed[1] -- is there perhaps a similar trick in MediaBox?

Obviously they show up in filesystem browse mode, and play just fine, but two thirds of my music doesn't show up in Albums and Artists.

Also, MediaBox doesn't seem to be capable of reading embedded album art from .m4a files, a shortcoming apparently shared with Canola. :(

1. Reference: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=200783&postcount=181

[pycage]

Any way to get MediaBox to index AAC (.m4a) files? I know in Canola you have to include paths containing aac in your "Video folders" to get them indexed[1] -- is there perhaps a similar trick in MediaBox?


Well, since they appear and play in the filesystem browser, they are well supported. By default, MediaBox looks at the files that tracker lists as media files for indexing. So tracker doesn't appear to be aware of .m4a.
You can go the filesystem and on the icon for the folder containing your music, tap and hold down for the menu. There you can scan the folder for media that tracker did not list.


Also, MediaBox doesn't seem to be capable of reading embedded album art from .m4a files, a shortcoming apparently shared with Canola. :(


AAC tags are not supported at the moment, unfortunately.

[pycage]

I just tested the renderer 'TMMPlayer' that comes along with Twonky Media Manager - same problem here.


Thanks for testing. Giving me the names of incompatible renderers is very helpful.


I experienced following: when a MP3 is played in MediaBox, no matter wich renderer I'm going to select (even the LOCAL one), the MP3 is immediately set to 'PAUSED'. Is this behaviour intended? So maybe the renderes aren't the real problem, but the pausing of the media file? :-)


It's paused so that it doesn't continue playing on the device while being rendered on the media renderer.

[Laughing Man]

May I suggest pressing cover art to pause/play?

[daperezg]

When will be the v0.96 release?
will be improved the lyrics/minilyrics feature?

I think there isn't any maemo app with a good lyric support, because starling shows static lyrics from internet but it doesn't read local lyrics(stored in a file o id tag).

[pycage]

When will be the v0.96 release?
will be improved the lyrics/minilyrics feature?

I think there isn't any maemo app with a good lyric support, because starling shows static lyrics from internet but it doesn't read local lyrics(stored in a file o id tag).

There won't be a 0.96 (or 0.97 for that matter). The versioning scheme is now date-related. The next release will be something like 2010.01.xx or 2010.02.xx.

Lyrics support currently includes LRC and enhanced LRC. More to come.

[daperezg]

I knew mediabox supported lrc files but i think the following features will be a good improvement:

-Show lyrics using the full "video" area (full screen maybe not necessary)
-Customize font size
-Show previous and next phrase lines (maybe in other color)


Customize colours for background and foreground(current phrase and previous and next phrases) maybe is less important than the previous points.

pycage If i can help in anything let me know,.. and thank you for this app and your time

There won't be a 0.96 (or 0.97 for that matter). The versioning scheme is now date-related. The next release will be something like 2010.01.xx or 2010.02.xx.

Lyrics support currently includes LRC and enhanced LRC. More to come.

[pycage]

pycage If i can help in anything let me know,.. and thank you for this app and your time

Sure, help is always welcome.
If you're interested, this is the lyrics component.
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/components/lyrics/LyricsCaster.py?revision=851&root=mediabox&view=markup

It casts out the lyrics lines in time and the audio player simply displays them.

[vijayv]

I am noticing two major issues with it. Couldnt find any other place to report bugs so posting it here.


1. There is a clear pause when the screen goes blank (for power saving) and each time you try to unlock the screen.

2. Global volume resets to 50% when going to next track while the screen in locked. The mediabox volume remains at where it was set.

--Vj

[pycage]

1. There is a clear pause when the screen goes blank (for power saving) and each time you try to unlock the screen.

2. Global volume resets to 50% when going to next track while the screen in locked. The mediabox volume remains at where it was set.


Both are Maemo bugs on the N900 I believe. Especially evil to playback is pressing the power button.

[mele]

I have some problems to get youtube working. I have installed plugin but i dont find it anywhere in mediabox :D

[Laughing Man]

Is there anyway to bookmark your location in the audio file (useful for podcasts). I know it was a star in the Chinook/Diablo versions but I can't seem to find the star or a method to bookmark the place.

[pycage]

I have some problems to get youtube working. I have installed plugin but i dont find it anywhere in mediabox :D

Just be a little bit more patient. :)
The YouTube plugin is for the Diablo version and does not work with the N900 version yet.

[pycage]

Is there anyway to bookmark your location in the audio file (useful for podcasts). I know it was a star in the Chinook/Diablo versions but I can't seem to find the star or a method to bookmark the place.

This feature will come back soon.

[mele]

Just be a little bit more patient. :)
The YouTube plugin is for the Diablo version and does not work with the N900 version yet.
aaaa.... okay...that explains alot :)

[les_garten]

Hi,
Nice stuff here. I have Zoutube and the ogg support, etc installed along with MediaBox.

I have some things I'm trying to figure out.

When the Vol slider on the left is at 100%, the Volume on the device is only 50%. So the volume is too low all the time.

Where do you fix that one at?

I have 51-1 FW by the way.

I can get mpg and flv files to play in mplayer but they won't play in MediaBox, how to fix that one? The FLV files do not show up in the browser?

Thanx for the nice bits you've done here!

[les_garten]

So the FLVs are playing but mpgs are not? The mpgs and everything else works in mplayer. I read there is someplace to set player backend but the file appears different in this release, I can't find it.

Also, I can't use it till the volume issue is resolved. When Mediabox is at 100%, the Phone volume is like around 40%. Volume works fine in the osso media player.

[pycage]

So the FLVs are playing but mpgs are not? The mpgs and everything else works in mplayer. I read there is someplace to set player backend but the file appears different in this release, I can't find it.


MPEG ought to play fine too with the GStreamer backend. Is there anything special about your files? The filename extension perhaps? Does MediaBox list the MPEGs in the navigator?
Currently, the GStreamer backend is the only backend supported on the N900.


Also, I can't use it till the volume issue is resolved. When Mediabox is at 100%, the Phone volume is like around 40%. Volume works fine in the osso media player.

Volume control will be fixed in the next version.

[les_garten]

MPEG ought to play fine too with the GStreamer backend. Is there anything special about your files? The filename extension perhaps? Does MediaBox list the MPEGs in the navigator?
Currently, the GStreamer backend is the only backend supported on the N900.


Hey, nothing strange about the files. They play on a PC! They play thry mplayer on the N900. They actually show up everywhere with a thumbnail scene from the clip itself.

Where is the conf file for mediabox? How do I figure out what player is associated with what file? I think it's trying to use osso to play mpg files.

Thanx about the vol ctrl comment.

[pycage]

The players.mapping file is located in
/opt/mediabox/mediaplayer/players.mapping.maemo5

You can copy it to
/home/user/.mediabox/players.mapping
and edit it there. Any entries in ~/.mediabox/players.mapping override the original settings.

But if MediaBox detects Maemo5 correctly, then the GStreamer backend is the only one that gets loaded. If the main window has a close button on the top-right then MediaBox detected Maemo5. If not, then we have a bug to find and fix.
Theoretically the mplayer backend might work on Maemo5 but is untested and not loaded. The osso backend cannot be used on Maemo5 since there is no osso-media-server.

[les_garten]

The players.mapping file is located in
/opt/mediabox/mediaplayer/players.mapping.maemo5

You can copy it to
/home/user/.mediabox/players.mapping
and edit it there. Any entries in ~/.mediabox/players.mapping override the original settings.

But if MediaBox detects Maemo5 correctly, then the GStreamer backend is the only one that gets loaded. If the main window has a close button on the top-right then MediaBox detected Maemo5. If not, then we have a bug to find and fix.
Theoretically the mplayer backend might work on Maemo5 but is untested and not loaded. The osso backend cannot be used on Maemo5 since there is no osso-media-server.

Thanx! So I moved the Players file and edited it. No matter what I assign as an MPEG player the results are the same. The file doesn't play. I changed the extension from mpg to mpeg, no change. Then I assigned random characters to the assignments and the files still play that were playing before. I never get any errors. I'm not sure it's using that player file.

Any suggestions? I did not reboot after changing the player file.

EDIT: My mistake, had the player file in the MyDocs/.mediabox dir.

Moved it, it's being read correctly now. But no love playing mpg. Seems strange. I enabled mplayer in the player file and it won't play, but mplayer playes the file from the command line. Seems like a mediabox issue

[ffarber]

Figured out my remaining smaller-than-expected playlist issue.

In PlaylistDevice.py function __add_item_to_playlist, there is a check for "if (count[0] >= 500): return". It appears to be some sort of anti-infinite-loop check. The arrangement of directories and files meant that after skipping directories and adding 445 files, this check passed and adding stopped. I bumped it up to 5000, ran again, and saw a playlist more like I expected .

Hi-

I just stumbled across Mediabox and like it a lot. It would be great if it handled larger playlists, I assume the file above is part of the source code and I would need to rebuild the app, is that correct? If so, is there an easier way?

Also, and I know I am hoping for a lot, is there some way to play wav files with mediabox?

Thanks for the great app,
Fred

[maacruz]

Hi-

I just stumbled across Mediabox and like it a lot. It would be great if it handled larger playlists, I assume the file above is part of the source code and I would need to rebuild the app, is that correct? If so, is there an easier way?

The application is written in python, so no need to rebuild anything. Install the source code, modify it and run it in site.

Also, and I know I am hoping for a lot, is there some way to play wav files with mediabox?

Thanks for the great app,
Fred
Mediabox plays wavs just fine.

[bambus]

Anyone got a list of supported upnp-devices?

As my Netgear ReadyNas Duo does not show in Storage & Networks i have to consider buying a new one thats supported.

[pycage]

The application is written in python, so no need to rebuild anything. Install the source code, modify it and run it in site.


Not quite. For startup performance reasons, installing MediaBox from .deb file installs a byte-compiled version.

[pycage]

Anyone got a list of supported upnp-devices?

As my Netgear ReadyNas Duo does not show in Storage & Networks i have to consider buying a new one thats supported.

First make sure that your Nxx0 can see the NAS at all. Does it appear in the Maemo file manager? Even if your NAS was incompatible it would normally show up in Storage & Networks.
There is a bug in 2010.01.05 that caused some devices to not be listed, although MediaBox discovers them. This will be fixed soon.
I don't think that you have to buy another NAS.

[ffarber]

The application is written in python, so no need to rebuild anything. Install the source code, modify it and run it in site.

Mediabox plays wavs just fine.

Thanks, I will download the source and make the suggested change. However, when I try and play a voicemail that comes from Microsoft unified messaging I get a banner across the top of the window that has zero in it and it stops playing.

Thanks again,
Fred

[bambus]

First make sure that your Nxx0 can see the NAS at all. Does it appear in the Maemo file manager?

No it doesn't. Don't know how to mount/get a drive connected. New to Linux.

Even if your NAS was incompatible it would normally show up in Storage & Networks.
There is a bug in 2010.01.05 that caused some devices to not be listed, although MediaBox discovers them. This will be fixed soon.
I don't think that you have to buy another NAS.

Sounds great. Hope to get mine up and running too. Like the thought of having a mediacenter on my N900.

[pycage]

No it doesn't. Don't know how to mount/get a drive connected. New to Linux.


Does your NAS support UPnP (should state UPnP or DLNA on the box) or is it a SMB share?
If it's only a SMB share, don't worry. Windows Media Player can act as UPnP server, too, serving files from the NAS.

[bambus]

Does your NAS support UPnP (should state UPnP or DLNA on the box) or is it a SMB share?
If it's only a SMB share, don't worry. Windows Media Player can act as UPnP server, too, serving files from the NAS.

The Data Sheet at netgear.com is listing (among others) the followings:
––Supports Windows, Mac, Linux/UNIX Clients
––Setup wizard and easy browser-based interface
––NETGEAR Auto-Expandable X-RAID™

• Volume Management
––Journaled file system
––User, group, and share-level quotas
––Drive set can be removed and migrated to ReadyNAS NV+ or 1100

• Network File Services
––CIFS/SMB for Windows®
––AFP 3.1 for Mac OS 9/X
––NFS v2 / v3 for Linux and UNIX
––HTTP/S for web browsers
––FTP/S support
––RSYNC

• Media Streaming
––DLNA Compatible UPnP AV
––Logitech SqueezeboxTM
––Sonos Digital Music Center
––Network DVD player compatible
––Windows MCE compatible
––Sony Playstation 3
––Microsoft Xbox 360

• Network Security
––Encrypted network logins
––Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

• Network Options
––DHCP or static IP
––NTP


Thanx for your response.

[salah99]

I downloaded MediaBox today and found that it does not support Arabic font (or whatever) in the screen!!

[pycage]

I downloaded MediaBox today and found that it does not support Arabic font (or whatever) in the screen!!

I'm surprised that it does not. Can you please tell me more about what's happening?

[salah99]

Look to the attachment..

In the red box should be Arabic letters, but MediaBox shows non Arabic letters!!

[pycage]

Look to the attachment..

In the red box should be Arabic letters, but MediaBox shows non Arabic letters!!

Can you please file a bug report and attach the music file? I suspect, it's just an encoding issue as MediaBox ought to be capable of displaying Arabic.

[pycage]

It's interesting to see in the title bar that the tag encoding appears to be correct, though. Please attach the file to the bug report so that I can reproduce this bug.

[nax3000]

This media player could be the best one yet for the N900 if only for the volume issue.. Is there anyway I can set it to match the device's volume at all times?

Also, does anyone else get a stutter when the backlight shuts down?
________
Big Dick Teen (http://www.****tube.com/categories/266/teen/videos/1)

[pycage]

This media player could be the best one yet for the N900 if only for the volume issue.. Is there anyway I can set it to match the device's volume at all times?


The next version will do this.


Also, does anyone else get a stutter when the backlight shuts down?

Ask Nokia what they did build there. I can't imagine switching the backlight off could be such a CPU-intensive task that sound output (from every application that is not from Nokia) begins to stutter. AFAIU the OS freezes every application that isn't explicitly whitelisted on a hardcoded whitelist in the OS. Of course the whitelist is not user-extensible and only contains the Nokia apps that come with the device. Stupid decision. Sorry for the rant, but I'm really angry at this shortsightedness of some people at Nokia. The aggressive ohmd freezing stuff IIRC didn't come from the Maemo people. They were surprised by this, too. Some other entity inside Nokia must have put the stuff in there based on a misinformed marketing decision.

[nax3000]

Well first of all thats good news :)

Secondly, I'm pretty sure that one of these days someone would figure this out (and by 'figure out' I mean hack that whitelist)
It ain't that bothersome anyway.

Any idea about a mediabox widget?
________
WELL P 90 LASER AIRSOFT ELECTRIC (http://airsoft-shop.info/p/well-p-90-laser-airsoft-electric/)

[dwould]

Hey, developer question... am I right in thinking that mediabox is a) written in python and b) captures events from the volume/zoom rocker?
I'd really appreciate a push in the right direction for hooking into those events

[pycage]

Secondly, I'm pretty sure that one of these days someone would figure this out (and by 'figure out' I mean hack that whitelist)
It ain't that bothersome anyway.


If you don't need to rely on the phone part working properly, you can issue
stop ohmd
as root in X-Terminal. This will fix your problem, but I wouldn't recommend stopping the ohmd if your N900 is a phone.



Any idea about a mediabox widget?

No, not yet. Any volunteers? :)

[pycage]

a) written in python

Yes, it is.


b) captures events from the volume/zoom rocker?

The volume keys are simply F7 and F8 keys. However, the hildon desktop captures the key events before they reach your application, so you have to set a Xatom property on the window that wants to receive these keys:

# we need to notify Maemo5 that we want to use the volume keys
self.__window.window.property_change("_HILDON_ZOOM_KEY_ATOM",
"XA_INTEGER", 32,
gtk.gdk.PROP_MODE_REPLACE,
[1])


That is, call property_change on the GdkWindow (window) member of a GtkWindow or HildonWindow.

[dwould]

Yes, it is.


The volume keys are simply F7 and F8 keys. However, the hildon desktop captures the key events before they reach your application, so you have to set a Xatom property on the window that wants to receive these keys:

# we need to notify Maemo5 that we want to use the volume keys
self.__window.window.property_change("_HILDON_ZOOM_KEY_ATOM",
"XA_INTEGER", 32,
gtk.gdk.PROP_MODE_REPLACE,
[1])


That is, call property_change on the GdkWindow (window) member of a GtkWindow or HildonWindow.

thank you! i'm kind of interested in where you found this information. i searched everywhere (or so i thought) it really threw me that nothing came through to my on_key_press method.

thanks again

[talmage]

I just installed mediabox in my N900. It's behaving strangely and I can't tell if it's a bug or user error. I searched talk.maemo.org and the bugzilla and didn't find an answer.

In the album view, mediabox shows several instances of the same album. For example, there are 16 instances of "Best of Bootie 2005", a compilation album. Each has one song in it. I expected one instance with 16 songs.

In the pictures view, a lot of my photos aren't shown. mediabox found DCIM, where the camera puts its pictures, and it found three of the eight photo directories in /Pictures but in each case it's missing a lot of pictures. Some appear without a thumbnail. mediabox won't show me those pictures.

[pycage]

In the album view, mediabox shows several instances of the same album. For example, there are 16 instances of "Best of Bootie 2005", a compilation album. Each has one song in it. I expected one instance with 16 songs.

This is a known bug with compilation albums where there are several artists.


In the pictures view, a lot of my photos aren't shown. mediabox found DCIM, where the camera puts its pictures, and it found three of the eight photo directories in /Pictures but in each case it's missing a lot of pictures. Some appear without a thumbnail. mediabox won't show me those pictures.

Can you give more details on this?

[412b]

No, not yet. Any volunteers? :)
There is an old and still opened feature request at garage about D-Bus API for MediaBox, which stops me from writing a widget :)

[talmage]

Can you give more details on this?

Thank you for asking.

The summary: MediaBox doesn't find all of my pictures and it doesn't display correctly all those it does find.

The pictures are in MyDocs/Pictures:
MyDocs/Pictures/20090107-Matney&MatneyBirthday
MyDocs/Pictures/20091219-Snowpocalypse
MyDocs/Pictures/20091220-Snowpocalypse
MyDocs/Pictures/20100116-Matney&MatneyBirthday
MyDocs/Pictures/BostonXmas2009
MyDocs/Pictures/Katie's Camera
MyDocs/Pictures/Katie's Memorial Slide Show
MyDocs/Pictures/Panos
MyDocs/Pictures/Vacation2009
MyDocs/Pictures/Vacation2009/05-Greg_Melissa
MyDocs/Pictures/Vacation2009/05-Phyllis

There are cover art pictures in MyDocs/Music/*/ also.

MediaBox shows me the directories with cover art. Each has a single file and MediaBox displays those pictures without fail.

MediaBox shows me only three of the Pictures subdirectories: 05-Greg_Melissa, 20090107-Matney&MatneyBirthday, and 20091219-Snowpocalypse. There should be 300 pictures in 05-Greg_Melissa. MediaBox shows me 19. There should be 31 pictures in 20090107-Matney&MatneyBirthday. MediaBox shows 2 and neither of them have any useful content. In fact, MediaBox shows the previously displayed picture when I select one of them. E.g. If I previously looked at the cover art for BB King's "Completely Well" CD, MediaBox shows me that picture again if I choose one of the pictures in 20090107-Matney&MatneyBirthday.

All told, I have about 1800 pictures, including album cover art. MediaBox finds about 200 of them.

[nax3000]

Hey pycage, any idea of when will the newer version with fixed volume be released? I can hardly wait :D
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[N(9)00bie]

@nax3000:

yesterday evening my update manager showed up MediaBox in version 2010.01.30.
unfortunately still no others media renderers supported (can barely await it ^^), but the volume-bug is partially solved - at least the volume level stays unchanged when next song in playlist is played. on the other hand: if you touch the MediaBox's volume-slider, main volume goes way down again (if it was way up ^^).

N(9)00bie

[nax3000]

Hmm that's weird.. I don't get an update prompt when I searched just now. Is it in extras-devel? because I have that disabled (I do have extras-testing enabled though)

EDIT - yup it's in devel :D

EDIT 2 - It seems like the volume issue is completely resolved for me

EDIT 3 - The bad news is - I did a check with the top command in xterm to see the CPU usage. default media player user an average of 14% while mediabox is about 25 :(

I hope to see mediabox optimized further. Right now I'll be using this as my default player anyhow :D
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[pycage]

There is an old and still opened feature request at garage about D-Bus API for MediaBox, which stops me from writing a widget :)

Fine, I'll do the D-Bus API and you'll do the widget. :)
What functionality do you need to be exposed via D-Bus?

[nax3000]

So after spending a day outside with mediabox here are my suggestions:

It takes about a second to go from one song to the next. It's.. kind of a lot. Would be nice if something was done about that.
Is it possible to make the volume rocker act as a next/previous track rocker when the screen is locked?
Also, adding a "next track" in the now playing screen would be great.
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[412b]

Fine, I'll do the D-Bus API and you'll do the widget. :)
What functionality do you need to be exposed via D-Bus?
Signals about Stop/Pause/Play, track info and track changed, seeking signals and methods to play, pause, stop, switch to next and switch to previous. That's all at the moment. Maybe volume control...

[redi]

Been using MediaBox extensively for past few weeks now and I thought I'd give my +'s and -'s here for some creative discussion perhaps. And don't take this wrong, it is the best audio player for the N900 currently since the built in is just mindbogglingly screwed up and everything else I tried lacked some basic functionality.

+ Folder playing
+ Playlist creation
+ Calling FM boost to up the transmitting level
- Bloated with features for my using purposes (Mp3-playing)
- Slow to load up (could be due bloat issues? I have auto-index off so it ain't that)
- Cryptic GUI (for real, accessing basic stuff is behind oh so many levels of choices, I want to open the player and hit play to continue precisely from where I left off instead of going home, selecting folder/playlist , browsing for a song from the list and then finally hitting play, then going top menu to enable FM transmitter (when I'm in my car) and clicking broadcast on)


This led me to hope for a UI revamp OR a spinoff version, call it "AudioBox" or whatever, but a stripped down version which would directly open into the last used playlist or folder and magnified playing buttons in the main screen, and the ability to see few previous/next tracks and easily toggle FM transmitter on/off. It would all fit perfectly on the N900 screen but as is the humongous note button is just taking all the space and little buttons are placed on the edges of the screen.

I could photoshop a few suggestions of the creator of MediaBox is interested in this type of spinoff and/or GUI revamp?

[pycage]

- Bloated with features for my using purposes (Mp3-playing)
- Slow to load up (could be due bloat issues? I have auto-index off so it ain't that)


It's actually quite modular, and could be stripped down to the point of only playing music. I'm thinking of some configurator for slimming down based on what the user wants. Something like this.


Choose what MediaBox shall do for you:
[X] Play music
[ ] Play video
[ ] Show images
[X] Manage playlists
[ ] Browse filesystem
[ ] Browse UPnP/DLNA devices


When not loading the unwanted components, startup time will get a bit faster, too.


- Cryptic GUI (for real, accessing basic stuff is behind oh so many levels of choices, I want to open the player and hit play to continue precisely from where I left off instead of going home, selecting folder/playlist , browsing for a song from the list and then finally hitting play, then going top menu to enable FM transmitter (when I'm in my car) and clicking broadcast on)



I could photoshop a few suggestions of the creator of MediaBox is interested in this type of spinoff and/or GUI revamp?

Yes, please. :)

[pycage]

Signals about Stop/Pause/Play, track info and track changed, seeking signals and methods to play, pause, stop, switch to next and switch to previous. That's all at the moment. Maybe volume control...

OK, will do. :)
Thanks!

[nax3000]

I like where this thread is going :D
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[redi]

Ment to say IF the Creator is interested, not a photoshop about the creator haha. But I'm post something prolly tomorrow :)

[pycage]

Yes, IF is better than OF. :D

[N(9)00bie]

I totally agree with redi: I don't watch movies on my N900 because of the "tiny" screen size and I don't watch movies through my N900 because of the poor video-out-signal ... so I'd love AudioBox - but with included UPnP functions ;-)
redi's handling suggestions are quite interesting as well. And here's another "feature request":
how about adding shoutcast servers by the users themselves ... by courtesy of typing the server adresses manually? There are some inofficial SC-streams, you know? :-D

N(9)00bie

[nax3000]

It's actually quite modular, and could be stripped down to the point of only playing music. I'm thinking of some configurator for slimming down based on what the user wants. Something like this.


Choose what MediaBox shall do for you:
[X] Play music
[ ] Play video
[ ] Show images
[X] Manage playlists
[ ] Browse filesystem
[ ] Browse UPnP/DLNA devices


When not loading the unwanted components, startup time will get a bit faster, too.





Yes, please. :)

This option would be great just because it'll use probably half the battery power to use. The main problem right now is that mediabox drains my battery twice as fast as the default maemo 5 media player...
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[jakiman]

I've started using this also as Standard media player on the N900 is really weird.
This player has a great interface and actually sees all my music files properly!

I got some noobish questions about the media box: :D

1. Is it possible to have a desktop widget for media box?
(like the media player widget)

2. Is it possible to have an equalizer?

I'm going through the thread but it's quite a lot to read through. =)

[pycage]

1. Is it possible to have a desktop widget for media box?
(like the media player widget)


This might come soon. See here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=499809&postcount=314


2. Is it possible to have an equalizer?


The Maemo sound system has no hooks for an equalizer. So Maemo has to properly support equalizers first.

[jabawok]

pycage: brilliant work with latest version (volume fix in particular).

Re the stuttering problem (I'm actually getting it when jabber messages come through as well as backlight shutting off), would increasing the esd/pulseaudio buffer size help? I'm assuming there is a way to, but I guess it depends on the API (pulseaudio? gstreamer?) Mediabox uses for playing back audio..

Thanks again for the awesome work.

[pycage]

Re the stuttering problem (I'm actually getting it when jabber messages come through as well as backlight shutting off), would increasing the esd/pulseaudio buffer size help? I'm assuming there is a way to, but I guess it depends on the API (pulseaudio? gstreamer?) Mediabox uses for playing back audio..


No, increasing the buffer size unfortunately does not help. It's Maemo taking over sound routing control and maybe application freezing during these events.

[nax3000]

@pycage

Loving the player so far but one of my biggest beefs with it is that it takes about 1 to 2 seconds to switch tracks. Kind of a bummer when you're listening to an album where the songs flow into each other.

My previous player was an Archos Gmini400. It's an HDD-based player. Obviously switching songs would be way longer but what it seemed to do is preload/buffer then next track about 5 seconds before the current track ended. The result was pretty seamless transition. I couldn't even count it in milliseconds. But if I could I'd say it's around 24ms.
Would that idea work with the N900? Is it difficult to program such a feature?

Another issue is resources. It takes almost two times as much resources as the regular maemo5 player. It's kind of a battery drainer...
Anything that can be done about that?
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[oldpmaguy]

Can someone explain to me how I can make Mediabox access the music I have on my computer's HDD?

I realize there is this thing called UPnP - but I have no idea how to actually making the MB see files on my computer.

Sorry if this is a dumb Q, but I'm used to just sharing a folder on my PC in windows, and the wireless device can see it. I guess I'm missing a few steps with MB.

Anyway I like MB otherwise, it's more featured than the standard mplayer in N900 (browsing folders is the main thing lacking there).

[nax3000]

@pycage

Loving the player so far but one of my biggest beefs with it is that it takes about 1 to 2 seconds to switch tracks. Kind of a bummer when you're listening to an album where the songs flow into each other.

My previous player was an Archos Gmini400. It's an HDD-based player. Obviously switching songs would be way longer but what it seemed to do is preload/buffer then next track about 5 seconds before the current track ended. The result was pretty seamless transition. I couldn't even count it in milliseconds. But if I could I'd say it's around 24ms.
Would that idea work with the N900? Is it difficult to program such a feature?

Another issue is resources. It takes almost two times as much resources as the regular maemo5 player. It's kind of a battery drainer...
Anything that can be done about that?

Bumping this :)
So I just updated to the latest version. Any release notes on what's new?
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[pycage]

Bumping this :)
So I just updated to the latest version. Any release notes on what's new?

See here for a changelog and compare the version number you have with the dates in there:
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/debian/changelog?root=mediabox&view=markup



My previous player was an Archos Gmini400. It's an HDD-based player. Obviously switching songs would be way longer but what it seemed to do is preload/buffer then next track about 5 seconds before the current track ended. The result was pretty seamless transition. I couldn't even count it in milliseconds. But if I could I'd say it's around 24ms.
Would that idea work with the N900? Is it difficult to program such a feature?


Preloading might be possible. This would be something to consider.


Another issue is resources. It takes almost two times as much resources as the regular maemo5 player. It's kind of a battery drainer...
Anything that can be done about that?


Don't forget that for the maemo5 media player you have to take the mafw processes into account, too, for computing the amount of resources it takes. In MediaBox the memory consumption is more obvious because it's not split across several processes. I'm constantly trying to reduce the memory consumption and it already came down a lot. There's always a tradeoff between UI performance and memory.
What's draining battery so much? PulseAudio or the media codec? Apart from updating the progress bar, scrolling a label, and maybe presenting lyrics, MediaBox doesn't really add much to it. Or maybe you have found some bug?

[pycage]

Can someone explain to me how I can make Mediabox access the music I have on my computer's HDD?

I realize there is this thing called UPnP - but I have no idea how to actually making the MB see files on my computer.


Windows Media Player e.g. can act as UPnP media server so that you can access your media from the N900.

[nax3000]

Thanks for the reply pycage.

For some reason I noticed an improvement for switching between tracks - it's much faster. Also when the backlight turns off the track seems to stutter less. Sometimes it doesn't stutter at all!
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[oldpmaguy]

Windows Media Player e.g. can act as UPnP media server so that you can access your media from the N900.

Thank you for your help here.

The problem is, when I open Windoes Media Player (v11) and go to "Tools/Options/Library Tab/Configure Sharing", in the "Share my media to" box, I'm not seeing the N900, nor MediaBox.

I do have UPnP turned on, I'm fairly sure. I found a MS help site that explained that, and I enabled UPnP on my XP Pro machine. And have rebooted all devices, yes.

Is there anything I need to do on the N900 end, maybe, to make WMP see it in WMP's "share my media to" box?

Thanks for your (or anybody's) help. This does sem like it should be something that happens automatically. But I've never needed to use UPnP to enable sharnig from my previous wireles device (although I can't remember specicifally what I did differently - I think all I did was enable sharing of folders, and the folder showed up in the media player without further action from me. That's not happening in MediaBox for me, though, this time)

[woodyear99]

Anyone compared how this thing handles battery compared to the built in media player? I'm just wondering if I should expect to see much less battery life when using my speakers and listening to shoutcast streams via 2g.

[bald.eagle.one]

i've finally got fed up with built in media player and will start using mediabox :)
in ver 2010.02.06 i cannot find saved playlists and when i add folder to the playlist it adds artwork too
then when it goes to next track (wich happens to be artwork) player stops on showing picture

one enhancement proposal
ability to edit tags - especially comments and rating - and show while playing (but also bpm and bitrate for example)

thanks for your work

[Nathan]

Martin,

I have to say I love MediaBox -- very well done! I played with several of the media players; and I have to say you have done one awesome job!

A couple issues that I noticed.
1. Screen fading sometimes glitches music (probably nothing you can do about it ) -- also glitches badly when under a load.
2. Is it necessary to call fm-boost at the start of every song (maybe you should integrate the source)?
3. Occasionally it will lockup at either the end/beginning of a new song. Once it locked up with the loading fm-boost notice on the screen.

Enhancements:
4. I would love to see the "volume" buttons work while locked to allow switching of tracks.

Nathan

[nax3000]

Yeah, like Nathan said the track switching volume rocker would be nice although risky when in your pocket heh.

Also wondering how the widget is coming along :D
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[etuoyo]

I love this media player. Unlike the crap built in media player it actually shows my correct tags.

Just a couple of problems I am having that is making me from abandoning the built in media player completely:

1. The album art shows very blurry like a picture that has been blown up alot. I know album arts are normally very small picture files and media box is possibly blowing them up but they shouldn't really be showing like this because the same album art shows perfectly clearly on the default media player and was the same on my ipod touch even though that shows in full screen and so far far bigger than how mediabox shows album art - speaking of which could an option be added to show album art in full screen? Makes it look much more attractive).

2. Browsing in albums is completely unusable due to the way it handles compilation albums. For example I have an album called 100 R&B Classics and it shows up as 100 different albums because each track has a different artist.

3. It does not see my m3u playlists and I usually select my music by playlists.

4. It doesn't allow searching by typing in what you are looking for like the default player does (apart from for albums).

[pycage]

1. The album art shows very blurry like a picture that has been blown up alot. I know album arts are normally very small picture files and media box is possibly blowing them up but they shouldn't really be showing like this because the same album art shows perfectly clearly on the default media player and was the same on my ipod touch even though that shows in full screen and so far far bigger than how mediabox shows album art - speaking of which could an option be added to show album art in full screen? Makes it look much more attractive).


Most likely you have two cover art version. A good one and a tiny blurry one. The cover art size doesn't matter to MediaBox and in your case it sounds like the tiny one is used.


2. Browsing in albums is completely unusable due to the way it handles compilation albums. For example I have an album called 100 R&B Classics and it shows up as 100 different albums because each track has a different artist.


This will be fixed in the next version.


3. It does not see my m3u playlists and I usually select my music by playlists.


Thanks for this suggestion.


4. It doesn't allow searching by typing in what you are looking for like the default player does (apart from for albums).


This is a planned feature.

[pycage]

Yeah, like Nathan said the track switching volume rocker would be nice although risky when in your pocket heh.


Unfortunately, the N900 doesn't allow using the volume buttons while the screen is locked. :(


Also wondering how the widget is coming along :D

I have started with the D-Bus interface to make the widget happen. :)

[412b]

MediaBox Home Widget teaser :)
Based on API from SVN rev. 876.
It's stable at the moment, but lacks features.

[nax3000]

Looks awesome!
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[joshua.maverick]

can i help redesign this?

[412b]

can i help redesign this?
Why not?
But keep in mind that widget is using MediaBox icons.

[pycage]

can i help redesign this?

This would be great, yes!

[pycage]

MediaBox Home Widget teaser :)
Based on API from SVN rev. 876.
It's stable at the moment, but lacks features.

So it looks like the D-Bus interface is kinda working. :D
What features are missing that you need from the interface? I thought about providing coverart as base64-encoded PNG string, e.g.

[412b]

So it looks like the D-Bus interface is kinda working. :D
Partly. All signals are working, but D-Bus introspection and methods seem to be broken.

What features are missing that you need from the interface? I thought about providing coverart as base64-encoded PNG string, e.g.
Track info :) A way to get it :)
And a kind of signal, when track changes (e.g. switching other in playlist), or add track info to existing signals (e.g. to 'play' signal).
Coverart can just be provided as a filename, e.g. it can be loaded from thumbnails dir and cached in widget. But it's not that important at the moment :)

[pycage]

Coverart can just be provided as a filename, e.g. it can be loaded from thumbnails dir and cached in widget. But it's not that important at the moment :)

Coverart doesn't always exist as file. Sometimes it's embedded in the file or stream.

[412b]

Coverart doesn't always exist as file. Sometimes it's embedded in the file or stream.
I forgot about that :) In that case base64 is really reasonable...
Btw, while adding seekbar component I found you're multipling pos and total by 1000... I have to devide it by 1000, after receiving the signal ;)

[oldpmaguy]

Can anyone help me have MB connect with my music on my PC? I expected that it would automatically find any networked collection I have, but the "Storage and Network" folder only shows my N900 filesystem, nothing more

I have turned on UPnP in my Windows XP machine, and I have had Windows Media Player 11 scan my music library. In the Options/Library/Media Sharing setup box, the N900 does not show up as a choosable shareable device for WMP11.

Has anyone else had problems with this? What am I overlooking? It seems such a simle thing, to have MB find my network connection - there are certainly no configurable options available in MB, so it should be sort of automatic, no?

I have had no trouble connecting my N900 to anything else in my network - WIFI, VNC, and rDesktop all work well for me. I have even transferred files from the PC to the N900 over WIFI using rDesktop.

What am I missing? I really want streaming access to my PC's media library. Thanks for any help.

[donjoe]

im using media connect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Connect#External_links) on my win xp
and it worked like charm (exept streaming xvid/divx avi container videos, its a maemo bug)
Allowed the Device in media connect and give them the folder
hes allowed to connect and it worked.
donjoe

[oldpmaguy]

im using media connect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Connect#External_links) on my win xp
and it worked like charm (exept streaming xvid/divx avi container videos, its a maemo bug)
Allowed the Device in media connect and give them the folder
hes allowed to connect and it worked.
donjoe
Thanks for the help. I too tried that, and it just cycled forever, never starting or connecting.

I ended up being pointed to this metalist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPnP_AV_MediaServers
of UPnP servers on Wikipedia from a comment made on a N900 blog about UPnP on the N900 (useless blog, that one).

I am really glad I found that! There are so many disparate links on UPnP on Wikipedia, this server list is not one that shows up readily when seraching.

Anyway, I went for one of the generic freeware software apps, and - it worked! So I do have access to my PC's media library through NB now (no thanks to Winblows XP).

I'm not sure if I'll stay with the on I'm using, it's really generic and a little old, but at least I know I can make it work.

[nax3000]

Hey pycage, can mediabox handle this new EQ thing? http://blogs.igalia.com/jasuarez/2010/02/19/mafw-gst-eq-renderer-0-1-2009-47-1-1-released/
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[pycage]

Hey pycage, can mediabox handle this new EQ thing? http://blogs.igalia.com/jasuarez/2010/02/19/mafw-gst-eq-renderer-0-1-2009-47-1-1-released/

The mafw-gst-eq-renderer replaces the mafw-gst-renderer. I don't think this will help with MediaBox which is using GStreamer directly.
MediaBox doesn't have a mafw backend right now. Maybe somebody wants to create one? :)

[mobileuser]

This is a known bug with compilation albums where there are several artists.


Can you give more details on this?

Shame .. makes it a unusable if you have several compilation albums- all other features are great - when is this bug going to be fixed or is there a workaround.

[oldpmaguy]

Getting GUI bugs - losing the "reduce to smaller window" button in up left corner. It shows up as an X, and fails to do anything, either reduce window or close program.

I must force the program to reduce my pressing the camera button.

Also, tracks that are paused for more than a few minutes always resume at the start of the track, not where they left off.

I'm using the latest build of MB, I believe.

[pycage]

Shame .. makes it a unusable if you have several compilation albums- all other features are great - when is this bug going to be fixed or is there a workaround.

This will be fixed in the next version.

[nax3000]

Just wondering how the widget is doing :D
Also, will there be an EQ implemented in future versions of mediabox?
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[412b]

Just wondering how the widget is doing :D
Doing fine :)
Current version have almost all the GUI (volumebar is left only).
If Joshua will give the new design, it'd great.
The most needed thing at the moment is working D-Bus methods. I can post one more teaser tomorrow, when finally get home ;)

[jacktanner]

@pycage plz push out a new mediabox. there are two (annoying to me) bugs in the one in -testing that you've already fixed in svn: the volume getting reset on every track, and one where a various-artists album is treated as multiple albums in album view. looking forward to the new release.

[VulcanRidr]

pycage, I have one feature request. Currently, the "Keep display lit" preference has three options: never, while playing and yes. Would it be possible to add an option to keep lit (or at least not to lock) when the device is plugged in to power? I don't even mind if it dims, since my morning commute is at 4:30 am and it is dark, but if you can keep it from locking, that would be great...But only when plugged in to power.

Thanks,
--vr

[nax3000]

@pycage
So can you tell us folks what's going to be new/fixed on the next version? Really looking forward to it :D
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[pycage]

@pycage
So can you tell us folks what's going to be new/fixed on the next version? Really looking forward to it :D

Volume bug will be fixed. The issue with compilation albums with multiple artists will be fixed. Some UPnP will be fixed. There will be a D-Bus interface so that other apps (e.g. widgets) can control MediaBox. Better UI performance. fmboost will be utilized automatically when using the FM transmitter, if you have it installed. Integrated YouTube browsing. Oh, and hopefully finally support for the N8x0 devices (Diablo).

[nax3000]

Hey just bumping this thread :)
So pycage, any ETA for the new version? (no pressure though, just askin')
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[oldpmaguy]

Can I strem FLAC over UPnP? So far I haven't been able to. This is really important to me since I rip all my audio to flac and store it on my server PC.

I don't want to have to triple-convert to MP3 just to access music over the network, please say I can access FLAC through MPlayer over UPnP!

One other thing - where is this "Car mode" feature that is mentioned in the first post of this thread? I'd love somehting like this, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where/how to turn it on.

[belanger]

One other thing - where is this "Car mode" feature that is mentioned in the first post of this thread? I'd love somehting like this, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where/how to turn it on.

Car Mode is simply fullscreen mode. When songs are playing, press the fullscreen button (I use an N800, where it is on the top in the middle of the three-buttons). Right now in fullscreen mode the left and right arrows are bunched together on the right side of the screen. (I'm pretty sure this bunching was discussed earlier in this thread, but I'm too lazy to look it up. I hope it changes back to "one arrow on each side of the screen" in the next version.)

Jay

[pycage]

Can I strem FLAC over UPnP? So far I haven't been able to. This is really important to me since I rip all my audio to flac and store it on my server PC.

Yes, FLAC streams perfectly over UPnP as long as the UPnP server recognizes the FLAC files and reports them as being music. Not all UPnP server know about FLAC, though.
I'm using Rhythmbox on Linux with UPnP plugin as my media server at home and it handles FLAC just fine.


One other thing - where is this "Car mode" feature that is mentioned in the first post of this thread? I'd love somehting like this, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where/how to turn it on.

Car mode is the fullscreen mode in the music player. It's not there on the N900 yet.

[nax3000]

hey pycage is this project still alive?
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[oldpmaguy]

Yes, FLAC streams perfectly over UPnP as long as the UPnP server recognizes the FLAC files and reports them as being music. Not all UPnP server know about FLAC, though.
Thanks for the reply, I discovered this on my own through the tedious process of comparing all available UPNP servers on a wikipedia page.

After lengthy trial and error, I settled on the very generic and Linux-like FUPPES for my Win XP machine. It streams FLAC, and also my big JPEG's, very well!

Another nice addition to the N900's suite of abilities, hurrah!

[pycage]

hey pycage is this project still alive?

Yes, it's alive and should get a new release soon. I'm just too busy to work on MediaBox very much.

[Aydan]

This might have been mentioned before but here goes anyway:
I have a problem with the volume control during audio/video playback
If I set the system volume to full and then change the volume with the slider or the hw-buttons in the MediaBox, the system volume drops back to default (about 2/3).

[tangs]

any idea when the widget will be release ? and the new update ? :)
Oh and will it be possible that it will swith from landscape to portrait with the accelerometer ?

[pycage]

I don't know about the widget, because somebody else is doing that.
The update has been just uploaded to the maemo builder and should arrive in extras-testing soon.
There is no automatic screen rotation from landscape to portrait because automatic screen rotation is not only pretty but terribly annoying IMHO. :)
Oh well, I'll add a switch for enabling automatic rotation in the preferences section later.

[tangs]

thanks pycage ! i'm just uploading it now. could you tell what is the change log please ? :)
yes, to have the choice of automatic rotation would be very nice too ! :)

[pycage]

Changelog and voting are here: :)
http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/mediabox/2010.05.08/

[nax3000]

Dude you rock!

Things I've noticed:
App loads faster
Interface a lot quicker
Switching between songs is faster.
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[tangs]

ok, i've notice somethings (issues?)
when i'm in mediabox, choosing music>folders I see also the folders of the Sygic's voices that is ennoying because it have nothing to do with musics and it's taking places in the folders's list.
Also, when i'm putting few albums of the same artist in a folder with the name of the artist, this artist's folder doesn't appear, i still have the albums folders that are not in the artist one...

Any advice solutions ?

BTW it's really close to be my default music player great work !!!

[nax3000]

I noticed that it takes more CPU load while playing. Default player is at about 30% usage while mediabox averages at 45%.
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[pycage]

ok, i've notice somethings (issues?)
when i'm in mediabox, choosing music>folders I see also the folders of the Sygic's voices that is ennoying because it have nothing to do with musics and it's taking places in the folders's list.
Also, when i'm putting few albums of the same artist in a folder with the name of the artist, this artist's folder doesn't appear, i still have the albums folders that are not in the artist one...


These both seem to be tracker-related issues.
MediaBox uses Maemo's tracker service for discovering the locations of media files. If tracker hasn't found your new media yet, though, you can also circumvent tracker and tell MediaBox to scan a folder for media. Navigate to the folder in MediaBox' file browser and hold down on the folder icon to get the popup menu. Select "Scan for Media" there.
Now MediaBox scans through that folder without having to wait for tracker to discover the files.

About the Sygic voices, it's possible to configure tracker to ignore folders. It's somewhere buried in this forum. Or you simply switch off tracker support in MediaBox and always scan for files manually.

[tangs]

thanx Pycage I scanned the folder with the music, and i don't have the sygics's folders. But artist's folder doesn't appear, i still have the albums folders that are not in the artist one even after reboot.
My music's folder are in .sounds folder.

hope i could have any help with this.

and one more thanx to you pycage for this :)

[Laughing Man]

Don't forget to vote for the app at the extras-testing page if it's working well for you.

[sevep]

This might have been mentioned before but here goes anyway:
I have a problem with the volume control during audio/video playback
If I set the system volume to full and then change the volume with the slider or the hw-buttons in the MediaBox, the system volume drops back to default (about 2/3).
Had a simalar issue too when connecting via a bluetooth speaker. The volume would reset itself to about 25% every time the music track changed. A slight movement of the master volume slider in the "battery" drop down menu would reset it back to where it was originally set.
I'm happy to report the update just received and downloaded has fixed this issue.
Thanks pycage, off to vote now:)
EDIT won't let me logon to vote?, do I use the same login detail as here?

[theclueless]

is there a way for the playlist to continuous play videos? always stopped after 1

[Aydan]

Hi,

I just tested the version from testing (2010.05.08) with two DivX movies from which one definitely worked with the previous version and both work with the standard player, but now they go crazy or crash when I change the volume.
See the attachments for debug info.

Regards
Aydan

[mayfairman]

Media Player does uPnP out of the box. Dont need this if thats all your after.

[tangs]

I don't anderstand why, when i'm browsing in shelf > my documents > audio clips, i can see the artist's folder that i made, with the albums inside but when i'm using "scan for media" on the "audio clips" file it's still not showing my artist's folder in shelf > music > folders
Am i the only one with this problem ?

[pycage]

Hi,

I just tested the version from testing (2010.05.08) with two DivX movies from which one definitely worked with the previous version and both work with the standard player, but now they go crazy or crash when I change the volume.
See the attachments for debug info.

Regards
Aydan

This looks very much like a problem with gstreamer and a codec running on the DSP (nothing MediaBox can do about). Try rebooting the N900 to see if the problem remains.
Since 2010.05.08 MediaBox changes sound volume like the built-in media player through MAFW. Maybe the DSP has trouble with the volume being changed by a different process (mafw-gst-renderer) than is displaying the video (MediaBox).

[nax3000]

Youtube plugin doesn't seem to work at all...
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[pycage]

Youtube plugin doesn't seem to work at all...

How far do you get with it?
Can you search for videos or open the folders for "Most Viewed", etc.?
Is there an error visible when running MediaBox from X-Terminal?

[VulcanRidr]

Pycage,

Two questions:

1. Do you have a release date for the latest and greatest mediabox for Maemo4? I recall it was supposed to come out in January, but I've been so swamped between working and commuting that I haven't had a chance to keep up with the forum properly. If not, I'll ask my second question...

2. I have some wierdness with the current version. I have something like 50 podcasts under MyDocs/.sounds/Podcasts. When I let them play, it will play through the first 7 or 8, then go back to the beginning of the list. I was thinking it may be something in one of the files in that directory that was causing that behavior, but the directory is podcasts, which means they get cycled out fairly regularly (most within a week, but some stay around longer).

Have you seen this kind of behavior and is there a fix for it?

Thanks,
--vr

[Tigerite]

Is there any way MediaBox could be made to work with the Headphones daemon?

[nax3000]

How far do you get with it?
Can you search for videos or open the folders for "Most Viewed", etc.?
Is there an error visible when running MediaBox from X-Terminal?

I can search for videos, but when I click on the thumbnail they don't load at all. Let me check for errors.
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[nax3000]

How far do you get with it?
Can you search for videos or open the folders for "Most Viewed", etc.?
Is there an error visible when running MediaBox from X-Terminal?

here's what I'm getting
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[pycage]

1. Do you have a release date for the latest and greatest mediabox for Maemo4? I recall it was supposed to come out in January, but I've been so swamped between working and commuting that I haven't had a chance to keep up with the forum properly. If not, I'll ask my second question...


Sorry, yes, it's really late. Basically it works, but needs some Diablo-specific tweaks before releasing for Maemo4. But it's next on my schedule.


2. I have some wierdness with the current version. I have something like 50 podcasts under MyDocs/.sounds/Podcasts. When I let them play, it will play through the first 7 or 8, then go back to the beginning of the list. I was thinking it may be something in one of the files in that directory that was causing that behavior, but the directory is podcasts, which means they get cycled out fairly regularly (most within a week, but some stay around longer).

Have you seen this kind of behavior and is there a fix for it?


Are the podcasts from nr. 8 on playable by themselves?
Right now I have no idea what could cause this behavior.

[pycage]

Is there any way MediaBox could be made to work with the Headphones daemon?

I think so. Version 2010.05.08 has the hooks that headphoned's author requested. So it ought to work with headphoned. If not there may be a bug somewhere in MediaBox or headphoned.

[pycage]

here's what I'm getting

Maybe you're lacking media codecs for playing FLV or MP4 files. At least the FLV container is not supported by Maemo out of the box.
Some videos on YouTube are available in more than one format so that you can choose.

[VulcanRidr]

Sorry, yes, it's really late. Basically it works, but needs some Diablo-specific tweaks before releasing for Maemo4. But it's next on my schedule.

Excellent! Thanks. I won't ask about a release date, because I come from the Debian culture, where "when it's ready." is an acceptable answer. :D

Are the podcasts from nr. 8 on playable by themselves?
Right now I have no idea what could cause this behavior.

They are. The problem is that the only way to get to them is to manually scroll to them, which is a challenge when in traffic. :)

--vr

[fanditha]

Rendering function doesn't work with Bravia TV 40V5500. is there any possibly to render the media for the TV? It does search the TV but when it is selected nothing happens.

[pycage]

Rendering function doesn't work with Bravia TV 40V5500. is there any possibly to render the media for the TV? It does search the TV but when it is selected nothing happens.

It would be helpful if somebody with such a TV could provide a pcap-dump (e.g. using wireshark, snoop or tcpdump, might be necessary to use a ethernet hub or use the capturing computer as gateway) of the HTTP traffic between MediaBox and the TV.

Edit: from what I've found on the web, the Bravia TV is very limited in what media formats it supports. So not everything the N900 throws at it will be playable.

Running MediaBox from X-Terminal with option -vvv shows the UPnP SOAP requests and responses. This could be helpful with debugging, too.

[F2thaK]

anyone got mediabox streaming music over upnp with n900 and windows xp?

thanks

[pycage]

anyone got mediabox streaming music over upnp with n900 and windows xp?

thanks

I just tried with Microsoft Windows Media Connect UPnP server on XP Home and it works without problems.

[Tigerite]

I think so. Version 2010.05.08 has the hooks that headphoned's author requested. So it ought to work with headphoned. If not there may be a bug somewhere in MediaBox or headphoned.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't work, by the way :(

[pycage]

As far as I can tell, it doesn't work, by the way :(

Indeed, Headphone Daemon 1.8 does not emit D-Bus signals for MediaBox as dbus-monitor --session shows.

[Tigerite]

Shame :( is there anything that can be done to remedy that?

[jakiman]

I got the Nokia BH-905 bluetooth headset and noticed that the play/next/prev buttons do not work with MediaBox.
Standard media player works and even mplayer works with the buttons on the headset.

Is it possible to get this working with mediabox??

[pycage]

I got the Nokia BH-905 bluetooth headset and noticed that the play/next/prev buttons do not work with MediaBox.
Standard media player works and even mplayer works with the buttons on the headset.

Is it possible to get this working with mediabox??

It would be possible if I knew how to detect button presses on the headset. Unfortunately I do not have a BH-905 at hand to figure it out.
So if anybody could give instructions or provide a plugin for MediaBox, it would be great.

[F2thaK]

yes got this working with TVersity, great app btw (for XP)

headset buttons to work like default player would be good

[412b]

Hi, pycage.
I've got problem with 2010.05.08 and resuming playback after calls and SMS: resuming does not work for me. I'll try to get some debug output later. Can anyone else confirm this?

And about Home widget. As MediaBox doesn't have single D-Bus interface (according to D-Bus' sender from session monitor), so some difficulties happen. Porting widget to Maemo 5 is in progress, but I don't have enough time until June, 8th unfortunately.

[pycage]

Hi, pycage.
I've got problem with 2010.05.08 and resuming playback after calls and SMS: resuming does not work for me. I'll try to get some debug output later. Can anyone else confirm this?

Do you mean you have to resume manually after a call. Yes, I've seen this, too.


And about Home widget. As MediaBox doesn't have single D-Bus interface (according to D-Bus' sender from session monitor), so some difficulties happen. Porting widget to Maemo 5 is in progress, but I don't have enough time until June, 8th unfortunately.
What are the difficulties that happen?

Looking forward to the widget. :)

[Lake]

Hi,

Will there be an option coming for the download of youtube videos? I ask because I added a video from youtube to my playlist and on restarting the program, I could select it again, but it wouldn't load (yet played fine when accessed through the Youtube plugin).

BW

Tom

[pycage]

Hi,

Will there be an option coming for the download of youtube videos?

Yes, there will. It's just not finished yet. :)

[412b]

Do you mean you have to resume manually after a call. Yes, I've seen this, too.
Yep, after a call I need to resume manually.

What are the difficulties that happen?

Looking forward to the widget. :)
Porting to Maemo 5 is at early stage, but in OS2008 provided interfaces couldn't be found.

[pycage]

OS 2008 will soon get a new version with the interfaces. The current version on OS 2008 (0.96.x) doesn't have the interfaces yet.

[412b]

OS 2008 will soon get a new version with the interfaces. The current version on OS 2008 (0.96.x) doesn't have the interfaces yet.
I meant SVN version.

[pycage]

I meant SVN version.

Hmm, it should be there (just checked it on my N810 with dbus-monitor --session, rev. 913).

Look for path = /de/pycage/mediabox/control, interface = de.pycage.mediabox.control

It ought to work.

[412b]

Hmm, it should be there (just checked it on my N810 with dbus-monitor --session, rev. 913).

Look for path = /de/pycage/mediabox/control, interface = de.pycage.mediabox.control

It ought to work.
Signals are there, but calling a method fails with 'method not found'.

[pycage]

Signals are there, but calling a method fails with 'method not found'.

I found the culprit. de.pycage.mediabox was already occupied by the osso-activation-framework and thus the interface methods weren't accessible.
I have changed the osso D-Bus name and the methods can be invoked now. It's already in the SVN, rev 914.

[412b]

I found the culprit. de.pycage.mediabox was already occupied by the osso-activation-framework and thus the interface methods weren't accessible.
I have changed the osso D-Bus name and the methods can be invoked now. It's already in the SVN, rev 914.
Now it's working :)
But when switching next/prev missing seek signal... Or track info method needed ;)

[nax3000]

Excited for this widget on my N900 :D
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[j-a-k]

When I am playing songs on this in random mode and want to back up to a previous song, it doesn't seem to go back to the songs that I played. Is this a feature or a bug? Is there a way to go back if I like a song and replay after the next song is playing?

[pycage]

When I am playing songs on this in random mode and want to back up to a previous song, it doesn't seem to go back to the songs that I played. Is this a feature or a bug? Is there a way to go back if I like a song and replay after the next song is playing?

There is no history kept in random mode. You can, however, go to the special "Recent 50" playlist and replay the song.

[j-a-k]

There is no history kept in random mode. You can, however, go to the special "Recent 50" playlist and replay the song.

Thanks, that's a little tough while driving but I'll give it a shot.

[Lake]

Hi,

Should the scan for media pick up FLV files?

The Reason I ask is that at the moment (I realise you have this planned) MediaBox doesn't download Youtube files, but MyTube does. Therefore, I was hoping to download videos with MyTube and play them with MediaBox but it doesn't seem to recognise FLV - is that correct? If so, what format can I convert them to, so that MediaBox detects them?

Thanks in advance

BW

Tom

[pycage]

FLV files are supported once you install the additional codecs for gstreamer (that come e.g. with installing zoutube).
If the files don't appear in Videos, try to browse the filesystem. Maemo's tracker service might not be able to recognize flv as media, but you can tell MediaBox to scan manually for media in a folder without having to rely on tracker.

[Lake]

Ah great many thanks!

[pycage]

Now it's working :)
But when switching next/prev missing seek signal... Or track info method needed ;)

Yep, seems to be missing sometimes, and sometimes it's there...

signal sender=:1.94 -> dest=(null destination) serial=10 path=/de/pycage/mediabox/control; interface=de.pycage.mediabox.control; member=seek_signal
uint32 0
uint32 348000

It seems to depend on the media. I'm investigating this.


EDIT:

Don't rely on the seek signal too much. Unseekable media such as radio streams don't have it (besides it was missing in the video player, but this is now fixed :D ).

There is now a load signal with some useful information, e.g.

signal sender=:1.305 -> dest=(null destination) serial=3 path=/de/pycage/mediabox/control; interface=de.pycage.mediabox.control; member=load_signal
string "Sensorium [Live in Miskolc]"
string "Epica"
string "/home/mgrimme/Musik/A-E/Epica/Epica/The Classical Conspiracy/15 - Sensorium [Live in Miskolc].mp3"
string "audio/mpeg"

The fields are: name (e.g. title), info (e.g. artist), resource (path to the real file locally or remote), MIME type

Then there is a signal with tag information (it depends on media backend whether tag reporting is supported; gstreamer supports it):

signal sender=:1.305 -> dest=(null destination) serial=11 path=/de/pycage/mediabox/control; interface=de.pycage.mediabox.control; member=tag_signal
string "TITLE"
string "Sensorium [Live in Miskolc]"
signal sender=:1.305 -> dest=(null destination) serial=12 path=/de/pycage/mediabox/control; interface=de.pycage.mediabox.control; member=tag_signal
string "ALBUM"
string "Sensorium [Live in Miskolc]"
signal sender=:1.305 -> dest=(null destination) serial=13 path=/de/pycage/mediabox/control; interface=de.pycage.mediabox.control; member=tag_signal
string "ARTIST"
string "Sensorium [Live in Miskolc]"


Coverart transmission is under construction. :)

[Litherayne]

Hello there

Tried sifting through this thread but way too many pages...

Just wanted to know if mediabox is considered the best media player for N900. I mainly want it to watch films.

Thanks
LR

[Aydan]

Hello,

this is what i get if i try to play the "9" trailer that comes with the phone:
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ mediaplayer
mediaplayer mediaplayer.launch mediaplayerrestore
~ $ MediaBox
setting theme took 0.019043 seconds
invalidating <media:///> due to playlist.PlaylistDevice
invalidating <media:///> due to preferences.PrefsDevice
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.12:/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_retu_headset_logicaldev_input: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchDevice: No device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_retu_headset_logicaldev_input
invalidating <media:///audio> due to media_storage.AudioStorage
invalidating <media:///audio> due to media_storage.AudioAlbumStorage
invalidating <media:///audio> due to media_storage.AudioArtistStorage
invalidating <media:///audio> due to media_storage.AudioGenreStorage
invalidating <media:///image> due to media_storage.ImageStorage
invalidating <media:///storage> due to media_storage.HistoryDevice
invalidating <media:///storage> due to media_storage.BookmarkDevice
invalidating <media:///video> due to media_storage.VideoStorage
invalidating <media:///video> due to youtube.YouTube
invalidating <media:///storage> due to local_device.LocalDevice
invalidating <media:///audio> due to shoutcast_directory.ShoutcastDirectory
shelfed items [<file:///home/user/MyDocs>, <file:///media/mmc1>]
uuid:75802409-bccb-40e7-8e6c-001C4ADC99BA will expire in 1800 seconds
uuid:22617c0d-cb0f-4fb9-a31f-001C4ADC99BA will expire in 1800 seconds
uuid:0360ecc8-00f5-4e76-a1af-0b03d101a902 will expire in 900 seconds
uuid:28c57fd2-df8b-44b8-855c-e903be0bb3bb will expire in 900 seconds
parse descr
UPnP icons: [<utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd88f0>]
UPnP device appeared: uuid:75802409-bccb-40e7-8e6c-001C4ADC99BA Hendrik UPnP/1.0 AVM FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170 29.04.80
QUERY: File.Path of all
RESULT: ...
parse descr
UPnP device appeared: uuid:22617c0d-cb0f-4fb9-a31f-001C4ADC99BA USB-Fernanschluss
parse descr
UPnP icons: [<utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdce68>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd84e0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd88a0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd8c38>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd8fa8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdf620>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdfbc0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdffa8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fe8378>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ed96c0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdc080>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdc3f0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fe8508>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fe88a0>]
UPnP device appeared: uuid:0360ecc8-00f5-4e76-a1af-0b03d101a902 CALLISTO: Administrator:
parse descr
UPnP icons: [<utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fee3c8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fee760>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41feeaf8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41feee90>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff2260>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff25f8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff2990>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff2d28>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff60f8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff6490>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff6828>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff6bc0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff6f58>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ffb328>]
UPnP device appeared: uuid:28c57fd2-df8b-44b8-855c-e903be0bb3bb CALLISTO: HeSa:
invalidating <media:///storage> due to upnp_storage.AVDevice
invalidating <media:///storage> due to upnp_storage.AVDevice
got ALIVE from uuid:75802409-bccb-40e7-8e6c-001C4ADC99BA
uuid:75802409-bccb-40e7-8e6c-001C4ADC99BA will expire in 1800 seconds
got ALIVE from uuid:22617c0d-cb0f-4fb9-a31f-001C4ADC99BA
uuid:22617c0d-cb0f-4fb9-a31f-001C4ADC99BA will expire in 1800 seconds
got ALIVE from uuid:0360ecc8-00f5-4e76-a1af-0b03d101a902
uuid:0360ecc8-00f5-4e76-a1af-0b03d101a902 will expire in 900 seconds
got ALIVE from uuid:28c57fd2-df8b-44b8-855c-e903be0bb3bb
uuid:28c57fd2-df8b-44b8-855c-e903be0bb3bb will expire in 900 seconds
QUERY: File.Folder of File.Type='video'
RESULT: set([('.sounds',), ('Bootvideo',), ('.videos',)])
QUERY: File.Path of File.Type='video'
RESULT: set([('/home/user/MyDocs/.videos/b-29_animation_1.avi',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.videos/9.mp4',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/Bootvideo/maemo_dark_xvid_lame_r1.avi',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/Bootvideo/maemo_bright_xvid_lame_r1.avi',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.videos/screencast00.avi',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/eyjafjallajokull-richtige-aussprache.m4v',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.videos/Nokia_N900.mp4',)])
Got Handle 5 for file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/b-29_animation_1.avi
LOAD <file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/9.mp4> video/mp4 [video_player.VideoPlayer]
LOAD file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/9.mp4
DELAY PLAY /home/user/MyDocs/.videos/9.mp4
PLAY
enabling light
Thumbnailing failed for 5 dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/b-29_animation_1.avi')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')) couldn't start node
Thumbnailing failed for 5 dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/b-29_animation_1.avi')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')) couldn't start node
finished thumbnailing 5
finished thumbnailing 5
ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/connection.py", line 214, in maybe_handle_message
self._handler(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/components/image_viewer/OrgFreeDesktopThumbnailer.py", line 74, in __on_finish
KeyError: 5
Got Handle 6 for file:///home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/eyjafjallajokull-richtige-aussprache.m4v
Thumbnailing failed for 6 dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'file:///home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/eyjafjallajokull-richtige-aussprache.m4v')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')) GStreamer encountered a general stream error.
Thumbnailing failed for 6 dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'file:///home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/eyjafjallajokull-richtige-aussprache.m4v')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')) GStreamer encountered a general stream error.
finished thumbnailing 6
finished thumbnailing 6
ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/connection.py", line 214, in maybe_handle_message
self._handler(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/components/image_viewer/OrgFreeDesktopThumbnailer.py", line 74, in __on_finish
KeyError: 6
/opt/mediabox/ui/Pixmap.py:780: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float
emit key 157
output_loop: empty buffer
output_loop: empty buffer
output_loop: empty buffer
gstdsp_got_error: got DSP MMUFAULT
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/mediaplayer/GstBackend.py", line 127, in __on_message
NameError: global name 'logging' is not defined
emit key 158
emit key 158
emit key 158
disabling light
create_node: dsp node allocate failed
init_node: dsp node creation failed
gstdsp_send_codec_data: couldn't start node
enabling light
emit key 158
emit key 158
Killed
~ $ Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.



i'm using the latest versions of mediabox and enhanced a/v decoders on PR1.2

what i did is start the movie and let it play for a few seconds. as soon as i use the volume control, the video goes black and silent but the counter keeps running. if i then press pause and resume the counter resets to zero and a few seconds later the player crashes..

i've been having problems since a few mediabox versions back.
this really sucks because otherwise i really like mediabox.

regards
aydan

[nathaneous]

Having a problem recently when streaming videos from youtube via MediaBox. I can't select playback points, instead it defaults to the begining of the video everytime i select a certain playback point.

For example, if i'm watching a video and i want to rewind it back to 0:53 instead of it buffering back to that point, it will go back to the begining of that video? I've tested with numerous random videos and its always the same outcome?

Any advice,
Thanks,
Nath

[pycage]

Hello,

this is what i get if i try to play the "9" trailer that comes with the phone:
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ mediaplayer
mediaplayer mediaplayer.launch mediaplayerrestore
~ $ MediaBox
setting theme took 0.019043 seconds
invalidating <media:///> due to playlist.PlaylistDevice
invalidating <media:///> due to preferences.PrefsDevice
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.12:/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_retu_headset_logicaldev_input: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchDevice: No device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_retu_headset_logicaldev_input
invalidating <media:///audio> due to media_storage.AudioStorage
invalidating <media:///audio> due to media_storage.AudioAlbumStorage
invalidating <media:///audio> due to media_storage.AudioArtistStorage
invalidating <media:///audio> due to media_storage.AudioGenreStorage
invalidating <media:///image> due to media_storage.ImageStorage
invalidating <media:///storage> due to media_storage.HistoryDevice
invalidating <media:///storage> due to media_storage.BookmarkDevice
invalidating <media:///video> due to media_storage.VideoStorage
invalidating <media:///video> due to youtube.YouTube
invalidating <media:///storage> due to local_device.LocalDevice
invalidating <media:///audio> due to shoutcast_directory.ShoutcastDirectory
shelfed items [<file:///home/user/MyDocs>, <file:///media/mmc1>]
uuid:75802409-bccb-40e7-8e6c-001C4ADC99BA will expire in 1800 seconds
uuid:22617c0d-cb0f-4fb9-a31f-001C4ADC99BA will expire in 1800 seconds
uuid:0360ecc8-00f5-4e76-a1af-0b03d101a902 will expire in 900 seconds
uuid:28c57fd2-df8b-44b8-855c-e903be0bb3bb will expire in 900 seconds
parse descr
UPnP icons: [<utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd88f0>]
UPnP device appeared: uuid:75802409-bccb-40e7-8e6c-001C4ADC99BA Hendrik UPnP/1.0 AVM FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170 29.04.80
QUERY: File.Path of all
RESULT: ...
parse descr
UPnP device appeared: uuid:22617c0d-cb0f-4fb9-a31f-001C4ADC99BA USB-Fernanschluss
parse descr
UPnP icons: [<utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdce68>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd84e0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd88a0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd8c38>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fd8fa8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdf620>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdfbc0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdffa8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fe8378>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ed96c0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdc080>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fdc3f0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fe8508>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fe88a0>]
UPnP device appeared: uuid:0360ecc8-00f5-4e76-a1af-0b03d101a902 CALLISTO: Administrator:
parse descr
UPnP icons: [<utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fee3c8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41fee760>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41feeaf8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41feee90>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff2260>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff25f8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff2990>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff2d28>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff60f8>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff6490>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff6828>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff6bc0>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ff6f58>, <utils.MiniXML._Node object at 0x41ffb328>]
UPnP device appeared: uuid:28c57fd2-df8b-44b8-855c-e903be0bb3bb CALLISTO: HeSa:
invalidating <media:///storage> due to upnp_storage.AVDevice
invalidating <media:///storage> due to upnp_storage.AVDevice
got ALIVE from uuid:75802409-bccb-40e7-8e6c-001C4ADC99BA
uuid:75802409-bccb-40e7-8e6c-001C4ADC99BA will expire in 1800 seconds
got ALIVE from uuid:22617c0d-cb0f-4fb9-a31f-001C4ADC99BA
uuid:22617c0d-cb0f-4fb9-a31f-001C4ADC99BA will expire in 1800 seconds
got ALIVE from uuid:0360ecc8-00f5-4e76-a1af-0b03d101a902
uuid:0360ecc8-00f5-4e76-a1af-0b03d101a902 will expire in 900 seconds
got ALIVE from uuid:28c57fd2-df8b-44b8-855c-e903be0bb3bb
uuid:28c57fd2-df8b-44b8-855c-e903be0bb3bb will expire in 900 seconds
QUERY: File.Folder of File.Type='video'
RESULT: set([('.sounds',), ('Bootvideo',), ('.videos',)])
QUERY: File.Path of File.Type='video'
RESULT: set([('/home/user/MyDocs/.videos/b-29_animation_1.avi',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.videos/9.mp4',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/Bootvideo/maemo_dark_xvid_lame_r1.avi',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/Bootvideo/maemo_bright_xvid_lame_r1.avi',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.videos/screencast00.avi',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/eyjafjallajokull-richtige-aussprache.m4v',), ('/home/user/MyDocs/.videos/Nokia_N900.mp4',)])
Got Handle 5 for file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/b-29_animation_1.avi
LOAD <file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/9.mp4> video/mp4 [video_player.VideoPlayer]
LOAD file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/9.mp4
DELAY PLAY /home/user/MyDocs/.videos/9.mp4
PLAY
enabling light
Thumbnailing failed for 5 dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/b-29_animation_1.avi')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')) couldn't start node
Thumbnailing failed for 5 dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/b-29_animation_1.avi')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')) couldn't start node
finished thumbnailing 5
finished thumbnailing 5
ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/connection.py", line 214, in maybe_handle_message
self._handler(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/components/image_viewer/OrgFreeDesktopThumbnailer.py", line 74, in __on_finish
KeyError: 5
Got Handle 6 for file:///home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/eyjafjallajokull-richtige-aussprache.m4v
Thumbnailing failed for 6 dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'file:///home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/eyjafjallajokull-richtige-aussprache.m4v')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')) GStreamer encountered a general stream error.
Thumbnailing failed for 6 dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'file:///home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/eyjafjallajokull-richtige-aussprache.m4v')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')) GStreamer encountered a general stream error.
finished thumbnailing 6
finished thumbnailing 6
ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/connection.py", line 214, in maybe_handle_message
self._handler(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/components/image_viewer/OrgFreeDesktopThumbnailer.py", line 74, in __on_finish
KeyError: 6
/opt/mediabox/ui/Pixmap.py:780: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float
emit key 157
output_loop: empty buffer
output_loop: empty buffer
output_loop: empty buffer
gstdsp_got_error: got DSP MMUFAULT
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/mediaplayer/GstBackend.py", line 127, in __on_message
NameError: global name 'logging' is not defined
emit key 158
emit key 158
emit key 158
disabling light
create_node: dsp node allocate failed
init_node: dsp node creation failed
gstdsp_send_codec_data: couldn't start node
enabling light
emit key 158
emit key 158
Killed
~ $ Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.



i'm using the latest versions of mediabox and enhanced a/v decoders on PR1.2

what i did is start the movie and let it play for a few seconds. as soon as i use the volume control, the video goes black and silent but the counter keeps running. if i then press pause and resume the counter resets to zero and a few seconds later the player crashes..

i've been having problems since a few mediabox versions back.
this really sucks because otherwise i really like mediabox.

regards
aydan

It's just a guess, but maybe your video file got corrupted. The only error visible related to playing the video is DSP MMUFAULT, and this comes deep from the N900 media system.

[pycage]

Having a problem recently when streaming videos from youtube via MediaBox. I can't select playback points, instead it defaults to the begining of the video everytime i select a certain playback point.

Youtube videos are HTTP streams without proper backend support for seeking. Some player backends do better at seeking than others.
But in general, seeking in Youtube videos doesn't work too well.

[pycage]

Hello there

Tried sifting through this thread but way too many pages...

Just wanted to know if mediabox is considered the best media player for N900. I mainly want it to watch films.

Thanks
LR

I'm working hard to make it the best. You decide whether this goal has been reached already. :)

[nathaneous]

Youtube videos are HTTP streams without proper backend support for seeking. Some player backends do better at seeking than others.
But in general, seeking in Youtube videos doesn't work too well.

thanks for getting back to us. its weird because i've been using the youtube player on this app for backend seeking and never had any problems? i've only noticed it in the last few days? maybe i should try rebooting my device as i havent done so in a couple of days now lol.

one other thing, are you planning on providing support to download videos from youtube like the old zoutube app? also any plans to create a widget player for mediabox to replace the crappy default one by nokia?

i have to say your mediabox player is the best music player for n900, its really good and practical.

thanks for your help,
nath

[Aydan]

It's just a guess, but maybe your video file got corrupted. The only error visible related to playing the video is DSP MMUFAULT, and this comes deep from the N900 media system.

Well, I can play it without problems on the factory player. Seeking and volume control make no problems there.

[pycage]

Well, I can play it without problems on the factory player. Seeking and volume control make no problems there.

Maybe it will work with the next version then, which will support MAFW as player backend. Then it will be played by exactly the same component as the Nokia media player uses.

[pycage]

one other thing, are you planning on providing support to download videos from youtube like the old zoutube app? also any plans to create a widget player for mediabox to replace the crappy default one by nokia?

Yes, downloading from YouTube is planned. A widget player is already under construction. See earlier in this thread.

[Aydan]

Maybe it will work with the next version then, which will support MAFW as player backend. Then it will be played by exactly the same component as the Nokia media player uses.

OK, then I'll wait for the next release.

[phobosk]

MediaBox does not search all available (ones being up) net interfaces for UPnP services. It binds only to the first available interface...

For example: If you are connected to a network via wifi and it has some UPnP service, and next activate an OpenVPN connection with a network that has some UPnP service too, Mediabox doesn't see the services on the VPN network but only sees those on the wifi network.
The same network configuration works OK with the standard "Media player" which lists all the UPnP services on both networks (i guess it lists all services on all available interfaces).
Probably it will be nice to implement a loop for checking all interfaces so if the MediaBox player is running while an interface is added, it to be able to add the available UPnP services without being restarted.

[slickyv]

Anyone having problems with the player not playing the next video? I've tried setting up a playlist but it stops after one video. I'm using it to play music videos. I have to manually play the next video each time. I've tried messing with all the shuffle, repeat settings but it still stops.

[nax3000]

Maybe it will work with the next version then, which will support MAFW as player backend. Then it will be played by exactly the same component as the Nokia media player uses.

Would that also mean that the music won't stutter when the backlight turns off?
________
Creampie gloryhole (http://www.****tube.com/categories/460/gloryhole/videos/1)

[ahmoda]

I have a problem when i play any video (not native on means not recorded by N900, specially AVI)and try to adjust the sound volume form the button (in left side)>> The video will suddenly disappear and will not show.. Then i have to play any other video to make it again play.


Any ony face a problem with volume while playing the video file ( NOT RECORDED BY N900)

[pycage]

Would that also mean that the music won't stutter when the backlight turns off?

Yup! :)
That would mean that.

[nax3000]

Yup! :)
That would mean that.

I can't wait! That would be completely awesome.

Question: About the scrolling framerate - will/can it be improved?
And by using MAFW, will the CPU usage while playing music be reduced? Sorry I'm such a nag haha :D
________
Gl650i (http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Honda_GL650I)

[pycage]

I can't wait! That would be completely awesome.


Even more awesome would be the fact that with PR 1.2 you can control the volume in MediaBox while the phone is locked. :D



Question: About the scrolling framerate - will/can it be improved?


There have been some improvements recently, so yes, it should become better.


And by using MAFW, will the CPU usage while playing music be reduced? Sorry I'm such a nag haha :D

I don't know. Should be on par with the Nokia Media Player. But in the end it's still GStreamer that's playing the stuff.

[nax3000]

Well that's great news! The default media player runs at about 25% usage while the current version of mediabox is about 35-40% during playback.
________
COLORADO DISPENSARIES (http://colorado.dispensaries.org/)

[slickyv]

So will there be continuous shuffle play for videos? I use my phone to play music videos.

[pycage]

So will there be continuous shuffle play for videos? I use my phone to play music videos.

Yes, I fixed this today.

[ahmoda]

I have a problem when i play any video (not native on means not recorded by N900, specially AVI)and try to adjust the sound volume form the button (in left side)>> The video will suddenly disappear and will not show.. Then i have to play any other video to make it again play.


Any ony face a problem with volume while playing the video file ( NOT RECORDED BY N900)



Any help? or any update?

Thanks

[daperezg]

I have used for a few time the new version 2010.06.12, and i'm happy because now the look is nice and minilyrics (lrc) shows in bigger area however there are some problems with syncronization, some times the text is showed some seconds later and the tagged time in file is correct.

Depending of the music you are listening this could be unusable, for example songs with fast lyrics.

Is possible you have a minimum time for display each text? (this could be the problem)

And other recommendation could be to show the previous and next lines but show with a stronger colour or bigger font the actual line.


Example of one failed lrc:
[artist:Flogging Molly]
[title:May the Living Be Dead (In Our Wake)]
[album:Drunken Lullabies]

[0:12.235]Said her name was Marie
[0:14.194]From the banks of the Lee
[0:16.155]With the prettiest eyes my own had ever seen
[0:19.312]Her hair like ripples

[pycage]

Any help? or any update?

Thanks

Hopefully the MAFW backend will solve this problem.

[pycage]

I have used for a few time the new version 2010.06.12, and i'm happy because now the look is nice and minilyrics (lrc) shows in bigger area however there are some problems with syncronization, some times the text is showed some seconds later and the tagged time in file is correct.


Which player backend (oms, mplayer, GStreamer, Mafw) and which file format produces this problem?
I have noticed that the mplayer backend on Diablo has this problem when playing FLAC. Ogg OTOH seems fine. FLAC position reading is broken in the Diablo version of mplayer, btw, and MediaBox computes and applies a correction factor.

[VulcanRidr]

Thanks, pycage! The new version of mediabox showed up in my feeds yesterday, and I downloaded and installed. It looks awesome. I like the shelf concept, so now I can place directories on the shelf instead of having to juggle playlists. As usual, you did an amazing job.

One question. Can you still star media like you could in the previous version? I haven't run across it yet, and it was pretty handy in my case, because I listen on my commute, and generally would get to work or home in the middle of a track.

Thanks again, this is one of the most-used apps on my N810.
--vr

[slickyv]

Thanks, pycage! The new version of mediabox showed up in my feeds yesterday, and I downloaded and installed. It looks awesome. I like the shelf concept, so now I can place directories on the shelf instead of having to juggle playlists. As usual, you did an amazing job.

One question. Can you still star media like you could in the previous version? I haven't run across it yet, and it was pretty handy in my case, because I listen on my commute, and generally would get to work or home in the middle of a track.

Thanks again, this is one of the most-used apps on my N810.
--vr

Where do I download the newest version?

[pycage]

One question. Can you still star media like you could in the previous version? I haven't run across it yet, and it was pretty handy in my case, because I listen on my commute, and generally would get to work or home in the middle of a track.


Not yet. But it's all slowly coming back. :)

[pycage]

Where do I download the newest version?

It's not released yet. I just uploaded an intermediate version to Diablo extras-devel for N800 and N810 this weekend to see if the packaging was accepted. But it will come soon.

[Tigerite]

I tried to compile the latest version myself on device and install it to my N900 - unfortunately all I get is a blank screen and then it crashes back to the desktop. I uninstalled it again and went back to the extras-devel version 2010-05-08, but that's now doing the same. Help?

I can go into /opt/mediabox and run the app via python MediaBox.py directly, which works and does not crash, but only as user, not root - the latter results in dbus errors as below:


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "MediaBox.py", line 4, in <module>
from com import Container
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>

File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/com/Configurator.py", line 5, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Dialog.py", line 7, in <module>
DIALOG_ICON = 'warning'
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
# The Python Imaging Library.
File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/ui/Window.py", line 4, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 47, in <module>

File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/platforms/maemo5.py", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/mediabox-2010.05.08/debian/mediabox/opt/mediabox/platforms/maemo4.py", line 150, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/_dbus.py", line 219, in __new__
mainloop=mainloop)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/_dbus.py", line 108, in __new__
bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__
bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException

[pycage]

You shouldn't run it as root.
Can you give some more details about what went wrong?

[nax3000]

It's not released yet. I just uploaded an intermediate version to Diablo extras-devel for N800 and N810 this weekend to see if the packaging was accepted. But it will come soon.

Oh man, with my N900 OC'd to 850mhz and the new version of mediabox my N900 EATS any other phone on the market right now!
________
C-Series (http://www.ford-wiki.com/wiki/Ford_C-Series)

[Tigerite]

You shouldn't run it as root.
Can you give some more details about what went wrong?

I downloaded the latest source via SVN, uploaded it to my N900, chrooted to my SDK environment on it and attempted to build it. I couldn't get make-deb.sh to run all the way through, but was able to run dpkg-buildpackage -nc afterwards, which got me a .deb file. I tried to then install this outside of the SDK - that worked but there was nothing in the folders within /opt/mediabox and so it wouldn't run. So I then uninstalled mediabox and reinstalled the older version, which runs from the terminal via python MediaBox.py (as user but not as root), but not from the shortcut any more - is there any way to get the errors that it returns, as it just goes back to the desktop after "thinking" for a few seconds?

[Tigerite]

I managed to compile and install the latest version properly. I had to:

1) install rsync
2) run make-deb.sh (fakeroot seg faults on the last line, leading to...)
3) manually run dpkg-buildpackage -tc within /tmp/make-deb/mediabox

All of the above were done within the SDK environment, and gave me a .tar.gz, .dsc and .deb file. Finally, on the N900 proper..

1) use dpkg to install the .deb
2) untar the source package into /opt/mediabox

I'm sure there's a better way but at least it's working now ;-)

[daperezg]

In "Settings,Player backends" I only can select OSSO Mediaserver or Mplayer, i check both with mp3 files and the problem still the same.

is possible to install gstreamer or Mafw in OS2008?



Which player backend (oms, mplayer, GStreamer, Mafw) and which file format produces this problem?
I have noticed that the mplayer backend on Diablo has this problem when playing FLAC. Ogg OTOH seems fine. FLAC position reading is broken in the Diablo version of mplayer, btw, and MediaBox computes and applies a correction factor.

[pycage]

I managed to compile and install the latest version properly. I had to:

1) install rsync
2) run make-deb.sh (fakeroot seg faults on the last line, leading to...)
3) manually run dpkg-buildpackage -tc within /tmp/make-deb/mediabox

All of the above were done within the SDK environment, and gave me a .tar.gz, .dsc and .deb file. Finally, on the N900 proper..

1) use dpkg to install the .deb
2) untar the source package into /opt/mediabox

I'm sure there's a better way but at least it's working now ;-)

Actually running make-deb.sh in scratchbox armel target with rsync installed should be sufficient to build a complete deb. At least this is what I use to build the deb files for testing on the device.

[Tigerite]

I'm not using the scratchbox but instead an environment from the "developing on-device" thread - I know I should really use scratchbox but it's not always convenient :) I'm sure the py files should be packaged with the .deb but it just doesn't seem to be happening; I must be missing something. Very odd.

[pycage]

In "Settings,Player backends" I only can select OSSO Mediaserver or Mplayer, i check both with mp3 files and the problem still the same.

is possible to install gstreamer or Mafw in OS2008?

GStreamer works on OS 2008. MAFW is N900-only. MAFW is the media framework on Maemo5. The OS 2008 equivalent is the OSSO media server.

[pycage]

I'm not using the scratchbox but instead an environment from the "developing on-device" thread - I know I should really use scratchbox but it's not always convenient :) I'm sure the py files should be packaged with the .deb but it just doesn't seem to be happening; I must be missing something. Very odd.

If you check out from SVN on your device already, then just run

python MediaBox.py

from where you checked out. There's no need for a deb or tar.gz. :)

[Tigerite]

I cracked it - the development environment doesn't have python2.5 installed properly, so I had to copy over everything from the standard /usr/lib/python2.5 into it, and for good measure I also installed python2.5-qt4. I then could build a proper .deb which works perfectly, no need for faffing with the source tarball any more :)

Thanks for the help pycage, and the great app.

PS I didn't check out on my device, but used TortoiseSVN and then copied the files over. For this reason I had to modify the make-deb.sh to include "_svn" as well as ".svn" because it's a Windows machine on which I develop with Visual Studio :) just didn't think it was worth mentioning.

[daperezg]

pycage: about the problem with lrc files, i've found a "solution".

All the lyrics i was checking were like:
[m:ss.mmm]
[0:39.570]

I tried to edit to reduce precision :
[m:ss]
[0:39]

and

[m:ss.mm]
[0:39.57]

and these lines are working correctly, i tried with some songs and always was ok.

On the one hand this "pseudo-solution" is too bitter for end users like me, because i should write a script and modify all my lrc files on the other hand i think you could check you code to avoid this problem maybe reading only 1or 2 characters after the "." because i think this precision isn't necessary.

I would be pleased to help you in anything

[pycage]

Precision is half a second on MediaBox anyway. Some backends like MAFW only know about a precision of seconds, even.

Thanks for investigating this issue.

[cstryon]

I have mediabox on my n810, but before I can do anything with it after I open it, it jujst closes, not even an error message. Did I set it up wrong?

[nax3000]

Just bumping to state how excited I am for the new version :D
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[apollovy]

Hello there.
It's written that there is support for headset buttons in Mediabox, but I cannot find it in modules. Actually for me there is no such a working feature, but is really needed. I got bluetooth stereo headset Nokia BH-505, where no buttons seems to be working.
Mediabox 2010-05-08 from repos (guess extras or testing)
N900

[cheeto4493]

I like the new version, and am still getting used to the feel, but what happened to the radio? I have an n800 and still listen to the radio on occasion. I really liked the one in Mediabox better than the Nokia one.

[pycage]

I like the new version, and am still getting used to the feel, but what happened to the radio? I have an n800 and still listen to the radio on occasion. I really liked the one in Mediabox better than the Nokia one.

There is FM Radio Player in the repository for the N800. But you're right, the radio is missing in MediaBox right now. It will come back, though.

[nax3000]

So when can we expect the new version with MAFW pycage? (no rush or anything, just curious)
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[pycage]

So when can we expect the new version with MAFW pycage? (no rush or anything, just curious)

If all goes well it should go to extras-testing today.

Note: the Diablo version is already promoted to extras by now and should appear there anytime soon.

[VulcanRidr]

Thanks for the update, pycage.

Still getting used to the interface, but I really like it better. It is easier to manipulate in a moving car (although I have to remind myself to *double* click)...Thanks.

I have a question. I don't know whats involved, but instead of starring tracks to mark the stopping point, how much more/different/whatever work would it be to remember the location in a shadow track or something. For instance if you have tllts-325.ogg, could you have a .tllts-325.ogg in .mediabox (or even in the original directory) that is updated with checkpoint information, on the fly. Just an idea, and I don't know what is involved in creating a comprehensive player like this...I'm still only learning python.

--vr

[nax3000]

Wooo! Thank you pycage for your awesome work!

EDIT - everything works as intended - this is now officially the best media player for maemo around. Things I've noticed:

-Scrolling is much smoother and it doesn't "snap" anymore! Which is great because it used to confuse the hell out of me when I browse through my huge album collection.

-With the 'top' command in xterm the load while playing is 20% which is the same as the default player. That's an awesome feature :)

Great job pycage!
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[Snoshrk]

Does the lyrics thing only work on the N900?

[pycage]

Does the lyrics thing only work on the N900?

No, it works the same on the N800 and N810. You need LRC files along with your music for lyrics.

[Ayodeji]

I did not see this issue in the bug list/forum search, so I'll post here - MediaBox does not appear to acknowledge the sleep/wake-up timer when the device enters power saving mode (N900). As such, the device will keep playing music when it is supposed to sleep, or fail to wake up and play music at the designated time. Is anybody else experiencing this problem?

(Nice job, by the way, with the application - I haven't looked at it since it first was released on the N900, and the application feels much faster, and is more usable.)

[Laughing Man]

Sorry to bother you pycage, but any status on the bookmark functionality (for audio files)?

[pycage]

Sorry to bother you pycage, but any status on the bookmark functionality (for audio files)?

Yes, fixed in SVN. :)

[ahmoda]

No, it works the same on the N800 and N810. You need LRC files along with your music for lyrics.

LRC fike dosen't work with me?

[Snoshrk]

No, it works the same on the N800 and N810. You need LRC files along with your music for lyrics.

:confused: I thought I read somewhere (this thread or the other huge MB thread) that embedded lyrics in the MP3 was supposed to work...?

So... to All: Any suggestions for batch lyric retrieval?

Thanks

Sno

[buurmas]

The thread for the latest MediaBox release is here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57262

Presumably it would be most efficient for comments about that release to go into the new thread.

[badboyuk]

I have installed this and looks great but nothing for network is showing up. Where is all the talk of upnp gone?
Someone know how to get this working?

[wreckgar23]

@badboyuk yep I get the same now, can't access twonky. Interestingly can't access from file manage either - only the default media player.

probably wrong thread for talking about the issue tho :D

[pycage]

I have installed this and looks great but nothing for network is showing up. Where is all the talk of upnp gone?
Someone know how to get this working?

It works out of the box. If you don't see any UPnP shares then it's most likely due to one of these reasons:

(1) Your WiFi router might not support routing UPnP broadcast messages properly or has this feature disabled.

(2) Your UPnP media share could be located behind a firewall that does not let UPnP broadcast messages pass.

(3) The UPnP media server could be bound to the wrong network interface if the computer has several network connections.

(4) Your UPnP server may be restricted to only talk to certain devices. This can be configured on the server.

UPnP uses SSDP as a broadcasting protocol. Basically every UPnP device shouts into the room "I'm here" after MediaBox shouted into the room "Who's there?". For some reason your devices don't hear each others' shoutings.

[pingsamee]

how to download this media box?

[pycage]

how to download this media box?

You can find it in the Multimedia section of the application manager.

[ajjara]

I'm having a problem today, all of the sudden when i search a song in the app youtube i try to open one but it only tries to charge it and then jumps in the next one on the list, tries to charge it again but jumps again and doesnt play anyone.....what do you think is the problem?
Colombian king of noobs here...ejem....please make the possible explanation noob/dummie proof...
thanks!!

[casketizer]

Youtube changed their URL format. The only app that works coz it was updated already is cutetube.

[hgroove]

Ok boys I've a problem when I try to download a youtube video then i get a "Conection timeout" or when I want to view a video then it keeps going next song.