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Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

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Originally Posted by levismith (Post 145327)

Only started using Canola this week ever. I'm really liking it with a few caveats.
Specifically I can't get 2 of my podcasts to work:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAcapodcast
http://www.mashuptown.com/rss.xml

Other than that, just looking forward to hopeful future easier/more support for adding audio/video/photo podcasts, internet radio (got mine working, but it was more work/odd than other clients) and a2dp support(seems like Nokia should have that done...). I wouldn't mind a sleep timer too... (:

BTW, I tried installing Kagu several times and only got it to work once by removing ALL of my music and video and e-mail files(so there were only a couple demo songs on my n800). And after each install/uninstall more of my app memory is missing... So I'm rating Canola WAAY ahead of Kagu! (:

Thanks!
Levi
N800 OS2008, 16gb SDHC, 4GB RS-MMC

Hi Levi, yes we are looking into those 2 problems:

1) it seems that today canola cannot deal with those "out of standards" feeds, that does not place the mp3 file in the correct tags, like the second one you sent.. places inside the CDATA sections, CDATAS are actually comments, so the parser kind of ignores it :/

We will add support for this lazy done feeds, but it just like the web, you have a standard, some other player goes there pushes people to other direction (like itunes) and everyones is inside a nightmare of compatibility.

2) add easier: Chenca, already added to a development version of the tuning application a small feed handler, that gives you option once you click on a feedlink (then on the feed icon on the bar that appears) letting you save as canola podcast, photocast or iradio.(or even add to the default media player) but I think it still a little complicated, of course you don need to control+c control+v nothing or even open canola, but we will see if we can get a better extension to work, that will just open the same choice once you click on a feed "preview, add to canola?"

BR

Thanks for the support!

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

Okay...after uninstallation of Canola, Canola tuning, MPlayer
and running Canola-clean-up TWICE, I rebooted, installed Canola and voila it ran!

Then I loaded Canola tuning, ran the album covers...okay.
But when I ran video thumbnails it complained that I had to install the "Evil" mplayer.

So I installed mplayer and that's when everything stopped working again.

Same problem as before...when I invoke Canola from menu, it says "Loading" then n-o-t-h-i-n-g.

This implicates the "Evil" mplayer, don't-you-think?

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

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Originally Posted by morphbr (Post 145370)

It looks like that atabake was not installed. Please, use the last version of canola-fix and install canola2 again (remembering to reboot the device after install)

Thanks

That worked! Thanks.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

Hi, thank you for your great work on Canola2 Beta 3. May I suggest a way to play videos with their original aspect ratios? I played some 4:3 files and they were stretched. Also tried some 2.35:1 ratio files ripped from DVDs and they were also stretched. When I play them on Media Player, it plays fine with the black bars on top and bottom. Thank you.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

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Originally Posted by kilmar (Post 145884)

Hi!

Do you have mplayer installed ? It looks like that canola is using mplayer to play your videos. When it uses mplayer, it stretches the video because we give a window to mplayer (we should correct this with a patch for mplayer).

On the other hand, you can edit the file /home/user/.atabake/config
and change the option "video = mplayer" to "video = oms". Than canola will use oms to play your video files and they'll not be stretched =)

Thanks,

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

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Originally Posted by morphbr (Post 145886)

It looks like that canola is using mplayer to play your videos. When it uses mplayer, it stretches the video because we give a window to mplayer (we should correct this with a patch for mplayer).

This could also be solved by resizing the window to the correct aspect ratio. Maybe that would be cleaner and quicker than patching mplayer.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

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Originally Posted by morphbr (Post 145886)

That's exactly what it was! There was no video = mplayer line.

However, there was:
mplayer = mplayer
general = mplayer

I changed to
mplayer = oms
general = oms
video = oms

Works perfectly! Thank you!

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

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Originally Posted by pycage (Post 145917)

This could also be solved by resizing the window to the correct aspect ratio. Maybe that would be cleaner and quicker than patching mplayer.

The problem here is that if we do just like that, only canola would be winning something here, while the correct behavior of mplayer would benefit everybody. So yes, we can do something like that, but the best way would be to fix mplayer.

Thanks and best regards,

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

All - Just notice there was a beta 5 version when I updated application manager but it will not install. Actually we are at 3 so not sure what this is. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

tmilr87

It's true, the Canola2-Beta5 is official, if you had problems to update use the Canola2-Cleanup and re-install Canola.

P.s: We jump the Beta4 (Problems with the Build process)

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

I noticed this earlier today when I checked application manager. What fixes and enhancements are in beta5 - I noticed that the last news item on the site was Feb 8th.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

jer006,

Don't worry the site will be updated ASAP, Handful is taking care of this.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

I had to uninstall, reboot, install cleanup tool, reboot, and then reinstall canola, but finally got beta 5 rocking.

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

rcadden ,

You did some extras steps...

1) Install Canola2-Cleanup (if you don't have it installed)
2) Run Canola2-Cleanup (the most important step)
3) Install Canola2 (reboot is not strictly needed, but could be a good idea)

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

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Originally Posted by chenca (Post 146080)

I figured I was going extra, but I've found (particularly on the tablets, but on PC, too) that if I'm having issues with an app, rebooting between steps tends to keep things running smooth, specifically if I'm uninstalling/reinstalling things. Plus, it's the tablet, so it's not like it's a huge ordeal to reboot the thing. :)

Re: Canola2 Beta3 Feedback Thread

Beta5 is now out. Please continue the discussion on this new thread: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=17021