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SAABoy 2010-07-14 23:41
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
Noob question:
What is all the "VLC" fuss about? Aren't there like 5 different 'media' players we can download for the n900? Does anyone here really use anything other than the built in one?

jakiman 2010-07-14 23:58
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by SAABoy (Post 752226)
Noob question:
What is all the "VLC" fuss about? Aren't there like 5 different 'media' players we can download for the n900? Does anyone here really use anything other than the built in one?
Some have more features, some have better performance. I don't really care about it being "VLC". I've only used it for my PC once to try out. I just want a player that plays my videos smoothly on the N900 with useful options such as resume, aspect ratio, zoom/pan/scan etc. Built-in one definitely isn't as good as mplayer for example. mplayer has keyboard controls which I find extremely useful. (kmplayer and sib are just some of the front ends to mplayer)

More variety the better really. Then I have more chance of finding an app that I want. =)

Anyways, so far, this vlc player for the N900 is much worse than mplayer for now. Videos play really choppy. But some others report that it's butter smooth? Why is that?

jubei80 2010-07-15 00:03
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
does it actually load subtitle files? Cant get my only test movie to work with subtitles

HeavyComponent 2010-07-15 00:24
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by casper27 (Post 724834)
Not really an installable as its a bit of an Alpha release but here is the dev page

http://www.remlab.net/files/vlc/fremantle/

You need to install these files
libvlc5_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb vlc-nox_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb
vlc-player-nox_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb
vlc-player_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb

There all .debs so just download them to the n900. Default is /home/user/MyDocs

Then run
Code:
dpkg -i /path to file/filename.deb
You will have to do this in order the lib first then vlc-nox, player-nox, player.

When you have Vlc installed simply run

vlc /path to file

ie
vlc /home/user/MyDocs/test.avi

If you are feeling really adventurous you could try dbus-switchboard that qole is developing to handle certain files by vlc automatically.

All usual warnings apply for using Alpha software. It can/will be buggy and very hard to uninstall.:)
Says there are major issues and wait for final release!

Quote:
Originally Posted by kevloral (Post 728146)
URL: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free

Greetings.
This doesn't seem to work!

Anyone know when a stable version will be released?

bchliu 2010-07-15 00:48
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by SAABoy (Post 752226)
Noob question:
What is all the "VLC" fuss about? Aren't there like 5 different 'media' players we can download for the n900? Does anyone here really use anything other than the built in one?

Apparently the code on VLC is optimised to use the hardware acceleration (DSP, Video chip) of the N900 for other codecs - not just like the out of the box media player which will accelerate only MP4's. I can now play smaller H264 480p MKV files at a reasonable speed without lag or audio sync problems at default clock (600Mhz). Whereas MPlayer will require at least 900 Mhz to run it with the same sort of quality without audio syncing problems. However, remember that the program is still alpha, I have noticed some memory issues with it on larger files (100MB and over) and the indexing is flakey at this stage.

So looking forward to more development on this.. Really need a good player for our N900's..

jubei80 2010-07-15 01:29
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by HeavyComponent (Post 752247)
Says there are major issues and wait for final release!



This doesn't seem to work!

Anyone know when a stable version will be released?

Worked for me & i did it about 4hrs ago

URL: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free

didn't even have the icon problem (although i did a reboot after install)

just add as a new catalogue & search in media , then wala!

kamishly 2010-07-15 01:47
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
In the parent directory, there's 7 links.

Which one to download for N900??

Thanks!

Quote:
Originally Posted by jubei80 (Post 752279)
Worked for me & i did it about 4hrs ago

URL: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free

didn't even have the icon problem (although i did a reboot after install)

just add as a new catalogue & search in media , then wala!

Bijiont 2010-07-15 10:56
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
I agree with the earlier statement that there are Major issues as I have yet to get VLC to open in less than 4 minutes on my N900 OC to 900Mhz.

I also have yet to have VLC play anything correctly, re-encoded or not everything plays choppy or not at all.

Sticking with MPlayer until the issues are fixed and even then I have very little confidence in VLC as I have never been a fan of their software.

Not forcing my opinion on anyone, just my 2 cents :D

Laughing Man 2010-07-15 11:50
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jakiman (Post 752237)
Some have more features, some have better performance. I don't really care about it being "VLC". I've only used it for my PC once to try out. I just want a player that plays my videos smoothly on the N900 with useful options such as resume, aspect ratio, zoom/pan/scan etc. Built-in one definitely isn't as good as mplayer for example. mplayer has keyboard controls which I find extremely useful. (kmplayer and sib are just some of the front ends to mplayer)

More variety the better really. Then I have more chance of finding an app that I want. =)

Anyways, so far, this vlc player for the N900 is much worse than mplayer for now. Videos play really choppy. But some others report that it's butter smooth? Why is that?
MPlayer only uses CPU for playback while VLC uses the GPU. VLC also has keyboard controls but they're weird (not what you would normally think of). Like I think P is pause.

Quote:
Originally Posted by jubei80 (Post 752241)
does it actually load subtitle files? Cant get my only test movie to work with subtitles
I think so. But you can't do so from the GUI interface, you'll have to use the command-line (assuming you have a seperate subtitle file).

jubei80 2010-07-16 05:40
Re: VLC Player Officially coming
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kamishly (Post 752293)
In the parent directory, there's 7 links.

Which one to download for N900??

Thanks!
I have no idea! lol

I didn't bother going there, i just manually added the repository, waited for the refresh & then went into media section to install vlc.


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