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Re: VLC Player Officially coming

official when???
When Ill reborn as a sneak or something?

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So still no VLC on N900 huh?

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I have been wondering about this too...

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Can't wait for it, I love VLC :)

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 427977)

For what its worth, I've put redenisc's pre-release version of VLC (taken from his website) into my repository. Go to the website on my signature to see the repository details. Use the Maemo 5 (Fremantle) repository.

Not sure if this is the best place to put this but what the hell...

Tried installing VLC from Qole's repository apt-get install vlc. Downloaded a playlist from TVCatchup then ran it with VLC immediately.. heres the terminal dump..
The first frame displays and freezes. I have to close it myself then type quit to return to the terminal.

Code:

/MyDocs $ vlc playlist.m3u8

VLC media player 1.1.0-git Yellow Bastard

LibVLC has detected an unusable buggy GNU/libc version.

Please update to version 2.8 or newer.

[0x128a8] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.

Remote control interface initialized. Type `help' for help.

libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 15, expected 0) for PID 0

libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 15, expected 0) for PID 4095

[0xa94d8] ts demux error: MPEG-4 descriptor not found

[0xc0ae8] packetizer_mpeg4audio decoder: AAC channels: 1 samplerate: 48000

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

[0x17b428] main generic error: A filter to adapt decoder to display is needed

[0x17b428] xcb_xv generic error: Unknown request in XCB vout display

[0xaf2f8] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

[0x17b428] xcb_xv generic error: Unknown request in XCB vout display

number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

[0xaf2f8] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

[0x17b428] xcb_xv generic error: Unknown request in XCB vout display

[0xaf2f8] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

channel element 0.0 is not allocated

Re: VLC Player Officially coming

If you guys need a player for now just use mplayer and sib.. It plays all file types and is very comfortable to use.

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Originally Posted by late666 (Post 555473)

If you guys need a player for now just use mplayer and sib.. It plays all file types and is very comfortable to use.

Already using KMPlayer for the majority of my media. Unfortunately it cannot handle .m3u8 streams for iPhone. It buffers then gives up. So far hls-player seems to be the only solution, but once VLC is optimised for N900 then the choice is clear. Just posting the terminal information in case it is of use.

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Originally Posted by late666 (Post 555473)

If you guys need a player for now just use mplayer and sib.. It plays all file types and is very comfortable to use.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of files I have that don't play very well under mplayer. Fact is, I have yet to find a video player that just works.

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Originally Posted by therock (Post 453213)

sure easy as hell

follow the knots setup thats on the wiki

then when you have that setup just point knots to you dm http://ip:31344 and then it works

Do you mind explaining stepwise how I install server on Dreambox??

Problem with this phone is that most users thinks everybody are are linux experts!

We are not!

Would be great to be shown how to get this up an running!

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Sod, VLC I want Moovida :mad:

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Originally Posted by bonkel (Post 584330)

new news here?

There are no news which are old. So the question should be "any news here".

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A news from a vlc dev.

vlc 1.1 coming soon on n900 with dsp support!!!

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Originally Posted by Znuf (Post 724813)

A news from a vlc dev.

vlc 1.1 coming soon on n900 with dsp support!!!

VLC 1.1 is already installable had it for a couple of weeks. Running great. Just the GUI is non existant.

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Originally Posted by casper27 (Post 724820)

VLC 1.1 is already installable had it for a couple of weeks. Running great. Just the GUI is non existant.

Buddy can you point us to the installable.. :)

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Originally Posted by bipinbn (Post 724821)

Buddy can you point us to the installable.. :)

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.:)

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I'm interested in how the UI is going to look and how much CPU load will there be on the system while playing music.
________
Drugtest

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There is also a download page on the videolan FTP server:

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/vlc/

The files are recent (June 6) and I installed this version, but I don't know if it is any better than the one listed by casper27.

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Originally Posted by casper27 (Post 724834)

Code:

dpkg -i /path to file/filename.deb

have to install player-nox before vlc-nox
except this part everything's working soooo smoothly :D
thanks again

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Optified? They all look scary big...

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mmm doesn't look like

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The version found on the ftp link provided by qole (The Luggage) does have a buggy gui, but RTSP support is broken.
I have reverted back to the version on Qole's repository (Yellow Bastard) and TVCatchup streams are working again

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Originally Posted by [DarkGUNMAN] (Post 726207)

RTSP support is broken.

That explains it! Thanks!

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Any news of when they will officially package it properly and optify it? Can you manually optify it at this stage? I am dying for this app since I first got my N900 3 months ago..

Thanks

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 725426)

There is also a download page on the videolan FTP server:

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/vlc/

You can also use it as a source for the N900's package manager.
It's a version with GUI and plays a h264 720p rip from youtube just fine.

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Wow.. after adding that repo in (its actually http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/) managed to grab it.

The GUI works, but only launchable from Xterm using vlc command (the icon clears the screen and doesnt do much). Noticed too that its Optified (player and libraries) and didnt use any of my precious root.

Not bad for an alpha. But seems to struggle with larger files. Does seem to play the formats and it does utilise some hardware acceleration via the DSP and Video processors.

Comparing it to MPlayer, its way more smoother and less need to overclock the CPU to get the performance.

Cant wait for the further progress.. if they can fix and optimise it more, then its a killer product for sure!

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been using vlc for sometime (non gui version) with tvcatchup as helped by darkgunman from here and around other web forums ! (he gets around....slut) and all has been working well for me.

I've used it mainly for tvcatchup.com streams for watching TV @ work or around and about.

Hope the devel process continues pretty solid piece of kit from the VLC players ive used before.

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Relax, people. Both versions of VLC are optified.

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if i try to add it to repositories i cant find it, what should i add to components\distribution?

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Originally Posted by ironm8 (Post 728003)

if i try to add it to repositories i cant find it, what should i add to components\distribution?

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

Greetings.

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Originally Posted by bchliu (Post 727705)

The GUI works, but only launchable from Xterm using vlc command (the icon clears the screen and doesnt do much).

The reason why it doesn't work is because some of the symbolic links point to the icons in their optified locations that quite frankly don't exist, and when you try to start VLC you apparently click through the non-existant icon to the desktop. (Every time I tried it opened my RSS feeds...)

To fix this annoying issue, you need to remove the symbolic links for these files with root privledges, namely:

Code:

rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/hildon/vlc.png

rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon/vlc.png

rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/hildon/vlc.png

and give your device a reboot so it can find the icon.

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Good find! I'll let them know so it can be fixed in the next release, along with the broken rtsp support.

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been playing around for a few mins, quite impressive =] pity visualisations dont work, but you cant have anything
as for playing video files, everythings nice and smooth so far

gav

edit: just found out now audio change when device locked, if anyone else has noticed d= ?

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Very nice release! Great performance :)

Icon dosent work though, shortcut in menu show blank.

Goodbye MPlayer! Hello VLC!

Edit: Deleting the symlinks described earlier fixed the missing icon. thx :)

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works nice.
haven't tried an mkv, as i have none on my phone.
i tried a few streams and it worked, though it struggled to handle the video feed. wonder how i could play with some settings to fix this

great job! thanks

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some should please post a screenshot :)

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when it will be more stable and available in extras-devel?

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This is great !! Thanks guys !

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There isnt any gui?
if thre isnt...thn how do i play video files?