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danrweki 2010-10-05 14:31
FLV and MKV not playing
 
Hallo my frends, just wondering i installed Extra Decoders Support but still the media player cannnot seem to play these files. what could be the issue. obviously i upgraded my firm ware to PR 1.2 :)

Yuan 2010-10-05 15:13
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
same thing happens to me, and sometimes the .avi files don't work though this is very seldom, it says the audio codec blah blah blah is not compatible.

anthonie 2010-10-05 15:20
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
Provided you have restricted codecs installed and use apt-get:

root -> apt-get install mplayer
cd folder_where_file_resides
mplayer name_of_file.mkv

Terminal, yes. I was not able to get it to work in the regular video player but for me mplayer is fine as my gf is spanish and loves to watch with subs enabled and mplayer allows just that from the command line.

IsaacDFP 2010-10-05 15:21
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
I think it is mainly dependant on the codec that is used to compressed your video files... I honestly have no problems with .avi files at all. But 720p .mkv files is something that the N900 cannot play... Gotta wait for the N9 for that :P
But im pretty sure the N900 can/could play 480p .mkv

dekin 2010-10-05 16:39
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
weird too. sumtimes i get to play .mp4 files and sumtimes it refuses to play.wonder whats the problem????

danrweki 2010-10-06 12:13
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
woh, i did download mplayer...works great, but any one know when VLC is finally comin on board

mece 2010-10-06 12:26
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dekin (Post 833944)
weird too. sumtimes i get to play .mp4 files and sumtimes it refuses to play.wonder whats the problem????
mp4 files may contain drm stuff. If they do, you can't play them on your N900.

acvetkov 2010-10-06 12:44
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
N900 can`t play videos with higher resolution then its display i.e. 800x480. With mplayer you can downscale it, but you will see slideshow due to the high CPU utilization of the downscale process.

anthonie 2010-10-06 13:06
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by acvetkov (Post 834721)
N900 can`t play videos with higher resolution then its display i.e. 800x480. With mplayer you can downscale it, but you will see slideshow due to the high CPU utilization of the downscale process.
Better to use ffmpeg from commandline to downscale and re-encode the file, before playing it.

Yuan 2010-10-08 03:22
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
Before i was able to play the BEAUTIFUL LIAR.avi files in mediabox for several times then suddenly today it refuses to play...what is happening?

daperl 2010-10-08 07:42
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
The dsp gets hosed. If you're running klogd and/or syslogd you can see the related errors. There's a dsp reset command somewhere, but I can't remember what it is. Anyway, a reboot fixes the problem, but I could have sworn I've fixed it without a reboot before. A typical /var/log/syslog dsp error entry looks like this:

Code:
Oct  7 14:17:25 Nokia-N900 mafw-dbus-wrapper: dspvdec4: failed waiting for events

daperl 2010-10-08 22:34
Re: FLV and MKV not playing
 
Found the command I was looking for. It's in the dbus-manager package. If videos aren't playing that use to play, close all your multi-media apps and type the following:

Code:
sudo /usr/libexec/dsp-recover
Everything seems to work fine afterwards, but here was the output:

Code:
FATAL: Module bridgedriver is in use.
It takes about eight seconds to complete. Here's what the syslog looks like:

Code:
Oct  8 15:13:32 Nokia-N900 dsp-recover: gave up waiting for 'bridgedriver' to become free
Oct  8 15:13:33 Nokia-N900 dsp-recover: FIXME! killing users of 'bridgedriver': dsp-manager
Oct  8 15:13:34 Nokia-N900 init: dsp-manager main process (857) killed by KILL signal
Oct  8 15:13:34 Nokia-N900 init: dsp-manager main process ended, respawning
Oct  8 15:13:34 Nokia-N900 dsp-manager: opened
Oct  8 15:13:34 Nokia-N900 dsp-manager: attached
Oct  8 15:13:34 Nokia-N900 dsp-manager: attached
Oct  8 15:13:34 Nokia-N900 dsp-manager: begin
Oct  8 15:13:39 Nokia-N900 dsp-recover: initial restart failed, reloading image
Oct  8 15:13:39 Nokia-N900 dsp-recover: DSP restarted


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