bunanson | # 41 | 2008-07-10, 11:17 | Report

It recreated another copy somewhere.


bun

bunanson | # 42 | 2008-07-10, 23:19 | Report

Try to either replace it or delete it before a fresh videocenter re-install.

These are the frequent place, where videocenter will leave behind files,

/home/user/MyDocs/.videos
/home/user/videocenter
/media/mmc1/videocenter

Or try this with root,
rm -fr /home/user/videocenter; this deletes all videocenter database.
rm -fr /media/mmc1/videocenter; this deletes myvideos database and all video files which are downloaded by the Video center from SD card

Does this help?

bun

mikeywilliams | # 43 | 2008-07-11, 13:04 | Report

Well, I solved the problem - but don't know why.
Up till now i had been downloading primary3 on my PC and unzipping it with winrar.

Then I used WinSCP on the PC to log into the Nokia800 using ssh.
Then had copied over the 2 files.

This time I downloaded primary3. zip file straight onto the Nokia, unzipped it and used emelfm2 to copy the 2 files over to the videocenter folder.
And it all works perfectly.

Can anyone explain why my first method didn't work?

Thanks to bunanson for patient help.

bunanson | # 44 | 2008-07-11, 23:29 | Report

The most simple way of doing this directly on the tablet, already have unzip installed (just browse your app manager, it is already there):

Go to the thread #1, dl primary3.db.zip on /media/mmc1
open emelfm2, find the file, double click it, it will open up into primary.db and myvideos.db and copy and replace the same files in /home/user/videocenter.

Done!


bun

mscdex | # 45 | 2008-07-21, 04:24 | Report

Good job on putting together a collection of ready-to-use video streams. I noticed a couple issues so far (may or may not be related to the streams). One is I'm unable to Update the list via the refresh button. I get "Unknown error". Secondly, I noticed stuttering while playing back streams from at least the NOVA Vodcast. Also, when I tried playing one of the PBS Nature streams, the audio came through fine, but the video was terrible. The picture would update like once per 20 seconds or so. It seemed to be freezing media player up because it took a long time before I was able to exit out of it (let alone from fullscreen mode).

Edit: I forgot to ask where the comedy central streams are listed under?

Edit2: How do I get the streams to play under mplayer instead?

Edit3: Today Show streams give me about 1fps or less.

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bunanson | # 46 | 2008-07-22, 00:45 | Report

You copy both primary3.db and myvideos.db? Sometimes maybe dl problem, re-install VideoCenter may help.

Edit2:...
VC>Tools>Settings...>Player>External>//usr/bin/mplayer -cache 4096 %s

If that does NOT work, you will have to look around to find the path of your mplayer. Some people have it on //usr/sbin/mplayer.....

Edit3:....
Some stations are streaming better than the other. CBS Katie Couric is the best so far, under mplayer .27. and PBS NOVA is wide screen. You just to experiment.

I took comedy central out, as they are absolutely NOT streaming, ..., not sure why, still working on it

bun

bunanson | # 47 | 2008-07-26, 17:31 | Report

Everybody is asking for comedycentral. Here is the link for Comedycentral,

http://feeds.feedburner.com/comedycentral/whatsnew

You can dl the .m4v using videocenter and plays beautifully if you take out the sound,

xterm
mplayer -nosound cc.m4v

cc.m4v is your dl file.

After you watched the video and remembered it well, you can then play the audio with
xterm
mplayer -8192 cc.m4v

Now you close your eye and mix the audio and video in your brain, watch out for AV desync.... Well, what the hack, bun finally give you comedycentral after 3 months....just for the record

Guru, what can be done to fix it other than re-encode?
I think I came across something like you can play the file at a lower resolution(?) or increase framedrop to decrease CPU use?

bun

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bunanson | # 48 | 2008-07-26, 18:53 | Report

Videocenter>Tools>Settings...>Player>External allows one to choose mplayer

//usr/bin/mplayer -cache 4096 %s

Not quite sure what is the difference of "//" vs "/" at the beginning of the command. Anyhow, on top of setting the path and cache, there are quite some options one can play with mplayer,
________________________________________________
MPlayer 1.0rc1-maemo.29.n8x0 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: ARM
Internet Tablet OS version: unknown
Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
-vo <drv> select video output driver ('-vo help' for a list)
-ao <drv> select audio output driver ('-ao help' for a list)
-ss <position> seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-nosound do not play sound
-fs fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the man page)
-x <x> -y <y> set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom)
-sub <file> specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps, -subdelay)
-playlist <file> specify playlist file
-vid x -aid y select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play
-fps x -srate y change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate
-pp <quality> enable postprocessing filter (details in the man page)
-framedrop enable frame dropping (for slow machines)

Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf)
<- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
down or up seek backward/forward 1 minute
pgdown or pgup seek backward/forward 10 minutes
< or > step backward/forward in playlist
p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
q or ESC stop playing and quit program
+ or - adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second
o cycle OSD mode: none / seekbar / seekbar + timer
* or / increase or decrease PCM volume
x or z adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second
r or t adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vf expand

* * * SEE THE MAN PAGE FOR DETAILS, FURTHER (ADVANCED) OPTIONS AND KEYS * * *
_____________________________________________

To fine tune mplayer, use emelfm2 to do the modification, /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
added the following to the bottom of the file, mplayer.conf
softvol=yes
softvol-max=400
audio-delay=yes
audio-delay=10
This increases vol and better AudioVisual de-sync.

And of course, you can always use OSD to change on the last minute,
+/- to adjust audio delay etc. If the clip you want to see is jerky, try some of these in degree of inconvenience,

1) try media player ---- it works better but decodes less video formats
2) dl and play -------- it always better
3) -nosound --------- this one works 100%, but there is sound , works well with a lot of wildlife channels, like oregon zoo or discovery channels
4) -framedrop ----- see very little effects. I guess it must on by default?

Any more options?


bun

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Lord Raiden | # 49 | 2008-07-26, 21:17 | Report

Really stupid question. If I don't have the media center, but I do have KMplayer, and Mplayer, how would I use this URL list through them?

bunanson | # 50 | 2008-07-26, 23:25 | Report

What tablet are you using?

Not media center. VideoCenter. It is in your app manager list from Nokia. You should have it.

If you insisted to use something else, you can use RSS reader.

bun