N900 file issues (codecs etc.) - Page 3 - maemo.org

RDK | # 21 | 2010-02-24, 11:20 | Report

Originally Posted by ossipena View Post

stop acting silly. all the apps that should be shown in app manager are shown. trust me. what are you going to do for example with plain library and zero software that utilizes a library?

Why is it on here and not the appmanager? I'm going to download it via this site on my N900, see what happens.

Andre Klapper | # 22 | 2010-02-24, 11:20 | Report

Originally Posted by starman View Post

the avi file, is whats known as a container - it has no structure to determine what actual codec is used - so some or your files might be divx, mg4, h.264 and the audio split between mp3, acc etc.

your only chance is to download the Extra-Decoders-Support package, I think its in Extras-testing

Ahem. Please DO NOT send people to Extras-Testing or Extras-Devel without a huge warning that the software over there can be unstable and in the first case brick your device.

Andre Klapper | # 23 | 2010-02-24, 11:22 | Report

Originally Posted by RDK View Post

Right, I have put several .avi files onto my N900, as it can play them, yet some of the files says 'video codec not supported' or 'audio codec not supported', if they are all .avi how does that work?

Do they not work after a restart either? Be aware of https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6823 which can lead to wrong results and assumptions here...

b666m | # 24 | 2010-02-24, 11:22 | Report

Originally Posted by starman View Post

yeah i tried that- the apt-get search thingy finds it but apt-get install libavcodec says "couldnt find libavcodec" lol - the wonders of linux

apt-get install libavcodec52
does the job.

but mhm... the system doesn't seem to benefit from this codec-pack... mplayer has its own codecs and plays the movies fine...

the default media-player still says "format not supported" :/

maybe there is a little tweak ^^

starman | # 25 | 2010-02-24, 11:22 | Report

Originally Posted by ossipena View Post

stop acting silly. all the apps that should be shown in app manager are shown. trust me. what are you going to do for example with plain library and zero software that utilizes a library?

ahh i see, i didnt know that - see now im one more step away from my n00b status

RDK | # 26 | 2010-02-24, 11:22 | Report

I know all this, I'm not completely stupid, I've only had it a couple of days, not much on there anyways. I'd rather take the risk and it works than not and get no solution.

Andre Klapper | # 27 | 2010-02-24, 11:24 | Report

Originally Posted by RDK View Post

I'm going to download it via this site on my N900, see what happens.

Probably you will run into some dependency issues, as Application Manager solves them automatically while your web download cannot do that. Hence: Followup problems are likely.

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RDK | # 28 | 2010-02-24, 11:27 | Report

Originally Posted by Andre Klapper View Post

Probably you will run into some dependency issues, as Application Manager solves them automatically while your web download cannot do that. Hence: Followup problems are likely.

I'll give it a shot anyways.

RDK | # 29 | 2010-02-24, 11:29 | Report

Another thing, it won't play certain .mp3 files.. Which is stupid, these files played on my 5610 xpress music, which is like 2 years old.

starman | # 30 | 2010-02-24, 11:30 | Report

Originally Posted by Andre Klapper View Post

Ahem. Please DO NOT send people to Extras-Testing or Extras-Devel without a huge warning that the software over there can be unstable and in the first case brick your device.

damm i forgot - you know what be be awesome - if the maemo.org server recognised extra-testing & extra-devel as a text string and inserted a automatic warning via java script or something.

maybe like this

blah blah blah try extra-devel to solve it

into

blah blah blah try [extra-devel] to solve it

and have a mouse over warning with the usual disclaimers