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Finally! Almost a year after the first mentioning (http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2006/12/19/yet-another-zaurus-media-player-done-differently-phase-1-teasing/) of my new media player for the Sharp Zaurus, I’m today officially releasing the Quasar Media Player for SharpROM- and pdaXrom-based distributions.
For more details please visit the project’s homepage: http://katastrophos.net/quasar (http://katastrophos.net/quasar)
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Please leave a comment, thanks!
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Very nice front end!
I'm still paying with it, so this is by no means a definitive review. On pdaxii13 it auto-decides that mplayer is mplayer2--there might be a better option available. Video playback is a bit choppy, as with other mplayer guis. this may be due to my still being new to the setup, though. I wouldn't take this as cause for concern yet.
All in all it seems like a really slick piece of media software, I'm ,looking forward to getting more familiar with it.
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man, this bitchen piece of software is so awsome. It took me by surprise. Kinda not use to it but after playing with it, it's simple and very sleek. Too bad not many outside of our little universe will enjoy it.
Most of my mp3's have embedded id3 tags with images. The album covers displayed is incredible. it showes my album cover standing up erect and slightly angled towards the right as if it was standing on glass. The bottom has the reflection of the album cover. It looks so fucken cool.......MAN!!!!
added more comments!!!!
More surprises the more you use it. Audio is sounding great.
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I'm testing Quasar on my 3200, pdaXii13.
In the menus, there is the entry e.g. "New Playlist", and some strange character on the right. It could be a symbol for a shortcut key but it hasn't rendered properly. Maybe you're expecting some special font ? Or maybe there's a keyboard graphic that hasn't loaded properly ? Most of them look like a box but some of them look like an fi ligature.
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Fantastic software: fast loading of large library, very fast and easy sorting, very nice looking, fullscreen, etc... I use it to play movies too: I have the bvdd version of mplayer so the space to add options allowed me to rotate + double size videos for fullscreen playback.
THANKS!!!!
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Wow! Excellent job! I'm impressed with how polished it is.
Thanks for taking the time to make this program and share it with us.
FYI: it works on pdaXrom R198 too.
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Will it work on SL-5600 with Sharp ROM?
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Wow, I was excited when I first saw this. But all my songs came up without titles after the scan as you can see in the attached pictures. Oh well. Still nice to see that people are still making amazing software for this device. I'll keep an eye on it and maybe someday it will be useful. Great job on the look though! Maybe I need to change the font? I'll see if there is a section for that in the options.
Also, videos play rotated 90 degrees and on only half the screen, and there is no "redraw" when it is closed so my menus are all messed up with the video. I imagine it is a matter of telling mplayer to rotate 90 degrees and I'm trying to find the command right now. Don't take my post to be negative. I post to provide information on problems I have with it in the hope that these issues will get fixed.
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Also, what is that BatteryPlus option? It is disabled on mine. Is it similar to the over clock function of kino2? It would be useful if it worked because I have found that the over clock has significant speed increase for videos.
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Also, videos play rotated 90 degrees and on only half the screen, and there is no "redraw" when it is closed so my menus are all messed up with the video. I imagine it is a matter of telling mplayer to rotate 90 degrees and I'm trying to find the command right now.
Ahh, I needed to add "-vo bvdd" to the additional options section in the settings. Now it is using the wonderful bvdd for video and displays fullscreen correctly. Nice.
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I would recommend adding bug reports here: http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket)
...if you want to help him out.
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Hey, thanks for the comments! Glad some of you like it.
Will it work on SL-5600 with Sharp ROM?
The SL-5600 isn't supported yet. Somebody would have to adjust the current skin (located in /opt/QtPalmtop/share/quasar/skins/default) for QVGA resolution (320x240) or create a new skin. If anyone feels like doing so, go ahead and please send me the files so I can include them in the next release!
Also, what is that BatteryPlus option? It is disabled on mine. Is it similar to the over clock function of kino2?
Yeah, it's an over/underclock function, but you have to install the BatteryPlus applet. To be honest, I never tested it myself. The feature was included in ZPlayer which Quasar is based on. I didn't remove it because I thought it would be useful to someone. Ideally, one would have to add support for freqchange and the extended battery applet which comes included with Cacko. We'll see...
Video playback hasn't been tested much, since I'm mostly using it for audio files. I'll probably iron out some of the issues in the next release.
As for the tag and song title issue, perhaps somebody could provide me with some MP3 files with Japanese or Korean tags, so I can debug the problem. I wasn't able to find free non-western MP3 tracks with ID3 tags yet.
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Video playback hasn't been tested much, since I'm mostly using it for audio files. I'll probably iron out some of the issues in the next release.
As for the tag and song title issue, perhaps somebody could provide me with some MP3 files with Japanese or Korean tags, so I can debug the problem. I wasn't able to find free non-western MP3 tracks with ID3 tags yet.
Here is what I added to the mplayer options in quazar and it seems to work just fine on my 3100:
-vo bvdd -nortc -noaspect -dr -autosync 100
I also emailed you a few japanese mp3s to help with the tags.
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xamindar, thanks for the testfiles. I'm going to switch the tagging library for the next release. Hopefully this will fix the tag encoding issues once and for all.
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Unreal!
so much better then the sharp player!
Just one question, might be me for that matter. How can I keep it playing when i close the lid on my c3200?
With the sharp rom i can hit play and off it goes when i close the lid it still plays
I can't seem to get Quasar to do that?
Thanks
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Just one question, might be me for that matter. How can I keep it playing when i close the lid on my c3200?
With the sharp rom i can hit play and off it goes when i close the lid it still plays
I can't seem to get Quasar to do that?
In Qtopia Quasar doesn't prevent suspending of the device when the lid is closed. However, I think I can add this feature. Just looking at the qcoptest output Sharp's Music Player seems to temporarily disable the suspend function by sending the message 'setEnableSuspendCoverClose(FALSE)' via the system's QCop channel. I'll add the same call to Quasar.
In the meantime you can also disable the suspend function completely via the Light & Power settings. The option for that is on the second tab page in the dialog.
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I've sent you a message for getting CJK mp3s
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snk4ever and xamindar, thanks again for the testfiles!
I think most of the character encoding problems should be fixed now that the new tagging library (TagLib) is incorporated. At least all of the test files I received were displayed okay.
Besides, the initial scanning of audio files that are not already in the database should be a lot faster now. According to my quick tests the scanning of 3300 audio files took only 2 minutes - compared to 12 minutes when solely relying on MPlayer for the metadata-scanning. Pretty cool.
A new release should be out soon.
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A new release should be out soon.
Yay, Can't wait to test it out! I must admit, I am sick of the sharp music player. While it does most of what I need, it is SSLLLOOOOOWWWW. Every time I turn on my Zaurus it tells me "o machi kudasai!" while it does whatever it dos.
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Hehe, soon for Angstrom and OpenEmbedded...
The recipe is almost ready, one or to patch files still pending but that is a matter of minutes (hopefully).
Looks great on Angstrom also...
Any volunteer to check it into the OE repository ?
Oliver
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Just downloaded it and gave it a try.
so far I haven't run into any problems, and everything works great.
Great job.
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Hehe, soon for Angstrom and OpenEmbedded...
The recipe is almost ready, one or to patch files still pending but that is a matter of minutes (hopefully).
Looks great on Angstrom also...
Any volunteer to check it into the OE repository ?
Oliver
excellent! (I bet it will be a killer on the neo)
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Hehe, soon for Angstrom and OpenEmbedded...
The recipe is almost ready, one or to patch files still pending but that is a matter of minutes (hopefully).
Looks great on Angstrom also...
Any volunteer to check it into the OE repository ?
Oliver
excellent! (I bet it will be a killer on the neo)
The recipe and patches are ready to be checked in. However I am looking for someone to check it into OE as I do not have write access to the monotone repository.
Looks great, although one might have to tweak the fonts a bit in the skins.ini file.
Oliver
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First off, amazing. I love the player. I have been awaiting this anxiously since antikx announced it on his site neigh one year ago.
I have a feature request for future releases. I would love to see the ability to switch to a gui with big buttons that control the simple functions of the player (ie next, back, volume, fastfwd, fastbkwd) much like the old sharp player. So, theoretically, if I was using it as a car mp3 player I wouldn't really need to look at the screen, searching for a button... had too many accidents to know they aren't fun.
I really hope this doesn't come off as ungreatful, I think this player is awsome and I appreciate the time and work you have put into it.
Thanks!
--Fish
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Thanks a lot for your feedbacks! I really appreciate it.
I hope to have the new release out this weekend if everything goes as planned.
Quite a lot of bugfixes and enhancements. Especially the video playback got some special treatment.
Fushnchupsh, good idea. I was toying with the idea of extending the PlayInfo screen quite a bit. Bigger buttons could go there. Perhaps gestures too... However, this is a few releases away.
In the meantime you could either modify the skin for bigger buttons or just use the keyboard instead. I'm using my C3200 for audio playback in my car (in this cradle (http://www.pulster.de/engl/index.html?d__zpkwhalter__Sharp_Zaurus_vehicle_car_cradle576.htm)). Actually it is one of the few reason I'm developing Quasar. And controlling Quasar via keyboard works very well and IMO isn't nearly as distracting as soft-buttons on the display.
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actually, after I posted this, I set up my c3200 in the car and quasar works beautifully as is. I mean, bigger buttons would be neat, but I am toying with some other more....integrated ideas ... Now if I could only bring myself to put the dremel to my beloved pt cruiser's dash haha
Thanks for all of your hard work!
--Fish (using quasar as we speak)
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And controlling Quasar via keyboard works very well and IMO isn't nearly as distracting as soft-buttons on the display.
Most people do not have a fully fledged Z cradle for their cars and PDA cradles are not designed to have the keyboard open.
So the standard setup propably is to use the clamshell devices in PDA mode without keyboard and here a pure touchscreen interaction is extremely helpful.
Oliver
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The recipe and patches are ready to be checked in. However I am looking for someone to check it into OE as I do not have write access to the monotone repository.
Nobody seemed to be interested to check the recipie into OE currently- I did not get any response.
So here is the ipk file, built for aklta and Angstrom, though it should also run on C3xxx devices.
May it be of any use.
Oliver
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The recipe and patches are ready to be checked in. However I am looking for someone to check it into OE as I do not have write access to the monotone repository.
Nobody seemed to be interested to check the recipie into OE currently- I did not get any response.
So here is the ipk file, built for aklta and Angstrom, though it should also run on C3xxx devices.
May it be of any use.
Oliver
You didn't attach the recipes to your mail and you didn't attach them to bugzilla. It's very hard for us to check things in we don't have access to.
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I installed the latest version available at your website but it doesn't display the Asian nor French caracters...
Is it coming in a later version or should it be available now ?
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No, unfortunately the new version 0.9 isn't out yet. I've been too busy with other stuff. Hopefully tonight or sometime tomorrow...
Version 0.85 uses the old tagging library which has the Unicode quirks.
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Ok, no problems, I just thought that you released it since you said you fixed it. I'm not in a hurry, I just wanted to try it.
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The recipe and patches are ready to be checked in. However I am looking for someone to check it into OE as I do not have write access to the monotone repository.
Nobody seemed to be interested to check the recipie into OE currently- I did not get any response.
So here is the ipk file, built for aklta and Angstrom, though it should also run on C3xxx devices.
May it be of any use.
Oliver
You didn't attach the recipes to your mail and you didn't attach them to bugzilla. It's very hard for us to check things in we don't have access to.
I had sent mails including attachments to OE people directly, I have asked for volunteers on the angstrom mailing list and here without even getting a reply.
A simple "please send the patches to me or attach them to bugzilla" would have been sufficient instead of silence. Sounds like "leave me alone with that"
I will add the files to bugzilla.
Oliver
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I will add the files to bugzilla.
Bug 3224 added with the files required for committing it to OE.
Oliver
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An SL-6000 user here (default Sharp rom). Quasar is absolutely beautiful!! It is also about 30 seconds faster opening than Zplayer. (Zplayer is really slow opening, about 40 seconds.) It plays music files very nicely and created a playlist for both music and video. Very nice indeed.
For other SL-6000 users information, the mplayer settings I used are:
-vo fbdev -fbmode qvga -vm -vop rotate=1
I have only one issue with this. If I view a video, then close the video, the screen does not redraw properly. Parts of the screen remain blank. Rotating the screen and then rotating it back fixes the problem. Zplayer did not have this problem, so there must be some useful code somewhere in there that affects this.
Kino2 also had this problem and I seem to recall a Qcop call (or lack thereof) being suspected as the cause. However, I am not a programmer, so I don't know. Another contributing factor may be our lack of an updated video driver for the SL-6000.
I have submitted a bug report also to:http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket)
Keep up the good work, and thanks a million!!
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The new release is finally out. The big changes in this version:
- Better tag reading and Unicode support
- Many improvements and bugfixes for video playback
Please check the website for details:
http://katastrophos.net/quasar (http://katastrophos.net/quasar)
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I have only one issue with this. If I view a video, then close the video, the screen does not redraw properly. Parts of the screen remain blank.
Thanks for reporting! The bug has been squashed in the new release.
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Yay! Thanks for this release. It works a lot better. My music files do show the tag info now but only if they are in english. Any Japanese characters are square boxes so it seems that quazar is simply using a non-unicode font. Is there a way I can change the font that it uses? Which font IS it using? Thanks again!
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The bug has been squashed in the new release.
Just downloaded 0.9 version. The bug is indeed squashed!!!!!!! Wonderful. This media player has all the features I want, looks great, opens quickly, plays movies or mp3s, and redraws the screen fine. I couldn't ask for more. This has to be the best media player for Zaurus.
Thanks!!
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An SL-6000 user here (default Sharp rom). Quasar is absolutely beautiful!! It is also about 30 seconds faster opening than Zplayer. (Zplayer is really slow opening, about 40 seconds.) It plays music files very nicely and created a playlist for both music and video. Very nice indeed.
For other SL-6000 users information, the mplayer settings I used are:
-vo fbdev -fbmode qvga -vm -vop rotate=1
I have only one issue with this. If I view a video, then close the video, the screen does not redraw properly. Parts of the screen remain blank. Rotating the screen and then rotating it back fixes the problem. Zplayer did not have this problem, so there must be some useful code somewhere in there that affects this.
Kino2 also had this problem and I seem to recall a Qcop call (or lack thereof) being suspected as the cause. However, I am not a programmer, so I don't know. Another contributing factor may be our lack of an updated video driver for the SL-6000.
I have submitted a bug report also to:http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket)
Keep up the good work, and thanks a million!!
Was there a patched kernel for better audio, as there is with the 3x00 Z's?
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Yay! Thanks for this release. It works a lot better. My music files do show the tag info now but only if they are in english. Any Japanese characters are square boxes so it seems that quazar is simply using a non-unicode font. Is there a way I can change the font that it uses? Which font IS it using? Thanks again!
By default it is using Helvetica and in most distros it seems to miss some of the necessary Unicode glyphs.
I've just checked against the font "Lcfont" and Quasar displays the Japanese characters just fine then. However, Korean and Chinese characters aren't displayed correctly. So, it's really a matter of having the right font installed. Covering all possible Unicode areas in the bitmap fonts that are used in Qtopia is space-consuming.
I mostly tested on OS X in X11 and it displays everything just fine, but we have True Type fonts and Freetype rendering there instead of bitmap fonts...
The fonts are defined in the skin ini file:
/opt/QtPalmtop/share/quasar/skins/default/skin.ini
You'll have to adjust the sections [bigmode], [normalmode], [smallmode]. Change playlist_font, playlistoverview_font and playinfo_font to use "Lcfont" instead of "helvetica".
But beware, it's a mess!
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Was there a patched kernel for better audio, as there is with the 3x00 Z's?
Nopes. The SL-6000 is using a different chip (WM9712). I can tell from the specs it supports "Tone Control", "Bass Boost" and "3D Enhancements": http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/uploads/documents/en/WM9712L.pdf (http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/uploads/documents/en/WM9712L.pdf)
I'm sure it would be possible to hack the driver. I just don't have a device to test with...
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do you know which sound chip the c860(7xx) uses and if your audio enhancements could be available on the c860 too.
*UPDATE*
I found out that it is the wm8731 and this one doesnt have digital graphic equaliser so bummer
tovarish
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Thanks so much eviljazz. This is really the best music player for the zaurus now.
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I'm using 6000L with Sharp ROM, and I had installed Quasar Media Player (0.9) twice on my Z, but so sad that it could not work on my Z.
My situation was:
Installed fine. The first time to startup the program fine, but I could not play any MP3 or MPEG file. Therefore, I closed Quasar Media Player and re-executed it again. However, the program just hangs there and nothing happened. Namely, installing with package manager goes fine, but I can not to actually start it. I don't know how to make it work on my Z.
FYI, I only use the stock Mplayer, without any addition libs. Shall I install another libs on my 6000L?? I hope that someone could help me to use this execellent player on my Z, thanks in advance!
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Update:
It's strange that I can "enter" this program's control panel now. When I add the mp3 from a file, I could see this song shows up in the On-The-Go Playlist. However, when I push the "play" botton, it always shows the information that "mplayer could not be executed or was not found on your system. Would you like to specify the location of the mplayer binary on your system?"
So I go to "tools" --> "configuration" --> "mplayer", I specify the location as "/home/Qtpalmtop/bin/mpegplayer" (I cannot file a file called "mplayer"), then re-play the song. But the same information still shows up.
I still could use the original "Media Player" on my 6000L, please tell me how to specify the location of the mplayer binary. Thanks in advance.
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I'm using 6000L with Sharp ROM, and I had installed Quasar Media Player (0.9) twice on my Z, but so sad that it could not work on my Z.
My situation was:
Installed fine. The first time to startup the program fine, but I could not play any MP3 or MPEG file. Therefore, I closed Quasar Media Player and re-executed it again. However, the program just hangs there and nothing happened. Namely, installing with package manager goes fine, but I can not to actually start it. I don't know how to make it work on my Z.
FYI, I only use the stock Mplayer, without any addition libs. Shall I install another libs on my 6000L?? I hope that someone could help me to use this execellent player on my Z, thanks in advance!
It appears to work on mine, though I didn't try it out very thoroughly. I'll give it a good run and see what it does.
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It appears to work on mine, though I didn't try it out very thoroughly. I'll give it a good run and see what it does.
Thank you adf!!
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Hi, eviLjazz,
I am thinking of porting this to Debian EABI. Would that be possible? Thanks.
zdevil
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Hi, eviLjazz,
I am thinking of porting this to Debian EABI. Would that be possible? Thanks.
zdevil
Hi, zdevil,
Yes, it is possible, because I just got it compiled and running on my 3200@Debian(EABI) (with some small tweaks in the .pro and the Makefile)!
Cheers,
zdevil
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Here a screencap of my Debian (armel) build:
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And the Debian package has been uploaded here: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...st&p=170927 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25009&view=findpost&p=170927)
Thanks, eviLjazz for this great app!
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it always shows the information that "mplayer could not be executed or was not found on your system. Would you like to specify the location of the mplayer binary on your system?"
So I go to "tools" --> "configuration" --> "mplayer", I specify the location as "/home/Qtpalmtop/bin/mpegplayer" (I cannot file a file called "mplayer"), then re-play the song. But the same information still shows up.
I still could use the original "Media Player" on my 6000L, please tell me how to specify the location of the mplayer binary. Thanks in advance.
The mplayer I have installed is: mplayer-bvdd version 1.1.5-1. It installed links to itself in several places (/home/Qtpalmtop/bin/ being one of them). I think I downloaded it from here:
http://atty.skr.jp/pub/zaurus/mplayer/mpla...1.1.5-1_arm.ipk (http://atty.skr.jp/pub/zaurus/mplayer/mplayer-bvdd_1.1.5-1_arm.ipk)
Hope this helps.
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The mplayer I have installed is: mplayer-bvdd version 1.1.5-1. It installed links to itself in several places (/home/Qtpalmtop/bin/ being one of them). I think I downloaded it from here:
http://atty.skr.jp/pub/zaurus/mplayer/mpla...1.1.5-1_arm.ipk (http://atty.skr.jp/pub/zaurus/mplayer/mplayer-bvdd_1.1.5-1_arm.ipk)
Hope this helps.
Thank you the_oak, it works!! Now I could play the mp3 and mpeg files. (I thought that the original "mpegplayer" and "mplayer" are the same file, please forgive me for making such silly mistake.)
But I could not play the mpeg in landscape model (fullscreen). When I played the mpeg files, it shows a small screen (about quarter of the whole screen). I had tried to add "vop=rotate=1" to mplayer.conf on my Z (I refer to this topic "Video playback on the 6000 - OESF Forums"
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...6000&st=30) (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...06000&st=30)), however, I could not add those words in it because my mplayer.conf shows malformed characters when I open it with Zedit.
Could someone please tell me how to make it play MPEG in landscape model?? Thanks in advance.
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I don't have time right now, but there is an old thread about this and Gab 74 wrote this:
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&...ost&p=50101 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=7860&view=findpost&p=50101)
If I remember right, this fb.modes file was necessary. Also you need to check one of my posts in this thread for mplayer options in Configuration settings for Quasar.
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I don't have time right now
I’m so sorry for disturbing you, please do me a favor once you are available again.
but there is an old thread about this and Gab 74 wrote this:
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&...ost&p=50101 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=7860&view=findpost&p=50101)
Ha, we cited the same thread with different pages.
If I remember right, this fb.modes file was necessary.
Yes, I had already created this file in /etc/.
Also you need to check one of my posts in this thread for mplayer options in Configuration settings for Quasar.
Do you mean this?
For other SL-6000 users information, the mplayer settings I used are:
-vo fbdev -fbmode qvga -vm -vop rotate=1
If yes, I had add this setting in mplayer configuration already. But it doesn't work, I guess it could be that I have not add "vop=rotate=1" in my mplayer.conf successfully.
Due to the mplayer.conf always shows malformed characters when I open it via Zedit, I need someone help me to add "vop=rotate=1" in it and then give it a try. Any suggestions?? Thanks a million!!
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I’m so sorry for disturbing you, please do me a favor once you are available again.
I didn't mean that you were disturbing me, I just had an appointment to get to.
If yes, I had add this setting in mplayer configuration already. But it doesn't work, I guess it could be that I have not add "vop=rotate=1" in my mplayer.conf successfully.
I did not enter those options in mplayer.conf. I entered them in Quasar's Mplayer tab on the Tools >> Configuration menu.
My mplayer.conf (in /home/QtPalmtop/etc/mplayer) only contains the following:
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']monitoraspect=4:3
#monitoraspect=16:9
#monitoraspect=3:4[/div]
Within the Quasar program, click on "Tools" then "Configuration". On the MPlayer tab, put a check in the box beside "Use additional options:"
and put
-vo fbdev -fbmode qvga -vm -vop rotate=1
in the box
My Mplayer location simply says: mplayer
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the_oak, thank you very much, now I can play the MPEG file in landscape mode !!
for other 6000L user's reference, below are the steps that I do for my Z (under SharpRom) for playing the musics via Quasar Media Player:
1. Install mplayer-bvdd version 1.1.5-1 ([a href=\'index.php?act=findpost&pid=0\']http://atty.skr.jp/pub/zaurus/mplayer/mplayer-bvdd_1.1.5-1_arm.ipk[/a])
2. Install Quasar Media Player.
3. According to gab74's statement, creating fb.modes in /etc/, and it contains the following:
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']mode "qvga"
geometry 240 320 240 320 16
timings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
endmode[/div]
4. According to the_oak's statement, creating mplayer.conf in /home/QtPalmtop/etc/mplayer, and it contains the following:
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']monitoraspect=4:3
#monitoraspect=16:9
#monitoraspect=3:4[/div]
5. According to the_oak's statement, within the Quasar program, click on "Tools" then "Configuration". On the MPlayer tab:
(1)Put a check in the box beside "Use additional options:", and put
"-vo fbdev -fbmode qvga -vm -vop rotate=1"
in the box
(2)Keep the box which below "Mplayer location" simply says "mplayer"
Thanks again, the-oak, you had made my dream come true
Further thanks to eviLjazz and gab74!!
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Well stated Enclose789!
And Thanks again to eviLjazz for this best of breed media player!!
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ZDevil, thanks for porting to Debian EABI! I've updated the download page to point to your binary deb package.
ofels, any news on the OpenEmbedded/Ångström package/recipe?
Btw, for those eager to know what's next, you can always check the Trac timeline (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/timeline) for the current status or my Twitter page (http://www.twitter.com/evilJazz) for more recent information.
I was also entertaining the idea of having nightly builds of Quasar. Right now I'm experimenting with some new features, so it's too early for that, but we'll see...
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F*CKIN BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing work!
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ofels, any news on the OpenEmbedded/Ångström package/recipe?
The recipes are in, now they must be included in the feed build which I forgot to add *sigh*
Oliver
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Way to go! Excellent player!
Asterix
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This is on my Cacko SL-C3100
This should playback *.flv files, shouldn't it?
I have fullscreen off and "-vo bvdd" set as option for mplayer for all my video formats.
I also disabled double buffering.
I have these settings the same in zplayer, which plays this video without any problems.
I tried the default settings the first time I played this video, and my Z locked up.
I have this youtube video that just causes Quasar to lock up, and go to a white screen (other times the screen is all black)
The audio plays OK.
When I use my "Cancel" button, the screen returns to what is shown in the attached image.
I cannot get past that screen, unless I reboot or use the reset button.
I can get to the "Reboot" button in the shutdown app under settings by navigating with the keyboard.
I was going to attach the offending video, but it is 13MB.
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Okay, thanks for reporting. I experienced the problem once while trying to play a corrupt MPEG1 file. I thought it was a problem in Atty's MPlayer binary. But thanks for the ZPlayer hint. I will try to reproduce the problem here and see what ZPlayer does differently. The MPlayer encapsulation in Quasar has changed quite a lot from the original ZPlayer sources.
I was going to attach the offending video, but it is 13MB.
I'll PM you a temporary FTP account, where you can upload the file if you want.
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I cannot get past that screen, unless I reboot or use the reset button.
I can get to the "Reboot" button in the shutdown app under settings by navigating with the keyboard.
Try the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut to enforce a shutdown of the X server and relogon which is faster than doing a straight reboot.
That might help also.
Oliver
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I cannot get past that screen, unless I reboot or use the reset button.
I can get to the "Reboot" button in the shutdown app under settings by navigating with the keyboard.
Try the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut to enforce a shutdown of the X server and relogon which is faster than doing a straight reboot.
That might help also.
Oliver
Dude, that totally doesn't work on the sharp rom. Don't suggest things that will have no effect. If he was having this problem on pdaxrom then sure, but this doesn't work for cacko.
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Dude,
I believe that was meant in a friendlier way than it sounded, right ?
that totally doesn't work on the sharp rom. Don't suggest things that will have no effect. If he was having this problem on pdaxrom then sure, but this doesn't work for cacko.
1.) I simply missed the platform specs he was referring to, so it indeed will not work for him.
2.) It will work under Angstrom and pdaXrom so it might be useful at least for those folks with similar problems. Even if it it is not helpful for the original poster.
3.) Had a bad day ? Get some sleep
Oliver
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Hi, eviLjazz,
There is a small issue with my debian armel package. I adapted the control file of the pdaxrom package and left the Depends line blank, which is a little hiccup when installing the armel package from the feed. Could you list the dependencies here? Thanks!
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Could you list the dependencies here?
The only dependencies are Qt3 and mplayer. I didn't list Qt3 on pdaXrom since it's already included. The same goes for mplayer on pdaXii13.
So, the dependencies on Debian would probably be libqt3-mt and mplayer, not sure though.
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I'm currently using Quasar .9 on my c1000 with cacko 1.23. I'm still having the rotated half screen video playback problem. I've tried using some of the additional options others have stated, with no results. The problem is occurring when I play video over the network from server. If I drag the exact same file on to my sd card, the playback is in the correct orientation and full screen. Any suggestions?
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The problem is occurring when I play video over the network from server.
Okay, how do you access the file? Via URL, Samba share, NFS export, etc.?
URL access to video files is problematic with the current version of mplayer.
What video codec were your files encoded in? DivX, XviD, H.264... ? What container-format? AVI, Ogg, Matroska, etc.?
I guess Quasar doesn't recognize that the file actually is a video file, so it's using the wrong settings for playback. That would be a bug, but it totally depends on how you feed the file into the player.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I'm watching mp4 files with an aac audio codec over a samba share. The same files play fine in Kino2 over the network. I would much rather use quasar though.
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thank you for this program. It is very nice. Is there support for FLAC files?
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I assume it does.
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thank you for this program. It is very nice. Is there support for FLAC files?
It just uses mplayer to play the files. So, whatever mplayer supports will work. Quasar is just a really fast and nice front end for mplayer.
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quasar is not recognizing my mplayer binary. it's located at /mnt/card/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/mplayer and linked to /home/QtPalmtop/bin/mplayer
I've set both locations in Configuration | Mplayer section, and the popup asking if I want to specify the location.
This is on a 6000.
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Earlier in this thread was some info about using Quasar on the 6000. There is a link for the version of Mplayer that works for me. Also look for the info on fb.modes file. Enclose789 summarized this nicely in page 4 of this thread. Hope this helps.
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Earlier in this thread was some info about using Quasar on the 6000. There is a link for the version of Mplayer that works for me. Also look for the info on fb.modes file. Enclose789 summarized this nicely in page 4 of this thread. Hope this helps.
I did read those posts, and I have the correct mplayers, however quasar still refuses to accept the mplayer binary. I've got it installed to sd, and linked to /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/; i've tried to point to both locations without success.
I've got the fb.modes, but I don't think that should hinder quasar from finding the binary.
zplayer works fine...i'm scratching my head.
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Maybe a permissions problem with SD card or folder on SD card?
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Maybe a permissions problem with SD card or folder on SD card?
I'll try it, but one would assume zplayer wouldn't work if that were the case. I'll also try a reinstall of quasar.
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Maybe a permissions problem with SD card or folder on SD card?
I'll try it, but one would assume zplayer wouldn't work if that were the case. I'll also try a reinstall of quasar.
Probably this is a stupid question, but did you format the SD card ext2?
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thank you for this program. It is very nice. Is there support for FLAC files?
Yes, mplayer will play FLAC files. Quasar is taking care of reading the meta data via taglib, ie. title, artist, album etc. However, reading embedded cover art images from FLAC isn't complete yet.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I'm watching mp4 files with an aac audio codec over a samba share. The same files play fine in Kino2 over the network. I would much rather use quasar though.
I've added a new ticket so I can keep track of the problem: http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/ticket/16 (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/ticket/16)
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quasar is not recognizing my mplayer binary. it's located at /mnt/card/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/mplayer and linked to /home/QtPalmtop/bin/mplayer
I've set both locations in Configuration | Mplayer section, and the popup asking if I want to specify the location.
Could you enable the logging and debugging feature in Configuration -> General and PM me the output? Assuming that there is an output in /tmp/quasar-log.txt after trying to play a file... Thanks.
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I was going to attach the offending video, but it is 13MB.
I'll PM you a temporary FTP account, where you can upload the file if you want.
Thanks for uploading the file. I was able to reproduce the problem here. The problem seems to be the auto-cropping and switch-to-QVGA feature in mplayer that's causing problems in conjunction with the BVDD overlay driver. This is happening in ZPlayer, Kino2 and Quasar and seems to be a problem in Atty's mplayer binary. The BVDD driver somehow doesn't initialize correctly and leaves the driver and/or chipset in an improper state.
Perhaps a newer mplayer version fixes the problem. I have to talk to Atty whether he can still give any instructions on how to compile mplayer with his fixes and the Intel IPP stuff.
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I've searched this thread and the bug tracker, sorry if I missed it, but is anyone else unable to adjust the volume through the Quasar GUI in pdaXrom R198?
If others are having the problem I'll be happy to file a bug report.
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I've searched this thread and the bug tracker, sorry if I missed it, but is anyone else unable to adjust the volume through the Quasar GUI in pdaXrom R198?
If others are having the problem I'll be happy to file a bug report.
It's a problem. I guess you're using Matchbox on your setup? The default volume applet in pdaXrom seems to hold exclusive access to the mixer device. Once you remove it from the taskbar, Quasar can access the mixer device again. I experienced the same problem when trying to control the volume from within XMMS, so it seems like it's really a bug in the mixer applet. IMO mixer apps should not keep exclusive access to the mixer device.
Quasar should inform the user if it can't gain access to the mixer device -> ticket #17 (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/ticket/17).
FAQ added.
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I'm using Celestial Environment (EvilWM), so no match/openbox. but I am running the gkrellmd.
Hmmm... I'll try running evilwm without it and I'll report back.
If that's not it, any other ideas?
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I put in a ticket at Katastrophos, but I thought I'd repeat it here.
If a directory name contains a percent sign, "%", all files in that directory are not read. The file is added to the playlist, but the entry is empty, ie, there's a line for it, but it's blank. As a result, mplayer returns an error when called to play that file.
I had a directory named "100%Dance", because that's the album name. It took me a bit to figure out why the songs (ripped as ogg/vorbis if that matters) didn't show up in the playlist, but took up space. Once I renamed that directory to "100pctDance" everything loaded fine.
It's easy to work around, but I thought I'd post it. It's the 0.9 Cacko version.
Excellent player. Thanks again!
Asterix
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Hmmm... I'll try running evilwm without it and I'll report back.
If that's not it, any other ideas?
Could you try the volume control in XMMS and see if that works? If it works, perhaps it's because of ALSA in kernel 2.6? I think there is an option in XMMS that controls which output device is used. If I remember correctly you can tell it to use OSS instead. Perhaps this breaks it.
Quasar only uses OSS to control the mixer. But then again I haven't tried Quasar on kernel 2.6.x yet...
Do you have any other mixer applet running in the background?
I put in a ticket at Katastrophos, but I thought I'd repeat it here.
Thanks for reporting. I think I know what the issue is here. Expect to see a fix in the next version.
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Oh, btw, here are two preview videos of a new feature: Cover Phhlow @ 640x480
http://www.katastrophos.net/downloads/imag...izontalDemo.mov (http://www.katastrophos.net/downloads/imageflow/HorizontalDemo.mov)
http://www.katastrophos.net/downloads/imag...erticalDemo.mov (http://www.katastrophos.net/downloads/imageflow/VerticalDemo.mov)
(will play fine in VLC)
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Oh, btw, here are two preview videos of a new feature: Cover Phhlow @ 640x480
http://www.katastrophos.net/downloads/imag...izontalDemo.mov (http://www.katastrophos.net/downloads/imageflow/HorizontalDemo.mov)
http://www.katastrophos.net/downloads/imag...erticalDemo.mov (http://www.katastrophos.net/downloads/imageflow/VerticalDemo.mov)
(will play fine in VLC)
That...is...amazing!!!!!
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Yeah, indeed, the animation is great, very smooth. Cool!
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ofels, any news on the OpenEmbedded/Ångström package/recipe?
BTW, I forgot to tell that quasar is available in the Angstrom feeds for a while now.
Oliver
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Thanks for the good news, Oliver!
I really need to check out Ångström soon.
All right, back to QScrobbler...
UPDATE:
I've released QScrobbler: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25280 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25280)
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Another idea for you:
When I turn off the LCD with the 3 key while playing music, it'd be nice if the touch screen was also disabled. You could make it an option for those who don't like that idea. I've inadvertently touched the screen in the top right-hand corner, putting the program into input mode, all while the LCD was off. I had to turn my Z off to get the screen back on, since pressing 4 put a 4 in the text box rather than turning the LCD back on.
This happened to me in my car, which is usually where I'm playing music. The Z sits on the passenger seat with the screen open. If I pick it up wrong, say at a stop light to see what's playing, this can happen.
Again, I put in a ticket at Katastrophos as an enhancement, but I thought I'd repeat it here.
Asterix
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I have been enjoying this media player for a while now, but recently had a problem with some movies that I had watched before not playing. I got a message saying something about a format problem (sorry, I didn't record exact message). I reinstalled Quasar, and Mplayer. This did not fix the problem. I deleted the movie, and re-copied it to the CF card, thinking maybe the movie file was corrupt. This did not fix it either. I finally deleted the playlists and remade them in quasar. That fixed the problem.
I'm guessing that maybe removing CF card with quasar open maybe corrupted the playlist file. Just putting this experience in this thread in case someone else has a similar problem.
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you need to port this to Android and claim some of that bonus!
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Thanks for reporting the bugs! I'll try to fix them with the next release.
the_oak, weird problem there. Perhaps the media database got corrupted. In that case you can just delete ~/.quasar/quasar.sqlite3. Quasar will rebuild it then.
speculatrix, Android looks interesting. However, I don't jump on the bandwagon because there is a hype and a large company backing it. Besides, Android means Java(-like programming) and a different toolkit and thus simply porting won't work here. I just don't see any reason to rewrite Quasar for Android now. I'd rather stick with Qt as it has platform independence to start with. I have Quasar running on Sharp Qtopia/pdaXrom Qt/X11, Ubuntu (my laptop) and OS X (my workstation). And it will compile and run on any other Unix-like platform that has a Qt 2 or 3 port, a decent X11 server and mplayer. This is the reason why I ported Quasar to work with Qt and X11 in the first place. Same codebase, more choices!
Anyway, if anybody wants to hire me at a fulltime rate to rewrite Quasar for Android I am in for it! And seriously, I don't think Google would be interested in a media player. I think they are rather looking for new apps to better leverage their services. That's the whole point of the challenge.
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I would like to listen to music that is on my computer's hd, with Quasar on my Z via wireless.
Is there any easy way to do that? Like support for itunes sharing or some other form of playlist sharing?
thanks
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I would like to listen to music that is on my computer's hd, with Quasar on my Z via wireless.
Is there any easy way to do that? Like support for itunes sharing or some other form of playlist sharing?
samba share?
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I would like to listen to music that is on my computer's hd, with Quasar on my Z via wireless.
Is there any easy way to do that? Like support for itunes sharing or some other form of playlist sharing?
thanks
*rant on* Did someone say UPnP support for Quasar ?
Oliver
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One little thing that bugs me about quazar is this:
If the zaurus takes a little too long to read the mp3 file (has to spin up the disk or I was doing other resource hogging things with my Z) then quazar stops completely and displays an error message saying it couldn't play the track and prompting me to modify the mplayer commands to fix it. What I think it should do, and please enlighten me if there is an option for this, is just skip the track and go on to the next one if it can't play it for some reason.
If I was listening to my music on the go and have my zaurus closed then I find myself every once and a while when the music stops having to open it up, close that error message and press play again to continue listening to music. It also seems to happen if I skip to the next track and then the next track too fast.
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One little thing that bugs me about quazar is this:
If the zaurus takes a little too long to read the mp3 file (has to spin up the disk or I was doing other resource hogging things with my Z) then quazar stops completely and displays an error message saying it couldn't play the track and prompting me to modify the mplayer commands to fix it. What I think it should do, and please enlighten me if there is an option for this, is just skip the track and go on to the next one if it can't play it for some reason.
If I was listening to my music on the go and have my zaurus closed then I find myself every once and a while when the music stops having to open it up, close that error message and press play again to continue listening to music. It also seems to happen if I skip to the next track and then the next track too fast.
Please file a bug report here: http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket)
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having played with angstrom and android, and gotten fed up of not actually *doing* anything, and the honeymoon with the n800 is losing its bloom, I'm going to be dual-booting cacko and debian... the first non-cacko-feed app I wanted to install was Quasar! It definitely lives up to expectations, and is a welcome shot in the arm for cacko. great app!
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is a welcome shot in the arm for cacko. great app!
But it also runs on cacko. How is it a shot in the arm?
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is a welcome shot in the arm for cacko. great app!
But it also runs on cacko. How is it a shot in the arm?
ah, you misunderstood, a "shot in the arm" means invigorated: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/318925.html (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/318925.html)
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is a welcome shot in the arm for cacko. great app!
But it also runs on cacko. How is it a shot in the arm?
ah, you misunderstood, a "shot in the arm" means invigorated: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/318925.html (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/318925.html)
Oh lol, I did misunderstand.
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I just installed quasar media player to Angstrom. It is in the official feed and it pulled all the dependencies.
Is there a way to make the window fit on the Zaurus screen (C3100)
I'm running Angstrom X11 version.
Below is a pic of the screen.
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I just installed quasar media player to Angstrom. It is in the official feed and it pulled all the dependencies.
Is there a way to make the window fit on the Zaurus screen (C3100)
I'm running Angstrom X11 version.
Below is a pic of the screen.
I made the bitbake recipe files for quasar which are now integrated in the Angstrom build.
You have to go to the skins directory and change the font sizes of the default skin in one of the xml files (can't remember which).
That will make it a lot more readable.
Oliver
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Thank you,
I didn't find any *.xml files.
There are a number of *.png files
And five files as following:
playlisttool_panal_buttons.xcf
playlisttool_panal_dynplaylisteditortab.xcf
playlisttool_panal_modebuttons.xcf
playlisttool_panal_otgplaylisttab.xcf
playlisttool_panal_playlisttab.xcf
And "skin.ini"
I think this looks like the file that needs edited.
There are three sections for font sizes in "skin.ini".
[bigmode]
[normalmode]
[smallmode]
Is there a way to just initiate [smallmode] ?
Edit
I tried later to open the *.xcf files in leafpad and got a message that this is a Gimp file. So apparently these are graphics files and not settings files.
So that only leaves me with the "skin.ini" file to change settings with.
I changed the font sizes in both the [bigmode] and [normalmode] to match the font sizes in the [smallmode]
This didn't change anything in the GUI. I restarted X after doing this.
I pasted the contents of skin.ini below.[global]
resolution = VGA
[landscape]
background = 0,0,bg_h.png,0,0,640,56,200:t325:115
stop = 4,6,buttons.png,0,0,42,43,#0
previous = 46,6,buttons.png,0,43,42,43,#0
next = 130,6,buttons.png,0,86,42,43,#0
play = 88,6,buttons.png,0,129,42,43,#0
pause = 88,6,buttons.png,0,172,42,43,#0
knob = -13,9,seekknob.png,0,0,14,13,354,#1
volknob = 39,3,volknob.png,0,0,12,50,49,#2
current_playtime = 195,35,font.png,0,0,9,10,#0
total_playtime = -64,35,font.png,0,0,9,10,#2
tool_background = 0,0,bg_toolpanel_h.png,0,0,640,29,t526:114
tool_info = 160,4,320,20
tool_randomoff = 10,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,0,42,20
tool_randomon = 10,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,20,42,20
tool_repeatoff = 51,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,40,42,20
tool_repeatall = 51,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,60,42,20
tool_repeatone = 51,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,80,42,20
tool_overviewon = 0,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,100,42,20,#1
tool_overviewoff = 0,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,120,42,20,#1
tool_viewplaylist = 53,5,toolpanel_viewbuttons.png,0,0,27,20,#1
tool_viewplayinfo = 78,5,toolpanel_viewbuttons.png,0,20,27,20,#1
playlist_background = 0,0,bg_playlisttoolpanel_h.png,0,0,640,30,150:t100:390
playlist_viewplaylistoff = 10,6,playlisttoolpanel_playlisttab.png,0,0,62,23,#0
playlist_viewplayliston = 10,6,playlisttoolpanel_playlisttab.png,0,23,62,23,#0
playlist_viewdynplaylisteditoroff = 70,6,playlisttoolpanel_dynplaylisteditortab.png,0,0,30,23,#0
playlist_viewdynplaylisteditoron = 70,6,playlisttoolpanel_dynplaylisteditortab.png,0,23,30,23,#0
playlist_viewonthegoplaylistoff = 103,6,playlisttoolpanel_otgplaylisttab.png,0,0,75,23,#0
playlist_viewonthegoplayliston = 103,6,playlisttoolpanel_otgplaylisttab.png,0,23,75,23,#0
playlist_open = 0,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,120,36,20,#2
playlist_save = 35,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,140,36,20,#2
playlist_copytoonthegoplaylist = 73,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,100,36,20,#2
playlist_cut = 111,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,20,36,20,#2
playlist_copy = 146,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,0,36,20,#2
playlist_paste = 181,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,40,36,20,#2
playlist_delete = 216,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,60,36,20,#2
playlist_resetfilterandsorting = 255,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,80,36,20,#2
playlist_modesingle = 294,5,playlisttoolpanel_modebuttons.png,0,0,27,20,#2
playlist_modemultiselect = 319,5,playlisttoolpanel_modebuttons.png,0,20,27,20,#2
playlist_modemoveitem = 344,5,playlisttoolpanel_modebuttons.png,0,40,27,20,#2
[portrait]
background = 0,0,bg_v.png,0,0,480,56,200:t165:115
stop = 4,6,buttons.png,0,0,42,43,#0
previous = 46,6,buttons.png,0,43,42,43,#0
next = 130,6,buttons.png,0,86,42,43,#0
play = 88,6,buttons.png,0,129,42,43,#0
pause = 88,6,buttons.png,0,172,42,43,#0
knob = -13,9,seekknob.png,0,0,14,13,192,#1
volknob = 39,3,volknob.png,0,0,12,50,49,#2
current_playtime = 195,35,font.png,0,0,9,10,#0
total_playtime = -64,35,font.png,0,0,9,10,#2
tool_background = 0,0,bg_toolpanel_v.png,0,0,480,29,t366:114
tool_info = 110,4,250,20
tool_randomoff = 10,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,0,42,20
tool_randomon = 10,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,20,42,20
tool_repeatoff = 51,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,40,42,20
tool_repeatall = 51,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,60,42,20
tool_repeatone = 51,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,80,42,20
tool_overviewon = 0,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,100,42,20,#1
tool_overviewoff = 0,5,toolpanel_buttons.png,0,120,42,20,#1
tool_viewplaylist = 53,5,toolpanel_viewbuttons.png,0,0,27,20,#1
tool_viewplayinfo = 78,5,toolpanel_viewbuttons.png,0,20,27,20,#1
playlist_background = 0,0,bg_playlisttoolpanel_h.png,0,0,640,54,150:t100:390
playlist_viewplaylistoff = 5,30,playlisttoolpanel_playlisttab.png,0,0,62,23,#0
playlist_viewplayliston = 5,30,playlisttoolpanel_playlisttab.png,0,23,62,23,#0
playlist_viewdynplaylisteditoroff = 65,30,playlisttoolpanel_dynplaylisteditortab.png,0,0,30,23,#0
playlist_viewdynplaylisteditoron = 65,30,playlisttoolpanel_dynplaylisteditortab.png,0,23,30,23,#0
playlist_viewonthegoplaylistoff = 98,30,playlisttoolpanel_otgplaylisttab.png,0,0,75,23,#0
playlist_viewonthegoplayliston = 98,30,playlisttoolpanel_otgplaylisttab.png,0,23,75,23,#0
playlist_open = 5,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,120,36,20,#0
playlist_save = 40,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,140,36,20,#0
playlist_copytoonthegoplaylist = 78,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,100,36,20,#0
playlist_cut = 116,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,20,36,20,#0
playlist_copy = 151,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,0,36,20,#0
playlist_paste = 186,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,40,36,20,#0
playlist_delete = 221,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,60,36,20,#0
playlist_resetfilterandsorting = 260,5,playlisttoolpanel_buttons.png,0,80,36,20,#0
playlist_modesingle = 299,5,playlisttoolpanel_modebuttons.png,0,0,27,20,#0
playlist_modemultiselect = 324,5,playlisttoolpanel_modebuttons.png,0,20,27,20,#0
playlist_modemoveitem = 349,5,playlisttoolpanel_modebuttons.png,0,40,27,20,#0
[bigmode]
playlist_font = helvetica,25,#FFFFFF
playlist_background = #131313,#000000
playlist_selected_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
playlist_selected_background = #FF0000
playlist_header_font = helvetica,25,#FFFFFF
playlist_header_background = #696969
playlist_scrollbar_background = #999999
playlist_playindicator = play_indicator_b.png
playlist_pauseindicator = pause_indicator_b.png
playlistoverview_separatorcolor = #696969
playlistoverview_font = helvetica,20,#FFFFFF
playlistoverview_background = #333333
playlistoverview_selected_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
playlistoverview_selected_background = #FF0000
playlistoverview_header_font = helvetica,20,#FFFFFF
playlistoverview_header_background = #696969
playlistoverview_scrollbar_background = #999999
playinfo_font = helvetica,30,#FFFFFF
playinfo_background = #000000
toolbar_font = helvetica,25,#FFFFFF
toolbar_background = #565656
filterbox_font = helvetica,25,#FFFFFF
filterbox_background = #000000
filterbox_focused_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
filterbox_focused_background = #FF0000
[normalmode]
playlist_font = helvetica,18,#FFFFFF
playlist_background = #131313,#000000
playlist_selected_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
playlist_selected_background = #FF0000
playlist_header_font = helvetica,18,#FFFFFF
playlist_header_background = #696969
playlist_scrollbar_background = #999999
playlist_playindicator = play_indicator.png
playlist_pauseindicator = pause_indicator.png
playlistoverview_separatorcolor = #696969
playlistoverview_font = helvetica,15,#FFFFFF
playlistoverview_background = #333333
playlistoverview_selected_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
playlistoverview_selected_background = #FF0000
playlistoverview_header_font = helvetica,15,#FFFFFF
playlistoverview_header_background = #696969
playlistoverview_scrollbar_background = #999999
playinfo_font = helvetica,25,#FFFFFF
playinfo_background = #000000
toolbar_font = helvetica,22,#FFFFFF
toolbar_background = #565656
filterbox_font = helvetica,22,#FFFFFF
filterbox_background = #000000
filterbox_focused_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
filterbox_focused_background = #FF0000
[smallmode]
playlist_font = helvetica,12,#FFFFFF
playlist_background = #131313,#000000
playlist_selected_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
playlist_selected_background = #FF0000
playlist_header_font = helvetica,14,#FFFFFF
playlist_header_background = #696969
playlist_scrollbar_background = #999999
playlist_playindicator = play_indicator.png
playlist_pauseindicator = pause_indicator.png
playlistoverview_separatorcolor = #696969
playlistoverview_font = helvetica,10,#FFFFFF
playlistoverview_background = #333333
playlistoverview_selected_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
playlistoverview_selected_background = #FF0000
playlistoverview_header_font = helvetica,10,#FFFFFF
playlistoverview_header_background = #696969
playlistoverview_scrollbar_background = #999999
playinfo_font = helvetica,20,#FFFFFF
playinfo_background = #000000
toolbar_font = helvetica,20,#FFFFFF
toolbar_background = #565656
filterbox_font = helvetica,20,#FFFFFF
filterbox_background = #000000
filterbox_focused_fontcolor = #FFFFFF
filterbox_focused_background = #FF0000
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And "skin.ini"
I think this looks like the file that needs edited.
There are three sections for font sizes in "skin.ini".
[bigmode]
[normalmode]
[smallmode]
Is there a way to just initiate [smallmode] ?
Yes, the skin.ini file is the one to edit, sorry.
You can enable small mode from the menu, but on the 3100 it will not bring much of a benefit as the fonts are still too large.
Edit all sections with fonts and reduce the font sizes to about 50% or less depending on your likeage.
Eg. change playlist_font = helvetica,25,#FFFFFF to playlist_font = helvetica,12,#FFFFFF
Oliver
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I changed then all to "10"
It looks like it fits the screen now, I'll do some further tweaking.
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screenshot
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screenshot
Great, looks like you made it.
Oliver
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Just wanted to let you know, that I have made nightly builds of Quasar available for Sharp-Qtopia and pdaXrom and various other platforms:
http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2009/07...ayer-available/ (http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2009/07/29/nightly-builds-of-quasar-media-player-available/)
I am looking for some testers. The current pdaXrom version is totally untested.
Andre
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I just noticed there is a newer version of this program with the qscrobbler integrated now. Thank you so much eviLjazz! This is truely the best media player on my Zaurus!
http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/softwar...r-media-player/ (http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/software/quasar-media-player/)
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Yes, I released a new version of Quasar a few days ago. I wanted to post here but the forum was down at that time. Luckily it is back now.
I would like to keep releasing for the Zaurus but I have this strange feeling that the actual count of active users has gone down quite a bit. Keeping the code base Qt 2.x compatible is really getting harder each day. And to be honest, I do not use my Zaurus anymore. It has been lying here on the table gathering dust. That is quite a shame considering how much money and time I put into this little machine...
Anyway, please let me know if Quasar is working on your Zaurii and on which OS! Thanks.
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I would like to keep releasing for the Zaurus but I have this strange feeling that the actual count of active users has gone down quite a bit. Keeping the code base Qt 2.x compatible is really getting harder each day. And to be honest, I do not use my Zaurus anymore. It has been lying here on the table gathering dust. That is quite a shame considering how much money and time I put into this little machine...
Anyway, please let me know if Quasar is working on your Zaurii and on which OS! Thanks.
No worries man, Quasar is complete on the Zaurus as far as I'm concerned. The reason I still use my Zaurus despite how slow it is these days is because I have not found anything that has the same features to replace it. Looking for a phone to replace it but so far none out there have all of the following: a good keyboard, usb on-the-go(client and host), wifi and bluetooth, lots of good applications, and runs linux. If anyone knows of such a device I would be all ears.
I will let you know if I have any serious issues with this version, so far so good and again thanks for the update.
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it does seem that eviljazz has made quasar a damn good program and it doesn't need much if anything doing to it!
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@ xamindar I too would like to find a linux based phone that did all of that, so far my Pre is close, but not close enough.
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I encountered some problems:
The ipk for the Sharp ROM has to be renamed "quasar_arm.ipk", the installer tells you it will not let you install until you've done that.
The Edit menu has too much stuff on it, it takes up the whole screen!
The onscreen graphics shown with mplayer are rotated
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The Edit menu has too much stuff on it, it takes up the whole screen!
The onscreen graphics shown with mplayer are rotated
Pic as example?
I know that one of the 1st things that i do i decrease the size of the font, to make things fit better.
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Pic as example?
I know that one of the 1st things that i do i decrease the size of the font, to make things fit better.
Pics attached.
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go to view=>decrease size
this will change the skin between modes (big, normal, small)
you can change the font sizes for these modes in the skin.ini file.
located @
/home/QtPalmtop/share/quasar/skins/default/skin.ini
-Duo
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Thanks, but that menu pulldown is generated using the system font. Changing the skin won't affect it. There are too many things on it!
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Any chance of a release for the Pandora?
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Thanks, but that menu pulldown is generated using the system font. Changing the skin won't affect it. There are too many things on it!
If you change the size of the font, then it will shrink the menu items, and then they will not wrap.
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It seems ok on mine. While it is a little large I only click on it when I want to use the menu so it's not much of a problem.
Regarding the OSD with mplayer. Are you talking about while playing a movie? For me the osd comes up in the top left corner and is oriented correctly. Maybe that depends on the mplayer you have??
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@duo
I don't want to change font size if I can help it; I chose that font because it's easy to read the languages I want to use. It seems I am not the only one using a slightly larger font as you can see from xamindar's screenshot. I humbly suggest that some of the items in the menu be grouped in a sub menu to make the menu shorter, e.g. the edit items.
@canguy
Source is available from evilJazz's website so you can compile it yourself.
@xamindar
I believe the OSD is generated by mplayer.
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Here is the mplayer that I use. I also attached the bvdd video driver as well in case it requires it. I think it did. This is for the c3X00 I believe. Let me know if any more dependencies are missing.
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Also, anyone who installs this package do not install the nightly autobuilds. They do not work Stick with uasarMediaPlayer_0.96_r193_r31-2010-03-28.ipk. I tried the newer builds from his website and they crash when I press play. Just a heads up.
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I'm not sure if eviljazz even checks this thread anymore but I'll post this bug anyway.
I tried to import a m3u playlist full of internet radio staions and all I got was a list of empty items. Nothing would play either. Here is a screenshot. If I add a station from the add as url menu it works but still has no title so if I have more than one there is no way to tell them apart. Would be nice to get this fixed so I can start using my internet radio stations in this player. (shoutcast changed their site again and broke the zaurus shoutcast player again. I don't think the auther of that program updates it anymore)
In the first picture there are about 20 streams in the playlist. No idea how to tell which is which.
The second picture just shows another issue where it will not load the complete album art. This happens with most my album art.
Oh well, no biggie though. It is still the best music player and movie player.
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Whoah, this forum is still alive.
Also, anyone who installs this package do not install the nightly autobuilds. They do not work Stick with uasarMediaPlayer_0.96_r193_r31-2010-03-28.ipk. I tried the newer builds from his website and they crash when I press play. Just a heads up.
Yep, do not use the latest builds. I am currently rewriting most of the internal stuff. There was a bug introduced with the Qt 4 port which caused that particular crash. That should be gone by now. Anyway, better stick with the latest release and ignore the nightly builds for a while. There won't be any new features for a few more weeks.
I'm not sure if eviljazz even checks this thread anymore but I'll post this bug anyway.
I tried to import a m3u playlist full of internet radio staions and all I got was a list of empty items. Nothing would play either. Here is a screenshot. If I add a station from the add as url menu it works but still has no title so if I have more than one there is no way to tell them apart. Would be nice to get this fixed so I can start using my internet radio stations in this player. (shoutcast changed their site again and broke the zaurus shoutcast player again. I don't think the auther of that program updates it anymore)
In the first picture there are about 20 streams in the playlist. No idea how to tell which is which.
The streaming feature is the neglected stepchild in the software right now. There is a related bug here: http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/ticket/14 (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/ticket/14)
The second picture just shows another issue where it will not load the complete album art. This happens with most my album art.
That looks like a damaged JPEG or cached album art file. Could you try to delete the ~/.quasar/cache directory and see if that helps. Also, please check whether the downloaded cover art image got damaged somehow. Files downloaded with the integrated cover art downloader are located in the "00DownloadedCoverArt" subdirectory.
Btw, if you find more bugs please consider creating tickets over here (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket). Thanks!
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That looks like a damaged JPEG or cached album art file. Could you try to delete the ~/.quasar/cache directory and see if that helps. Also, please check whether the downloaded cover art image got damaged somehow. Files downloaded with the integrated cover art downloader are located in the "00DownloadedCoverArt" subdirectory.
Btw, if you find more bugs please consider creating tickets over here (http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket). Thanks!
All my album art is in the id3 tags and I didn't have a ~/.quasar/cache directory. My best guess is that quasar can not handle album images over a certain size. I tried deleting the complete .quasar directory and creating a fresh playlist but the same thing happens every time.