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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: ironstorm on October 01, 2004, 01:16:20 am
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I installed mediaplayer2, but it does not find media files (a bug regression it seems) and when I do select any audio file to play it immediately segfaults...
Anyone got a working ogg/mp3 player working on 3.5.1?
Cheers,
-G
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yes, xmms-embedded works fine for me
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I tried xmms-embeddedd from the oz feed and xmms loads but i cant add any files to the playlists....dont know if I am missing a lib or what....but it seems like nothing wants to install correctly for me at all.
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In the beginning, I had this as well, but it dissappeared. I Just don't know why, because i was palying aroung quite a lot, so maybe it was an ipkg-link mount /mnt/card, an opie restart, or maybe even a rebot. All i know, after some days of playing wth the Z, it worked ;-)
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well there have been alot of reboots and restarts but ill try it again...its the main thing to get working...
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Xmms from the feed works great on my 5600. ANyone manage mplayer??
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Okay, just HOW are you guys getting these programs installed?! Everything I try to install whines about a missing package: tslib. This is while I'm in Opie; I've yet to try it out in GPE because I don't like the package manager in GPE, nor do I like the notion of having to log in as root all the time... thanks in advance guys.
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i tried the package managers for opie and they kindof are buggy...so i use the command line and to install xmms you do:
ipkg -d ram install xmms-embedded
then you have to link the files so you need to do:
ipkg-link add xmms-embedded
and also any other dependencies that it installed with it. Thats how I got any package working.
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i tried the package managers for opie and they kindof are buggy...so i use the command line and to install xmms you do:
ipkg -d ram install xmms-embedded
aereinha, thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it didn't work. (And in case someone here doesn't know, the -d option allows you to specify a destination and therefore isn't necessary if ipkg is already configured!)
It still whined at me for that bloody dependency. Here's what I get:
ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for xmms-embedded:
tslib(>= 0.0cvs20040915)
An error ocurred, return value: 1....if only someone like MickeyL would be able to help me... isn't he one of the head guys in OpenZaurus/OpenEmbedded? He'd know what's going on, right?
This is on my Zaurus 5500, and happens with both GPE and Opie images. Thanks guys...
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well sorry that didnt work.....tslib is in the oz feed so maybe installing the lib first, then trying to install xmms will work...dont know if you already tried it but its worth a shot
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Well, I went to http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed/ (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed/) and did a search for tslib and didn't find it... is it under some other name?
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well its not there but i have it as a package if i open the package manager and look at the list. so i dont know if it was removed or what
sorry
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Well, aereinha... you might've been right from the start... go here, http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/sl5600/apps/ (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/sl5600/apps/), and do a search for tslib. What do we see? The version of tslib that I needed!
I'm gonna try to install this, but why is this under the sl5600 directory if my sl5500 needs it? Anyone care to take a jab at this?
Update: Yep, looks like installing tslib from there got me out of that rut... now if only the applications I installed would show up in the menus and stuff! I have GAIM, xmms-embedded, and opie-mediaplayer2 installed and can't find any of them and/or get them to run!
Yet Another Update: I'm using the 64-0 image since I have a 256MB SD card to use. I noticed, however, that I had 2040KB free in Root. When I installed xmms-embedded onto the SD Card, I 1)couldn't run XMMS and 2) never got shortcuts installed. Removed it, put it on root and BAM! There it is... except for the fact that it doesn't run. I'm stumped...
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I have to suspend the Z and then bring it back up before the icons are shown.
But if you successfully installed xmms you could also run it from the console by typing "xmms".
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Well, I got xmms-embedded working, although I wished that opie-mediaplayer2 would work instead. It has bigger buttons on the screen, meaning it'd be easier for me to hit the buttons Next and Previous while I'm driving. Whatever, at least xmms works! Me = happy!
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I have to suspend the Z and then bring it back up before the icons are shown.
You can also use the shutdown application in the settings tab to restart Opie, which dosen't require that everything be restarted and makes the icons come up.
Also, if it dosen't show up, make sure you use ipkg-link after installing it- ipkg-link mount /mnt/card, for instance, to link apps on your SD card.
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Or just:
ipkg-link add xmms-embedded
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xmms ??
All, I have xmms questions?? XMMS installs and runs. Is there way to select a set of files and add group to list? For that matter is there a way to make a file list, ie play lists?? I have several sets of mp3 files on a /sd card and would like to add those sets as play lists.
I am sorry but either the buttons are not clear or the install is not perfect.
Thanks,
Dan
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I had similar problems when i first got my Zaurus (3 days ago) i don't know if this is the best way to do this, but heres what i did; i noticed that when i installed stuff in root it worked fine (icons were showing up etc...) so what i did was i created the following directories on my SD card
mkdir /mnt/card/opt
mkdir /mnt/card/usr/lib
I then copied everything in /opt to /mnt/card/opt and also for /usr/lib so...
cp -r /opt/* /mnt/card/opt/
cp -r /usr/lib/* /mnt/card/usr/lib
then i knew i had to make symbolic links so that the zaurus still thought that /opt and /usr/lib existed, i also removed the old dirs so...
rm -rf /opt
rm -rf /usr/lib
ln -s /mnt/card/opt /opt
ln -s /mnt/card/usr/lib /usr/lib
After i did this everything just seemed to work better, i think its easier like this because i dont have to worry about linking every single file when i install it, the only problem is you obviously cant change sd cards and still expect your system to function properly, but i dont plan on doing this...
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lol, couldn't be bothered with all the dependencies and problems people have been having with every other mp3 player I could find, so I just installed madplay (NO dependencies!).
add to .profile:
alias mp3='madplay -z --tty-control /mnt/fat/Music/*'
I use the console all the time and have it mapped to the contacts button, so it's real quick for me.
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Sounds like a good idea i think i will have to try that... I still have to get xmms working though, im just too lazy to try and dload the dependencies
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@dansawyer
This is the way I got playlists on the Z:
0. On the big box, I have a bunch of album directories. I keep a flat, wide structure, with directory names containing both the artist and the album name. No genres.
1. Next to those directories, I created a directory called "playlists".
2. In desktop XMMS, I created one playlist per album directory, placing all of them in the "playslists" directory. I used the .m3u format.
3. As .m3u files are plaintext, I hand-edited each one to change all links from absolute to relative (i.e. from /my/music/artist-album/song.mp3 to ../artist-album/song.mp3). I wish XMMS had a switch somewhere to make playlists with relative links.
4. I copied selected album directories and the "playlists" directory to a partition on my CF card.
5. On the Z in XMMS, I tap "Add", then navigate to the "playlists" directory and choose a playlist. That's it.
6. Removing songs from XMMS is unintuitive: tap "Sub", choose the songs you want removed (drag if necessary) and tap "Sub" again.
z.
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6. Removing songs from XMMS is unintuitive: tap "Sub", choose the songs you want removed (drag if necessary) and tap "Sub" again.
Wow, quite a MONSTROUS usability problem here. o.O