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Software / Media player problem

« on: January 29, 2005, 07:54:58 pm »

I'm also using mplayer as installed by Kino2 (freizugheit above) on my 5600 with OZ352.

It works well from the command line, but you have to learn about mplayer to use all the options, and there are plenty of them!! But it seems to be able to handle most types of media files very well...

I couldn't get opie-mediaplayer to work at all.

I also tried XMMS and still have that installed, it works ok for some things.

I think both Kino2 and XMMS use mplayer anyway when they find something they can't handle, so you might as well bypass them and start using mplayer from the start...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Breaking The Sound (recording) Barrier

« on: January 21, 2005, 06:39:26 pm »

My Opie sound recorder works OK as long as I select one of the time-limited options, but if I select unlimited it records about 1/4 second of noise then stops.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 352 Ext2 On Cf Verrry Slow!

« on: December 30, 2004, 06:31:38 pm »

Would I be better off with jffs2 instead of ext2?

What fdisk type is that, and
In OZ352, where are the jffs2 tools?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Multimedia In Oz352

« on: December 29, 2004, 02:59:35 am »

Here's a few more things I have found while investigating this ...

ac=mad forces mplayer to use libmad for mp3 audio decoding. libmad uses integer arithmetic for decoding which is better for the Zaurus because it's ARM processor don't have FloatingPointUnit. Another integer based decoder is ffmp3 so ac=ffmp3 might be worth trying as well, but doesn't work on my system ... (I think it is part of libavcodec).

mp3lib is floating point arithmetic, which may be emulated in the ARM processor, but is way too slow. That is probably why mplayer reports that the CPU is too slow when trying to use mp3lib, and then doesn't decode the audio.

Regarding OpieMediaPlayer2, there are a whole lot of libxine-plugin-* files which probably need to be installed for it to work with all the various formats. Anyone know more about this? EG. is there a way to install them together instead of going through one-by-one?

Now some questions ... how do I make xmms use libmad? I assume xmms is using mplayer to play mpeg1 and mpeg2 videos, but they still play without audio ...?  as a sideline, xmms does play mp3 audios!

And has anyone worked out how to control the movie (eg. fast forward, seek, etc.) while it is playing?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oz 352 Ext2 On Cf Verrry Slow!

« on: December 28, 2004, 11:03:34 pm »

Has anyone noticed what their transfer times to an ext2 filesystem are like under OZ352?

I have my CF formatted with hda1 as vfat, and hda2 as ext2 and for example my times to copy a 12Mb file are:

   vfat to vfat         15s
   vfat to ext2    8m10s (yes, that is 490s, or over 30 times slower)
   ext2 to ext2    8m11s (nearly the same, so it must be to do with write speed)
   ext2 to vfat        14s

Is there something wrong with my poodle or what?

thanks,
Ken

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Multimedia In Oz352

« on: December 28, 2004, 10:50:02 pm »

MrS ... your hint about tapping on the window works for me too. Just after I tap the play button the screen flashes black for about 1 second, and if I tap the screen just then I get the video playing ok. I could NOT go back to an earlier version of mplayer, not matter what I tried, even when removing the feed of the later one and directly naming the earlier .ipk it still tried to install a newer 'mplayer' ... might be something to do with the earlier one not providing 'mplayer', but I don't know enough about how ipkg works to know.

ronbus ... great! ac=mad works for me too. I can see that it forces mplayer to use libmad as mp3 decoder. Without that mplayer tries to use mp3lib, which doesn't seem to work on my system. I'm checking that by SSH'ing to my poodle and then I can run mplayer and see all the mplayer output while the movie is playing on the Z!

I still can't get OpieMediaPlayer2 to work, but given success with xmms and mplayer I'm much happier with my multimedia poodle! Now to see if I can install either of these to CF, I've tried hard with xmms but there are so many libraries that don't get linked it is hard to keep track of them all from the command line, and Opie PackageManager keeps crashing.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Multimedia In Oz352

« on: December 27, 2004, 06:30:40 pm »

Thanks MrS, I checked, I already have the libvorbisidec1_20021126-r0 installed, I think that is the one you are recommending, isn't it?

Do you play your movies by starting mplayer from a console?
And do you hear the sound in your movies?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Slow Ftp To Cf Ext2 Partition?

« on: December 27, 2004, 04:59:15 pm »

When I ftp (Filezilla) to the FAT32 partition on my CF card (fdisk type=0b) I get transfer rates of about 500kB/sec.

But when I do it to the linux partition (fdisk type=83) I only get transfer rates of about 12 or 13 kB/sec.

Ken

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Multimedia In Oz352

« on: December 27, 2004, 04:52:57 pm »

I've tried all three of these in order to use my 5600 (OZ352-Opie) as a multimedia player, but I can't get any of them working properly.

xmms-embedded_20040327-r3 ... will play ogg audio and mp3, but not video ogm, or anything else, eg. mp3, mpg, avi, wav.

opie-mediaplayer1_1.1.7-r1 ... will play mp3, about 1 second of wav very fast, not  ogg (terminates with SIGSEGV), and no video formats (mpg, mpeg, avi, ogm) all say 'Sorry, no appropriate decoders found for this file:'. What are the names of the  extra video decoders for mediaplayer1?

opie-mediaplayer2_1.1.7-r2 ... plays mpg but audio only and very fast, won't play anything else, sometimes says 'No demux plugin found', sometimes goes to player screen briefly then back to playlist screen ... What are the demux files needed for this?

mplayer_1.0pre3try2-r3 ... this plays mpg but without sound, ogm but sound is choppy and way out of sync, plays wav, plays ogg, doesn't play mp3, doesn't respond to keyboard (eg to pause, stop, exit, change volume etc.)

Any pointers to get a good multimedia setup would be great ... thanks.

Ken

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5x00 Hardware / 5600 external mic work?

« on: November 02, 2004, 02:18:50 am »

Has anyone used an external mic with the 5600?

I've tried it on mine, but it doesn't work!

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5x00 Hardware / 5600/PXA250 and Special Kernels - actual reliability?

« on: September 17, 2004, 07:01:27 pm »

where is it?

and have you tried the vnc server on it (fbvncserver)?

I tried the v1.3 kernel on my 5600 but fbvncserver didn't work

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ336pre1+5600, boot to console?

« on: August 02, 2004, 09:35:01 pm »

renaming /etc/init.d/opie worked, thanks    

/etc/init.d/opie stop leads to login: prompt,
but keyboard doesn't work ... mostly frozen, some
keys produce characters on both press and release,
but wrong characters      

[Settings-Shutdown-TerminateOpie]  leads to GUI screen freeze, except
for tiny blinking square in bottom left    

now to work out how ipkg works !!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ336pre1+5600, boot to console?

« on: August 02, 2004, 08:03:53 am »

Is there some script i can edit somewhere to make my
5600 with OZ336pre1 boot to a login: prompt instead
of to Opie?

Or is there some reliable way of shutting down Opie and
getting a login: prompt?

So that I can upgrade my Opie to 114 ... I really want to
voice recorder app    

thanks,
ken

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.3.5 won't boot on 5600

« on: July 29, 2004, 07:20:47 am »

If anyone from openzaurus.org is reading this, there might be
something wrong with the 3.3.5 zImage.bin for the 5600 (poodle).

Your web page

http://openzaurus.org/oz_website/content/d...file=zImage.bin

says that the md5sum for zImage should be
3317697ca135750a3838a03b60294c70
but the zImage that gets downloaded has a md5sum of
bc7a8f1f8e3c1745913eec2cd31bb321

I've downloaded and checked it twice now!

Because I couldn't get OZ335 working, I reflashed to SharpROMv1.32
just to check that my 5600 was OK. It was! Then I dowloaded
OZ336_pre1 from

http://openzaurus.org/official/experimenta...dle/3.3.6-pre1/

and flashed that. It flashes and boots ok! I really like the way the
screen can be rotated, it's great. But there appears to be an issue
with console output appearing on the bottom line of the screen ...
anyone know how to solve that?

Also, is there an audio recording app for Opie?

ken

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.3.5 won't boot on 5600

« on: July 28, 2004, 04:19:56 pm »

I tried to flash OZ 3.3.5 on my 5600, and now it won't boot.
It just sits there on the 'please wait 2 minutes' screen for
about 5 minutes, then turns off with green led blinking.

The flash was apparently OK, but there was an error
'modprobe: cannot locate module devinfo' right at
the start of the flash ... but then it said 'Success'

I had previously upgraded to Sharp ROM v1.32 and
SpecialKernel1.3 ...