[vlc] Re: CANNOT play avi and asf with opie-vlc in iPAQ

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Andrew leung wrote:
> Dear Jean - Paul Saman,
> 
> Um......what is meant by hurt?
Ignore that one. The question mark was meant to be a !. .. just a typo.

> well.....actually it is still unstable and my change of settings helps less.
> 
> I would like to know if this warning important:
> 
> config file /root/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet
> 
> should it be there? I get this error........
No that is not a problem. It just says you do not have an configuration 
options file, which is quite normal.


Please send logfiles otherwise it is very hard to help. If I cannot see 
the context of what happens inside vlc, then I am unable to help.

Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman.

> 
> Thank you,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jean-Paul Saman <jpsaman at wxs.nl>
> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:02:47 +0100
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc] Re: CANNOT play avi and asf with opie-vlc in iPAQ
> 
> 
>>Andrew leung wrote:
>>
>>>Dear Jean - Paul Saman,
>>>
>>>
>>>***************************************************
>>>
>>>Thank you very much, with opie-vlc 0.5.1, the video is much better than before, now it is working!!! (But may have to try a few times to get one attempt resulted in a good working)
>>>
>>
>>Could you send me a log file for one of the failed runs? Or did you type 
>>  it wrongly?
>>
>>
>>>I would like to express my appreciation for your help so far again.
>>>
>>>***************************************************
>>>
>>>Now its is much stable, I keep using 160X128, ffmpeg still calims its bitrate is 32k for video (which is the bitrate claimed so far)
>>>
>>
>>32k bitrate should be enough especially for BT ;-)
>>
>>
>>>I will try other setting anyway.
>>>
>>
>>That can never hurt?
>>
>>
>>>Is the previous unstable performance all caused by vlc-0.4.6's problem but now the bitrate? From its performance now, shall we said that our previous conclusion on the quality and bitrate be changed?
>>
>>Depend ! If you used the same settings before, then there were other 
>>things that caused it to work badly. Otherwise we cannot take a conclusion.
>>
>>I am busy cleaning up the qte video output. According to your reports 
>>that and a lot of other changes in the core functionality made it a lot 
>>better for the iPaq.
>>
>>
>>>Anyway, would you knidly tell me like the difference between 0.4.6 and 0.5.1?
>>>
>>
>>See http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS
>>
>>
>>>1)why 0.5.1 has explicitly installed ffmpeg.ipkg? (seems that 0.4.6 does not have a seperate package installation for ffmpeg.
>>
>>opie-vlc_0.4.6 had it statically linked in. The opie-vlc_0.5.1 uses it 
>>as a shared library.
>>
>>
>>>2)If I use MPEG-1 / 2, is this ffmpeg.ipk not used? (because you have mentioned that ffmpeg is for MPEG4 or DIVX
>>
>>Correct.
>>
>>
>>>3)Overall speaking, what has been upgraded in 0.5.1?
>>
>>See http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS
>>
>>
>>>4) it also install opie-netsetup from the feed itself, again what is the use of opie-netsetup?
>>
>>It is for setting up network connections. My reasoning is that vlc is a 
>>media player that can read streaming video directly from the network, 
>>thus it should depend upon this. In this way users can easily configure 
>>their network. VLC will also work without this package, so in that way 
>>it does not depend upon that. Their is no way to specify an optional 
>>dependency and I think that right.
>>
>>Do you think it should be in the dependency list or not?
>>
>>
>>>Although opie-vlc is only a command line mode stuff, I am happy enough to have a working package now, I have tried to write GUI for iPAQ before but was facing a very very high diffficulities, the cross complier, tmake, qt - embedded made me crazy!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>Thank you for your great job (and your colleages') in making opie-vlc.
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Greetings,
>>Jean-Paul.
>>
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