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

Mon Feb 17 05:42:12 CET 2003

Dear Jean - Paul Saman,

In fact, my meaning of "unstable" is different for 0.4.6 and 0.5.1 

in 0.5.1, *once* its gives a video connection and start playing video, it will keep going on (some times dead with "sementation fault" ) I meant, sometimes it doesn't play the video and just hang, some times it gives stable video, this is what I meant by "unstable".

So in 0.5.1 at leeast iPAQ HAS gave me acceptable video, but I should say successful running is about 5-6 out of 10 trials.

in 0.4.6, NO such video has been given by iPAQ, those are just still pictures :P

Just like this morning,  I tried running opie-vlc 3 times , iPAQ gave the video I need in all the 3 attempts (although quality is not good at the bluetooth link) but at least it gave what I need and I am happy anyway.

but some times I tried 10 times and iPAQ opie-vlc doesn't work at all!.

Um.........for the 3 "sucessful" connections mentioned above I have kept the error log, So you may know what is the content of the error log in the *BEST* situation I can get from my iPAQ.

thank you for your help again,
Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: Jean-Paul Saman <jpsaman at wxs.nl>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:56:51 +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,
> > 
> > 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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