Support for Maemo / Nokia N900

[qole]

Sorry, I wasn't trying to criticise, I was trying to determine if I was supposed to download the files with the same names again.

Here is the command line I use to see the camera on the screen:

cvlc -vvv v4l2:///dev/video0:chroma=YUYV:height=492:width=640

I find that I have to open the camera, close the camera app, then run vlc. If I don't do it in that order, the camera's output is yellow-greenish.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Thanks for the hint. I'll look at changing the V4L2 default settings then.

I have uploaded a new version with a slightly faster video output pipeline, and working key presses

Someone still needs to provide a user interface, and that won't be me

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

How would one without such a phone work on it?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

I'm not sure if this is a rhetorical question?

Developping the UI on a PC, compile-test-debug is much easier. Start Xephyr in 800x480x16 mode, run VLC inside it, and always expand the windows since that the Hildon window management policy, you have a pretty good start... Also the Scratchbox SDK has an x86 target (I never tried it) including the Hildon UI framework, not sure about Hildonized Qt4.

Using the plain Qt4 interface is another option, but for some reason, I could not get it to work (compiles OK, but freezes at run-time in MainInterface::MainInterface). The main interface should be usable with the touchscreen. The FSC should be good too, though I guess a littler but wider layout would be better give the screen resolution. I am much more worried about the -separate- playlist dialog... In any case, this is all conjectures, since I have not gotten Qt4 to work yet.

Skins might work too, as long as it is a single block 800x424 rectangle (screen size minus the Hildon title bar), but then we still need a dialog provider.

Last option is to use the existing VLC Hildon 4 plug-in, which I haven't tried yet. But I reckon it's under-developed anyway.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

If I am to do it, I won't do it in any technology except Qt4, but I don't have a phone. So, this wasn't rhetorical. About the playlist in a separate dialog, well, it might be the time to merge it back in interface.

[qole]

The Hildon 4 plug-in was probably developed as part of the 2008 Google Summer of Code project that focussed on VLC for Maemo.

Also, I agree that the Fremantle SDK would be the best place to attempt development of the interface.

http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_5_beta_2_sdk/

Also, developing in QT is probably the best for the future.

http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2009/ ... OME-Mobile

[qole]

Someone at talk.maemo.org has contributed a GUI mockup:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p= ... post336126

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

qole: FYI, being based on ffmpeg can still mean a lot of speed difference, because of audio pipeline and chroma conversions.
For the UI, I'll have a look, but I doubt I would work on hildon.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

This sketch omits the tricky but necessary parts: the playlist and the dialogs. At any rate, it takes hugely longer to implement a UI than to sketch it.

Currently, there is still no way to browse the memory card or type an URL in VLC other than through the X terminal IMO, that is a show-stopper to Maemo Extras submission. Another showstopper is the hackishness of the build process. python-xcbgen is used but is missing from the SDK Aand libraries are downloaded from Internet during the build process, as that is how the VLC contrib system works.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The camera default settings are now fixed (thanks to Dionoea).

I tried the Hildon UI. It runs but it is pretty bad. Fullscreen and key presses are broken (due to recent changes in VLC). The functionality is very limited. The menu is N800-style. And the colors were chosen for the N8x0 bright windowing theme, it looks really ugly with the dark theme of N900. So hmm, I don't know what to do

[Bombasaki]

Any of the developers have the phone to test the up yet?? It would be awesome to hear some positive news on this topic.

<3

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It basically works. However, the user interface sucks. And VLC does not use the TI DSP, so video decoding is not very fast.

[darkloys]

hi, i installed the vlc on my n900, of this form and as says:
* Pull the main branch again.
Archives:
Optional Graphic 9e263973ef133533c685e2975f977e59 libvlc5_1.1.0 490 408 ~ git5935-1_armel.deb
177 772 56104844d66339e37e0975f7beb522c7 libdevel optional libvlc-dev_1.1.0-1_armel.deb git5935 ~
1f8110849c221a8d95f9cfa23cbe22c8 libvlc5 6944986 libdevel extra-dbg_1.1.0-1_armel.deb git5935 ~
Figure 6140742 6dc9c2fdd683b8f7f5f95dc266fe0f34 optional vlc-player-nox_1.1.0 ~ git5935-1_armel.deb
Figure 1710014 5ae9aef7b65e0429dbb57026677f62a7 optional vlc-player_1.1.0 ~ git5935-1_armel.deb
Figure 1121158 a462da39018c7ad98a5f587ecfbad167 optional vlc-nox_1.1.0 ~ git5935-1_armel.deb
Optional Graphic fdc4a50a36cc1e1b46444d8882db6144 vlc_1.1.0 ~ 46 686 git5935-1_armel.deb
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But I installed When I give the icon to run and load it "...... sale.
clean my n900 this player that can interfere. and I have more programs installed.
I have administrator permission to x-terminal.
Send me an E miguelprecu@gmail.com With no guidelines or Other Things I maybe missing.
Time of No Lo desinstalare solution until we get ONE. THANKS FOR the contribution.
Page donde Los serve. deb aki son:
http://www.remlab.net/files/vlc/fremantle/

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The icon launch is currently broken. VLC needs to be launched from the terminal.