Comments on: Ogg-support 0.4: Media Player

By: Peter Tuson

Peter Tuson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:10:52 +0000

I am using OGG Support 0.8 on an N800 with OS2008.

I keep all my music on a server that is uPNP compatible (i.e. MediaTomb on Linux). I can successful index these and play on my linux laptop using RythmBox.

With Media Player, I can browse the server but the player doesn’t see any ogg files.

If I use the File Manager then I can also browse the server and now the ogg files are seen. If I double click on an ogg file the Media Player starts up and plays it.

What am I doing wrong and how can I get this to work properly, i.e. Media Player browse and open ogg files.

By: Milford H.

Milford H. — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:40:35 +0000

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By: James

James — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:07:10 +0000

Thanks for this release! I’ve just bought an N810 to replace my 770 and was trying to port the mogg package across and then you released this :) All works as expected, although there’s a noticeable delay in playing a track (~3 seconds) v. a ~1 second delay on 2007HE (using mogg and an addition to /usr/share/libmetalayer/metadata_lib.conf). I know that’s probably not a helpful comparison, but just thought I’d throw it out there.

With the aforementioned 2007HE setup, the mediaplayer in OS2007 detects and sorts my vorbis files correctly (albeit without detecting track length); although I also can’t yet replicate this behaviour using OS2008.

Anyway, thanks again!

By: tuomas

tuomas — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:23:40 +0000

I probably could do something to the first issue, if I would know why restarting device helps. I’ll do more debugging later with a fresh installation of 2008.

About the second issue. I think there’s nothing I can do for that. Just guessing though. I didn’t even try to listen ogg streams over net.

By: Martin Lucina

Martin Lucina — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:09:51 +0000

Thanks for this! My main use for this is streaming, since several local radio stations stream in OGG format. I’m pleased to find that OGG streaming works in the built in Media Player now, but with the following caveats:

- I had the same issues as others have described, with Media Player saying “unknown file format”, until I restarted the device.
- When playing OGG streams the Media Player seems to spend an awfully long time buffering (~60s) before it starts playing. This is contrary to e.g. MP3 streams from the same site.

By: Timm

Timm — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:15:48 +0000

Great news! Real ogg support is the one thing I missed on my n800. It’s getting better all the time, thank you!

By: tuomas

tuomas — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:30:14 +0000

Sorry, no *.ogv. I copied the mime types from my /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml and there was only video/x-ogm+ogg for *.ogm.

Make a bug against ogg-support with proper pointers and we’ll see about that in the next release :)

By: intangible

intangible — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:20:44 +0000

Awesome, does this also setup the mime type for *.ogv files? (ogg videos new suggested extension).

Thanks much!

By: tuomas

tuomas — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:51:27 +0000

The package already provides mp_ui_ogg.desktop. A wild guess about FM’s problems is that the mime file doesn’t provide any mime for *.ogg pattern. Only the magics.

I didn’t find any document for metalayer crawler, but I didn’t try very hard.

The mlc extracts the meta info from MP3s and writes them to /home/user/.meta_storage (an sqlite db which I believe the MP treats as the “Library”).

By: John Steele Scott

John Steele Scott — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:24:06 +0000

I haven’t had a chance to install the new version yet, but about adding filemanager support: I think the way to do it would be to copy /usr/share/applications/hildon/mp_ui.desktop. If your package had a clone of this file called, say, mp_ui_ogg_support.desktop, but with only the new mimetypes; I think this would do the right thing. You can use dh_desktop in your debian/rules to register/deregister the new desktop file.

Is there any documentation about the metalayer crawler? I’ve seen how the file manager uses the thumbnailer to get info about MP3s. Is the metalayer crawler different to this?