Ogg-support: Issues
The ogg-support is listed as the The Pearl for OS2008, thanks! :)
Even though the ogg-support has got nice ratings in the download page, it doesn’t work perfectly on the OS2008. Most of the issues has some sort of workaround so I decided to make a summary post of them.
Ogg-support breaks VOIP calls
Ogg-support adds Speex voice codec to the system and it seems that the VOIP client advertises it as the first choice. If both parties have it installed, it’s selected. But. The VOIP engine (or whatever) doesn’t know or just refuses to use Speex, so the VOIP stream is not actually sent, properly at least.
If you delete the Speex’ GStreamer plugin, the calls seems to work nicely.
All Oggs from Map are listed in Media Player
The Metalayer Crawler adds all known media files to the Media Player’s Library. With ogg-support also Ogg files are recognized and added to the Library. Problem is that the Map application includes almost 2000 Oggs with N810 so they are added to the Library too.
A workaround is mentioned in the ogg-support’s help forum. It requires editing the SQL database after the files are added to the Library.
File Manager doesn’t launch Media Player for Oggs
I had to modify the mime type XML a bit to get File Manager to recognize videos and audios in Ogg container separately instead of just showing all *.ogg files as e.g. audio/x-vorbis. To be specific I had to remove the *.ogg pattern from the XML file.
It seems that the hildon_mime_open_file() in libhildonmime doesn’t launch the file without the *.ogg pattern tag in XML.
No workaround for this one.
PS. Many problems are reported in the Internet Tablet Talk’s forums. I don’t follow those frequently so please notify me in the garage’s forums about possible bugs, issues or workarounds. I do get a instant mail notification about those. Thanks.
For some reason Media Player is not indexing my ogg files.
I would prefer to leave them on my UPNP server. However, it still doesn’t work with ogg files loaded onto the internal storage.
Comment by Peter Tuson — July 11, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
Media Player shows the files that Metalayer Crawler has found. It should find oggs from internal (or external) card after installing ogg-support. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t go and index remote storages like UPNP and thus Media Player doesn’t show them in the Library.
Also I’m afraid the Media Player UI might have hard coded list of media files it shows, when opened directly from it (menu -> clip -> open) and thus there is no way to get oggs opened directly with it.
Comment by tuomas — July 14, 2008 @ 10:17 pm