Arduino interaction
As promised in my previous post. So this one was a bit harder to implement, because I couldn’t find working kernel modules, and had to compile them myself. There is a good discussion about arduino in ITT forums, and other blog posts, but still this was something I wanted to try.
Nokia N810 meets an [...]
Mediaserv on Fedora core 8
Installing mediaserv on Fedora 8 is simple, but doesn’t work exactly like mediaserv Readme indicates. Here are the few steps needed to make it work.
To install all the needed mplayer/mencoder-packages, you might need the livna repository.
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
After that, all the transcoding and xml-stuff are installed.
yum install mencoder mplayer perl-XML-RSS
That last part perl-XML-RSS [...]
Videocenter with mplayer
This is the application I’ve been waiting for. But it has abug (or a feature) that needs some knowledge to bypass.
So the idea of this program is to be able to watch vidcasts & live TV easily on the go. A feature that I almost decided to implement myself But because this program [...]
IRC with N800
For reasons not specified here, I had to get IRC working on some level with my N800.
The easiest way would’ve been to use web-irc, but I wanted a better solution. First I tried to find an irc-client, but didn’t. The I tried using gaim with irc-protocol, and ended up cursing the program to the hottest [...]
DVD disk and image transcoding for N800
I needed to encode a movie, but the Media Converter didn’t seem to work with DVDs in Windows Vista.
After googling a while, I stumbled upon two programs that seem to do the job. For transcoding DVDs to N800 format (MPEG4 400×240) the open source solution MeWiG is adequate. The GUI crashes after a few minutes [...]
Some additional MPlayer testing
After my last post, MPlayer has been updated to version mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.16, and I decided to test again to further optimize my video experience. I’ve found that when you transcode your videos with 30 fps instead of 25, the effect to smoothness is for some reason very dramatic. Mayde I should also try with 24, but [...]
A few MPlayer tips for the weekend
The MPlayer from maemo has become a higly usable and pretty stable piece of software. I’m using the currently latest version 1.0_rc1-maemo.14.800 in my N800 thats available from the garage. I use a modified 770-encode.pl to transcode vidcasts etc. in my linux server.
This is the trascoding setting in the script that i use:
n800 [...]
Windows Xp on a Nokia N800
Well, sort of
This hack includes virtual display driver from ZoneOS called ZoneScreen and a VNC server for windows. For testing I used RealVNC. The Idea is, that you create a virtual screen in windows that shows up in Display settings as a normal screen. So you can drag programs and use [...]
Canola 1.0 beta 2 is out
Today these killerapps just keeps on coming…
Our friends at indt have just release a pre-release of beta 2 from a media managing software called Canola. To my knowledge, betas have been available for Nokia 770, but this one also runs on N800.
I really like Canola, now that I have finally been able to try it [...]
New theme and some mediacontrol
I decided to change my theme to something more usable - the last one was “pretty” though. This new one is a modified version of the Vertigo theme.
Now I’m again a one happy customer, because I decided to try a new program called Maemo Music Player Client. It just works. The idea is that you [...]