TouchPlayer Documentation
Posted by error454 on 10/16/2011
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TouchPlayer 1.0.7 |
How to Get TouchPlayer
TouchPlayer is distributed through a private feed, you need to add it (mobilecoder.touchpadhp.info/mcfeed) so that TouchPlayer will show up in Preware. Alternatively, if you know what you are doing, you can download the ipk directly (http://mobilecoder.touchpadhp.info/touchplayer/)
Directions for Preware
- Open Preware
- Tap the top left of the Preware screen and select Manage Feeds
- Scroll to the bottom and under New Feed, give the feed a name (any name) and enter/select the following corresponding details
- URL: mobilecoder.touchpadhp.info/mcfeed
- IS Compressed: NO
- Select Add Feed
- Again in Preware, select Update feeds
- Install (Search for TouchPlayer in Preware, select it and hit install
- Luna Restart (Preware menu, Luna Manager, Luna Restart)
Features/What’s New
1.0.7
- Added UI field to paste rtsp streams
- Added scale parameter to the play service call which basically does: args += “-vf scale=:” + inArgs.scale + ” “;)
- Playing a file now automatically kills existing mplayer instances
1.0.6a
- Modified post-install script to attempt to fix install issues. I was able to reproduce the issue on my device. I verified that after fixing the files, a simple Luna restart did not resolve the issue but a reboot did. Therefore, a reboot is now required after install
1.0.6
- Added install check
- Modified back-end launching, hopefully making emergency kill unecessary
- Now uses TTF fonts, user can choose from fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts/. This makes old font.desc junk obsolete and should also immediately support all locals
- Font scaling now works (sizes in the GUI are multipliers not points)
- New API call for getting list of fonts
- New API call for validating installation
- New API parameters for playing videos
- Updated to latest FFmpeg and mplayer as of 11/5/2011
1.0.5 (Experimental)
- Improvements to back-end mplayer launching
- Preliminary Cyrillic character support
- Move subtitles into empty black area if possible
1.0.4
- Runs mplayer underneath the hood meaning that most video formats are supported.
- NEON accelerated YUV to RGB conversion
- Pause/Fast forward/Rewind
- Subtitle support
Controls
Pause
To pause the video, single tap on the screen. You can also minimize the video window into card view. To unpause, single tap again.
Fast Forward/Rewind
To fast forward or rewind, swipe horizontally right or left. 1 finger = small increments, 2 fingers = large increments.
Subtitles On/Off
To toggle subtitles on/off, swipe down with 3 fingers. You will see a confirmation in the top/left of the video indicating the status of the subtitles.
Subtitle Index Toggle
To cycle between the available subtitles, swipe up with 3 fingers. You will see a confirmation in the top/left of the video indicating the name of the current set of subtitles.
UI
Font Size
The font size determines the size of the subtitles.
Emergency Kill
As of 1.0.6, this should no longer be needed but I’ve left it in just in case. Please report if you have threads that aren’t being cleaned up.
I apologize in advance that this button is even necessary. I have noticed that sometimes mplayer does not clean up all of the threads that it spins up, occasionally this can cause issues launching a new instance of mplayer. This button is here to resolve these issues. Pressing this button will kill all running instances of mplayer.
Q. When should I press this button?
A. If suddenly you find that videos are not launching, press this button and then try launching your video again.
Q. Can anything bad happen if I hit this button when I don’t need to?
A. Nothing bad will happen, feel free to press it without fear!
Service Calls
For folks that would like to leverage TouchPlayer there are 3 service calls available:
play
Plays a given file or stream.
Sample service definition.
{
name: "playFile",
kind: "PalmService",
service: "palm://com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service",
method: "play",
onSuccess: "fileStarted"
}
Arguments
source: string – The full path to file
audio: boolean – Whether to enable audio or not
font: string – The name of the font (for a list of names see below)
fontsize: integer
fontscale: integer – How large to scale the font
charset: “en”
movesubs: boolean – Whether to move subs into the black area
onsuccess: function – A callback to be called once the play command completes
scale: int – Adds the command -vf scale=:scale
Sample call
this.$.playFile.call(
{
source: "/media/internal/movie.mp4",
audio: true,
fontscale: 2,
font: "times",
movesubs: false
});
killall
Kills all mplayer processes
Sample service definition
{
name: "emergencyKill",
kind: "PalmService",
service: "palm://com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service",
method: "killall"
}
Sample call
//Kill all instances of mplayer this.$.emergencyKill.call();
getfonts
Returns a list of fonts stored in /usr/share/fonts
Sample service definition
{
name: "getFontList",
kind: enyo.PalmService,
service: "palm://com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service",
method: "getfonts",
onSuccess: "gotFonts"
}
Sample success handler:
gotFonts: function(inSender, inResponse, inRequest){
//Populate a font dialog box
this.$.fontName.setItems(inResponse.reply);
}
Help!
For help, please post a comment below. Note that comments are moderated and may not appear once you submit them. I will receive an email when you leave a comment.
The mplayer faq may also be of interest.
The following is the output of the FFmpeg configuration step, this shows you which codecs are compiled in.
source path . C compiler gcc ARCH arm (generic) big-endian no runtime cpu detection no ARMv5TE enabled yes ARMv6 enabled yes ARMv6T2 enabled yes ARM VFP enabled yes IWMMXT enabled no NEON enabled yes debug symbols no strip symbols yes optimize for size no optimizations yes static yes shared no postprocessing support yes new filter support yes network support yes threading support pthreads SDL support yes Sun medialib support no libdxva2 enabled no libva enabled no libvdpau enabled no AVISynth enabled no libcelt enabled no frei0r enabled no libcdio support no libdc1394 support no libdirac enabled no libfaac enabled no libaacplus enabled no libgsm enabled no libmodplug enabled no libmp3lame enabled no libnut enabled no libopencore-amrnb support no libopencore-amrwb support no libopencv support no libopenjpeg enabled no libpulse enabled no librtmp enabled no libschroedinger enabled no libspeex enabled no libstagefright-h264 enabled no libtheora enabled no libutvideo enabled no libvo-aacenc support no libvo-amrwbenc support no libvorbis enabled no libvpx enabled no libx264 enabled no libxavs enabled no libxvid enabled no openal enabled no zlib enabled yes bzlib enabled no Enabled decoders: aac dirac mp1 aac_latm dnxhd mp1float aasc dpx mp2 ac3 dsicinaudio mp2float adpcm_4xm dsicinvideo mp3 adpcm_adx dvbsub mp3adu adpcm_ct dvdsub mp3adufloat adpcm_ea dvvideo mp3float adpcm_ea_maxis_xa dxa mp3on4 adpcm_ea_r1 eac3 mp3on4float adpcm_ea_r2 eacmv mpc7 adpcm_ea_r3 eamad mpc8 adpcm_ea_xas eatgq mpeg1video adpcm_g722 eatgv mpeg2video adpcm_g726 eatqi mpeg4 adpcm_ima_amv eightbps mpegvideo adpcm_ima_dk3 eightsvx_exp msmpeg4v1 adpcm_ima_dk4 eightsvx_fib msmpeg4v2 adpcm_ima_ea_eacs eightsvx_raw msmpeg4v3 adpcm_ima_ea_sead escape124 msrle adpcm_ima_iss ffv1 msvideo1 adpcm_ima_qt ffvhuff mszh adpcm_ima_smjpeg flac mxpeg adpcm_ima_wav flashsv nellymoser adpcm_ima_ws flashsv2 nuv adpcm_ms flic pam adpcm_sbpro_2 flv pbm adpcm_sbpro_3 fourxm pcm_alaw adpcm_sbpro_4 fraps pcm_bluray adpcm_swf frwu pcm_dvd adpcm_thp g723_1 pcm_f32be adpcm_xa g729 pcm_f32le adpcm_yamaha gif pcm_f64be alac gsm pcm_f64le als gsm_ms pcm_lxf amrnb h261 pcm_mulaw amrwb h263 pcm_s16be amv h263i pcm_s16le anm h264 pcm_s16le_planar ansi huffyuv pcm_s24be ape idcin pcm_s24daud ass idf pcm_s24le asv1 iff_byterun1 pcm_s32be asv2 iff_ilbm pcm_s32le atrac1 imc pcm_s8 atrac3 indeo2 pcm_u16be aura indeo3 pcm_u16le aura2 indeo5 pcm_u24be avs interplay_dpcm pcm_u24le bethsoftvid interplay_video pcm_u32be bfi jpeg2000 pcm_u32le bink jpegls pcm_u8 binkaudio_dct jv pcm_zork binkaudio_rdft kgv1 pcx bintext kmvc pgm bmp lagarith pgmyuv c93 loco pgssub cavs mace3 pictor cdgraphics mace6 png cinepak mdec ppm cljr mimic prores cook mjpeg prores_lgpl cscd mjpegb ptx cyuv mlp qcelp dca mmvideo qdm2 dfa motionpixels qdraw qpeg svq1 vp3 qtrle svq3 vp5 r10k targa vp6 r210 theora vp6a ra_144 thp vp6f ra_288 tiertexseqvideo vp8 rawvideo tiff vqa rl2 tmv wavpack roq truehd wmalossless roq_dpcm truemotion1 wmapro rpza truemotion2 wmav1 rv10 truespeech wmav2 rv20 tscc wmavoice rv30 tta wmv1 rv40 twinvq wmv2 s302m txd wmv3 sgi ulti wmv3image shorten utvideo wnv1 sipr v210 ws_snd1 smackaud v210x xan_dpcm smacker vb xan_wc3 smc vc1 xan_wc4 snow vc1image xbin sol_dpcm vcr1 xl sonic vmdaudio xsub sp5x vmdvideo yop srt vmnc zlib sunrast vorbis zmbv Enabled encoders: a64multi h263 pcm_u24le a64multi5 h263p pcm_u32be aac huffyuv pcm_u32le ac3 jpeg2000 pcm_u8 ac3_fixed jpegls pcx adpcm_adx ljpeg pgm adpcm_g722 mjpeg pgmyuv adpcm_g726 mp2 png adpcm_ima_qt mpeg1video ppm adpcm_ima_wav mpeg2video prores adpcm_ms mpeg4 qtrle adpcm_swf msmpeg4v2 ra_144 adpcm_yamaha msmpeg4v3 rawvideo alac msvideo1 roq amv nellymoser roq_dpcm ass pam rv10 asv1 pbm rv20 asv2 pcm_alaw sgi bmp pcm_f32be snow dca pcm_f32le sonic dnxhd pcm_f64be sonic_ls dpx pcm_f64le srt dvbsub pcm_mulaw svq1 dvdsub pcm_s16be targa dvvideo pcm_s16le tiff eac3 pcm_s24be v210 ffv1 pcm_s24daud vorbis ffvhuff pcm_s24le wmav1 flac pcm_s32be wmav2 flashsv pcm_s32le wmv1 flashsv2 pcm_s8 wmv2 flv pcm_u16be xsub g723_1 pcm_u16le zlib gif pcm_u24be zmbv h261 Enabled hwaccels: Enabled parsers: aac dvdsub mpegaudio aac_latm flac mpegvideo ac3 h261 pnm cavsvideo h263 rv30 dca h264 rv40 dirac mjpeg vc1 dnxhd mlp vp3 dvbsub mpeg4video vp8 Enabled demuxers: aac image2 pcm_u24le ac3 image2pipe pcm_u32be act ingenient pcm_u32le adf ipmovie pcm_u8 aea iss pmp aiff iv8 pva amr ivf qcp anm jv r3d apc latm rawvideo ape lmlm4 rl2 applehttp loas rm asf lxf roq ass m4v rpl au matroska rso avi microdvd rtp avs mjpeg rtsp bethsoftvid mlp sap bfi mm sdp bink mmf segafilm bintext mov shorten bit mp3 siff c93 mpc smacker caf mpc8 sol cavsvideo mpegps sox cdg mpegts spdif daud mpegtsraw srt dfa mpegvideo str dirac msnwc_tcp swf dnxhd mtv thp dsicin mvi tiertexseq dts mxf tmv dv mxg truehd dxa nc tta ea nsv tty ea_cdata nut txd eac3 nuv vc1 ffm ogg vc1t ffmetadata oma vmd filmstrip pcm_alaw voc flac pcm_f32be vqf flic pcm_f32le w64 flv pcm_f64be wav fourxm pcm_f64le wc3 g722 pcm_mulaw wsaud g723_1 pcm_s16be wsvqa g729 pcm_s16le wtv gsm pcm_s24be wv gxf pcm_s24le xa h261 pcm_s32be xbin h263 pcm_s32le xmv h264 pcm_s8 xwma idcin pcm_u16be yop idf pcm_u16le yuv4mpegpipe iff pcm_u24be Enabled muxers: a64 ipod pcm_s16le ac3 ivf pcm_s24be adts latm pcm_s24le aiff m4v pcm_s32be amr matroska pcm_s32le asf matroska_audio pcm_s8 asf_stream md5 pcm_u16be ass microdvd pcm_u16le au mjpeg pcm_u24be avi mlp pcm_u24le avm2 mmf pcm_u32be bit mov pcm_u32le caf mp2 pcm_u8 cavsvideo mp3 psp crc mp4 rawvideo daud mpeg1system rm dirac mpeg1vcd roq dnxhd mpeg1video rso dts mpeg2dvd rtp dv mpeg2svcd rtsp eac3 mpeg2video sap ffm mpeg2vob segment ffmetadata mpegts sox filmstrip mpjpeg spdif flac mxf srt flv mxf_d10 swf framecrc null tg2 framemd5 nut tgp g722 ogg timecode_v2 g723_1 pcm_alaw truehd gif pcm_f32be vc1t gxf pcm_f32le voc h261 pcm_f64be wav h263 pcm_f64le webm h264 pcm_mulaw wtv image2 pcm_s16be yuv4mpegpipe image2pipe Enabled protocols: applehttp md5 rtmps cache mmsh rtmpt concat mmst rtmpte crypto pipe rtp file rtmp tcp gopher rtmpe udp http Enabled filters: abuffer deshake nullsrc abuffersink drawbox overlay aconvert fade pad aevalsrc fieldorder pixdesctest aformat fifo rgbtestsrc amovie format scale anull gradfun select anullsink hflip setdar anullsrc hqdn3d setpts aresample lut setsar ashowinfo lutrgb settb blackframe lutyuv showinfo boxblur movie slicify buffer mp split buffersink mptestsrc testsrc color negate transpose copy noformat unsharp crop null vflip cropdetect nullsink yadif delogo Enabled bsfs: aac_adtstoasc mjpeg2jpeg mp3_header_decompress chomp mjpega_dump_header noise dump_extradata mov2textsub remove_extradata h264_mp4toannexb mp3_header_compress text2movsub imx_dump_header Enabled indevs: Enabled outdevs: License: GPL version 2 or later Creating config.mak and config.h... config.h is unchanged libavutil/avconfig.h is unchanged
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Samyuktha Tatipelli said
is evrybody able to view in a full screen mode??im not abl to do tht…can anybody help me regarding this issue..im using touch player 1.0.4
SaintGermain said
You are a star !
I’ve tried and it works perfectly.
Now where is this ‘Donate’ button ? ;-)
Thank you so much !
error454 said
Glad to hear someone managed to get it working ;)
SaintGermain said
Is is possible to manually configure mplayer with a .mplayer/config file ?
It would help using functions that you haven’t added yet in Touchplayer (for instance to display the subtitles in the black bar/band).
Thanks !
error454 said
Put your config in /var/home/root/.mplayer/config
SaintGermain said
I’ve tried but it doesn’t work.
To display the subtitles in the black bar, as explained here:
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPlayer_FAQ#Subtitle.2FOSD
I tried putting in /var/home/root/.mplayer/config:
vf=expand=:-100::2
But nothing happened (it works on my PC).
error454 said
Thanks for responding. Put your file in /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and it will work.
SaintGermain said
Indeed with /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf it works.
Now I have my subtitles in the black bar, neat !
I’m more and more happy… ;-)
Thank you very much !
error454 said
Thanks for the note, bitmap fonts aren’t here to stay so this will sort itself out eventually.
Play mkv, avi, flv and wmv files on webOS Touchpad | Coding for Mobile Platforms said
[...] 1.0.4 is now available. [...]
corben9 said
just tested great port :-) tested most filetypes. There seems to be a frameskip or audiosync issue when using mkv. Video is laging. Do you think its too slow hardware ? A 720p mkv plays but video starts lagging soon.
error454 said
I think it’s possible but haven’t been able to work out all the details on audiosyncing and frameskipping for MKV files. You can read the drama here. MKVs play about 50x faster than the last release but still work to do.
Yak said
hmm, i updated to 1.05 and i noticed something. Did the player lose it’s ability to track? I know in the old version i could tap in the bottom and it would go to where it is (tap mid bottom and it would take me to about half way point of the file i’m watching. top the front half and it would take roughly where it is) but that doesn’t work anymore. Is that feature still in there because i generally watch a file in spurts and so i’d like to jump alot faster. I tried fast forwarding but it only takes me a minute farther ahead. Fast forwarding a 2 hour file kinda would take too long :(
Thanks
error454 said
That was a feature of ffplay, mplayer does not have such a feature right now. You are actually the only person to ever praise it, all the other comments indicated that people hated that feature because of accidental screen taps! I briefly looked around to see if there might be a config file option to increase this but did not find one. It’s possible I could add a 3 finger swipe that tracked at a much greater rate. What would you recommend? 15 minutes? 30?
Yak said
a % wouldn’t be bad. I’m guessing there is no way of tracking using the [ l l l l l l l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] part? Just tab one of the sections to get to where you want to be since each of those “bars” is a % of the file isn’t it? My guess would be maybe a 3 finger swipe would be 3 of those bars or something?
urq20v said
Hi.I have just installed 1.0.5 after having problems with the preware update.Works well,with only one possible small problem.After playing a file,the screen returns to the touchplayer file list and I have to select the file again to replay it.In 1.0.4 I was able to touch the screen and the video would play again as it had returned to the beginning and stopped.Have I missed a setting somewhere?
error454 said
Are you saying that when a file has reached the end that it used to return back to the beginning and stop playback? Whereas now the video exits completely?
urq20v said
Yes,that’s correct.I play short videos I have made myself,so it was convenient to be able replay them a few times without having to restart them from the file list.
Also,the file list goes to card view after the video has finished.
Robin. said
This is great! Thank you so much!
Now I can watch all those ‘Youtubes’ I’ve been saving on my PC!
As a fussy Artist though I’d really like to show off a more COLOURFUL Touchplayer ICON on my TP! When you get time!! :)
error454 said
As a fussy artist, maybe you could provide me with a new icon? :)
Robin. said
PS.. Also is it feasable to move the white dots and dashes (III….I) Progess Bar into empty black area if possible? It would simply mean on ‘Pause’, that the picture frame is clear of obstructions for viewing still frames.. or will this interfere with the positioning of the Subtitles?
Thanks anyway!
:)
error454 said
Can you give me more details on this issue please?
error454 said
This is technically feasible but not something I would look into short term, the code to draw the OSD is deep in mplayer and I’m not ready to go down there and figure out what exactly is going on. Sounds like a good user contribution waiting to happen though ;) Do some research on mplayer configuration options, there might be an mplayer.conf setting that will do that.
Greg said
Thanks for the update.
TouchPlayer provides a fast way to navigate files on the touchpad. I don’t know if this is possible, but with a future update, would you be able to make the directory remember the last position when navigating back, rather than jumping back to the top of the list?
error454 said
Yes it is possible.
mrbears said
I am running 1.0.5 and I have to say it is fantastic. Great job!
I do have one quick question. There is option to change the font size, but making changes to it does not seem to do anything. Specifically, I was hoping to change the subtitle size, as 14 point is a bit too small for me. When I close the app and open again, it does not remember I have changed from 14 point font as it remains at 14 point. Has anyone able to change the size of subtitle fonts and make it stick when touchplayer is opened again?
error454 said
The option to change font sizes does have an affect but it is based on the resolution of your video since these are bitmap fonts. To actually increase the size of the displayed font you can look at putting an option like: subfont-text-scale into your mplayer.conf, see a previous comment for the correct destination file and google subfont-text-scale.
mrbears said
Thank you for your suggestion.
I created mplayer.conf file. The problem is that I am having hard time accessing /usr/local folder. I have two browsers, internalz pro and Gemini. I currently have mplayer.conf file in my download folder, but it won’t let me access /usr/local folder in order to make /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf from internalz pro nor Gemini. Any suggestions?
error454 said
You need to either use the homebrew version of Internalz (from preware) or download Novaterm and run that from your pc to get a terminal over your usb cable. If you go novaterm then be sure to get the 32 or 64 bit edition based on your pc.
mrbears said
Thanks for your suggestion. It turns out that I had to go into preference in internalz to turn on the mastermode in order to get into /usr/local folder. I have placed /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf in my touchpad with command
subfont-text-scale=”10″
That was the only lines I had included in mplayer.conf file.
When I opened up touchplayer, there were no changes in the subtitle font size. Is the command line I inserted proper?
error454 said
It’s possible that this has no affect on bitmap fonts (which are being used). You can try getting rid of the quotes but may need to wait until TTF fonts are being used:
subfont-text-scale=10
SaintGermain said
I ran today in the “mplayer thread” issue. Several instances of mplayer were not killed, even with the “Emergency kill” button.
I tried Luna restart + Emergency kill, but it doesn’t work.
I ended up using a manual “killall mplayer” in a terminal which took care of the problem.
Not sure why your emergency button doesn’t work.
Would it be possible to add some switchable “logging” to a file to Touchplayer in order to debug issues ?
error454 said
Were you running 1.0.4 or 1.0.5? I have been debugging this issue. The emergency button actually runs a ‘killall mplayer’ in the background, so I am wondering if there is an issue with NodeJS not being able to start a new process.
SaintGermain said
I was running 1.0.4.
I’ll let you know if I have the same problem with 1.0.5 (haven’t updated yet)
sipp11 (@sipp11) said
v. 1.0.5 works fantastically.
Thanks a lot.
ylere said
Thank you very much for working on this project. When playing large mkvs over the network (mounted with UberKernel&cifs), the video slows down while the audio is played normally and therefore the signals are out of sync very fast. I think the player should pause and wait until enough data is buffered instead of this strange behaviour.
error454 said
This is a known issue that I’m continually looking into.
error454 said
Thanks for the note
David said
inverse control is when you want to go forward, you swipe right to left, and to go backward, you swipe left to right.
error454 said
I do not believe AVIs are hardware accelerated. Right now the only thing I’m certain of is that part of the MKV color space conversion is hardware accelerated. I am still looking for a Cyrillic font package that includes the on screen display graphics.
djsands said
Hi, frist I wanna say thanks for all your work. I just installed the 1.0.4 from the precentral website and was wondering how fast the two finger swip is suppose to move it forward. It’s going about 1 min is this right? The one finger is doing 10 sec. Is there any way to pick a postion with the time bar in the middle of the screen?
error454 said
Those speeds are the defaults set by mplayer. There is currently not a way to pick a position with the time bar.
djsands said
I’m also getting stuck, when I try to play certain MKVs, the player locks up and the kill button does not work. (using ver 1.0.4 downloaded late last night from precentral website) You have to shut down the touchpad and restart to get it to work again. I can tell the card is still open because if you try to connect it to a desktop it tells you that you need to close all cards and it will not connect, even though there are no cards visable. Also wondering if there could be a way to pick audio streams. Thanks
error454 said
I am investigating other ways to accomplish this. There are controls to pick audio streams in mplayer, just not a swipe control yet.
Gilles said
Any word on returning the white visual seeking markers to 1.0.5 which were present in 1.0.4?
Thanks,
error454 said
unless you are using the cy charset, they should be there.
Autourdupc said
Dear sir,
Thank you very much for your great job !
1) Using 1.0.4 version, I found that the way to fast forward is not fast enought…
The previous version, typing on the screen was good… I thnk a mixte beetween old/actual version can be more confortable
Typing onto the time line could drag the video to the right time (like previously)
Swiping horizontally as actual to move forward / backward as desired.
2) Under WebOS 3.0.4, seem that some video are no fast enought sometimes. Need to reboot system (quit / reload player is not enought). They can be very very slow… I did not have this issue before.
3) Can we imagine the connexion to an UPnP media server, like mediatomb, to collect video ?
Once again, many thanks for your great job.
Regards,
Laurent (called autourdupc) – France – Lyon
error454 said
the old fast forward behavior was part of ffplay. I am still working on basic functionality before tackling this. BHome will be integrating with touchplayer for upnp.
Migu Bel (@migu_bel) said
Thank you very much.
Is there a way to allow streaming from e.g. an HTTP stream? (like VLC)
It would be awesome to be able to stream TV from the Dreambox (The dreambox is an HTTP .ts stream on port 31344)
tx!
rabotash said
Thanks for your work.
TouchPlayer plays almost all very good and smooth.
But please add internal/external audiotrack support.
And cyrillic types in subitles (ass) sometimes not working.
error454 said
http://mobilecoder.touchpadhp.info/touchplayer/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer_1.0.4_all.ipk
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Felix said
Hi!
I noticed, that after the enyo/maps update I was able to install touchplayer on my trusty Pre2. Avis run great, I’m just having the issue, that the video is being shon in portrait mode and therefore strechting the image. Could I choose with a mplayer.config file, what screen orientation the player uses?
I’m running 1.0.4 (Precentral page) on a EU unlocked Pre2.
error454 said
You *can* use an mplayer.conf file but I’m not immediately aware of what config file options will lead you to success. Search these comment threads for my previous reply where I indicate the correct location for mplayer.conf
error454 said
Those are normal
pechkin said
Is this available in TouchPlayer port:
New versions of mplayer support true type fonts so this package should not be used. Get some true type font (arialuni) and copy it as ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf. Then run mplayer open preferences and choose the correct encoding.
from: http://georgi.unixsol.org/
dtlogg said
Sorry for being ignorant about the terminal use, but how do you start mplayer in a terminal?
Do I just bring up Xecutah and then type mplayer? DO I have t go to the directly first? If that is true, what is the path for mplayer?
I am on 3.0.4
Steve
error454 said
You will find mplayer here:
/media/cryptofs/apps/usr/palm/services/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service/
error454 said
There are some issues here that I am trying to solve. At this point I don’t understand why the install works fine on some devices and not on others, especially since I install/uninstall this app upwards of 20-30 times a day on my TouchPad. The only advice I can give for now is that when I install, I first uninstall the old version then do an install and then perform a Luna Restart through the Preware menu (Luna Manager). This always works for me. I am working on a better method of launching files that I believe may be contributing to the problems people are facing, I hope to have an update within the next few weeks but haven’t had much time to devote to it!
error454 said
You are saying that the mplayer file is 0 size?? It should be 10 MB (10844772).
dolo54 said
thanks for the quick response. Will try reinstall and let you know.
dolo54 said
Update: I got it to work doing the same steps Robin describes below. webos doctor to 3.0.4 – quickinstalled preware – added mobilecoder.touchpadhp.info/mcfeed to preware feeds – installed touchplayer 1.0.5 – luna restart and it works, streaming off nas with bhome pro was almost working but choppy. installed govnah with uberkernal to overclock to 1.5khz and now streams perfect. lot of steps, but nice result!
Robin. said
So did 1.0.5 run OK as a straight download into 3.0.4?
I couldn’t get it to function this way and had to fresh install 3.0.4 then 1.0.4 FIRST, before 1.0.5.. just not exactly clear from your post that’s all!
Glad it’s OK anyway>
:)
error454 said
If it is 0 size then the package did not install correctly.
Robin. said
Here is my post from ‘Precentral’ regarding TouchPlayer V.1.0.4/5 in webOS 3.0.4, in case it is of any assistance in at least getting the Player functioning until the Dev can allocate time to engineer a more ‘stable’ version?:
~~~
[Thanks for letting us know how it worked for you though Turbo_Twiglet.
Did anyone try to install TouchPlayer on a fresh 3.0.4 Touchpad after using WebOS Doctor? It would be nice to get some confirmation before I go down that route.]
~~~
Yes..
I think something is probably ‘amiss’.. I have Doctored to 3.0.4.. installed Preware.. added Touchplayer Private feed.. downloaded 1.0.5 & installed it with required JS & File Man. Services.. executed a full system restart.. opened Touchplayer.. opened a video file and.. same green highlight ONLY.. no play!
What’s the verdict now please?
Do I reinstall 3.0.4 and 1.0.4 instead?
or:
Uninstall 1.0.5 and reinstall 1.0.4?
EDIT: Later.. No, I just tried that (with full restart) and only get the same problem of ‘green file highlight’ only.
I’m going to Doctor to 3.0.4 again and try installing only 1.0.4.
EDIT: Even later.. yes.. that worked.. and updated to 1.0.5 OK too!
(PS. ‘Touch Vol’ seemed to mess things up a bit though! Sticking with ‘Increase Vol’ for now).
Thanks!
:)
dtlogg said
I am not that familiar with Xterm for the touchpad. How do you run mplayer using Xterm? Just want to try touchplayer on my touchpad using 3.0.4.
Steve
error454 said
If you aren’t familiar with running a linux terminal then this will probably be a frustrating waste of your time.
error454 said
I agree, re-doctoring should be completely unnecessary if all you are doing is trying to make sure you’re getting a clean install. I am in the middle of writing an install validation method and the things that it checks for are:
If you want to remove all the files for Touchplayer:
/media/cryptofs/apps/usr/palm/applications/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer/*
/media/cryptofs/apps/usr/palm/services/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service/*
/var/palm/ls2/services/pub/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service*
/var/palm/ls2/services/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service*
dsporcic said
as per SaintGermain’s solution below, modifying two files 3,4 solved it for me. this was after uninstalling 1.0.5 a few times which appeared not to remove all related files or clean up correctly. So then I read SaintGermain’s thread below, reinstalled 1.0.5 and made those two file changes and it now works ! thanks again.
error454 said
Ok, so run-homebrew-js-service exists, that’s a good start. However it sounds like the service call is still not being called as root…. have you tried install Internalz Pro and seeing if you can browse to folders other than /media/internal? This is a good test to ensure that the homebrew service is working properly.
supreme said
Thanks for the prompt reply. Yes, I have Internalz Pro installed, and I am able to browse through all the folders, infact I actually made the file editing through Internalz pro for the permAssistant.js file from the homeBrewGood = false to true value.
Just reading another post indicating that a Device Restart instead of Luna Restart might works so I uninstalled Touchplayer again, did a Device Restart, installed Touchplayer again. Did another Device Restarted. Launched the Touchplayer again and now I get the same two errors.
(Failed) Service not running as root
and
(failed) The homebrew-js-framework could not be found.
I’ll just deleting the entry for the touchplayer in the jailuser file again (fixes/bypasses the service not running as root error) as recommended by post #47 and modifying those two files to reflect Exec=/var/usr/bin/run-homebrew-js-service but I am stilling getting the (failed) The homebrew-js-framework could not be found, but as stated, I have verified it is there.
error454 said
BHome works great, TouchPlayer not so great since 3.0.4 rolled out and I switched to mplayer. Hoping that gets solved in the next update.
dtlogg said
Ok, so I learned how linux commands work. Figured how to change directories run mplayer and a avi file. not hthat different from the old DOS days. But when I run “mplayer ccc.avi” from the command line(the avi file is in the same directory as mplayer) the video and sound starts but there is a large black box that covers almost 95% of the screen. I see that the video is running in the 5% top of the video and the sound works ok.
I have tried it with 2 avi files.
How do I get rid of the black box to see the video?
Steve
error454 said
are you running this through xecutah or through a terminal on your pc? The player may be taking over your existing terminal if ran through xecutah, you may need to change the DISPLAY environment variable to change that behavior.
dtlogg said
I am using xecutah. If I try the same thing using my a terminal through my PC(through quick install), the video starts then stops almost imediately.
How do I change the DISPLAY environment variable?
Steve
Thanks for all the help by the way.
error454 said
export DISPLAY=blah
look at the message mplayer gives you, could be a file issue.
dtlogg said
Is there a link to find all of the command line options for mplayer?
Steve
lasviguas said
Everything you wanna know about mplayer…
Website:http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
Documentation: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.txt
Pierre-Yves
lasviguas said
One more thing…you can use the same command line options as Touchplayer (ffplayAssistant.js).
“-quiet -lavdopts fast:skiploopfilter=all:threads=2 -cache 8192 -cache-min 0 -vf expand=:-60::2 “.
Error454, many thanks for your great job…
(Sorry for my poor english…)
SaintGermain said
I’ve managed to trigger the problem of “zombie” thread (or non-working Touchplayer on update 3.0.4) and managed to solve the issue.
Here is what I did:
1) Restart your device
2) Check /var/palm/data/jailusers, if it only contains a line about Touchplayer, delete the file
3) Remove the file /var/palm/ls2/services/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service
4) Remove the file /var/palm/ls2/services/pub/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service
It also work if in the files 3 and 4, I replace the line
“/usr/bin/run-js-service -n”
by
“/var/usr/bin/run-homebrew-js-service”
I have no idea why it works though, but at least it works ! ;-)
Hope that it will help you !
dsporcic said
you’re the best ! those changes to files 3 and 4 fixed it for me too . did not do the other steps. see my thread but my situation was 1.0.5 install on clean webos 3.0.4. did not want to doctor but instead just fix the problem. was waiting for the magic bullet which this seems to be. Congrats! and thank you again. Now Error454 may want to add his comments if this is indeed a workable solution and there are no runaway processes or other side effects I’m not aware of.
Bryan said
Removing files 3 and 4 is not fixing the green-highlight problem for me. Is there a reboot or luna restart in there that I’m missing?
dsporcic said
Just updated to Touchplayer 1.0.6 on my first TP where 1.0.5 was working after a webos 3.0.2 to 3.0.4 upgrade. had to fix it the same way as per my post here based on SaintGermains suggestion to modify, not delete, files 3,4.
lasviguas said
I made some changes to your program (v1.0.5).
This allows subscribers of French ISP “Free”, to receive broadcast TV channels with the RTSP protocol.
I changed the files “FileBrowser.js” (addition of a pick list of TV channels + a launch button for the “Freebox TV”) and “ffplayAssistant.js” (launch in RTSP stream from the channel selected in the file “FileBrowser.js”).
I also changed the default fonts (ISO-8859-1) to see the subtitles with a correct encoding.
You did an amazing job, and it allows me to use my TP with great pleasure.
(Thanks to “Google Translator” for help …)
error454 said
Fantastic! S’il vous plaît envoyer une demande de tirer sur github (https://github.com/error454/TouchPlayer) avec vos modifications. Vous pouvez trouver une explication ici (http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/) Je ne sais pas si il ya des instructions en français, désolé! Le système utilise maintenant la police des polices TTF, afin que vos changements de police peut-être pas nécessaire maintenant.
Migu Bel (@migu_bel) said
Great,
this looks exactly what I ‘d need for the dreambox ! :)
Can u share the code?
Et en francais :)
Ca pourrait marcher pour ma dreambox (http streaming) ? Si oui, pourrais tu partager le code à configurer?
mci
tx
error454 said
mplayer: https://github.com/error454/mplayer-webos
ffmpeg: https://github.com/error454/FFmpeg
touchplayer: https://github.com/error454/TouchPlayer
guynux said
Streaming from the dreambox (old DM7020S with enigma) works with mplayer \o/
I’m making some tests concerning the image quality versus audio delays :
- good image (but sd) -> audio delay
- poorer resolution (but ok) -> no audio delay
I have to start mplayer with the command line and I’m not a developer, so if Error454 could just add a button on the interface, I think it could do the job pretty well. It could be the same button as the RTSP one, but always launching the same mplayer sentence (no needed options).
A more complex process, could be a script with some tests :
- make first the DM wakeup and/or control if there is a working DM on the LAN with :
http://ip_of_dreambox/cgi-bin/admin?command=wakeup
note that if it is soon awake, it displays “Enigma doesn’t sleep”
- optionally display the channel info (get first line only) :
http://ip_of_dreambox/cgi-bin/channelinfo
-> box : watch “channel” : yes/no
- then launch mplayer with a dedicated sentence
Note that changing the channel is a more complex job, out of this purpose. We can always make this through the DM,s web interface, before launching mplayer.
Consider also that I was only able to display the live channels, not the recordings (cache and performance issues).
If Error454 is interested, I can make further tests on an alpha version.
Thanks for your returns
guynux said
Could we make some test with these two modified files for the “Free” ISP (FileBrowser.js+ffplayAssistant.js) ?
Thanks
Duane (@duanecato) said
Just installed on my new Touchpad, works great! Kudos on an awesome job. Where can I donate?
error454 said
You can donate by helping people install/troubleshoot their problems.
Larry Phillips said
Installed 1.0.6
When i play a song (mp3), I see no way to stop it. A single tap (on the song title) just starts another instance and I end up with an overlapping song. Emergency kill stops the song, but the overlapping is pretty serious. Too easy to do inadvertently. Tapping in a non-title area does nothing.
Two suggestions for you
1. Make the ‘..’ for parent directory something the average non-techie will understand
2. Document that the video plays in a separate card, so the user won’t have to puzzle out a way to get back to the main page.
You’re getting there… Keep up the good work.
error454 said
Songs have no video, so they don’t launch a visible window, I didn’t think people would play music with touchplayer so many great audio players on webos.
dsporcic said
see post 47. fixed my 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 upgrade the same way as per SaintGermains suggestion to modify files 3,4
Daniel said
does the sequence of installing matters? I installed the touchplayer before filemgr before I found out filemgr is required for touchplayer. But then my touchplayer never properly works
dsporcic said
For what it’s worth… curious if you try SaintGermain’s suggestion as per post 47: (however don’t actually remove those files in 3,4 – just modify as stated:
3) Remove the file /var/palm/ls2/services/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service
4) Remove the file /var/palm/ls2/services/pub/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service
It also work if in the files 3 and 4, I replace the line
“/usr/bin/run-js-service -n”
by
“/var/usr/bin/run-homebrew-js-service”
I have no idea why it works though, but at least it works !
——–
Error454, as per my previous posts, I do have 1.0.6 working as well due to this change. Curious to hear your feedback… is this an acceptable solution or are there any side-affects ?
error454 said
I think this is perfectly acceptable, I’ve always been a little confused about why there are the extra files in there. I think I might just bake this into the install script, if it works, it works.
CaptainFabulous said
I was having the same problems with 1.0.6 and homebrew-js-framework. After looking at the files indicated in post #47 I realized that both
/var/palm/ls2/services/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service
and
/var/palm/ls2/services/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service.service
were trying to do the same job, that is, both are assigning themselves the name “com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service”. Since the /var/palm/ls2/services/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service.service files have the correct exec string I just deleted both of the /var/palm/ls2/services/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service files (from prv and pub) and restarted. Works like a charm now.
CaptainFabulous said
Because I’m somewhat anal retentive I removed the extra .service from both files, restarted, and it’s still working like a charm.
error454 said
Thanks for the info, hopefully other folks will have similar success.
supreme said
I followed Turboyoshi’s advice and did a “shutdown” of the touchpad and it fixed the homebrew-js-service frameworks could not be found issue after following all steps on Post #47.
So Luna Restart, and Device Restart does not work. Shutdown is required.
I can play .avi files now, now finally able to pause a video, this is great!
Han Jun Kwang said
Turns out there were some zombie processes of mplayer… I managed to kill them, removed all TouchPlayer directories and am attempting yet another installation now…
Han Jun Kwang said
SaintGermain’s suggestion as per post 47 worked for me!
error454 said
Thanks for the feedback, hopefully this helps others.
pechkin said
I’ve tried 1.06 and it works perfectly with cyrillic.
Thank you very much :)
error454 said
Thank you, overwhelming evidence shows that I’m an idiot. I’ve updated the post-install scripts to do this automatically.
Ed said
I’ve tried installing Touchplayer several times last night 1.06a from the feed above. Everytime it gets stuck in validating install. Once I left it for 30 mins and came back to it and it was still validating. Am I doing something wrong?
Internalz Pro is installed and working, homebrew-js is also installed.
error454 said
The install validation should only take 3-5 seconds. Did you reboot the device after install?
Ed said
Yes I did.
Thanks for your reply =)
I am running 3.04.
With these patches installed from preware:
Ad Blocker
Faster Card Animations HYPER Version
Muffle System Logging
Remove Dropped Packet Logging
Remove Tap Ripple
Unthrottle Download Manager
Service:
FileMgr v2.0.7
Linux Apps:
EOM Overlord Monitoring
GNU Patch
Homebrew JS Service Framework v1.01
Lsdiff
Remove Untrusted SSL Certs
Applications:
Preware v1.8.5
Internalz Pro v1.5.0
error454 said
See my email.
guynux said
@ Lasviguas
Could you confirm that you can receive broadcast TV channels with the RTSP protocol (Free ISP). I cannot :-(
My test make me think that mplayer had be compiled against an old version of live555. Am I wrong ?
More information please !
Error454, could you relay by email ? Thanks a lot
lasviguas said
Bon, je vais la faire en francais…
Mon environnement Freebox v5, Touchpad en 3.0.2 (parce que sous 3.0.4 le browser me rendait fou !!!)
Prérequis pour faire fonctionner le multiposte de la Freebox sur la HP Touchpad:
- évidemment avoir souscrit à l’option TV chez Free
- sur l’interface de gestion du routeur de la Freebox: fixer le bail DHCP de la tablette (de toute façon c’est toujours mieux), redirection de la plage de port UDP 31336 à 31341 vers l’IP de la Touchpad => reboot de la Freebox pour valider les modifications…
Là ça ce complique et vous devez comprendre ce que vous faîtes…
- ajouter la règle suivante dans le fichier “/etc/pmnetconfig/iptables-common.config”, règle:
“-A INPUT -p udp -s mafreebox.freebox.fr -j ACCEPT”…reboot de la Touchpad
Donc j’accepte tout l’udp venant de mafreebox.freebox.fr…moi j’ai fait ça bêtement avec un Internalz Pro…
En l’état actuel, votre Touchpad doit laisser entrer les flux multiposte de la Freebox…après deux solutions s’offrent à vous:
- modifier directement les deux fichiers “FileBrowser.js” pour changer l’interface à votre convenance et paramétrer dans “ffplayAssistant.js” pour lancer mplayer avec les commandes qui vont bien (ie pour France 2 SD:
mplayer -really-quiet -lavdopts fast:skiploopfilter=all:threads=2 -cache 8192 -cache-min 5 -vf scale=:288 \”rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=201&flavour=sd\” > mplayer.log 2>&1
…à noter par exemple sur cette chaine le paramètre vf scale=;288 qui permet d’obtenir le ratio correct pour l’écran de la tablette (résol du flux F2 en SD = 480×576)
- deuxième solution, créer votre propre appli (en s’aidant notamment des excellents devCast de WebOsFrance…) et utiliser le service mis à dispo par le non moins excellent programme de Zach…qui d’ailleurs souhaite ajouter le paramètre scale pour les appels à son service.
PS: mes rares essais sur les flux HD n’ont pas été concluants…mais bon, je ne suis ni expert linux, ni expert mplayer et pas vraiment sous Webos…juste curieux…
guynux said
Echec malgré les excellentes descriptions ci-dessus entièrement appliquées (sauf mplayer lancé en ligne de commande). Fonctionne sur mon PC/Ubuntu même sans redirection de ports (maîtrisé par ailleurs). Afin de ne pas surcharger le blog, je souhaiterais avoir un contact furtif à : mon pseudo (en minuscules) à gmail. Merci
Last post in french, thanks :-)
Grobux said
Hi,
Thanks a lot Lasviguas, you have the solution!
The only problem come from iptables rules, changing routing is useless.
I launch the development of a Touchpad app for FreeboxTV right now.
Now, the chalenge (for me) is to make a patch for iptables. I think that a shell script may do the work easily.
Once again, thanks to you for your help, and Error454 for your great work!
lasviguas said
Guynux failed to operate on a Freebox v6.
You can contact me on gmail (same name).
You have probably noticed that Zach has added the scale parameter for calls to the service of Touchplayer.
Thank you Zach ;-)
Grobux said
@Lasviguas: I sent you an email.
@Error454: thanks for your last update!
Grobux said
Error454,
I got an error that give me headache. :)
I hope someone can help me understanding what’s going wrong.
When I try to read a RTSP stream with Touchplayer’s service, like this one: rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=201&flavour=sd
I get an error in /var/log/messages:
2011-11-26T15:59:06.323203Z [4726] webos-device user.crit ls-hubd: {ls-hubd.private}: File error (check JSON): undefined/roles/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service.json 2011-11-26T15:59:06.323418Z [4726] webos-device user.crit ls-hubd: {ls-hubd.private}: Unable to push role (requester pid: "18368", requester exe: "/usr/palm/nodejs/node", requester cmdline: "com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service.js")Using Touchplayer’s GUI give me the same error.
But, when I call mplayer directly, using that command, everything is OK:
I tried the following to see if I could find something interesting:
# cat /var/palm/ls2/roles/prv/com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service.json { "role": { "exeName":"js", "type": "regular", "allowedNames": ["com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service"] }, "permissions": [ { "service":"com.wordpress.mobilecoder.touchplayer.service", "inbound":["*"], "outbound":[] } ] }Seems OK.
An idea?
Grobux said
I complete my previous post.
Like Lasviguas told us, redirecting the output to a log file seems to make everything works great!
Don’t ask me why… :)
In ffplayAssistant.js, I patched the CommandLine object creation like that:
var cmd = new CommandLine("killall mplayer;./mplayer " + args + " \"" + this.controller.args.source + "\" > mplayer.log 2>&1", null);error454 said
I have noticed that error, it seems harmless but seems to be generated for rooted homebrew services. Are you simply trying to prevent the error from being displayed or is the error causing other issues for you?
guynux said
@Error454
I am unable to connect my TP with my box “freebox” (last version v6) using your mplayer in rtsp, even I dropped all the iptables rules. I could connect with the former version (v5). I can connect my ubuntu PC with the v6.
It comes in mind that there could be an compatibility issue coming from the LIVE555 version. Can you confirm that your mplayer has been compiled against a recent version of LIVE555 ?
Thank you for this great job
error454 said
LIVE555 is included in the mplayer source tree. Looking at the mplayer configure process, it appears that you have to specify –enable-live to enable it. I don’t recall needing to do this in the past, so they may have changed the default configure variable or I may have accidentally enabled it without documenting it. It appears I need to recompile mplayer with this enabled.
guynux said
More information. My working version on my PC/Ubuntu is :
LIVE555 Streaming Media v2010.02.10
guynux said
You were right , the box provider confirmed me that there was a bug in their last version, corrected in the next one. Sorry for the trouble. Thanks
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paul said
Nice work, thankyou! I was preparing to face the fact that my touchpad would not do what I wanted it to do, but yours is able to play HD mkv’s from my ext3fs partition… excellent! I noticed audio is out of sync a little on my first movie, will test some more. Thanks again
error454 said
Audio is out of sync for HD content. I personally am using KalemSoft Media player for my HD content right now. If you’re trying to use this from a local ext3fs partition you’d have to manually link your mount points inside the KSM jail after you start KSM. I use the Enyo Network Drive Mapper to mount my network shares for use inside KSM.
I mostly use TouchPlayer for SD content that has subtitles, really odd file formats and streaming content that KSM doesn’t handle.
bill1663 said
Great app.
Just tried to update 1.06a to 1.07 via preware. Got an install error.
I then uninstalled 1.06a and tried 1.07 again. Got the same install error
-1 unable to run command-/usr/bin/curl/-user-agent Preware–create-dirs-insecure-
location-fail-show-error-output/media/internal/.developer/com.WordPress.
mobiler.TouchPad_1.07_all_.ipk ….
Any solutions?
Bill
error454 said
there was a feed issue, it has been resolved
rockus said
Hi,
Thank you for your work. I wonder if it’s possible to set different aspect ratio or zoom. Thanks.
fdany said
Bonjour
I have a problem with 1.07. After reboot, the install validation turns and turns and nothing happens.
I tried with a webdoctored touchpad with only Preware and with an upgrade from 1.04 and I have also the same problem.
fdany said
finally, it could be installed. Only modification, it was an account without pasword after webdoctoring. Setting up the pass, deinstall, reinstall and it was it. Thanks.
Trajce said
Can somebody tell me how can I change subtitle color?
And, also, how can I change subtitle coding?
Tom said
Fantastic application! Thanks for your time and effort. Any word on what features you’re working on next? I think the ability to add a folder’s contents to a playlist of some sort would be great :)
Thanks again!
error454 said
I don’t have any updates on the horizon but would like to continue to push out mplayer updates as the FFmpeg and mplayer teams push them out. Also looking forward to the webOS source drop (whenever that might occur) and the chance to integrate these codecs into the stock video player.
John said
TouchPlayer worked before but now when I open it, there are no “paths” shown. It only has the path that is 2 dots ( . . )
Is there anyway to show the other file paths, I have files stored in my box.net file path, but I can’t figure out how to get that one to be available, any help would be much appreciated.
error454 said
What does the path readout show you at the top of the screen? /media/internal?
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Gary Abner said
I have the same problem, every time I launch it it’s stuck at “validating install”. Manually installed ipk from developers website. Help?
error454 said
Are you on 3.0.4? How did you install?
Gary Abner said
Yes, 3.0.4. I downloaded the ipk and manually installed it from the computer. At first out failed to install, I had to install filemgr first then it seemed to install fine.
I power cycled the touchpad, tried to launch the player and got the endless “validating install” with the rotating circle.
error454 said
This is the problem, palm-install doesn’t run the post install scripts. You need to install the package using Preware.
BwackNinja said
Wonderful application. This was exactly what I was looking for. I was especially glad to see that mplayer was compiled with ssa/ass support and I just had to add the options in the config file to get mkvs to display with embedded fonts and styling. Now I only have to worry about converting video files to play optimally. It still needs a little bit of tweaking, but so far I have:
#!/bin/bash
mplayer -benchmark -nosound -nosub “$1″ -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all:fast:threads=2 -vf scale=1024:-2 -vo yuv4mpeg:file=>(x264 –demuxer y4m –level 3.1 –profile main –no-cabac –threads auto –output /dev/shm/`basename “$2″`.x264 – &>/dev/null)
mkvmerge –default-duration 0:`mediainfo “$1″ | grep “Frame rate” | cut -d ‘:’ -f 2 | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 2`fps “/dev/shm/`basename “$2″`.x264″ -D “$1″ -o $2
rm /dev/shm/`basename “$2″`.x264
I just have that saved as a script I call “convert-touchpad.sh” and run it “convert-touchpad.sh inputfile.mkv outputfile.mkv” and requires mplayer, mkvmerge, x264, and mediainfo.
One problem I have though is that unpausing doesn’t always work, so I have to rewind and that makes it keep playing. Have you or anyone else experienced that problem?
error454 said
Pause/unpause is problematic, sometimes you need to rewind to make it start again, this is an mplayer behavior and only seems to happen for certain videos. I tried working around this by always rewinding by 3 seconds when unpausing, after using this for awhile I thought it felt a bit odd so I took it out.
Pelcu said
Graet and very promising app! I found it very easy in use and especially I like possibilities to change size and font for subtitles (also it’s nice that can read ordinary txt subtitles files).
But there is an issue (for me quite important) with subtitles: I cannot properly display subtitles with special characters for my language – Polish. Subtitles are encod3wd in UTF-8 and are properly displayed in any Windows or Android video players… But not with TouchPad :( Instead polish special chars I can see only some strange signs.
I’m not sure – is it problem with my subtitles or there is something that should be fixed in TouchPlayer?
Anyway, till those subtitles are not displayed properly I cannot watch my favorite tv series with TouchPad. And that makes me sad :)
error454 said
If the touchpad can display the characters in other apps, they should display fine. Which font are you using? It is possible that the glyphs are only available in some fonts.
prabesh said
does it support dual audio
error454 said
I’m not sure what dual audio is?!
AF said
what happened with URL? it gives me an error ‘Could not resolve host:mobilecoder.touchpadhp.info.mcfeed ( Domain name not found)
error454 said
mobilecoder.touchpadhp.info/mcfeed you have a .
Foo Bar said
Hello,
I have a Vu+ Box (Dreambox “clone”). The receiver has an webinterface from where I can start a stream. This stream opens the default player which cannnot handle it. When I write the URL into the stream UI field, I can watch TV on my Touchpad. Anyway to change the default streaming client? Aspect ratio is wrong and I haven’t tested audio delay yet, but these are minor problems, which I will handle with the mplayer.conf.
Or, if it is to difficult (I saw ‘patch’) some kind f stream bookmarks would do the job too (for me) .. okay inspiration to write my first real use webos app and start touchplayer/mplayer with the stream as parameter.
Thanks for any hints about the default player / feature request
thanks for this player!