Vomp media player

[Uatschitchun]

Hi there 

First I like to give thx for the mediaplayer !!! I couldn't live without it! How else could I hear "" for to fall asleep 

I now tried the newest version (0.2.7-6.1) with videos ... and I've got a few questions:

1.)
Videos in

MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex

running well 

But what about vids in:

MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex

These are running, but I have no sound ?!
Do I need a new converter therefor?

2.)
Some AVIs are displayed too high (like pic-black-black, instead of black-pic-black)?! How do I get these displayed correctly?

3.)
What is the difference between "letter" and "clipfactor" for pictures? They look the same?!

Thx for this great extension and for helping me out!
Roman

[avvdr]

hi,
hmm I try to answer.
1). Mpeg1 - anything strange could be most probably played with converting it via mencoder. In the moment the easiest way would be to try to find out how mencoder could covert your stuff into mpeg2, then name all your files e.g. xyz.mpg1 and define a command to be executed for mpg1 in the config file (see some hints here above or in the vdr forum).
2.) still a bug there in the player (maybe could be fixed with some nice mencoder options too...)
3.) letter and clipfactor are a bit different:
see readme_media.txt:

You can select 3 different modes for the picture - "letter" - always completely on screen,
  "crop" always cropped by next possible scale and "croppercent" - you can select the Picture Size
  within the option page from 10%...150% - the picture gets scaled to best fit to the screen within
  this range.

Regards
Andreas

[Uatschitchun]

Oki, thx ... thought these would be your answers 

1.)
Someone able to provide a mencoder call for to convert mpeg1 to mpeg2?

2.)
Is there still development planed to get this bug in the player fixed?
How could the mencoder call be modified to get a workaround?

What about wmv? Someone got a mencoder call on this?

Am I the only one that has more formats than just mpeg2?
Maybe we could collect the converters for various formats somewhere?

Lg
Roman

[hondansx]

@avvdr

Is there any chance to get your media part working on the current vomp version?
Would be very nice 

Bye,
Walter

[avvdr]

Hi Walter,
yes I will port back to current version.
It's getting colder outside now, so there will be time in the near future to continue hacking a bit.
I will have a look at the position issue (most probably easy to fix).

Regards
Andreas

[rdoac]

Is there anywhere to send Beer etc to encourage the development process along? :->

[Sir George]

Is there anywhere to send Beer etc to encourage the development process along? :->

Good idea! I'm willing to donate, too. Paypal, postbox, anything? 

[avvdr]

Hello all,
today I finished porting the latest media player stuff to the current CVS (as of 2008/11/28).
This includes:

• the known functions
• the tcp patch (handling of keypresses during receive should not break connection
• the position issue for smaller videos (not heavily tested yet)

Unfortunately the internal handling of views has a lot of changes that caused a couple of deadlocks - so I had to add some lock/unlock there.
Files can be found at www.wellenvogel.de/software/vomp#Update_20081130.
Feedback is highly appreciated.
Would be really great if the stuff could go to CVS in the near future - it's a lot of effort to always port things...

Regards
Andreas

[avvdr]

Hi all,
just added some small additions (bug fixes) and improvements for the server side converter.
See http://www.wellenvogel.de/software/vomp/index.html#Update_20081214.
The patches do also include some stability patches for the live tv viewer (especially for high bandwith channels like german "Das Erste").

Regards
Andreas

[avvdr]

Hello all,
second update for today:
Vomp can now play dvd's and iso images via the server side scripts (mencoder).
For details seehttp://www.wellenvogel.de/software/vomp

Regards
Andreas

[avvdr]

Hi all,
I just released a patch to be able to correctly play files > 2GB.
For details refer to http://www.wellenvogel.de/software/vomp/index.html#Update_20081222
Regards
Andreas

[davep]

I see the Media Player has appeared in CVS. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. When I navigate to a directory containing .jpg files and select one, the screen blanks and the MVP has to be power-cycled. If I do the same with a .mp3 file the music plays but again the screen blanks and the only way to regain control is the power switch.

This is the debug output when viewing a JPEG file:

21:12:24.134112 [debug]  50 VMediaList - show picture file P7210031.JPG
21:12:24.135072 [debug]  50 VMediaView::createViewer - p=0x1023c198
21:12:24.135895 [debug]  50 Boxx - Construct, now 7
21:12:24.136628 [debug]  50 VMediaView::VMediaView - p=0x10240620
21:12:24.137610 [debug]  50 ImageReader - ctorI
21:12:24.204858 [debug]  59 ImageReader - player thread started
21:12:24.271379 [debug]  50 MediaOptions - option value for FactorRed is 100
21:12:24.272103 [debug]  50 MediaOptions - option value for FactorGreen is 100
21:12:24.273032 [debug]  50 MediaOptions - option value for FactorBlue is 100
21:12:24.273752 [debug]  50 VColourTuner - setting initial factors r=100,g=100,b=100
21:12:24.319356 [debug]  50 MediaOptions - option value for SlideShowInterval is 5
21:12:24.320110 [debug]  50 MediaOptions - option value for ScaleFactor is 1
21:12:24.320919 [debug]  50 MediaOptions - option value for PictureMode is clip
21:12:24.321724 [debug]  50 MediaOptions - option value for PictureSize is 90
21:12:24.322683 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Locked for add
21:12:24.323499 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Unlocked for add
21:12:24.324172 [debug]  50 VMediaView::draw - pictureError=(null),p=0x10240620
21:12:24.325162 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Locked for update
21:12:24.326046 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Unlocked for update
21:12:24.326881 [debug]  50 VMediaView - set pictureMode 1 p=0, a=0
21:12:24.327566 [debug]  50 Timers - Starting cancel timer 0x10240664 2, list size = 1
21:12:24.328521 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Locked for update
21:12:24.329321 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Unlocked for update
21:12:24.329993 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Locked for update
21:12:24.436964 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Unlocked for update
21:12:24.437649 [debug]  50 BoxStack - Locked for update
21:12:24.438440 [debug]  50 VMediaView::draw - pictureError=(null),p=0x10240620

MVP is a model D3 with the 'old' remote, and VDR is 1.6.0-2.

[avvdr]

@davep,

I see the Media Player has appeared in CVS. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. When I navigate to a directory containing .jpg files and select one, the screen blanks and the MVP has to be power-cycled. If I do the same with a .mp3 file the music plays but again the screen blanks and the only way to regain control is the power switch.

Unfortunately Chris did not integrate some of the most important changes to boxxstack.cc.
I attach a patch here, that contains the still necessary changes to boxstack.cc - maybe you can try it out.

Regards
Andreas

[davep]

Yes that now works, many thanks.

Can anything be done about the aspect ratio of images? If I display images taken from film transparencies (3:2 aspect ratio), they appear on the screen stretched into the 16:9 format. For landscape photos this doesn't look too bad, but portrait photos appear nearly square.

Also fast-forward mode is enabled when playing mp3 files. This makes a terrible noise!

[MartenR]

@avvdr
I tried today  to make it compile under windows and I am wondering, why mediafile.cc accesses the lokal filesystem.
Can you explain me what it does?
At the moment it makes no sense for me to access the dongle file system.
(Btw under windows I cannot integrate any type of network file system only the vomp protocoll is used).