video broken on 1.75?

John Watlington wad at laptop.org
Wed Apr 3 21:12:50 EDT 2013


They should be in an upcoming 13.2.0 build.

wad

On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Tom Parker <tom at carrott.org> wrote:
> On 20/03/13 14:27, Sameer Verma wrote:
> 
> I got the source from TED as a MP4 wrapper.
> http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2009/None/RennyGleeson_2009-light.mp4
> 
> Interesting, the XO-1.75 with VMETA drivers plays most .mp4 videos from the internet as-is, but it does not play this one -- the sound stutters and it drops a backtrace on exit due to I think memory corruption.
> 
> However http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2009/None/RennyGleeson_2009.mp4 plays just fine on XO-1.75 with VMETA drivers. The quality isn't great, the XO-1.75 could play a much higher quality version if you have the bandwidth and storage (and one is available).
> 
> 
> I've tried to wget this version into /home/olpc/Documents and then run it in jukebox via the journal. It won't play. It won't play in Browse directly either. I suspect it has something to do with this VMETA drivers you speak of. Does the stable image have VMETA? If not, how does one get the drivers?
> 
> Sameer
>  
> Is your goal to get one file that plays on both XO-1 and XO-1.75? Maybe you could try transcoding the not-light version and see if that results in something that both devices can play?
> 
> The goal is to play video on the 1.75, but thus far, the only video that will play is a tiny sized ogv video in Browse (no hardware accel, I presume). 
> 
> A working solution would be great. 
> 
> cheers,
> Sameer
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