OGV/Jukebox test summary: Re: 13.1.0 release candidate 3 (build 22) released

Tue Jan 8 09:44:02 EST 2013

Thank Gonzalo,

Ticket filed: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12450

Regards,
Mitch

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> Mitch,
> Please fill a ticket with this information.
> If you have log files, is better, and a link to the file you are using
> where you have the problem.
> If you can try do:
>
> gst-launch -v playbin
> uri=file:///home/gonzalo/sugar-devel/test_data_files/intro.ogv
>
> (with the problematic file)
> this can help us to know if is a error in the activity or in the gstreamer
> libraries.
>
> Also, we have gst-launch-0.10 and gst-launch-1.0, please test both.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Mitchell Seaton <mseaton at ekindling.org>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Since reading a recent blog post <http://www.olpcsf.org/node/120> by
>> Sameer, I was looking into TED video files and OGG (Theora) playback on XO,
>> I ended up testing with this latest release cand build 22 for 13.1.0 (Sugar
>> 0.98.2).
>>
>> I have three test machines, XO-1, XO-1.5(HS) and XO 1.75. All have
>> varying results with playback of Ogg Theora video created with
>> ffmpeg2theora <http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/> 0.29 on Fedora 17
>> (x64_64). There are mixed results and general bugs with Jukebox (v29) also.
>> I didn't play around with conversion settings, used the same as in the blog
>> post, low video compression (lv 6) of sample TED low-quality (320x180) MP4
>> video files. Playback tested in Jukebox (v29), Browse (v149) and Totem
>> (Gnome).
>>
>> Summary, files I created with ffmpeg2theora crash or have stunted
>> playback on XO 1.75, due to gstreamer 1.0 (F18 arm)?
>>
>> Note(1), that I tested another Theora file (of Sameer's) created via
>> gtk-recordmydesktop ((wget
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/projects/882-videos/intro.ogv)) and a web
>> downloaded OGV file ((wget
>> http://downloads.xiph.org/video/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks-360p.webm))
>> and playback was achievable on XO 1.75, 1.5 and 1.0 without any
>> errors/crash, except
>>
>> Note(2), Browse (v149 or v149.4) crashes when trying playback any of the
>> Ogg Theora video files on 1.75 (as tested).
>>
>> I can file bugs in SugarLabs <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/>, have some
>> activity logs.
>>
>> Jukebox (v29) issues:
>> A number of issues reported by humitos here  http://goo.gl/m082T
>> my observations
>> - XO 1.5, audio plays, but no video is displayed (blank/black bg)
>> - Play .OGV files from Journal (Journal/USB drives) and no video display
>> on startup for all models. Can get video after playing with playlist column.
>> - http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3842 I also confirm, haven't tested
>> some others.
>>
>> Currently, Jukebox is not a good user experience for playing video, or a
>> playlist in Sugar. Other options still exist such as Browse (but fullscreen
>> button seem's broken on player widget) and Totem in Gnome desktop side.
>>
>> Also final note(3) is I see a USB auto-mount issue on 1.75 machine, when
>> I've ejected the USB and reinsert again into a port. Without cmd-line, I
>> can re-mount by going to Gnome and selecting the drive. Didn't look into
>> any sys messages for this.
>>
>> I also tried converting MP4 files to OGV on v27 of ffmpeg2theora on
>> Ubuntu 12.10 x86 sys with same results for outputted OGV file.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mitch
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.1.0
>>> software release.
>>>
>>> Information and installation instructions can be found here:
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.1.0
>>>
>>> Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save
>>> to USB disks:
>>> http://download.laptop.org/xo-4/os/candidate/13.1.0-22/
>>> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.75/os/candidate/13.1.0-22/
>>> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.5/os/candidate/13.1.0-22/
>>> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/13.1.0-22/
>>>
>>> This is a signed release candidate that can be installed on all XOs,
>>> even those with security enabled.
>>>
>>> We're looking for testing and feedback on all aspects of the system.
>>> Thanks for any help you can offer, and for all the feedback that was
>>> received throughout development.
>>>
>>> Our scheduled release date is January 7th.
>>>
>>> Please review the "Known problems" section of the release notes. Some
>>> documented issues are carried over from previous releases, but others
>>> are new and are things that we will aim to fix in the few weeks before
>>> release.
>>>
>>> XO-4 automatic power management is disabled by default, but this is
>>> still a work in progress. There are still various instabilities which
>>> may make this build feel more unstable than eralier ones. You can
>>> disable automatic power management in sugar's Settings panel to
>>> restore previous behaviour.
>>>
>>>
>>> Compared to the previous release candidate, we have fixed:
>>>
>>> XO-4 sound output from some apps was previously just noise; this
>>> should now be better (#12366).
>>>
>>> Text on the XO-1.5 should no longer have missing 'i' and 'l'
>>> characters (#12354).
>>>
>>> The GNOME battery icon is no longer invisible (#12329) and is rendered
>>> cleanly once again on XO-1.75 (#12122).
>>>
>>> powerd's network activity detection should work again (#12430).
>>>
>>> New XO-4 firmware Q7B10 improves wakeup from suspend and includes some
>>> touchscreen improvements.
>>>
>>> Image rotation in Image Viewer works again on XO-1.75 (#12206).
>>>
>>> Thanks!
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mitchell Seaton
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>> www.ekindling.org
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