On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:55, nbs wrote:
> FYI, still doesn't work on Zaurus (1/08 rom).
> MODs don't appear in the Media Player,
> but do in the Documents tab. And Media
> Player can't play them. :(
This is probably because Lineo made changes to the MediaPlayer in November,
and didn't merge with Trolltech's December version of the MediaPlayer and it
is incompatible. Additionally the FileSelecter filter they use could be
wrong. They have their own tabbed FileSelector which is different to the CVS
version which uses a standard FileSelector and a playlist view. Their
FileSelector obviously only has a file filter for anything matching a
mimetype of only video/mpeg or audio/mpeg, instead of audio/* and video/*
which makes more sense because you can't change that easily after it is
compiled and you don't know what file types will be supported.
Ofcourse a more complicated approach would be to first off query all the
plugins to find out what formats can be supported and filter to just those,
but the mediaplayer is slow enough to start up as it is and would break
binary compatibilty for mediaplayer plugins (which is too late to do on the
Zaurus I would imagine).
I can think of two solutions. You could possibly use a hex editor and hack
the strings in the mpegplayer binary on the Zaurus to change the
"audio/mpeg\0" string to be "audio/*\0" instead. I think the binary is in the
ROM so you would need to copy it first. Or you could install a mediaplayer
ipkg from somewhere to replace the one on the Zaurus. But I really don't know
how well this would work out and if it would be easy to revert back to the
original Zaurus mediaPlayer. (I think you will probably have more success
doing the evil hexedit thing though). I'll see what I can do about making
sure that the final version of the mediaplayer on the Zaurus is extensible.
--- Regards JohnReceived on Thu Jan 24 20:35:25 2002
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