Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Harri Haataja
2010/1/14 Kahlil Johnson jzare...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org wrote:
 Thomas Wälti wrote:
 The documented method looks really hacky, IMHO the gstreamer based
 method of Zaheer Abbas Merali (gst guru par excellence :-) posted in
 http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=464494postcount=50 should be the
 way to go. Using nokiaaacenc, you could probably directly save as AAC
 What about a real free format like OGG vorbis?

Um.. speex?


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Deactivate buggy portrait mode on N900

2010-01-18 Thread Johas
Hello,

since last week, I can use my N900 in portrait mode after using the phone app 
in portrait mode and hanging up. However, it is not working properly -- some 
icons and widgets are located off the screen and cannot be accessed. I 
appreciate that feature but would like to wait until it is actually more 
usable.
The thing is that i cannot reproducably switch back to landscape mode: 
Sometimes the phone switches back after locking and unlocking it; sometimes 
some application cause it to switch back. I want to disable the portrait mode 
feature generally until it is ready for use. Can anybody tell me how i do 
this?

Johas

PS. I read somewhere that you can activate portrait mode with the newest 
firmware by pressing ctrl+shift+o in the browser app. However, I don't 
remember doing this and it doesn't help turning the feature off again.
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RE: repository.maemo.org gone?

2010-01-18 Thread tero.kojo
Should be better now.

The change has been propagating for a while now.

Tero

From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org] On 
Behalf Of ext Timo Pelkonen
Sent: 18 January, 2010 08:11
To: maemo-users@maemo.org
Subject: Re: repository.maemo.org gone?


2010/1/18 David Hagood david.hag...@gmail.commailto:david.hag...@gmail.com
I went to install Carman today, and it seemps 
repository.maemo.orghttp://repository.maemo.org is
not resolving - I get an NXDOMAIN on it, from several sources, including
going directly to the name servers for maemo.orghttp://maemo.org.



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Problem with servers because of the server move. Just wait and try again for 
example in 2-4 hours.

Ossipena / Timo
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Re: Any way to get HTML email in MfE on N900?

2010-01-18 Thread Sergio Villar Senin
Paul Hartman escribiu:
 Hi,
 
 With the PR1.1 firmware my N900 is finally able to connect to my
 employer's Exchange 2003 server. Everything seems to be working great
 except I'm only getting the emails in plain text. My other e-mail
 accounts are able to see HTML e-mails (with images etc), it's only
 isolated to the MfE account. Is there a way to enable HTML mail for
 MfE or is it limited to text only?

You shouldn't need to do anything yo view HTML email in Modest. Actually
if your message is like multipart/alternative with both text and html
parts, we always try to show the HTML one.

Br
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Re: Deactivate buggy portrait mode on N900

2010-01-18 Thread Andrea Borgia

- Original message -
 since last week, I can use my N900 in portrait mode after using the phone app
 in portrait mode and hanging up. However, it is 

Seems like you hit a bug in the transition from portrait to landscape: afaik it 
is not yet possible to use the application manager in portrait mode.

Please file a bug, with as much detail as you can especially if you can 
reproduce it.

A.
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Re: Deactivate buggy portrait mode on N900

2010-01-18 Thread Timo Pelkonen
2010/1/18 Andrea Borgia and...@borgia.bo.it


 - Original message -
  since last week, I can use my N900 in portrait mode after using the phone
 app
  in portrait mode and hanging up. However, it is

 Seems like you hit a bug in the transition from portrait to landscape:
 afaik it is not yet possible to use the application manager in portrait
 mode.

 Please file a bug, with as much detail as you can especially if you can
 reproduce it.

 A.



It is an easter egg. only bugreport that is reasonable could be that easter
egg can't be disabled. but one has to input ctr+shift+o when at browser to
enable the easter egg aka portrait mode for the browser.
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Re: Deactivate buggy portrait mode on N900

2010-01-18 Thread Igor Stoppa

ext Timo Pelkonen wrote:


2010/1/18 Andrea Borgia and...@borgia.bo.itmailto:and...@borgia.bo.it

- Original message -
  

since last week, I can use my N900 in portrait mode after using the phone app
in portrait mode and hanging up. However, it is



Seems like you hit a bug in the transition from portrait to landscape: afaik it 
is not yet possible to use the application manager in portrait mode.

Please file a bug, with as much detail as you can especially if you can 
reproduce it.

A.


It is an easter egg. only bugreport that is reasonable could be that easter egg 
can't be disabled. but one has to input ctr+shift+o when at browser to enable 
the easter egg aka portrait mode for the browser.

  

No, it's a real bug: I have witnessed it without using the browser.
Most likely a race or wrong locking because those few times it happened, 
the device was somehow slow and i bet some non-protected sequence 
completed in a time significantly different from its usual execution.


igor
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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Xabier Rodriguez Calvar
O Sáb, 16-01-2010 ás 04:14 +0100, sebastian maemo escribiu:
 Of course, laws depend very much on the country you live... but IMHO
 recording a conversation in YOUR own phone is perfectly legal and you
 don't need to warn anybody about it, because you are recording YOUR
 conversation... 

In Spain you have to warn the other person about it and that's why
everytime you call a call center they warn you about they might be
recording it.

Br.

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Re: Deactivate buggy portrait mode on N900

2010-01-18 Thread Stephen Gadsby
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Igor Stoppa igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote:
 No, it's a real bug: I have witnessed it without using the browser.

I have also. I've been attempting to find a way of intentionally
reproducing it, but I have not yet had success in that, so I haven't
yet opened a bug report. I can say that (on my N900 at least) when
this bug is in effect, using slide to unlock will force the UI back
into landscape temporarily--until I use the phone app in portrait
again. Rebooting the N900 clears the problem.

   -stephen
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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Thomas Wälti
The problem is to find a compromise between:
a) CPU/power usage
b) Encoding efficiency
c) Playback capability
d) API availability

Due to a) and d), I'm only looking at the gstreamer encoders available
on the N900. Du to c) I have dropped the ANB and AWB codecs from
evaluation - I was unable to quickly find a standard software for
playback on Windows (e.g. WMP or VLC bot failed)

Tonight, I'll try low bitrate AAC as it is probably a good compromise
between these factors. I will also try speex, as it's on the N900 by
default and technically ideally for encoding this kind of audio.
However, I'm not so sure about playback capability on Windows :-) Is
Speex on the N900 using the DSP? Because I guess that all NokiXXXenc
are, e.g. the AAC one.


Thanks
-Tom

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:37, Harri Haataja realbla...@gmail.com wrote:
 2010/1/14 Kahlil Johnson jzare...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org wrote:
 Thomas Wälti wrote:
 The documented method looks really hacky, IMHO the gstreamer based
 method of Zaheer Abbas Merali (gst guru par excellence :-) posted in
 http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=464494postcount=50 should be the
 way to go. Using nokiaaacenc, you could probably directly save as AAC
 What about a real free format like OGG vorbis?

 Um.. speex?
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Re: Deactivate buggy portrait mode on N900

2010-01-18 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 13:53, Stephen Gadsby stephen.gad...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Igor Stoppa igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote:
 No, it's a real bug: I have witnessed it without using the browser.

 I have also. I've been attempting to find a way of intentionally
 reproducing it, but I have not yet had success in that, so I haven't
 yet opened a bug report.

I saw this recently when trying to reproduce bug 8111 in Catorise.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
0) Ensure Phone is set to always portrait
1) As root, edit /etc/xdg/menus/hildon/applications.menu
2) Add an include of Filenamertcom-call-ui.desktop/Filename
3) Launch Phone from the More... menu
4) Close Phone.

EXPECTED OUTCOME
UI rotates back to landscape.

ACTUAL OUTCOME
UI stays in portrait mode.

OTHER COMMENTS
This seems to be a well known exploit for getting portrait mode in 1.2009.x:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=443651

HTH,

Andrew

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Re: Developing for WebOS on the WEB -- can Nokia step up

2010-01-18 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Kahlil Johnson jzare...@gmail.com wrote:

 Everyone in the chat was delighted and wonder if Maemo could do
 something like for their widgets at least. Maybe it could be cool to
 have. I know Nokia is well invested in the Qt platform but doing a web
 driven development could be something that could result pretty awesome
 stuff.

This seems to be an application development environment on the web,
like mozilla's Bespin.

I don't see the big benefit.

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Re: Deactivate buggy portrait mode on N900

2010-01-18 Thread Johas
You are right, this bug is not connected to the Ctrl+Alt+O easter egg in maemo 
browser, it showed up before i even knew about this easter egg. Restarting the 
device did work, no more buggy portrait mode.

Besides, I deinstalled the Break app as proposed in 
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=443651

Thanks alot.
Johas

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Re: Any way to get HTML email in MfE on N900?

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Sergio Villar Senin svil...@igalia.com wrote:
 Paul Hartman escribiu:
 Hi,

 With the PR1.1 firmware my N900 is finally able to connect to my
 employer's Exchange 2003 server. Everything seems to be working great
 except I'm only getting the emails in plain text. My other e-mail
 accounts are able to see HTML e-mails (with images etc), it's only
 isolated to the MfE account. Is there a way to enable HTML mail for
 MfE or is it limited to text only?

 You shouldn't need to do anything yo view HTML email in Modest. Actually
 if your message is like multipart/alternative with both text and html
 parts, we always try to show the HTML one.

Strange, it seems mine is behaving the opposite. The same e-mails in
Outlook Web Access or in Outlook proper have colors/images like
normal, but everything is text-only (no images, no colors) in modest.

My gmail/ovi show the full HTML emails properly in modest, only the
MfE account doesn't. Maybe I should file a bug?

Thanks,
Paul
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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Craig Woodward wo...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
 In any case, this is not new territory for phones in general or for Nokia.  
 Several Nokia
 phones have had the ability to record conversations.  My Nokia 6230i has the 
 ability to
 record calls, but for legal notification reasons emits a muted beep/tone 
 every 5
 seconds while it's recording.  The tone is at about 10% of the volume of the 
 call and
lasts 1/2 second, every 5 seconds.

In Symbian phones there are many call recorder apps, including the
ability to disable the warning beep (since it's not required in all
places, as you described). Recording into various formats (AMR seems
preferred for voice since it has a very small size). And features like
auto-uploading your conversations to a FTP/web server for later
reference, rather than storing all only on the phone.
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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Hartti Suomela
Some guidance (very limited though) from Wikipedia on the legal aspects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws

Hartti

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, sebastian maemo
sebastian.ma...@gmail.comwrote:

 2010/1/14 Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com

 Recording conversations is a useful tool, but also illegal or highly
 regulated in many jurisdictions, so that might deter developers somewhat.


 I'm not a lawyer... but I think you're wrong (in general).

 Of course, laws depend very much on the country you live... but IMHO
 recording a conversation in YOUR own phone is perfectly legal and you don't
 need to warn anybody about it, because you are recording YOUR
 conversation...

 What is completely illegal is to record conversations of other people, or
 even making illegal use of your own conversations when other people is
 involved...

 That's MHO and I'm not a lawyer :-P


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 Salut,
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IM client cannot connect to ICQ anymore

2010-01-18 Thread Marcel
Hello,

I have the additional protocols package for the built-in IM client
installed and one ICQ account configured. Since about two weeks, ICQ
refuses to connect. I suspect this being the same problem with
ClientLogin that Pidgin suffered from some time ago, but I cannot find
a useful error message, the only thing I see is the yellow popup saying
one or more accounts were unable to connect - translated loosely from
german. Which is no more than it doesn't work which would be accepted
in no Linux related board... Does telepathy keep logs anywhere? Or
another hint?

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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Craig Woodward
Just one thought on this:

Most people are going to do playback on the device.  I would focus on the best 
codec available for recording and playback on the N900.  If people want to use 
it some other place, maybe making an export function (for Wav or MP3 or 
whatever) would suffice.  Worst case, make a selectable setting for which codec 
to use and let the user decide?

One idea:  Most phone conversations are mono.  Maybe a good strategy would be 
to record in stereo, with inbound on one channel and out-bound on the other?  
It would make listening to it later interesting, since you could balance out 
one side or the other to catch pieces obscured by overlap?  Would also help 
clarify who said what on a 2-party call at least.

What's the app/widget garage name?  Would love to load it up and take it for a 
test drive.  I miss this from my 6230, though I honestly don't use it often.  
(Had a hot key for it to turn it on while driving in case there was something I 
needed to take note of for later.  Hard to take notes while driving. :)

 Thomas Wälti twae...@gmail.com wrote: 

=
The problem is to find a compromise between:
a) CPU/power usage
b) Encoding efficiency
c) Playback capability
d) API availability

Due to a) and d), I'm only looking at the gstreamer encoders available
on the N900. Du to c) I have dropped the ANB and AWB codecs from
evaluation - I was unable to quickly find a standard software for
playback on Windows (e.g. WMP or VLC bot failed)

Tonight, I'll try low bitrate AAC as it is probably a good compromise
between these factors. I will also try speex, as it's on the N900 by
default and technically ideally for encoding this kind of audio.
However, I'm not so sure about playback capability on Windows :-) Is
Speex on the N900 using the DSP? Because I guess that all NokiXXXenc
are, e.g. the AAC one.


Thanks
-Tom

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:37, Harri Haataja realbla...@gmail.com wrote:
 2010/1/14 Kahlil Johnson jzare...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org wrote:
 Thomas Wälti wrote:
 The documented method looks really hacky, IMHO the gstreamer based
 method of Zaheer Abbas Merali (gst guru par excellence :-) posted in
 http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=464494postcount=50 should be the
 way to go. Using nokiaaacenc, you could probably directly save as AAC
 What about a real free format like OGG vorbis?

 Um.. speex?
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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Thomas Waelti
I have now uploaded my recaller widget to the autobuilder, it built OK and 
should show up in extras-devel during the next hours (IF the servers work again 
- I have 0.2.0 of sleeper still not showing up in the package interface after 2 
hours in the queue).
The widget is encoding in AAC stereo right now at 128 kBit - this takes about 1 
MB per minute in very good quality. Probably overkill, but the 27 GB in MyDcos 
give you 460h of recording time, so everything has become a bit relative on a 
monster like the N900 :-)

And yes, the widget can also be used as a simple recorder/dictaphone.

Best regards
-Tom


 Just one thought on this:

 Most people are going to do playback on the device.  I would focus on the 
 best codec available for recording and playback on the N900.  If people want 
 to use it some other place, maybe making an export function (for Wav or MP3 
 or whatever) would suffice.  Worst case, make a selectable setting for which 
 codec to use and let the user decide?

 One idea:  Most phone conversations are mono.  Maybe a good strategy would be 
 to record in stereo, with inbound on one channel and out-bound on the other?  
 It would make listening to it later interesting, since you could balance out 
 one side or the other to catch pieces obscured by overlap?  Would also help 
 clarify who said what on a 2-party call at least.

 What's the app/widget garage name?  Would love to load it up and take it for 
 a test drive.  I miss this from my 6230, though I honestly don't use it 
 often.  (Had a hot key for it to turn it on while driving in case there was 
 something I needed to take note of for later.  Hard to take notes while 
 driving. :)

  Thomas Wälti twae...@gmail.com wrote:

 =
 The problem is to find a compromise between:
 a) CPU/power usage
 b) Encoding efficiency
 c) Playback capability
 d) API availability

 Due to a) and d), I'm only looking at the gstreamer encoders available
 on the N900. Du to c) I have dropped the ANB and AWB codecs from
 evaluation - I was unable to quickly find a standard software for
 playback on Windows (e.g. WMP or VLC bot failed)

 Tonight, I'll try low bitrate AAC as it is probably a good compromise
 between these factors. I will also try speex, as it's on the N900 by
 default and technically ideally for encoding this kind of audio.
 However, I'm not so sure about playback capability on Windows :-) Is
 Speex on the N900 using the DSP? Because I guess that all NokiXXXenc
 are, e.g. the AAC one.


 Thanks
 -Tom

 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:37, Harri Haataja realbla...@gmail.com wrote:
 2010/1/14 Kahlil Johnson jzare...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org wrote:
 Thomas Wälti wrote:
 The documented method looks really hacky, IMHO the gstreamer based
 method of Zaheer Abbas Merali (gst guru par excellence :-) posted in
 http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=464494postcount=50 should be the
 way to go. Using nokiaaacenc, you could probably directly save as AAC
 What about a real free format like OGG vorbis?

 Um.. speex?

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Re: Forced Upgrade to N900 from N810

2010-01-18 Thread Graham Cobb
On Thursday 14 January 2010 16:01:47 Peter Bart wrote:
 Where might I find GPE?

Peter,

The GPE apps for Fremantle are in extras-testing, meaning that they are 
effectively in Beta status.  I have found and fixed a number of problems 
and new versions will be created soon, I hope.  Note that they have (mostly) 
not been ported to be finger-friendly (you will see what I mean when you try 
them).

The N900 comes with contacts and calendar/todo apps so it is not clear the GPE 
apps are very useful on the N900.  But I do intend to eventually get them 
into Extras.

Graham
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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Timo Pelkonen pelt...@gmail.com wrote:
 IMO developer could was his/hers hands just by adding disclaimer to licence
 conditions. Something like make sure recording calls is legal before using
 this software.

 but I'm not lawyer so this is uneducated guess. reasoned from the fact that
 kitchen knives can be sold even after people are stabbed to death with few
 of those sold...

You mean like every image viewer has a warning that viewing some
images might be illegal in some places?

Or like every text editor has a warning that you should make sure that
what you write is legal where you are?



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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Hartti Suomela
I am having problems installing recaller. App manager says Application
packages missing: Python-dbus(=0.83.0-1maemo3)
I have python installed on the device including that same version of
python-dbus package. To be sure of it, I installed it again from
extras-devel repository.

Is the capitalization the problem here? Has someone successfully installed
the app?

Hartti

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Thomas Waelti twae...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have now uploaded my recaller widget to the autobuilder, it built OK
 and should show up in extras-devel during the next hours (IF the servers
 work again - I have 0.2.0 of sleeper still not showing up in the package
 interface after 2 hours in the queue).
 The widget is encoding in AAC stereo right now at 128 kBit - this takes
 about 1 MB per minute in very good quality. Probably overkill, but the 27 GB
 in MyDcos give you 460h of recording time, so everything has become a bit
 relative on a monster like the N900 :-)

 And yes, the widget can also be used as a simple recorder/dictaphone.

 Best regards
 -Tom


  Just one thought on this:
 
  Most people are going to do playback on the device.  I would focus on the
 best codec available for recording and playback on the N900.  If people want
 to use it some other place, maybe making an export function (for Wav or MP3
 or whatever) would suffice.  Worst case, make a selectable setting for which
 codec to use and let the user decide?
 
  One idea:  Most phone conversations are mono.  Maybe a good strategy
 would be to record in stereo, with inbound on one channel and out-bound on
 the other?  It would make listening to it later interesting, since you could
 balance out one side or the other to catch pieces obscured by overlap?
  Would also help clarify who said what on a 2-party call at least.
 
  What's the app/widget garage name?  Would love to load it up and take it
 for a test drive.  I miss this from my 6230, though I honestly don't use it
 often.  (Had a hot key for it to turn it on while driving in case there was
 something I needed to take note of for later.  Hard to take notes while
 driving. :)
 
   Thomas Wälti twae...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  =
  The problem is to find a compromise between:
  a) CPU/power usage
  b) Encoding efficiency
  c) Playback capability
  d) API availability
 
  Due to a) and d), I'm only looking at the gstreamer encoders available
  on the N900. Du to c) I have dropped the ANB and AWB codecs from
  evaluation - I was unable to quickly find a standard software for
  playback on Windows (e.g. WMP or VLC bot failed)
 
  Tonight, I'll try low bitrate AAC as it is probably a good compromise
  between these factors. I will also try speex, as it's on the N900 by
  default and technically ideally for encoding this kind of audio.
  However, I'm not so sure about playback capability on Windows :-) Is
  Speex on the N900 using the DSP? Because I guess that all NokiXXXenc
  are, e.g. the AAC one.
 
 
  Thanks
  -Tom
 
  On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:37, Harri Haataja realbla...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  2010/1/14 Kahlil Johnson jzare...@gmail.com:
  On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org wrote:
  Thomas Wälti wrote:
  The documented method looks really hacky, IMHO the gstreamer based
  method of Zaheer Abbas Merali (gst guru par excellence :-) posted in
  http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=464494postcount=50 should be
 the
  way to go. Using nokiaaacenc, you could probably directly save as AAC
  What about a real free format like OGG vorbis?
 
  Um.. speex?

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Re: Recording calls

2010-01-18 Thread Thomas Waelti
Yeah, saw that too right now after waking up. I've now uploaded a 2nd build 
with a minuscule P...
That's what -devel is for :-)
-Tom


 I am having problems installing recaller. App manager says Application 
 packages missing: Python-dbus(=0.83.0-1maemo3)I have python installed on 
 the device including that same version of python-dbus package. To be sure of 
 it, I installed it again from extras-devel repository.


 Is the capitalization the problem here? Has someone successfully installed 
 the app?


 Hartti

 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Thomas Waelti twae...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have now uploaded my recaller widget to the autobuilder, it built OK and 
 should show up in extras-devel during the next hours (IF the servers work 
 again - I have 0.2.0 of sleeper still not showing up in the package 
 interface after 2 hours in the queue).

 The widget is encoding in AAC stereo right now at 128 kBit - this takes 
 about 1 MB per minute in very good quality. Probably overkill, but the 27 GB 
 in MyDcos give you 460h of recording time, so everything has become a bit 
 relative on a monster like the N900 :-)


 And yes, the widget can also be used as a simple recorder/dictaphone.

 Best regards
 -Tom


 Just one thought on this:

 Most people are going to do playback on the device.  I would focus on the 
 best codec available for recording and playback on the N900.  If people want 
 to use it some other place, maybe making an export function (for Wav or MP3 
 or whatever) would suffice.  Worst case, make a selectable setting for which 
 codec to use and let the user decide?

 
 One idea:  Most phone conversations are mono.  Maybe a good strategy would 
 be to record in stereo, with inbound on one channel and out-bound on the 
 other?  It would make listening to it later interesting, since you could 
 balance out one side or the other to catch pieces obscured by overlap?  
 Would also help clarify who said what on a 2-party call at least.

 
 What's the app/widget garage name?  Would love to load it up and take it for 
 a test drive.  I miss this from my 6230, though I honestly don't use it 
 often.  (Had a hot key for it to turn it on while driving in case there was 
 something I needed to take note of for later.  Hard to take notes while 
 driving. :)

 
  Thomas Wälti twae...@gmail.com wrote:

 =
 The problem is to find a compromise between:
 a) CPU/power usage
 b) Encoding efficiency
 c) Playback capability
 d) API availability

 Due to a) and d), I'm only looking at the gstreamer encoders available
 on the N900. Du to c) I have dropped the ANB and AWB codecs from
 evaluation - I was unable to quickly find a standard software for
 playback on Windows (e.g. WMP or VLC bot failed)

 Tonight, I'll try low bitrate AAC as it is probably a good compromise
 between these factors. I will also try speex, as it's on the N900 by
 default and technically ideally for encoding this kind of audio.
 However, I'm not so sure about playback capability on Windows :-) Is
 Speex on the N900 using the DSP? Because I guess that all NokiXXXenc
 are, e.g. the AAC one.


 Thanks
 -Tom

 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:37, Harri Haataja realbla...@gmail.com wrote:
 2010/1/14 Kahlil Johnson jzare...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org wrote:
 Thomas Wälti wrote:
 The documented method looks really hacky, IMHO the gstreamer based
 method of Zaheer Abbas Merali (gst guru par excellence :-) posted in
 http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=464494postcount=50 should be the
 way to go. Using nokiaaacenc, you could probably directly save as AAC
 What about a real free format like OGG vorbis?

 Um.. speex?

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