On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:33:22PM -0700, Brian Carnes wrote:
What aspects of this issue/request for help are still open? I'll go take
a look at the OLPC build system tonight to see what is being used (late
versions of GCC do have some Geode -mtune/-march modes), but would love to
be hooked
Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the
normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce
interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a
snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the
Ricardo Carrano wrote:
Up to the present moment, there is no other known scenario where a group of
XOs could
disturb a network. So, if you update the firmware and still get general
problems in the
network, we are really interested in repeating this.
Actually this sounds similar to the
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
1. Cross-develop on a more powerful platform, download the software to
the XO, and test it.
Which is the easiest way. You can also develop natively on Fedora 7,
and just copy the executables over, as the XO is basically running
Fedora 7 anyway.
2. Native
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
As a data point, Doom runs quite fast even at full resolution on a
B4. Have not heard reports on getting Quake running. But I suspect
that a software renderer hand-optimized towards the XO could be made
Doom and Quake use character graphics, and not GL, which
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
There might be some way to embed Theora in Flash in a way that Gnash can play,
but this will never work in Adobe Flash. I strongly advise that, for OLPC,
you
avoid Flash altogether.
Gnash can already handle both Ogg and Theora as external files just
fine.
Walter Bender wrote:
Unfortunately, when I tried to see Dailymotion's website
http://www.dailymotion.com, the videos didn't work.
Sigh, I am getting so tired of this issue with codecs... Gnash for
the XO is built without support for any proprietary audio or video
codecs. Because of the
Jake Beard wrote:
Hopefully, later this year we'll see a completely open Java, and then see
Java on the XO.
Flash is terrible. If it were possible, I'd prefer to see an all-Java
solution.
Sorry, but java sucks rocks, and although I dislike flash, I think
it's a better solution for just
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We really need a open project to do patent analysis of this kind and
determine which of these key patents (not just codecs, but also other
important blocking patents) can be avoided, and which ones are too
tied to the format to avoid. Perhaps the OLPC project would
Sebastien Adgnot wrote:
However it seems quite difficult for us to encode our videos in
Theora+Vorbis right now. I'm gonna talk to different people in the
company to get their opinion and see what we can do.
Ffm peg does a fair job at codec conversion. We use our friends at
Lulu.tv to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
no, it does not need to be thrashed out either in the press or in
court. The aim is to avoid both. What you need to do is produce
detailed claim charts, along with a set of non-infringement
arguments. Once you have those then you can work out how to write your
code
Yibo Lin wrote:
The sound is perfect when I playing the flash file using Gnash (0.8.1) in
the emulator on my laptop (Ubuntu with sugar-jhbuild). Just when using the
Gnash (0.8.1) to playback the same flash file on the actual XO, the sound
won't come up. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Flash
Vasilis Liaskovitis wrote:
1) I haven't found a default gcc in my xo system - if there is one,
where is it installed ?
yum install gcc works. You quickly run out of room for the
development packages you need, so it's easier to build on another Fedora
7 machine. You can also stick the
Wade Brainerd wrote:
Anyway, I would love to see someone publish a secondary compiler
package that was XO optimized to the repository, e.g. yum install
gcc-xo.
At http://wiki.gnashdev.org/wiki/index.php/Building_OLPC_Tools, you
can get a binary tarball of gcc 4.3, plus rpms for the XO of
Edward Cherlin wrote:
* Gnash needs funding and developers. Let's do it. Rob Savoye says, as
I understand it, that more codecs have been cracked but not coded for.
Rob, can we get the list? Is there a roadmap for implementation? I
didn't see it in any of the obvious places.
Gnash
Edward Cherlin wrote:
So where is Gnash? What can we look forward to in the next release?
The latest release was about 2 weeks ago. :-) We put snapshot builds
up on http://www.getgnash.org and we recently got buildbot up and
running, those builds currently go in
Charbax wrote:
filmed myself, I can encode a version in Ogg Theora I think, though is there
a way to automatically stream Ogg Theora in full screen on the olpc laptop?
The simplest way I know is to write a 5 line Flash program to load the
file from disk and play it. If you use Gnash, it'll
Carol Lerche wrote:
Once again I get depressed about everyone's dependence on proprietary
formats, even for worthy causes. :-(
specific case of Adobe flash, it would be excellent if someone friendly to
the project could approach Adobe and ask that they allow the plugin to be
packaged for
Steve Holton wrote:
Gnash will *never* be fully compatible with Flash because the closer
Gnash gets to being a viable free Flash replacement, the more
incentive there is for Adobe to change the Flash specification in a
way to break compatibility.
They've already changed the format in a
Edward Cherlin wrote:
The video in XO Speak: Speech Synthesis for One Laptop Per Child,
http://www.olpcnews.com/software/applications/xo_speak_speech_synthesis.html
Andres Salomon wrote:
Adobe was clearly responding to Nicholas's cry for flash on the XO. ;)
I doubt that... although they are also dropping all licensing fees. As
far as the Gnash team can tell, while this does remove some of the legal
issues around flash, we're far past the point the
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Talking with Rob Savoy at FISL, he mentioned that recently some
speedups for Ogg encoding has been found that offered over an order of
magnitude improvement. I can't tell if that's what's being discussed
in the email above, or if these improvements are still in the
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 04:13:22PM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
We were having a discussion at the Gnash developer mailing list about
the absurdity of the situation where it was so difficult to get sound
working with Gnash on build 767 that the easy workaround to get sound
I have Gnash
For the record, I consider Dan to have spoken authoritatively on this
matter. As he says, the best things that you can do now are to
demonstrate that the newer gnash can safely be deployed either via 'yum
update', via 'olpc-update', or by providing a custom installation script
Our release
For the brave at heart, I beat Gnash's internal rpm packaging into
shape, and managed to produce working rpms from Gnash trunk. These are a
bit bleeding edge, with both jemalloc and mit-shm enabled, so your
mileage may vary...
Rather than fighting with the version skew of Gstreamer, these instead
Samuel Klein wrote:
Rob - Gnash tweaks would be welcome. Could you use an A-board when
they're ready? They're expected out around the end of May:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification_1.5
It depends on how hot you are to see how Gnash performs on the newer
hardware. :-) I
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
The XO-1 has hardware-accelerated XVideo, including YUV-RGB and scaling.
Are you talking about hardware acceleration for the internal stages of
video decoding, a la XvMC? Tests on a 1.0 GHz C7-M (the processor in
XO-1.5) indicate that software-only rendering
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
OK... but entirely via software is Doing It Wrong. With XVideo accel,
the XO-1 is perfectly capable of playing back YouTube videos at full
speed. Observed performance is only awful because Gnash isn't using
XVideo, so YUV-RGB and scaling are being done in
I fired up my B2 XO 1.5 unit yesterday, the power light came on, then
went off, and now it won't power up at all. The same power supply works
fine with a G1G1 unit. I was planning on using it for demos at SCALE 8x
next month, any ideas ? I've tried using other power supplies, even a
charged
On 10/20/11 03:59, Martin Langhoff wrote:
That's really good news! Rob, we can ship you a few more B1 units, if
that helps make bricking less of an issue :-)
It was mostly a matter of finding the right combination of firmware,
OS, etc... I think some of the web pages are out of date... but
On 10/20/11 03:59, Martin Langhoff wrote:
That's really good news! Rob, we can ship you a few more B1 units, if
that helps make bricking less of an issue :-)
I just put new rpms for the XO 1.75 in the Gnash repository at
getgnash.org, for anyone that wants to play with a pre-release
On 01/23/12 15:17, Martin Langhoff wrote:
Without ffmpeg, what is a good test of current gnash? What is a
reasonable expectation of what it can deliver?
I start with testing from source, ala make check. The Gnash
testsuite requires many dependences, many of which are not available in
Fedora
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