Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread MoRpHeUz
Hi - regarding the subject: For those interested in watching live-stuff on your N800 we are working on a project called GMyth (http://gmyth.sf.net). With it you are able to do a lot of MythTV stuff at your N770/800. Right now you are able to watch live tv on your N800 if you have an analog tv

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
Daniel Stone wrote: Thanks, that's a very good news. We all are looking forward for this firmware update. By the way, is it possible to get an early access to the updated kernels in the future for the purpose of testing and ensuring compatibility? It's a kernel and large X server update. Unfor

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:34:52PM +0200, ext Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2007 12:20, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Not really. The next firmware release has gone to great lengths to > > improve video performance by doing scaling on the LCD controller, as > > well as the colourspace co

Re: Impact on 770/N800 Software on DST change in the US?

2007-03-09 Thread Mike Morrison
Apparently this has not been "anticipated" for Canada. I have my "home city" set to "Vancouver, Canada". Running the command "zdump -v /etc/localtime |grep 2007" tells me "Sun Apr 1" but it should be saying "Sun Mar 11". On 3/9/07, Neil MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Acadia Secure Networks

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Friday 09 March 2007 12:20, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:45:03AM +0100, ext Hanno Zulla wrote: > > > Right now, the biggest bottleneck in video decoding is RFBI bandwidth > > > (i.e. the bus between OMAP and the LCD controller we use), being too > > > slow to push more than

Re: N800 questions

2007-03-09 Thread Michael Thompson
On 09/03/07, Michael Matalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2. How do I permanently install a module (the WLAN driver) Someone mentioned that I need to put it in the initfs folder, but it says "device does not have enough space". Generally speaking initfs is a compresses file system images that

Re: Impact on 770/N800 Software on DST change in the US?

2007-03-09 Thread Kris McGlinn
Hey, Could you guys keep maemo in the subject field, currently that is how I am filtering messages...so it would really be useful if you could do that. Thanks! Kris. Neil MacLeod wrote: Acadia Secure Networks wrote: All, as most on this list are aware, the U.S. is changing its schedule fo

OMAP 2420 / lower level hardware docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Jeff Sauer
I've searched TI's site for details regarding the OMAP 2420 and cannot find a detailed datasheet. Anyone have any links to specifics on the ARM CPU and other "blocks" of the OMAP 2420? Has anyone written any sample programs that interact with some of the lower level hardware? Thanks! __

Re: Impact on 770/N800 Software on DST change in the US?

2007-03-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
Acadia Secure Networks wrote: All, as most on this list are aware, the U.S. is changing its schedule for Daylight Savings Time (DST) starting this year and, the change occurs this coming weekend. Are there any updates to the 770/N800 software that are needed to support this change or has it a

Impact on 770/N800 Software on DST change in the US?

2007-03-09 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
All, as most on this list are aware, the U.S. is changing its schedule for Daylight Savings Time (DST) starting this year and, the change occurs this coming weekend. Are there any updates to the 770/N800 software that are needed to support this change or has it already been anticipated in the

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:33:05PM +0100, ext Klaus Rotter wrote: > Hanno Zulla wrote: > >TI is advertising the chipset used in the N800 as dvd-capable and I had > >the impression that the hardware was there, "only" the missing video > >acceleration and dsp drivers were stopping us from watching fu

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist

2007-03-09 Thread Klaus Rotter
Hanno Zulla wrote: TI is advertising the chipset used in the N800 as dvd-capable and I had the impression that the hardware was there, "only" the missing video acceleration and dsp drivers were stopping us from watching full-screen 30fps video on the device. I think TI is referring to the inter

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Hanno Zulla wrote: Playback resolution is the problem and the hardware limitations will not allow us to use the N800 screen as it is. That's a pity, alhtough I understand the reasons for these limitations. In fact the screen _is_ used in its full resolution. Well sort of. The pixel doubling f

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, > I'd rather transcode once into a format more suitable for portable > devices than waste all my Flash storing the same single uncompressed DVD > film/movie. > > It's about balance, and having the powerful desktop CPU convert the film > as a one-off exercise is surely a better option than exp

Re: N800 questions

2007-03-09 Thread Kees Jongenburger
On 3/9/07, Michael Matalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have 2 questions to ask reguarding the n800: 1. How do I set it to start application automatically when I boot into the os? The startad way in linux is to do this is create s shell script that accept "start" and stop as parameter. a

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
Hanno Zulla wrote: Hi, But MPEG4 needs more CPU power AND you have to transcode the existing material we already have on DVD or DVB before you can watch it. It's kind of pointless to waste desktop CPU power to transcode existing material if you could watch it in original form. I'd rather trans

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, > I think the format question is a red herring here. Indeed. > What we really want is to fully utilize the display quality when > watching video, and it sounds like that's a request that Nokia has > heard. They're doing what they can in terms of optimization, and I'm > sure it will play int

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2007-03-09 Thread T Taneli Vahakangas
Hello all, where can I find NPTL-enabled libc (for 770 or N800)? If it isn't available already, how would I go about making one? (I tried google already, but didn't find anything, except that currently only linuxthreads is supported ...) Cheers, Taneli

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Mike Lococo
Klaus Rotter wrote: Hanno Zulla wrote: Video playback is my biggest wish for improvement on the N800. See http://www.hanno.de/blog/2007/02/16/video-on-n800/ for some comparisons of video playback on the N800 as it is today and how it could be on an 800x480 screen. Why do you want DVD MPEG2 Pla

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, Klaus Rotter schrieb: > Hanno Zulla wrote: >> Video playback is my biggest wish for improvement on the N800. See >> http://www.hanno.de/blog/2007/02/16/video-on-n800/ for some comparisons >> of video playback on the N800 as it is today and how it could be on an >> 800x480 screen. > > Why do y

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist

2007-03-09 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi Daniel, >> DVD content is MPEG-2 video, which the N800 cpu should be able to >> decode. But DVD video is 720x480 at 30 fps (NTSC) or 720x576 at 25 fps >> (PAL), so reading from your previous message, I fear that the hardware >> is just incapable of playing it... Or isn't it? > > Unfortunately

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Klaus Rotter
Hanno Zulla wrote: Video playback is my biggest wish for improvement on the N800. See http://www.hanno.de/blog/2007/02/16/video-on-n800/ for some comparisons of video playback on the N800 as it is today and how it could be on an 800x480 screen. Why do you want DVD MPEG2 Playback? MPEG2 is IMHO

Re: Updated roadmap

2007-03-09 Thread Larry Battraw
On 3/9/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://test.maemo.org/support/roadmap.html updated. We start having tags: - new: this is obvious, on every update new features will be flagged. - community: features that are not in the Nokia plans but the community can lead. Did I say already tha

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:45:03AM +0100, ext Hanno Zulla wrote: > > Right now, the biggest bottleneck in video decoding is RFBI bandwidth > > (i.e. the bus between OMAP and the LCD controller we use), being too > > slow to push more than ~15fps through at 800x480. Beefing up the > > processor-sid

Updated roadmap

2007-03-09 Thread Quim Gil
http://test.maemo.org/support/roadmap.html updated. We start having tags: - new: this is obvious, on every update new features will be flagged. - community: features that are not in the Nokia plans but the community can lead. Did I say already that the plan is to update this page every Friday,

DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, >> I'd like support for the IVA (Imaging Video Accelerator) device to be >> implemented, or at least for some more information to be made available if >> Nokia >> can't justify the time. >> >> Rationale: >> >> This hardware is supposed to be able to improve large image display and can >> VG