Mplayer with some neon optimisations are already available for Beagleboard (same OMAP of the Pandora).
How Well Will The Pandora Run Video?
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, Jan 16 2009 03:41 PM
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Posted 17 January 2009 - 11:50 AM
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Posted 17 January 2009 - 09:11 PM
So running on a beagleboard with linux and such you can confirm that it'll play the formats in question? Because it's getting harder and harder to download anything other than 720p MKV files in all manner of codec configurations.
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Posted 17 January 2009 - 10:01 PM
m4a and m4p? i want my itunes stuffz on panda!
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Posted 17 January 2009 - 11:12 PM
QUOTE(Mr devil45 @ Jan 17 2009, 11:01 PM) 
m4a and m4p? i want my itunes stuffz on panda!
Not happening if that stuff happens to be DRM'ed (I believe that applies to the stuff with the "p" added, no?).
If it's not, though, maybe you'll be in luck.
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Posted 17 January 2009 - 11:12 PM
QUOTE(Mr devil45 @ Jan 17 2009, 11:01 PM)
m4a and m4p? i want my itunes stuffz on panda!
don't the itunes m4as and m4ps contain drm? how should that be available on pandora? you would probably first need to find a tool to remove the drm and i don't know if that would be legal in your country.
Well, that's the problem with all this convenient drm-stuff. it all seems to be so comfortable until you try to do something different then they planed you to do.
Edited by conso, 17 January 2009 - 11:14 PM.
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Posted 17 January 2009 - 11:32 PM
You won't have a problem with m4a and m4p on Mplayer if they are not DRM protected. (I have no problem on my internet tablet)
If it's DRM protected I think you'll be screwed up... but well that's all the beauty behind DRM isn't it ?
If it's DRM protected I think you'll be screwed up... but well that's all the beauty behind DRM isn't it ?
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 01:38 AM
Ha, DRM. I'm not too concerned about the Pandora as a PMP, all my audio is flac or mp3, and my videos are mostly avi, with the mkv collection of this one anime I like.
I haven't had a lot of luck converting mkvs, but from what I'm hearing, the Pandora should be fine. And if it's not, I can have VLC stream it from my laptop wirelessly to the Pandora. Right?
I haven't had a lot of luck converting mkvs, but from what I'm hearing, the Pandora should be fine. And if it's not, I can have VLC stream it from my laptop wirelessly to the Pandora. Right?
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 01:42 AM
QUOTE(marshal @ Jan 17 2009, 11:32 PM)
You won't have a problem with m4a and m4p on Mplayer if they are not DRM protected. (I have no problem on my internet tablet)
If it's DRM protected I think you'll be screwed up... but well that's all the beauty behind DRM isn't it ?
m4ps are usually DRM protected(that's what the p means.)
m4as can be DRM protected still but all my m4as are self-encoded, so no DRM.
Unprotected should be fine.
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 02:57 AM
If you do buy from iTunes, get the "iTunes Plus" music if you can. It doesn't cost any more than the "regular" music, but it has a higher bitrate, and it's completely unprotected. The Pandora will be able to play that music. Anything else will not be playable from iTunes.
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 06:14 AM
iTunes is going DRM-free; they announced it on Jan 5 or 7 or something, if Google Trends' spike in "itunes" searches is indicative of that. Anyone who cared about DRM or audio quality (if they weren't just buying CDs and ripping to FLAC, re-encoding to LAME MP3 for PMPs) has been going to Amazon MP3 or something for a while.
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 10:37 AM
Actualy the Mplayer version for beagleboard can play HDReady vids (720p) only on Divx codec. To play correctly 720p h264, we need some DSP codecs
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 10:47 AM
Yeh, I had tons of problems getting videos to work smoothly on the beagleboard, I also had lots of audio problems with simple mp3 in some case.
But I guess its mainly enlightenment beeing a huge bottleneck, doing weird things in the background or so. It works fine with some kernels tho, so its clearly a software issue. The problem is that most of the hardware is "new" and the makers don't gave too much detail yet, there is also a big hole in the software area
But I guess its mainly enlightenment beeing a huge bottleneck, doing weird things in the background or so. It works fine with some kernels tho, so its clearly a software issue. The problem is that most of the hardware is "new" and the makers don't gave too much detail yet, there is also a big hole in the software area
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 11:12 AM
QUOTE(lulzfish @ Jan 18 2009, 02:38 AM)
I haven't had a lot of luck converting mkvs, but from what I'm hearing, the Pandora should be fine. And if it's not, I can have VLC stream it from my laptop wirelessly to the Pandora. Right?
The latest PocketDivXEncoder converts MKV files just fine (to DivX and Xvid, that is). I use version 0.3.96.
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 11:30 AM
Actuelly we can stand for Better video player than GP2x but not has good are we want. DVD res vids (with H264?) but not HD vid. Maybe with some time this year we can see some goods improvement on this part.
For me DVD Res vid is what i need, HD files are realy to big to name them light and in the Pandora philosophy
For me DVD Res vid is what i need, HD files are realy to big to name them light and in the Pandora philosophy
Edited by Yod4z, 18 January 2009 - 11:32 AM.
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 02:51 PM
QUOTE(javaJake @ Jan 18 2009, 03:57 AM)
If you do buy from iTunes, get the "iTunes Plus" music if you can. It doesn't cost any more than the "regular" music, but it has a higher bitrate, and it's completely unprotected. The Pandora will be able to play that music. Anything else will not be playable from iTunes.
I just learned, and think it's worth adding here, that apparently people with existing DRM'ed iTunes Music Store files are expected to pay 20p/30c per track, or 25% (UK)/30% (US) of an album's price (if you bought albums), to upgrade to non-DRM'ed files.
Myself, I use Play.com's MP3 Downloads service.
</off-topic, but might be useful to someone>
Edited by Prometheus, 18 January 2009 - 02:53 PM.
