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Ogg-support: Issues
The ogg-support is listed as the The Pearl for OS2008, thanks! :) Even though the ogg-support has got nice ratings in the download page, it doesn’t work perfectly on the OS2008. Most of the issues has...
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Ogg-support 0.7: Canola interoperability
Light Media Scanner now uses libivorbis (Tremor) instead of floating point libvorbis. Ogg-support now depends on newer build of libivorbis that exports the symbols needed by LMS. There’s now...
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GCC options and floating point
There was (again) some discussion on #maemo about gcc options regarding VFP usage so I decided to make a simple test with different gcc options using the Maemo’s cs2005q3.2-glibc2.5-arm toolchain....
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Linux on ARM
ARM (and Movial) has published a new site that provides Open Source components, middleware and utilities used to build a Linux Mobile software stack on ARM. All components (applications, libraries,...
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Ogg-support 0.8: Diablo
I finally compiled ogg-support for Diablo too. It’s available through the maemo downloads page. I don’t know why the Chinook version didn’t work in Diablo any more. And I didn’t really want to start...
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New UI for Kilikali
Thanks to Movial Kilikali got a modern UI and looks quite nice now: Kilikali development has moved to a GIT tree (branch generic-2) hosted by linux.onarm.com. Although the UI got improved and the...
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Ogg-support 0.9: Builder
I added the Theora support back to ogg-support and uploaded the source packages to extras-devel builder. I didn’t change the mimetypes though, so all *.ogg files are seen as audio files even though...
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Ogg-support: in Extras
I promoted the ogg-support 0.9 to Extras repository. Feedback is welcome. I’ve also managed to get the tags (except for the album) to show up in Metalayer Crawler. But that code isn’t even in SVN yet....
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ALIP on n8x0
ARM and Movial announced a second stable release of ARM Linux Internet Platform (ALIP) generic repository. ALIP got other updates as well, see a blog post about them in Movial’s Sandbox or the actual...
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Learning OpenGL ES 2.0
I got (again) interested on OpenGL ES 2.0 and bought OpenGL® ES 2.0 Programming Guide. The examples on the book can be downloaded from http://www.opengles-book.com/. Those are meant to be compiled...
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Wishlist for N900 ogg-support
Time to switch to a Linux phone and time to start preparing ogg-support for N900/Fremantle. Hopefully everything will be easier to get working with the N900 since at least the closed source Metalayer...
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Ogg Support in Fremantle Extras
In my last post I asked for a wish list of features for the Ogg Support. I started the integration work based on those comments and now the 1.0.5 version for n900 has been promoted to Fremantle Extras...
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Ogg Support: Next Steps
Purpose of the 1.0.5 release was to get a decent feature set to Extras repository before the Maemo Summit. There are still some bigger issues to be fixed in the future releases. Bugs There’s a product...
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n900 Battery Duration: Ogg vs. MP3
There have always been complaints about Ogg being more of a battery hog on the Nokia tablets compared to Nokia optimized MP3. I decided to measure the difference. All tests were run on a preproduction...
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Command line sharing plugin for n900
Thomas Perl made a proposal for creating a command line sharing plugin for the n900. I had already planned to implement something like that so I joined the project. I pushed the first...
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Command line sharing plugin in extras-devel
I reflashed my device and the biggest annoyance after restoring the backup was recompiling the sharing-cli plugin as it was not in any repository. Now it is. It has been working for me for several...
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MeeGo 1.2 ARMv7 chroot (beta)
I’ve always liked the Scratchbox approach to cross-compiling. Run ./configure && make and you have an ARM binary, no need to explicitly tell the configure we are cross-compiling nor fix the...
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Ogg-support 1.1.1: Performance
After almost two years there’s a new version of the Ogg Support in the Fremantle Extras. The decoder code has changed completely. Where the old one used libvorbis and vorbisdec from the GStreamer base...
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Command-line sharing for Harmattan
I use IRC and I want to be able to share photos there easily. For n900 I had implemented a sharing plugin and that worked nicely. When I got the n950 I of course wanted to do the same with that but it...
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N950 display breaking down
My N950′s display started to grow black stripes some weeks ago: The lines are getting longer and thicker day by day. And now an N950 of a friend of mine started to do the same thing. I wonder if this...
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