[maemo-users] [maemo-users] video playback fails most of the time

[From: Martin Grimme]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.11.2005, 18:51 -0500 schrieb Brad Clements:
> I encoded some avi files that I have (640x480 DX50 64kbit audio), 
> according to the instructions on this page:
> 
> http://maemo.org/maemowiki/VideoEncoding

I never got a video with a resolution of 640x480 to play on the
device.

> I then exit and restart video player, and still, the file that "used to work" 
> now doesn't work. But rebooting the device "fixes it" again so that the 
> smaller sized one does work.

There has been a bug report about this. A dirty workaround is to
kill the osso-media-server process instead of rebooting
(open X-Terminal and enter "killall osso-media-server").

https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152

The video player definitely needs more work.


Regards,
Martin