Re: Playing video on Sugar startup with VMETA
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: We're trying to make XO-1.75s play quality video on Sugar startup. Our solution involves installing the VMETA software on 12.1.0 and then loading the video in Totem using the Welcome activity hook in Sugar. Calling in Totem seems like a mess. Can I humbly suggest that you teach the Welcome activity to play videos, via gstreamer? That was our original plan (but we didn't have video material, so we didn't implement that part). It seems way easier. Part of the problem may be that the Sugar desktop session isn't fully started at that point. Welcome activity can handle that, but it is understandable if normal apps don't exactly like it. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Playing video on Sugar startup with VMETA
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: We're trying to make XO-1.75s play quality video on Sugar startup. Our solution involves installing the VMETA software on 12.1.0 and then loading the video in Totem using the Welcome activity hook in Sugar. Calling in Totem seems like a mess. Can I humbly suggest that you teach the Welcome activity to play videos, via gstreamer? IOWs, steal player.py from Jukebox activity :-) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Playing video on Sugar startup with VMETA
We're trying to make XO-1.75s play quality video on Sugar startup. Our solution involves installing the VMETA software on 12.1.0 and then loading the video in Totem using the Welcome activity hook in Sugar. As this is for marketing/instructional purposes, we need the process to be really slick: 1. XO loads with fully graphical boot animation (no console) 2. video loads and plays, with no chrome (toolbars, sidebars, etc.), high quality, full frame rate and complete A/V sync 3. Sugar loads as normal What we've found is that Totem segfaults when invoked with --fullscreen. It doesn't crash when loaded in a window, but there's so much chrome that it looks silly. Even a simpler gstreamer-based player, gst123, crashes soon after startup. I'm of the understanding that we need to be using a gstreamer player. Is there anything that we can do to improve our present situation? Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Playing video on Sugar startup with VMETA
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: We're trying to make XO-1.75s play quality video on Sugar startup. Our solution involves installing the VMETA software on 12.1.0 and then loading the video in Totem using the Welcome activity hook in Sugar. As this is for marketing/instructional purposes, we need the process to be really slick: 1. XO loads with fully graphical boot animation (no console) 2. video loads and plays, with no chrome (toolbars, sidebars, etc.), high quality, full frame rate and complete A/V sync 3. Sugar loads as normal What we've found is that Totem segfaults when invoked with --fullscreen. It doesn't crash when loaded in a window, but there's so much chrome that it looks silly. Even a simpler gstreamer-based player, gst123, crashes soon after startup. I'm of the understanding that we need to be using a gstreamer player. As of now yes. Is there anything that we can do to improve our present situation? Can you please provide the patches, and media you are using to accomplish this? Does totem --fullscreen segfault if run from a terminal under Sugar? Please provide any logs that you can collect. Thanks ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
