ally wrote:both settings issues with the tv - my bad
No worries. Glad you can make it work.
I was hoping to stream from thedarewall.com but seamonkey is having difficulties, not sure if it's a flash issue (media files not playing on bbc.news website either) but package manager shows flash installed and youtube works ok?
Ok this is something I had to put in BIG CAPITAL letter in the first post (in fact I'm going to edit the post after this reply). I'm sorry if this is going to ruin your world. In the ARM world, with very rare exception, there is NO FLASH. Why? Flash performance on generic ARM cpu is *so bad* that it embarassed Adobe who decided to stop distributing ARM version of Flash for generic ARM a few years ago. Adobe still makes Flash for ARM of course, but:
a) only for Android devices that pay them license
b) only for select Linux manufacturers that pay them license
c) and those Flash player uses some kind of acceleration (either GPU or VPU), so it is very hardware/platform-specific (you can't get a Flash player from Cubieboard2 to run on Odroid, for example).
In FatdogArm, the only platform that has Flash player is OLPC XO-4. Not even OLPC XO-1.75 has it. Why? Because OLPC has paid blanket licensing for Flash player on OLPC XO-4, so you have it. Other platforms don't have it. Sorry
pushing my luck but would a chrome be available in the future?
No. I'm not aware of official ARM version of Chrome built by Google. The best we can do is Chromium - but beware that Chromium doesn't come with Flash either ...
On another note, somebody managed to fish Android's Flashplayer and run it under Linux using tricks similar to ndiswrapper (remember that?), using a special library (pepperflash or something) which tricks the Flash player to think that it is running on Android. I'll see if I can get this done, but firstly I need to find Flash player for Odroid if this is going to happen.
EDIT:
Alternatively, Mozilla is trying to break free from Flash:
http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ is a flash player built entirely on Javascript. It works, but it's still in early days and not usable for viewing youtube.
edit: could the odroid be used as dlna server using the scripts from shinobar or do they have to be compiled for the arm?
I haven't seen shinobar's scripts. If it is pure scripts (no binaries) then it should work; if it contains binaries (=compiled programs) then they all have to be recompiled for ARM. Note that the kernel may need some settings to be enabled too, I'm not too sure about it. Point me to the right link, I may look at it.
edit2: I've just noticed that the bbc news website is transferring to the mobile (
http://m.bbc.co.uk...) presumably because the chipset is from the galaxy s3, this may be why the streaming is proving difficult, can the browser be 'forced' in some way?
You can use the usual add-ons to change user agents; but more often than not, mobile websites provide options to switch back to "desktop" views.
mories wrote:Thanks jb.
The new obconf working properly. Just a little extra detail: when called from fatdog-control-panel (with obconf %f) an error "unable to extract the file% f" occurs. I think the solution is to modify obconf.desktop removing the% f.
Of course. I will clean it. I think there are many more of them that slipped my notice.
Regarding pkeys parameter (in my case pkeys=es) finds an appropriate map, but then loadkmap gives an error "not a valid binary keymap".
This is after the patch, I presume? I need a way to test it that I can revert back to US keymap ... but I'll get back to you.