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N5: video play back is not possible #1092

Open libermax opened 5 years ago

libermax commented 5 years ago

With last RC (2019-W15) on N5, media player is unable to play mp4 videos, (at least those recorded by the camera). Error message is: "Error playing video video format is not supported"

(Playing the same videos with UTmedia works)

walking-octopus commented 2 years ago

Thanks a lot for the info. Very helpful. Going to look into pocket vms app as I've already bought the 3a.

You can run PostmarketOS on that. It's a minimal distro, so you should be fine.

walking-octopus commented 2 years ago

Installing gstreamer1.0-libav fixes thumbnail generation and audio playback, but the video is still broken.

TipsyTheCat commented 2 years ago

What's the current progress with this problem? Also, where is the "home" of development? And is this device still maintained?

Flohack74 commented 2 years ago

Well I made efforts to forward-port N5 to Halium 7.1, and now 9.0, but it takes time, and I have also 100 other UT items on my plate. I would however be faster with that if I have someone else helping with this port. 100% it will fix video playback, and its also a precondition to bring this device to Ubuntu 20.04 base later this year.

walking-octopus commented 2 years ago

It will also allow for WayDroid support. :)

Flohack74 commented 2 years ago

Yeah Waydroid could work if we rebase on Halium 9 ;)

weirdal3333 commented 2 years ago

I have a Nexus 5, and I'm willing to install whatever you guys want on it to test and get this working.

walking-octopus commented 2 years ago

I have a Nexus 5, and I'm willing to install whatever you guys want on it to test and get this working.

Me too. UT is already getting into the 8-year phone lifecycle territory with OTA updates, so it would be very sad to lose the Nexus 5 support when moving to 20.04.

weirdal3333 commented 2 years ago

The last activity for this device was back in April. Is the project abandoned, @rubencarneiro ? I would like to be able to test anything on my hammerhead device, but is seems like everyone has just abandoned ubuntu touch for the nexus 5... We were so close! Video playback and nfc are the only 2 major features that are missing, and most people don't even use nfc. Video playback is such a basic feature that you have allegedly solved... But I don't see any results. where is the OTA that fixes it? I don't mind completely reinstalling the OS for testing.

Flohack74 commented 2 years ago

Pleasew ait for the Halium 9 build of this device. We ar enot investing in anything below, since only with Halium 9 we will be able to carry it over to 20.04 Also please understand that this is a very aged device. Usage over the last 2 years has dropped by 50% in user numbers. We can see people jumping on new hardware, and we need also to invest in Halium 10 and 11, soon 12.

Dogo6647 commented 1 year ago

Has any progress been made, almost 6 months later? I noticed the development channel getting an update for this month, And I didn't notice any changes at all, not even with things that don't have to do with video playback. Why were the Halium images deleted from the releases tab? did video playback just magically stop working again on those? (edit: oh wait they did) I recently got a Nexus 5 hoping that it would be compatible with everything, but the lack of hardware acceleration for video made playing them more painful than it sounded when I saw the little compatibility checklist on ubports' website. I could help with testing if I wasn't so scared of permanently paperweighting my device.

t-maes commented 1 year ago

Bonjour Madame, Monsieur,

Je serai absent jusqu'au 06/03/2023.

Cordialement,

-- Thierry Maes Auditeur PAE / Certificateur PEB agréé par la Wallonie 0475/ 30 36 51

rubencarneiro commented 1 year ago

Pleasew ait for the Halium 9 build of this device. We ar enot investing in anything below, since only with Halium 9 we will be able to carry it over to 20.04 Also please understand that this is a very aged device. Usage over the last 2 years has dropped by 50% in user numbers. We can see people jumping on new hardware, and we need also to invest in Halium 10 and 11, soon 12.

Not promising anything i do not like to do that, but i will try to port this device to halium 9, again no promisses.

Dogo6647 commented 1 year ago

Not promising anything i do not like to do that, but i will try to port this device to halium 9, again no promisses.

No pressure, take your time, and you can totally decide if it happens or not, but i'm sure this move will be highly appreciated by all hammerhead users. Personally I wasn't expecting bigger things such as 20.04 or Halium 9, video playback and hardware acceleration in browser (WebGL, smooth-ish YouTube videos, smooth-ish scrolling) working properly is enough for me.

gouchi commented 1 year ago

@rubencarneiro It seems some work has been started by @Flohack74

https://github.com/ubports/android_kernel_lge_hammerhead/tree/halium-9.0 https://github.com/ubports/android_device_lge_hammerhead/tree/halium-9.0

Dogo6647 commented 1 year ago

As @gouchi said, yes, some work has already been done, and there's a pull request on the main ubports repository for the device that still hasn't been approved for some reason. It's possible that the UBports devs forgot about its existence, as there's been no further replies to @rubencarneiro 's last message in the PR and again, the PR is still open. https://github.com/ubports/android_device_lge_hammerhead/pull/31

weirdal3333 commented 1 year ago

With last RC (2019-W15) on N5, media player is unable to play mp4 videos, (at least those recorded by the camera). Error message is: "Error playing video video format is not supported"

(Playing the same videos with UTmedia works)

@libermax can you add the text device:hammerhead to the top post for easier searchability?

Flohack74 commented 1 year ago

@libermax plz restest with latest RC

Dogo6647 commented 1 year ago

@Flohack74 AFAIK YouTube video playback stopped working entirely on latest RC, I didn't test local videos before switching back to stable.

Dogo6647 commented 1 year ago

Nevermind, HTML5 Videos work again, but still nothing's working on the video player app

rubencarneiro commented 1 year ago

As @gouchi said, yes, some work has already been done, and there's a pull request on the main ubports repository for the device that still hasn't been approved for some reason. It's possible that the UBports devs forgot about its existence, as there's been no further replies to @rubencarneiro 's last message in the PR and again, the PR is still open. ubports/android_device_lge_hammerhead#31

Ok im updating things to go more toward focal, but i will work on this as i can because i do also have a full time job. So no promisses. https://github.com/rubencarneiro/android_device_lge_hammerhead/commit/ebb43b23dd9885b12f25a7bc17f72342191e17e9