Neuros OSD /usr/bin player app?

[tsai]

Hi all,

What is the command/app in the /usr/bin directory which allows you to start playing a file remotely through telnet? I have the following ones there:

[           cut         fuser       mkfifo      tail        unzip
[[          deallocvt   head        nslookup    telnet      uptime
arping      dirname     hexdump     openvt      test        wc
basename    du          hostid      passwd      tftp        which
bunzip2     env         id          readlink    time        whoami
bzcat       expr        install     realpath    top         yes
chvt        find        killall     renice      tr
clear       free        less        reset       traceroute
cmp         ftpget      logger      sort        tty
cryptpw     ftpput      mesg        strings     uniq


Thanks,

Tsai

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tsai

[Gerry Boland]

Have a look in /usr/local/bin for the OSD's apps.

I think it is "vplayer"

-G

2009/9/12 tsai <tsa...@gmail.com>

[tsa...@gmail.com]

Have you tried this and does it work for you? When I /usr/local/bin/vplayer file.mp4, it seems to try to start the file and then just hangs. No video or sound on the television. In theory, it seems as though it would work without a problem as I'm sure it is a command being sent to the file when we press the play button on the remote. After all it's Linux :).

I like the command line because it's way faster than the remote. Do you know of another way or have another idea?

Thanks,

Tsai

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From: Gerry Boland
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:26:41 +0100
To: <neu...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Neuros OSD /usr/bin player app?

[Gerry Boland]

Hey,

yes in the past I have used this, and it worked. You get some debug text on the terminal, and playback begins. Crtl-C kills it.

I guess a prudent question is what does the debug text tell you? Is the file playable by the OSD? Perhaps you should supply an absolute path to the file you want to play?? (guess)

-G

2009/9/13 <tsa...@gmail.com>

[tsai]

Hi again,

So when I use an absolute path, this is the output I get:

~ $ cd /
/ $ /usr/local/bin/vplayer /media/USB/Oprah/osd.mp4
NVideoPlayerApp:: NVideoPlayerApp ("/usr/local/bin/vplayer", "/media/USB/Oprah/osd.mp4")
path= "/"  filename= ""
NVideoPlayer:: start to play  "." "." ""
[1328] WARNING: ./../src/client-nms.c--NmsPlay: 466
        Play command sent failed!
NVideoPlayer::default


Seems that there is a problem with the "Play" command.  Hmmmm?

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tsai

[Gerry Boland]

Hi,

Going through the source code for vplayer[1], it looks like this changed since I last used it.

I'm guessing you can use something like

   vplayer --path /media/USB/Oprah/osd.mp4

or

   vplayer --path=/media/USB/Oprah/osd.mp4

But I'm not 100% sure. Interestingly you can specify the playback proportions and subtitle file via command line too.

Pity this CLI app has no help.

-Gerry

[1] http://svn.neurostechnology.com/filedetails.php?repname=linux-r3-main-app&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fvplayer%2Fsrc%2Fui%2Fvplayerapp.cpp&rev=0&sc=0

2009/9/15 tsai <tsa...@gmail.com>

[tsai]

Hi Gerry,

So some progress.  The second command you sent seems to start the video with sound only.  No video.

Here is the command I used:

/usr/local/bin/vplayer --path /media/USB/Oprah/osd.mp4

So it seems like a little more is needed to get both the sound and video going.  Can't seem to find anything else on google.  Like you stated vplayer documentation is limited.  Wonder what else can be added to the command?

Thanks again,

Tsai

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