Kahil,
thanks for sharing the info re Gizmo + Asterisk. Supporting Asterisk was
a smart move for the Gizmo team. For those interested to learn more here
is the url to the www page at the Gizmo project www site that discusses
Asterisk interoperability:
http://gizmoproject.com/asterisk.html
Best Regards,
John Holmblad
Acadia Secure Networks
Kahlil Johnson wrote:
> N770 is a much under power device compared to your linux desktop. Also
> the video that comes with the n770 is the one that puts a lot of buts.
> Fortunately this is free software and there is already Mplayer for the
> N770. Mplayer will play much more formats with less hassle since it
> has resizing capabilities.
>
> However making N770 videos is not that hard. N770 plays Xvid videos
> pretty much, so you will have to export as xvid. But also if you have
> mythtv box you will be able to encode 'on the fly' to the n770.
>
> There are also other scripts that will help you resize and re-format
> your video such as mencoder and ffmpeg. The tutorials are on the maemo
> website. 3rd party scripts include a perl script to easy encode N770.
> I use 770-encoder.pl .
> www.bleb.org/software <http://www.bleb.org/software>
>
> About Gizmo, you can connect to a Asterisk server you dont need a
> gizmo account and you dont need to put money to get a gizmo account.
>
> And the reason why it gets great reviews is that it can do so many
> things. You just need to learn how to do them. Fortunately we are here
> to share tips and tricks.
>
> On 7/5/07, *David Rudder* <drig at noses.org <mailto:drig at noses.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm getting frustrated with my Nokia N800 and I hope someone can help
> me. I bought this for a couple reasons, the 2 big ones are for SIP
> video calling and for playing videos off my MythTV. I have been
> totally
> unsuccessful so far.
>
> The media player finds my MythTV server, but it refuses to play any
> videos. It turns out that the videos are stored in standard
> definition
> format, which the Nokia can't play. Why do they advertise it's video
> capabilities if it can't play standard videos? I'm using a WinTV
> PVR-500 to record MPEG-4 videos. They play great on my Linux desktop
> and my Windows laptop, but they refuse to play on my N800, even
> though
> Nokia advertises that it plays MPEG-4. Can anyone help?
> I've tried transcoding files to flash, but they look awful and are
> very
> choppy. Not watchable. I also tried transcoding down to a lower
> resolution with similar problems. At least they play, but what
> good is
> a 800x600 screen if the videos have to be 288x160? And, even
> then, the
> fast forward doesn't work and it regularly hangs and the video and
> audio
> doesn't sync.
>
> One big features that Nokia advertises is the ability to do video
> conferencing. Can someone tell me how to set it up so I can
> conference
> from my Nokia to my Linux desktop machine? Apparently, you have
> to use
> the Nokia Internet Calling Invitation software, which isn't ported to
> Linux. I tried the Windows version on my laptop but it refused to run
> until I bought a webcam. There's no support for one-way video with
> two-way audio? And, no support for Linux? *sheesh*
>
> Beyond that, I can't seem to get a normal SIP voice client at all.
> Tapioca doesn't support SIP. Minisip supposedly works, but the
> repository is down. Gizmo supports SIP, but only if you have a Gizmo
> account. I'm using Allo.com <http://Allo.com>. Can someone
> please, please tell me where
> to get a SIP client?
>
> Is anyone out there having any success with their N800? So far, I've
> paid $400 for a brick I can play "pipe panic" on. Why does this get
> such great reviews?
>
> -Dave
>
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