[MeeGo Harmattan] TweakUp your media sharing experience !

As you know, due to the aim of getting the N9 DLNA-certified, developers had to introduce some restrictions.

One of the most annoying limitation from an end user point of view is that you can’t share arbitrary videos or music which you may have put on your device.

Another, though minor, issue is that it’s not possible to change the name shown in UPnP or DLNA clients on the network.

If your phone is on PR1.2, TweakUp enables you to tweak some of the N9's media sharing options, such as


- Enabling/disabling audio transcoding
- Setting the name of the device on the network
- Sharing of all media files, even those without DLNA profiles
- Enabling/disabling uploading
- Setting a home access point

[MeeGo Harmattan] Boxee Remote for N9 !

Boxee is a home-theater PC software that you can connect to your TV and stream videos/music from other computers and play them from a single entry. Furthermore it is a social network powered home theater application, you can post what you are watching on Twitter or Facebook and watch videos your friends posted on Twitter or Facebook.

You have two options to use Boxee, you can either buy a Boxee Box or make your own Boxee as presented in Boxee’s website (http://boxee.tv) and by downloading Boxee application. For the first choice you need this application because of its powerful NFC and proximity features, otherwise Boxee Box comes with its own remote, for the second choice, you need to have this application if you posses one of the coolest phones ever, the Nokia N9.




Boxee Remote is a remote controller interface for Boxee, you can use this remote to navigate, search, play/pause/stop videos or music and adjust the volume of Boxee.

You can download Boxee for N9 on Ovi now, try it, it’s free!

[MeeGo Harmattan] VLC media player for Nokia N9 is here !

Here you can find a full and free version of the VLC media player for Nokia N9 (and Nokia N950).

Work in progress

VLC for N9 is a work-in-progress project.
There are some major known pending issues, in particular:

• The user interface is currently optimized for desktop computers. It is extremely tedious to use with a small touchscreen.
• Hardware-accelerated video decoding is not supported (however, color space conversion and scaling are hardware-accelerated). So there may be performance issues especially with high-res videos.
• Screen blanking is not preempted. It is hoped that this will be resolved in the coming days.

If you want to help, please contact:

• the VLC developers mailing list,
• the #videolan IRC channel on the Freenode network,
• Rémi Denis-Courmont privately by e-mail.

Facts

Which devices does this run on?

 

This should run on all Nokia N9 devices. However this was only tested on an unlocked device.

Nokia N950 devices are also supported.

How do I install this on my device?

 

Download here the libvlc5 and vlc-player packages to your device, and install them with this command:

dpkg -i libvlc5_*.deb vlc-player_*.deb

If you do not know how to proceed with that, you should probably not be using prereleases software, sorry. Help is needed to complete this project.
 

How do I start the software?

 

Once installed succesfully, there should be a VLC traffic cone icon in the application launcher. Alternatively, advanced users can also start VLC from the command line as on desktop computers.

Is this the real VLC media player?

 

Yes. This is the same VLC software as you would run on your computer. Almost all of the features found in the desktop VLC, particularly in the Linux desktop version of VLC, are included.

Which version VLC is this?

 

This is based on VLC version 1.2.0 pre-releases, pending the official release of VLC 1.2.0.

Where can I get the source code?

 

All of the code for VLC on Nokia N9 has been included in the official VLC media player project at VideoLAN already. Nevertheless, you can follow the source link to the left.

 

Via : http://www.irunvlc.me/

[MeeGo-Harmattan] Mediadownloader : client for Google Image, Youtube and BlipTv !

Mediadownloader is a simple and fast client for Google Image, Youtube and BlipTv.
 You can search images and videos, view them in a grid view, then in a slide view.
 Images can be zoomed and rotated, both images and videos can be downloaded
 or set as wallpaper (single frame for videos). Images are cached, this means that
 if you want to download or rewatch an image, it is retrieved from the cache instead
 the net saving bandwidth.

 In the main window:

 * Choose Google Image, Youtube or BlipTv icon to search in
 * Scrolling the grid at the end will add more items
 * Tapping on a thumbnail will give more info about the source (hiding again within 4 secs).
 * Double tapping will show it on a scrollable list view

 In list view mode:
 While viewing images:


 * tap to get more infos
 * pinch to zoom, rotate and pan the image

 While viewing videos:

 * the video starts paused with controls available
 * press "i" to get more infos
 * while playing, tap to get controls back

 For both (videos and images)

 * long tap to get the menu to choose to save or set what you are seeing as wallpaper
 * slide to view the next or previous item
 * double tap to get back to grid view

Watch the original thread for questions or suggestions ^^

[MeeGo Harmattan] VLC Remote !

VLC remote is a remote wireless to control vlc media player

Can be installed from

http://projects.developer.nokia.com/vlc_remote

or by adding

Code:

deb  http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/druid23/Harmattan/ ./

and

Code:

apt-get install vlcremoteqml

DLNA Server : Stream your music, pictures and movies to a DLNA-client !

DLNA Server Stream your music, pictures and movies to a DLNA-client like WindowMediaPlayer, XBMC, some Samsung FLAT-Screens...

Great, in extras-devel repo ;)

Alpha release of Open Media Player to replace N900 original media player !

MohammadAG has jut announced a release of an early development version of  Open Media Player that'll replace the default N900 media player !

All details about installation instructions can be found in the original thread !

mir-translator : Translate text from pictures to various languages !

mir-translator is an application for translating text in photos taken from the N900 camera (like PhotoTranslator). Supports novel interactive recognition techniques.

Leverages the FCam API, as well as custom-modified recognition web service based on Google Tesseract. Uses Google Translate for translation.

Ps : It takes a lot of time to tranlate a simple text, hope this will be adressed in future updates 

PhoneStreamer : Streams N900 to remote PC !

phonestream allows you to stream either the front/back camera or microphone to your Desktop PC either through VLC media player (windows/linux), Xout (linux), or as use as your primary webcam (linux).

You can read all instructions in the original thread ;)

TV Out Control Home Widget !

 TV out control desktop widget allows you to control different parameters of the N900's TV out that (for some) are not available in the control panel :

- Enable/disable
- PAL/NTSC
- Aspect ratio control - switch between 4:3 and 16:9
- Scale control - scale the display to fill the TV screen area, or make it smaller

Mediabar (XpressMusic-esque) : With mediaplayer controls!

Do you want to display a multimedia bar similar to that on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and other XpressMusic devices? mediabar can do it ! It's activated by holding the proximity sensor for 1.2s, and of course, this is configurable, just edit /home/user/.config/MohammadAG/mediabar containing icons which can be used to quickly launch applications from almost any screen !

Via : talk.maemo.org

SPB TV (ip tv) : Invitation to BETA testing !

SPB Software is the well-known company for WM-smartphones world and the creator of SPB Brain Evolution game for N900, now announces the public beta program of SPB TV for N900.

SPB TV is a highly usable IP-TV solution, optimized to run on mobile devices. SPB TV provides users with lots of live channels in multiple languages with easy-to-use features and settings.

The application is completely free - you don't need to buy it and here is no subscription fee!

You can get more details about SPB TV for other mobile platforms at http://www.spb.com/iphone-software/tv/.

Please download and install the .deb file attached to this post.

Known issues for this moment:

-slow start for some channels
-on-screen volume control doesn't work
-no support for video-on-demand channels
-blinking while pressing on-screen controls in full-screen mode
-slow channel switcher scrolling while in Picture-in-Picture mode
-no dialog for add/remove/sort channels

All your comments are very welcome in this thread, or by email to den[at]spb.com

FrontView - Turn your mobile phone into a document scanner !

FrontView900 turns your N900 into a document scanner that use the build-in camera to take snapshots of hand written notes, typed document, name card, etc. Then FrontView converts them into a flatted document image by de-skewing automatically.



Features :

1) Image de-skewing - Convert perspective view image of hand written drawing / notes to front view
2) Paper auto-detection
3) Manual/ semi-automated detection mode for complex image (e.g Use stylus to draw out the input region, the region will be corrected by FrontView900 automatically.)
4) Misc features: image crop , rotation

Maevies : Application providing movies informations !

Butaca / Maevies is an application aimed at providing different movie information : Rating, Overview, popularity...

A movie can be searched in themoviedb.org -getting its basic info- and whatsafterthecredits.com -getting the information about extra scenes. There is also a module which parses Google Movies html, not using GObject yet, but some changes in their API seem to have broken its support.

More info over here !

Instinctiv : Music player with mood-based smart shuffle !

Like playlist dj, Instinctiv automatically analyzes and profiles your music collection, then builds playlists at your command.

  

Features : 

- Smart Shuffle automatically plays songs you're in the mood for based off what songs you skip
- Sync with desktop using Instinctiv for desktop
- Automatic cover art fetching
- Library management
- Support for wma, flac, ogg, aac, mp3 and other formats

Some features aren't yet available and it works only on portrait mode... ;)

Light Meter : measure the incident light to determine the proper exposure !

Light Meter is an application that allows you to select your chosen aperture size, and gives you the appropriate shutter speed according to the light condition. just like a light meter used for photography (see here for more info)

Touching the LCD-style numbers you can set the exposure parameters. If you set the aperture value, speed will be calculated, and vice versa. The LCD-style numbers give you only values permitted by your camera/lens.

You can easily add your camera/lens parameters in the files camera.conf and lens.conf in /opt/lightmeter, then you can select them using the settings menu option.

In the package you'll find only the Nikon D80 and a 16-85 Nikkor lens in the .conf files.

To store the actual exposure you can use the three "memory" buttons. (More to read)

Media IM Status Updater : Update IM presence message with song/artist information !

Media IM Status Updater update IM presence message with song/artist information, now all your friends can know exactly what song you're listening to on your Nokia N900 no matter where you are !

Available on Extra-Devel

Zeecontrol : control your N900 with a Zeemote bluetooth remote control !

Zeecontrol lets you control your N900 with a Zeemote bluetooth remote control based on Wiicontrol.

More info over here !

Pykake : remote application for DSLR cameras !

Pykake is a remote application for DSLR cameras. It uses Lircd to send IR commands to camera.

Currently support cameras from Olympus, Canon, Nikon and Pentax.

More info over here ;)

Dreamremote : A WiFi Remote Control for all DreamBox Receivers !

Dreamremote is a WiFi Remote Control for all DreamBox Receiver (the Linux-based set-top boxes) from Dream multimedia with installed and running Enigma 2 Webinterface plugin !

Usage:

Simple start DreamRemote and enjoy.

• For the first time:

Go to [Settings] in the Menu. Enter the IP Adress of your Dreambox and tap [OK].

• Daily usage:

Press one of the Buttons in the main screen of DreamRemote and if your N900 is connected to your local W-Lan your Box will do what ever you want!

If the command was successfully send the small dot icon in the top right will become green. If it fails you will see a red icon.

More info over here ;)