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Playing 720p videos on Nokia N900
Ivaylo Dimitrov shares instructions on how to watch 720p videos on the N900. The instructions are not for the faint of heart, as they involve installing extra codecs, running the power kernel, and overclocking the device. Even then, "not all 720p videos will be playable of course, n900 DSP is just not powerful enough for some profiles."
Care should be taken for anyone attempting this, the overclocking will void your warranty (such as it is).
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- Front Page
- Playing 720p videos on Nokia N900
- Development
- Source code for Maemo 5's "certman" now available
- Framebuffer-based recovery boot for N900
- IP Address Widget for Harmattan
- Announcements
- New, stable, version of "power" kernel for N900
Finally, here’s the much-demanded second part to this QML beginner-focused series. Okay, one guy asked, but he sounded really interested.
Over the weekend, I've pushed out some code for your enjoyment: First up is the incomplete but maybe interesting QML source code of the Tap Tap N950 prototype. I probably won't find time to work on this, but it would be sad to let the small piece of code rot - maybe someone wants to pick up the development of it. I'll answer any questions related to the code in the thread :)
Next up is the open source release of the qw prototype "qw.py", which has been developed during the Super GameDev Weekend 2010 at the Metalab Vienna last December (the next one is at the upcoming weekend; stop by if you are in Vienna!) - nearly 1 year ago. This is not the same as qw The Game in Ovi Store, but it's an earlier version, which still contains multi-player support (4 players on one PC keyboard), and it's written in Python, so it should be easily hackable.
And last but maybe not least is the IP Address "Widget" for Harmattan. This small hack (which is inspired by the earlier Calenderr calendar icon hack) makes use of the fact that the Harmattan UX reloads the icon of an application whenever the .desktop file or the icon file itself changes. The details (and a .deb for easy installation) can be found on the website - basically it shows a way to have semi-interactive "widgets" on the app list on Harmattan. I'm sure that creative readers can come up with some cool ideas :)
Next up is the open source release of the qw prototype "qw.py", which has been developed during the Super GameDev Weekend 2010 at the Metalab Vienna last December (the next one is at the upcoming weekend; stop by if you are in Vienna!) - nearly 1 year ago. This is not the same as qw The Game in Ovi Store, but it's an earlier version, which still contains multi-player support (4 players on one PC keyboard), and it's written in Python, so it should be easily hackable.
And last but maybe not least is the IP Address "Widget" for Harmattan. This small hack (which is inspired by the earlier Calenderr calendar icon hack) makes use of the fact that the Harmattan UX reloads the icon of an application whenever the .desktop file or the icon file itself changes. The details (and a .deb for easy installation) can be found on the website - basically it shows a way to have semi-interactive "widgets" on the app list on Harmattan. I'm sure that creative readers can come up with some cool ideas :)
As you might have heard in many other places a bunch of GNOME and WebKit hackers have met in rainy Coruña for the 3rd WebKitGTK+ hackfest. Many things have been discussed, but today I’m going to give a sneak preview of the new design for Epiphany and its rebirth as the core GNOME Web application.
A few times, when I've been working on something performance-critical, I've had people suggest (or ask me to review code) using QRegExp. I usually tell them that "this is a bad idea, QRegExp is slow/unmaintained", but I never actually sat down to do benchmarks. Well, in Qt 5, the subject of replacing QRegExp has been discussed a bit, and we have a volunteer: Giuseppe D'Angelo, a Qt hacker and italian student living in the UK (looking for work, by the way!).
I unloaded some Qt newbie frustration the other day detailing my first serious efforts to code for the Nokia N9. Now I’d like to step back a bit and outline the 
actual project, and in subsequent posts walk other newcomers through my coding journey of pleasure and pain.
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Stable release of Community SSU OS updates for Maemo 5 and N900
Christian Ratzenhofer has announced that the stable branch of the Community SSU for Maemo 5 has been created. He says the stable CSSU had been "mentioned on the forums about 3 weeks ago, and I'm happy to announce that it's finally here! [...] We're trying to achieve an as close to stock Maemo experience as possible in terms of stability. The stable CSSU contains those packages from testing version 16.8 which were deemed stable. Basically nearly everything but modest/tinymail and the camera-ui replacement."
This is a big day for Maemo 5, where end users can now be encouraged to install a community-maintained version of Maemo. The "testing" branch will continue, and braver users can help everyone by using that and helping report bugs and assess packages' stability.
Read more (talk.maemo.org)In this edition (Download)...
- Front Page
- Stable release of Community SSU OS updates for Maemo 5 and N900
- Applications
- Nokia N9 gets copy and paste support in Terminal
- Development
- Wiki for Python on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan moves to maemo.org
- Devices
- Android Ice Cream Sandwich running on Nokia N900
- Announcements
- ContactLaunch allows adding contacts to N9 application grid
- Incredible Circus game for Nokia N9
*Disclaimer: I am not a developer, hacker, or programmer*