Comments on: New Video – HULU on the Zipit Z2

By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:09:02 +0000

Hey Matthew,

No Hulu files downloaded, just re-encoded on the fly with a re-encoder. There’s a hulu linux client now as well. Good Luck!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:27:22 +0000

Is it possible to download Hulu files with Linux? Does it violate some sort of copyright laws?

By: poweruser

poweruser — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:24:47 +0000

Zipit reinstalled, swap fixed. Many thanks to you and the people on #zipit

By: poweruser

poweruser — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:05:39 +0000

OS: Emdebian–I followed your Windows tutorial (thanks for posting that by the way–excellent work!)
I’m running straight from bash; as in I have not typed ‘startx’
Checking with top (from an ssh connection, while the video is playing), if I’m reading correctly, I have used 0k swap. Oh I see I also have 0k swap free… Well there’s the problem lol. Do you have any tips on how to reactivate swap space, or should I just start it back from scratch (this time using the Linux method since Windows 7 doesn’t like physdiskwrite). I also messed up my apt sources so I’m not entirely against it.

By: hunter

hunter — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:39:18 +0000

Hey poweruser,

What operating system are you running this script on? It will depend on what your sh interpreter points to.. Try $1 instead of %1, it’s the variable name for the first argument passed to the script.

As for the movie…the performance will vary depending on the movie, and what background programs are running, if any. Are you running this straight from sh or from a bash shell or from fluxbox? How much swap memory is used? Just things to check.. Good Luck!

By: poweruser

poweruser — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:26:16 +0000

What, precisely does “pass the shortcut” mean? I’ve been trying
$ ./script “http://.mpg”
but it says
“file not found: ‘%1′
failed to open %1″
It works great if I hardcode the link into the script, so it looks like
#/bin/sh
mplayer -vo fbdev -vf rotate=2 -bandwidth 100000 %1 “http://.mpg”
but that gets old fast (especially from the command line, where I don’t have copy+paste)

Also, I don’t have nearly the performance I had hoped–to get consistent framerate I have to use 320×120 for my resolution (which works great for widescreen movies like in the preview; but it makes 3:4 resolution videos tiny)

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:39:49 +0000

Aliosa27′s keymap is at http://www.aliosa27.net/projects/zipit2 , it’s named keymap.map. I haven’t used it myself, but it’s very close to the keymap I’m using. I do not remember if xmodmap comes on the image Aliosa27 posted, if not you can install it from the console with apt-get install xmodmap on Debian, or ipkg install xmodmap on the OE image. Be sure to run ipkg update first if using the OE image, to update the package lists

By: mcavity

mcavity — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:38:19 +0000

Dennis
I am putting together a FAQ sourseforge.
Try pressing Alt-m to be able to see the text.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openzipit/forums/forum/917462/topic/3417061

By: Denis Dimick

Denis Dimick — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:17:39 +0000

I’ve got my ZipIt flashed and it will go in to X, however, when I start xterm off of the menu, it opens, but does not show any typing. I’m running the 2.6.29 kernel, and have not modified anything.

Also, is there a Wiki for keyboard mappings, and other help?

By: mcavity

mcavity — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:10:17 +0000

Karl
Where is the site to grab the new keymap? I cant seem to find it.