Anyone using Moblin 2.1 on their AAO?

Just wanted to know if you guys have tried it out and what you've managed to find out.

I'm curious if I could compile with it it out of the box for some gstreamer packages so that I could play mp3 and other video codecs.

 

I have installed Moblin V2.1 onto my AA1 110 SSD.
All working well, using it to write this, approx 20 second boot time and even the WiFi LED works.
MP3 playback does not work. I installed gstreamer codec via the Moblin package manager but still not working for me.

Hope this helps

RiK

 

Hi guys. I use Moblin 2.1 in my aao a150 and i was searching a way to listen to mp3 and watch avi moovies. And i found one site that described a way you can do that by installing gstreamer with a certain order (good, bad and ugly). I followed the instructions and everything is working fine now. I cant seem to find the site again but i have the instructions. Thanks to that guy that gave this instructions away. Here they are:


Here's what you need to do...

Build gstreamer modules
-----------------------

get the gstreamer packages: from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/

from the gst-ffmpeg directory get gst-ffmpeg-0.10.9.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory
from the gst-plugins-bad directory get gst-plugins-bad-0.10.16.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory
from the gst-plugins-base directory get gst-plugins-base-0.10.25.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory
from the gst-plugins-good directory get gst-plugins-good-0.10.16.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory
from the gst-plugins-ugly directory get gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.13.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory
from the gstreamer directory get gstreamer-0.10.25.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory

Install build dependent packages:

yum install gcc bison flex *glib* *diff* liboil*dev*

Build the modules in this order:

cd ./gstreamer-0.10.25
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && make install

cd ../gst-plugins-base-0.10.25
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && make install

cd ../gst-plugins-good-0.10.16
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && make install

cd ../gst-plugins-bad-0.10.16
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && make install

cd ../gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.13
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && make install

cd ../gst-ffmpeg-0.10.9
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && make install

reboot just to be safe!

Enjoy!

 

@ rik_tripp & vananick

Thanks for the valuable info, these compiling instructions should be placed on Sticky so that other people who would like to try Moblin 2.1 wouldn't make several threads asking on how to play proprietary codecs. I did tried compiling them (the gstreamer packages) from source two days ago and yes, it works great. I ended up using UNR 9.10 for some personal reasons, and simply because I cannot just compile every package that I need which are not yet on the Moblin Garage. Otherwise, it's a great Linux distro if you'll use it for casual browsing, playing music, watching movies or just getting in touch.

 

Is there no VLC binary available for Moblin ?

 

Last time i checked my friend no there is no easy way installing vlc on moblin 2.1. jhedrotten i found this info in another forum. It's another's guy work, and i thank him a lot. I don't know how to put this info to Sticky, i'm new in here. I am an ubuntu fan my self but i have some problems with 9.10 as i posted in another thread.

 

Just found out an easier way to install these codecs and ntfs support too, for Linux newcomers. It could be found here: http://abhinandh.com/mp3-moblin/.

 

I was really disappointed of Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10.

Although I was really happy with 9.04.

So I'm trying Moblin 2.1, it's fast 15 seconds to boot. ;-)

But the software library is small. ;-(

Will try within the next week to rebuild codecs and KeePass under Moblin.

Cheers,

HVL

 

Tried it already the UI is good to the eyes however I couldn't accept the "1 window at a time" stuff so I put Ubuntu back on my AAO.

 

I slightly modified the instruction provided by vananick since base and good are provided by default with Moblin, if you don't want to rebuild them.

get older gstreamer packages: from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/

from the gst-ffmpeg directory get gst-ffmpeg-0.10.8.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory
from the gst-plugins-bad directory get gst-plugins-bad-0.10.14.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory
from the gst-plugins-ugly directory get gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.12.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory

Install build dependent packages:

sudo yum install gcc make bison flex *glib* *diff* liboil*dev*

Install gstreamer devel packages

sudo yum install gstreamer-devel.i586 gst-plugins-base-devel.i586

Build the modules in this order:

cd ../gst-plugins-bad-0.10.14
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

cd ../gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.12
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

cd ../gst-ffmpeg-0.10.8
./configure -prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

reboot & enjoy.

I tested some mp3 audios and mp4 videos, look like it work.

Now lets see if I can rebuild KeePass, and then I will have a fully functional Moblin. ;-)

PS: for Fan Control: read the readme file @ http://www.piie.net/index.php?section=acerhdf and create “/etc/modprobe.d/acerhdf.conf” and add the line: options acerhdf kernelmode=1

 

I tried it....it's decent enough, but its still too basic yet for me. Took some doing to get MP3's working, but I like the fact that Flash played out of the box. As with a few others, I am disappointed that there's no Facebook in the myzone. On the upside, M2.1 is fast, and works well on my Aspire One ZG5. The graphics are smooth, sound is flawless, wifi works, etc.

Again, bottom line - works well, hardware wise. Software is lacking, but I am sure will get there in time. I will definitely keep an eye on it to see where it goes.

 

Actually, I need to reply to myself, lol. I found Ubuntu Moblin Remix. Ive got it booted live right now. Its Moblin, but with Ubuntu underneath. Looks mostly the same, but you can install all the regular Ubuntu stuff in it! If you find Moblin Vanilla too lacking, perhaps this flavor might help you out. Enjoy!

EDIT: While trying it out, two things: One, it *IS* flaky. You can tell it's uninished. Two, it plays MP3s and Flash right out of the box. Even better!

 

Tried it. It lasted about 10 minutes.

How can it be 'designed for netbooks' when the toolbar in the browser takes up so much of the screen-size?

Also, it doesn't play MP3 and Flash.

For me, it's unusable as a netbook OS until they fix these things.

 

:?

Really? On vanilla Moblin, it played Flash for me out of the box. Went to YouTube and watched the batman interrogation spoof. Worked fine. Took some doing getting MP3s to play, but in the end it worked. On the Ubuntu Moblin, both worked out of the box no problems.

 

A reply to the ones of you who have problems getting mp3s and such to work; It's possible to use this script to make all the codecs compile themselves, saves a lot of time/typing. Just save the code below in a folder with a name such as 'gstreamer.sh' and execute it with 'sh gstreamer.sh' as root/sudo user. Credits go out to Jade Lacosse who posted it on the moblin.org site: http://moblin.org/documentation/test-drive-moblin/using-moblin-live-image#comment-1687

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sudo yum install gcc bison flex *glib* *diff* liboil*dev* make
wget [url]http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-0.10.25.tar.gz[/url]
wget [url]http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/gst-ffmpeg-0.10.9.tar.gz[/url]
wget [url]http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/[/url] gst-plugins-bad-0.10.17.tar.gz
wget [url]http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-0.10.25.tar.gz[/url]
wget [url]http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-0.10.17.tar.gz[/url]
wget [url]http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.13.tar.gz[/url]
tar xvf gst-ffmpeg-0.10.9.tar.gz
tar xvf gst-plugins-bad-0.10.17.tar.gz
tar xvf gst-plugins-base-0.10.25.tar.gz
tar xvf gst-plugins-good-0.10.17.tar.gz
tar xvf gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.13.tar.gz
tar xvf gstreamer-0.10.25.tar.gz
for directory in gstreamer-0.10.25 gst-plugins-base-0.10.25 gst-plugins-good-0.10.17 gst-plugins-bad-0.10.17 gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.13 gst-ffmpeg-0.10.9
do
  cd $directory
  ./configure -prefix=/usr
  make
  sudo make install
  cd ..
done