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Old 03-04-2011, 08:36 PM   #46
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As a follow-up message to my previous messages, I have determined that the issues I was encountering appear to be caused by the way the free WiFi is setup to require some action with a browser before it will permit access to the network. This is made more difficult by what appears to be some sort of caching of the browser built into my Kindle 3.

Does anyone have some sort of script that can deal with these handshakes requiring manual browser intervention? For example, the free WiFi at McDonald's a click on a "connect" button on the first page it displays followed by clicking a check-box and another button on the second page before access is permitted. This takes a while to accomplish given the "speed" of the kindle browser.

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Old 03-08-2011, 02:39 AM   #47
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anybody could compile a ncurses based mp3 player?

Hi gang.

I thought a ncurses mp3 would be a great companion to Kindle, either running the KindleTerm kindlet or native terminal.

Anybody has the cross compiler environment set up and willing to give it a try? Following sounds like a good candidate to me:

http://cmus.sourceforge.net/

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Old 03-08-2011, 03:10 PM   #48
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how to keep the Kindle alive when streaming?

Hi gang.

Is there a way to keep the kindle awake while streaming from Internet?
I have to press a key ever 10 minutes not to let it fall asleep.

Quickly after falling asleep WiFi is being disconnected to conserve power.

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Old 03-08-2011, 03:28 PM   #49
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Since this makes the Kindle perfect for listening to online radio during the night I'm wondering if we could have a timer for the kindle so that for example it shuts down the Kindle or the Mplayer process after a specified time.
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There is already a timer as noted by bubnikv, your kindle will go to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity and will shutdown the WiFi. Once the WiFi shuts down mplayer will halt when the buffers are emptied.

What would be nice would be as he requested, to have some optional way to avoid the timeout. I would think the best way to handle this would be for continuous internet activity at 32 kbps or higher to be assumed as an active download/stream and for this to disable the default timeout behavior if desired.

It would be nice if this could be added somehow to the settings for the kindle, but I have no idea what is involved in doing so. I would assume that in the worst case a launchpad started app could insert an innocuous keystroke every 5 minutes or so while it is running. This of course would require a second short cut to disable the app when you want to resume default behavior.

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Old 03-09-2011, 03:05 AM   #51
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Is there a way to keep the kindle awake while streaming from Internet?
I have to press a key ever 10 minutes not to let it fall asleep.

Quickly after falling asleep WiFi is being disconnected to conserve power.
Just change line 35 of control.sh from
Code:
        $MPLAYER -loop 0 -playlist $1 &
to
Code:
        ( lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 1; $MPLAYER -loop 0 -playlist $1; lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 0 ) &
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Old 03-09-2011, 08:44 AM   #52
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Thanks for the pointer, this will certainly do the trick if you want to always disable the screen saver when using mplayer. Is this a global or local setting? I am thinking it might be more flexible to setup a set of short cut keys to disable and enable the screen saver if this is a global setting.

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PS: Just saw your posting about this in the launchpad thread. Thanks again!

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Old 03-12-2011, 01:48 AM   #53
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basically anything without DRM should work
I've been trying to get the bbc radio streams to work - they seem to be asx format. any ideas where i'm going wrong?

http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx
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Old 03-12-2011, 10:17 AM   #54
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I've been trying to get the bbc radio streams to work - they seem to be asx format. any ideas where i'm going wrong?

http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx
The same problem I had, they are providing a play list as opposed to a stream for you. You will need to edit your control.sh and add something similar to:

InternetPlaylistLoad() {
curl -s "$@" | grep :// | sed 's/File[0-9][0-9]*=//' >/tmp/mplayer.playlist
loadplaylist /tmp/mplayer.playlist
}

prior to the case statement and add a case for each station eg:

r2)
InternetPlaylistLoad "http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx"
;;

You will then need to edit the mplayer.ini to add a key mapping to start the play list playing.

Dave

PS: please note that I said similar to, you might need to modify the sed arguments to extract the stream URLs.

A little further testing shows you might need:

curl -s "$@" | grep :// | sed 's/[^I]*<ref href="//' | sed 's/" \/>//' >/tmp/mplayer.playlist

where I have a slightly different statement above.

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Old 03-12-2011, 10:19 AM   #55
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That was an answer to question about local files playback. It is more complicated with internet streaming. I do not really care about internet streaming (my primary aim are audiobooks - Kindle is not suited for music playback in my opinion) but you can try
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mplayer -playlist http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx
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Old 03-20-2011, 08:25 PM   #56
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I'm a little thick about this, but I can't seem to get mplayer to play any music from my mounted music directory. Nothing fancy, just some mp3s, but pressing shift-m-a does nothing. Do I need to manually create a playlist for locally mounted files for mplayer to work?
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Old 03-21-2011, 07:00 AM   #57
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I'm a little thick about this, but I can't seem to get mplayer to play any music from my mounted music directory. Nothing fancy, just some mp3s, but pressing shift-m-a does nothing. Do I need to manually create a playlist for locally mounted files for mplayer to work?
Are you seeing the diagnostic [^ M A] at the bottom of your screen in portrait mode? Are you pressing the keys in rapid sequence? Your above shift-m-a suggests you are pressing them simultaneously as opposed to sequentially.

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Old 03-22-2011, 02:48 AM   #58
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Are you seeing the diagnostic [^ M A] at the bottom of your screen in portrait mode? Are you pressing the keys in rapid sequence? Your above shift-m-a suggests you are pressing them simultaneously as opposed to sequentially.

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Yeah, I get the ^ [M A] output, as well as a 'Success!' indicator. Just that no music comes out of the speakers. My music is in a directory called 'music' in the root of the drive, so there shouldn't be any problems on that end.

Edit: reinstalled jailbreak, launchpad, and mplayer in that order and it all works now! No idea what happened previously but it's all good

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Very nice hack - thanks. I'm using 3.1 on the Kindle 3 - wifi and it works a charm. I am listening to a uni lecture right now. I have also tested out the dictaphone app with this - noice, very useful when studying. I have created a text file with all the shortcuts just in case I forget .

PS - the rotate hack is also wicked hot when reading pdfs. That was such a PITA.

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Old 04-03-2011, 11:16 AM   #60
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Hi gang.

I thought a ncurses mp3 would be a great companion to Kindle, either running the KindleTerm kindlet or native terminal.

Anybody has the cross compiler environment set up and willing to give it a try? Following sounds like a good candidate to me:

http://cmus.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, Vojtech
cmus sounds like an easy way to hack some gui into kindle...
i'd prefer making some kind of overlay gui for the kindle, which should be fairly easy once i determine a way to draw on the eink display and catch keys...

i had another idea today: since the kindle speakers (mine is wifi+3g eu) are quite good, i'd love to use them as a alarm clock with my mp3's...
does anyone know a way of scheduling a script/program without having to burn the battery the whole night while sleep()ing?
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