Music player

[retrogamecorps]

Hi Eduardo,

I'm seeing several requests for a music player with the Adam image. Does GMU (or similar) work on OD Beta, and if so, could it be added to the Applications section?

[eduardofilo]

Hi Russ.

OK, I take note. I will try that player or will find another functional and integrate to the image.

[eduardofilo]

I have tried, but my skills compiling C projects are novice level.
What I have tried:

• Run this OPK. Result: bus error.
• Compile this repository with OD Beta toolchain. Result: bus error.
• Run this OPK. Result: It opens, but crash with MP3 and hangs with WAV.
• Compile this repository. Result: I am not able to compile it.

I keep the issue open in case we find an alternative in the future.

[retrogamecorps]

I really appreciate you trying, your level of effort is far beyond what I was hoping. I hope an alternative comes available soon!

[eduardofilo]

@plrguez has followed your same steps and compiled this version:
https://github.com/plrguez/gmu/releases/tag/v0.10.1-od

In my RG350M it is viewed in the same way than yours. And in the RG280V has the typical problem of using 320x480 framebuffer resolution then stretched to 320x240.

[subatomicglue]

Any chance to add oldplayer as well?
I have both mp3 and m4a files, and GMU seems not to play the m4a files last I checked

[subatomicglue]

You can find the oldplay OPK from here (opk), or from here (opk) or from here (opk,src)

I dropped the oldplay_v135.opk OPK into my /media/sdcard/APPS directory, it shows up under APPLICATIONS category under Adam, after a couple reboots (first time didn't appear, weird).

WORKS!

• m4a files: oldplayer works! ...

PROBLEM:

• mp3 files: seem to crash oldplay, or hang the system. (the oldplay inside the opendingux that my anbernic rg280v shipped with worked for mp3 however)

...GMU plays mp3 files but, is ugly and hard to read on rg280v :) and switching apps to play media... sucks :) GMU doesn't play m4a files... and I happen to have a mix of both.

[eduardofilo]

I think that I tested it also (oldplay) and give problems to me, but I don't remember well.
I'll give it a chance again and see what I do.

[subatomicglue]

I wonder if it can be recompiled, looks like 2013-2014 was when it was created. Maybe the OS has updated dependencies by now.

I also wonder if there are logs in the system that could tell us why it is crashing. Maybe mp3 shared lib isn't found or something.

Can we run an OPK from ssh? Then we would see the error on the command line...

(I know Mac/Linux, but not opendingux/rg350)

[eduardofilo]

Yes, compile it will be one of the things that I will try.
You can enable logs in GMenu2X options and the see them in Log Viewer (that shows up in settings section when log is enabled).
You can run an opk from SSH with opkrun command. When doing that, you have to open the Terminal application in GMenu2X.

[eduardofilo]

Solved in release v1.4.

[felixmreeve]

Hello @eduardofilo I was wondering whether there is a reason that ffplay is not included in Adam Image? It comes with the original firmware but I haven't been able to get a working opk on the device after installing Adam. Is there something I'm missing? I'm looking to play mp4 files. Thank you

[eduardofilo]

Hello.
@a-dekker built it. You can see the conversation in discussion #233.