Hello all, thank you very much for your feedback, and sorry for my late reply.
I feel no offense, I was just trying to raise something I really care about : privacy. I appreciate you listen to members, and that you have removed this &t=
parameter. Thank you all again.
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RE: [Morph Browser] Explanation about Canonical in URL
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Snap and Flatpak apps
Hello, I am interested to install UBports on my Nexus 5, however I would like to know if it was possible to install Snap or Flatpak applications there?
I would like to install Kodi (ideally 2 different versions for specific needs), I searched here and there, but I didn't find the answer to my question. Any ideas?Thank you very much.
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RE: [Morph Browser] Explanation about Canonical in URL
I have found the
&t=
parameter purpose :
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/t/Through partnerships with developers and companies, DuckDuckGo has been integrated into many applications. In these partnerships, a portion of DuckDuckGo's advertising revenue is sometimes shared back. To assign advertising revenue and collect anonymous aggregate usage information, developers add a unique "&t=" parameter to searches made through their applications.
So it should have been added by developers team on purpose. So my question is still why ? And we know that "anonymous" means nothing. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple use this term.
I dislike the fact that asking question gives me
-1
"like". I am objective, I like UBports like you, but an explanation is needed. If a member is wondering about something (with no troll), I would not give him-1
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RE: What formats are supported for video?
@MarkG_108 it's a mistake, my experience sharing reply was for @Giiba (you have the same color image), not to you sorry.
@AppLee : about
VLC
skin workaround, except if I missed something, this was a proposal that I have made, but if I understood, the same hardware limitations are raised. However, if theLibrem 5
/Pinephone
can use hardware acceleration, then it is interesting. I hope to follow up the development byUBports
team for those projects.@dobey : it is really strange, both Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 use the same
Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064
SoC andAdreno 320
GPU. Maybe they can decode small videos and not long (> 20mn), who knows ?In any case, thank you for having reply and tried to help.
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RE: What formats are supported for video?
@AppLee I understand all what you say, but please, understand that the priority sometimes shall be done on basic features.
What I call basic feature is call, camera (picture/video), movie/audio player, and browser. They shall be ready almost at start.
Then you have the basic features which may not work at day 1 such as bluetooth, GPS, etc. but shall be important too.
Rather than focusing on one feature or another, I think we already need to get the basic features working. After the new features are a very good thing, but they should not take priority over the essential things.
If we just find it normal that Video player only works on certain videos (for 2 years), we risk saying "it works, pretty well, the rest we'll see later" and we leave it aside for another 2 years ?
It would be better and more logical to prioritize this feature, and please, no offense don't take it personal, somebody have to raise this issue.
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[Morph Browser] Explanation about Canonical in URL
Hello, thank you for proposing UBports, I like a lot the UI.
However, I just have used Moph Browser and I can see that my URL requests are redirected to Canonical using&t=
parameter (see below picture) :I thank your team/ Canonical for bringing UT and Ubuntu in general, but in such case I feel like an invasion of my privacy. On your website, under Donate sentence, it is mentioned "Do you care about freedom of choice and privacy?".
Unfortunately, this is not what I could experience. Now, I (maybe other users) need clear answers :
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- Why Morph Browser allows redirections to Canonical servers ? Is it RGPD compatible ?
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- What else is sent as a telemetry from OS/app to whatever company/organization ?
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- Is there another browser (Firefox) please?
Thank you for your feeback.
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RE: Working video codecs
Hello, since OTA 13 is available, I would like to know if Nexus 5 hardware decoding is now supported ? Thank you !
PS : I didn't want to open a new thread as the main title of this one is about video, sorry in advanced. -
RE: What formats are supported for video?
@MarkG_108 it's a mistake, my experience sharing reply was for @Giiba (you have the same color image), not to you sorry.
@AppLee : about
VLC
skin workaround, except if I missed something, this was a proposal that I have made, but if I understood, the same hardware limitations are raised. However, if theLibrem 5
/Pinephone
can use hardware acceleration, then it is interesting. I hope to follow up the development byUBports
team for those projects.@dobey : it is really strange, both Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 use the same
Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064
SoC andAdreno 320
GPU. Maybe they can decode small videos and not long (> 20mn), who knows ?In any case, thank you for having reply and tried to help.
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RE: What formats are supported for video?
@MarkG_108 After careful consideration, I decided to uninstall Ubuntu Touch. The idea I have of a tablet is among other things to play offline videos without worrying about the format, and surf on Firefox (and incidentally some Webextensions), but with UT it's not possible. I even tried to find a solution developing a VLC version as a
.click
package, but before I even started, @dobey told me it would be very limited. And @AppLee tells me that hardware acceleration is not setup. So I feel like I have a beautiful but useless device.I'm not saying this to criticize because from what I understand, UT is not meant to be the Debian-derived Ubuntu that everyone knows, and there are a lot of members here so it's good that all these people are happy.
Strictly speaking, based on this experience, I was convinced not to install this OS if I buy a
Librem 5
or aPinephone
for the reasons I mentioned before. But I take my hat off to you for managing to keep an OS that was abandoned by Canonical more than 2 years ago. And I hope to be able to monitor the potential evolution of this OS. -
RE: Any easy process to convert .deb/Appimage/snap/flatpak to Click ?
@thilov thank you very much. My objective is to convert VLC
Appimage
/ orsnap
/ orflatpak
/ or.deb
.Unfortunately, I have tried VLC under libertine, and is almost unusable. And it seems that the hardware acceleration is not available under libertine.
So here, we have many available extensions. My idea is to use a skin to make VLC more user friendly with touch-screens, take the easiest format, and convert into
.click
app.But, as I am not a developer, I think without an easy to convert tool (meaning, if I have to code a lot), I have not a lot of possibility to succeed.
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Any easy process to convert .deb/Appimage/snap/flatpak to Click ?
Hello, I think the title says everything.
I am not a developer. However, I remember how it was easy to convert a
.deb
file into an.Appimage
following some step by step tutorials.But with
click
packages, I feel I just can't. I think I just don't have the level to make it work. Or maybe I missed a very easy tutorial somewhere.Appimage
has this advantage that even non developers can almost build their app.So please, do you know if this tutorial exist ? Can we convert a
snap
or.deb
or any other package toclick
? My target is to do an app (not a web app).Please, don't just forward me the UBports documentation : you can easily imagine I have already read pages of it.
Thank you very much for your feedback.
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RE: What formats are supported for video?
@MarkG_108 Hello, thank you for your advise. I have tried this way : open
UTmedia
> click onSelect File
> SelectFile Manager
> click on the file you want to play and validate.
The file launch, but there is huge buffering. I imagine it is due to missing hardware acceleration. I have tried to install gstreamer plugins, without changes.@dobey it is possible, I don't remember very well if I install the gstreamer codecs plugins or not. But you seems to be sure, so I trust you. I would be happy if UT allows to install those plugins too.
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RE: What formats are supported for video?
@AppLee yes, and about VLC I have asked this question a few days ago, but the answer was that hardware acceleration is not supported by Libertine, therefore it can be limited.
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RE: What formats are supported for video?
@AppLee thank you for your explanation. On my side, my device is a Nexus 7, so this is why playing videos is very important for me (I don't call / use GPS / etc. just web browsing and watching videos with it).
I understand the codecs are not free, but how did Debian do with their player (GNOME Videos = Totem) ? As far as I know, I am not sure they pay for codecs. Maybe we can port their player to Ubuntu Touch, do you think it is an easy task (I ask that because I am not a developer) ?
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RE: What formats are supported for video?
@AppLee I understand all what you say, but please, understand that the priority sometimes shall be done on basic features.
What I call basic feature is call, camera (picture/video), movie/audio player, and browser. They shall be ready almost at start.
Then you have the basic features which may not work at day 1 such as bluetooth, GPS, etc. but shall be important too.
Rather than focusing on one feature or another, I think we already need to get the basic features working. After the new features are a very good thing, but they should not take priority over the essential things.
If we just find it normal that Video player only works on certain videos (for 2 years), we risk saying "it works, pretty well, the rest we'll see later" and we leave it aside for another 2 years ?
It would be better and more logical to prioritize this feature, and please, no offense don't take it personal, somebody have to raise this issue.
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RE: What formats are supported for video?
@dobey thank you for your reply. I confirm the unreadable files are :
- mp4 - Quicktime - H.264
- mkv - Matroska - H.264
And like @Giiba , I start to become pessimistic about watching any movie on UT (media player can't read those formats, while Uplayer is buggy and does not launch most of the time). It's a basic feature.