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The following page has been changed by 212.11.15.34: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/MandrakeInstallation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -2,39 +2,34 @@ You should be running this on a newly installed Mdk 9.2 box, not your every day box. Why? Because we do a lot of things as root insecurely during install, you have been warned. -Under your main KDE menu, go to Configuration -> Configure your computer +Launch the "Software Media Manager" from your "Configuration/Packages" menu. +Choose add, select "http server" +Enter "Freevo 9.2" as name +And "http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/RPMS/9.2/freevo/RPMS/"; as URL. +Now your system knows where freevo is. + +Now launch your rpm installer via the "Configuration/Packages" menu +Enter freevo in the research field. +Click on freevo, and press Install. +That's it ! Freevo is now installed ! + +If you dislike the GUI interfaces, the faster way is to use a terminal under root then +urpmi.addmedia freevo http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~erwan/RPMS/9.2/freevo/RPMS/ +urpmi freevo +That's it ! Freevo is now installed ! +Exit the root console and Launch freevo as user +By default, this version of freevo is trying to find images/videos/music in ~/Documents/{Images|Videos|Audio} + +The default configuration files are located in /etc/freevo/ but you can create yours in ~/.freevo. This ones will override the /etc ones. -The Mandrake Control Center comes up, go to RPM install and use search to install both "xine" and "mplayer". Just pick everything for them and install. +A detailed sample configuration file is available at /usr/share/doc/freevo-<version>/local_conf.py.{example|fr}. +The "fr" one contains the basic configuration for TV in Paris :o) -The following worked for me on 12/11/2003, it's easy. If they change the script install.sh, don't get mad at me! It works great now. +In addition, tvtime 0.9.12 is available in this rpm repository. All this packages are not officials, this is just some contributions. -Open a terminal window and do this: (we will go root) - -su - - -lynx http://freevo.sf.net/install.sh -dump | bash -e - -This will download freevo-1.4.tar.gz and freevo-runtime-0.3.tar.gz (or whatever is the latest version) and put them into /root/.freevo/dist/ directory. - -If you already downloaded them and want to save the time, you can just make that directory and stick those files in there before running the command above. - -When you are done, it should say it installed them: - -Installed Freevo into /usr/local/freevo - -Configuration directory is /etc/freevo - -To test to see if it's there, run it. I can run it as a user or root. I open a terminal window and type: - -/usr/local/freevo/freevo - -And a new window opens and freevo runs. If you have a mpg file on your HD you can play it as a test. - -More to come when I get it working. (XMLTV and how the heck to get it to show up on my TV screen, and use a remote) - - -Note: Older Mandrake 9.1 install info I left alone and is below: +If you're looking at some specials version of mplayer, xine, etc... Have a look at plf (http://plf.zarb.org). +PS:Freevo is located in /usr/share/freevo and not in /usr/local/freevo == Details of install with Mandrake 9.1 == Hardware - Homebuilt AMD 2000+, 512 MB PC133 RAM, 60 GB hard drive, Avermedia TV Stereo PCI capture card, NVIDIA Geforce4 4800 TI 8X video card with TV out ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-wikilog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-wikilog
