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Aubin,

Thank you for your responciveness!  This is the highest gripe i have about 
Freevo right now, and getting it addressed will be awesome!

Thank you so much!

Bearcat

On Monday 08 March 2004 15:31 in an email titled "[Freevo-devel] MPlayer 
plug-in: CD playing and cddb information"  Aubin Paul 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>The simplest solution would be to watch the output from mplayer
>(which we do now to get time information) and then, if we see the
>'next track' indicator that mplayer outputs when it goes to the next
>track, we have Freevo move the OSd to the next track. Also important
>would be to subtract the time from the previous tracks from the
>current one so we'd need to maintain the total playtime - current
>track.
>
>I can't do it right now, but maybe in a few weeks...
>
>Aubin
>
>On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:25:29PM -0700, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
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>> up to the list because it seems that the MPlayer gui does not display the=
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>> track titles at all, while the Freevo interface does.
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>> and 'concept albums' where the tracks audibly run together.
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>> Regards,
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>> "Dischi" wrote:
>> > I notice that freevo presents mplayer with 'cdda://' instead of
>> > 'cddb://'. ?Why?
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>> Because cdda should handle it. It works for me, what version of
>> mplayer are you using?
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>Message: 3
>From: Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 23:50:59 +0100
>Subject: [Freevo-devel] snesitem.py - find images automagicly
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Hi list,
>
>I had some problems displaying zsnes snapshoots (aka. screenshots),
>because Im to lazy to rename the png's.
>
>I linked the image location for snes to ~/.zsnes, took some screenshoots
>and saw no image in the game list...
>
>... looked into snesitem.py, and changed something (my first python
>impressions without any feeling of this scripting language).
>
>before:
>
>
>        # find image for this file
>        shot = imgpath + '/' + \
>               os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(file))[0] + ".png"
>        if os.path.isfile(shot):
>            self.image = shot
>        elif os.path.isfile(os.path.splitext(file)[0] + ".png"):
>            self.image = os.path.splitext(file)[0] + ".png"
><<<
>
>after:
>
>
>        # find image for this file
>        self.image = self.setimage(file, imgpath)
><<<
>.. and the method
>
>    def setimage(self, file, imgpath):
>        """
>        Set the self.image for the game
>        """
>        game = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(file))[0]
>        shot = imgpath + '/' + game + ".png"
>        if os.path.isfile(shot):
>            self.image = shot
>        elif os.path.isfile(game + ".png"):
>            self.image = os.path.splitext(file)[0] + ".png"
>        else:
>            # we try to get an zsnes snapshooot
>            index = string.find( game, ' ' )
>            count = 0
>            max = len(game)
>            new = '_'
>            old = ' '
>
>            while ( index >= 0 ) and ( ( count < max ) or ( max < 0 ) )
>
>                head = game[:index]
>                tail = game[index+len(old):]
>                game = head + new + tail
>                count = count + 1
>                index = string.find( game, old )
>
>            # we have the base image name - get the screenshoot
>            self.image = imgpath + '/' + game + '_0000.png'
>
>        return self.image
><<<
>
>Converted <space> with '_' and appended '_0000'.
>
>Now I see my images. Is it possible to include this in the CVS version ?
>The todo here is to see the latest snapshoot for the file.
>
>Thanks Stefan.
>
>
>
>
>
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