Hey everyone, you may all remember me from about 6 months ago with my "Freevo Rocks" emails. Shortly after I figured out that Freevo rocks but TV out on linux did not, I switched to running xboxmediaplayer on the Xbox and I've been using that ever since. Well it's been going great, lots of cool features like out of the box tv out with no fiddling, plug and play remote control, native resolutions for the plasma tv, etc.
However, there are a couple of cool freevo features that I miss - like showing the albumn covers while listening to music. This makes for a much better looking screen when having parties, than the lame tiny file name display in the corner on xboxmediaplayer. So I set out to get freevo running on the xbox under linux. After getting Gentoo Linux running on the xbox, I used the freevo-rsync script to get freevo compiled on there, which went without a hitch. Freevo compiled just fine and after copying the config to a local file, tweaking the local file, then running freevo setup it launched on my tv screen with no problems. First thing that seemed weird is all the menu items appear twice in the main menu. Is it supposed to be that way? Then I tried to play some things. This is when things went awry. First thing I noticed is some new fangled layout (forgive me, it's been a while) that shows you little boxes instead of the names of the directories while browsing. I have no idea whose idea this was but it sucks, badly - at least as a default. I had a crap load of little boxes on my screen and did not know the name of the directory until I scrolled to it and read the name across the top. Ok, enough about the little boxes. The next thing I noticed is that playing an mp3 file did not work. Once I went into a directory with mp3 files, I choose one and it sat there for a sec, did not play anything, and then proceeded to do the same with every file in the directory. Could be something with the KDE sound server I suppose but I thought I disabled that thing. Oh wait, I just did a "ps" and saw some artsd thing running. Guess I'll go back to my old freevo running method and have freevo be the shell for X windows. Ok so that may be what is causing audio not to work. On second thought, it may be what is causing video files not to work either. I guess I'll have to continue this thread when I get home and can mess with it some more. So I guess my only question to the list now is,.. has anybody got Freevo running reasonably well on the xbox? Did you use Debian, Gentoox, Mandrake or something else entirely? How hard was it to get the remote control working? Any tips on making this work would be nice. I'm looking forward to it. Thanks, Aaron Newsome ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
