> > I gotta say that the wiki is not as informative to a novice as an experienced > user might think.
Maybe you are right, but it is a wiki, so feel free to improve it.... > > mplayer works fine on my system. I can use it to view TV directly with > `mplayer /dev/cxm0` ... I just can't change channels, 'cause mplayer won't > let go the device when I'm switching channels... Not so bad, I guess. Just > I'm thinking that freevo is a more complete solution. > > At least it looks that way. > > When I press "Enter" on the Freevo gui, while looking at the guide, I get > mostly nothing. If I run it from a shell, I can see this: > > (22, 'Invalid argument') > Okay, not much of an error message. Maybe you can post a little more? Is this happen with every channel? Did you figure out how to set up the TV_CHANNEL part in local_conf.py? It is supposed to be like this: TV_CHANNELS = [ ( 'XMLTV_ChannelName', 'Freevos_DisplayName', 'Mplayers_ChannelName' )] "Mplayer_ChannelName" is the name of the channel as it is used in your channel.conf for mplayer. (This asumed that you want to use mplayer as tv application.) What kind of TV card do you have by the way, dvb or some analog one? You can turn on more debug information by DEBUG=1 in your local_conf.py. After that you should see in the shell the full command line that freevo uses to call mplayer, maybe you find a hint there.... > > What is "the right plugin?" Can I download that from somewhere? Is it > called > that? "right?" Or am I misinterpreting? I figure from local_conf.py that I > can activate and deactivate plugins, I just don't know what plugin is > required to view tv ... seems kinda weird that I need to enable a plugin to > view TV on an application that is designed to view tv ... Actually this is a misunderstanding, freevo is not designed to watch TV. (In my opinion "Real-Time TV" is even one of its weakest points.) It is a controlling frontend for all kinds of media applications. You can use it to watch movies (various formats), listen to music (also various formats), record TV, watch TV and much more. It is designed to be used with a remote and a TV as display, but can also used other setups. But all in all it is "just" a frontend, which means it uses other applications to perform its task. So you can choose between different applications for watching TV, those applications are inserted into freevo as "plugins". There is mplayer, which is the default and should work for almost everybody. Then there is tvtime, which only works for analog Tv (as far as I know) and xine, which works only with DVB at the moment... Hope you can solve your problems. Regards Tanja Ps: Don't forget to improve the wiki, when you have the solution! ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
