Hello Freevoers: I was looking over old mailing list messages about getting thumbnails to work because it's the next part of Freevo I've decided to attack. When I picked the menu item, it would pop up the window saying creating thumbnail, but it wouldn't create it. Not even an .mpeg.raw file in the vfs.
I went through the steps outlined in the archived mails (they were recent, maybe August of this year) and even ran into the same error with Python complaining there was no core module in distutils. Apparently the original troubleshooter solved the problem by reinstalling kaa and/or Python. I didn't want to do that (I'm lazy!) so I spent a frustrated hour poking around. To keep things short (I tend to ramble): I discovered I could import distutils.core without issue in any directory _except_ the /site-packages/freevo/utils directory. This led me to find there is a module in utils called distutils.py! When trying to import anything that wants distutils.core (in this case, videothumb asks for kaa.metadata, which asks for kaa.base which in turn tries to import distutils.core) while in the utils directory, it would go after the distutils.py package and not find a core module inside of it. I have since renamed the distutils.* files to distutils.*.back and have not run into any problems yet (that I've noticed) and the videothumb module works without complaint. I'm not seeing the thumbnails on the TV interface, but the .mpeg.raw files are being created and the option to make a thumbnail disappears off the menu, so Freevo is aware the files are there. I suppose there's a chance the skin/module isn't set up to show them properly (rain skin with the recordings_manager plugin) so I'll investigate this further in the next few days. I have noticed that newly recorded shows since I made the distutils 'fix' are getting thumbnails automatically created for them. ^_^ Hope this helps... oh, this is Freevo 1.7.3 from source, by the way. Downloaded about two months ago. James Burbank, CA USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
