Jim Duda wrote:
> Well, I can get the video podcasts to play, however, I need to remove
> the xvmc option from MPLAYER_VO_DEV in order to get them to play, they
> will only play with xv (which makes sense).
>
> my local_conf.py has:
>
> if CONF.display == 'x11':
> MPLAYER_VO_DEV = 'xvmc,xv,sdl,x11' # X11 drivers in order of
> else:
> MPLAYER_VO_DEV = CONF.display # e.g.: x11,mga,fbdev, see mplayer
>
> MPLAYER_ARGS = { 'dvd' : '-cache 8192',
> 'mpg' : '-cache 5000 -vc ffmpeg12mc'
>
> I add -vc ffmpeg12mc for "mpg" files, all the mpg files are my HD
> content (MPEG2).
>
> I need both xvmc and ffmpeg12mc for mpg files to play, but xvmc doesn't
> work for flv files.
>
> I do see that in mplayer.py, there is code to handle xvmc and ffmpeg12mc
> options, however, I'm not able to figure out how to get set_vcodec to
> activate.
>
> from
> mplayer.py
>
> set_vcodec = False
> if item['xvmc'] and item['type'][:6] in
> ['MPEG-1','MPEG-2','MPEG-T']:
> set_vcodec = True
>
> # Mplayer command and standard arguments
> if set_vcodec:
> if item['deinterlace']:
> bobdeint='bobdeint'
> else:
> bobdeint='nobobdeint'
> command += ['-vo', 'xvmc:%s' % bobdeint, '-vc','ffmpeg12mc']
> else:
> command += ['-vo',config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV +
> config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS]
>
> If I could figure out how to get mplayer.py to set_vcodec, then I could
> remove xvmc from MPLAYER_VO_DEV to get both to work.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Duda wrote:
>> Duncan,
>> I'll give the debug method a try tonight (I'm at work right now).
>>
>> Last night, I did make some progress.
>> 1) I installed kaa.metadata 0.7.1
>> 2) I added .flv to the MPLAYER_SUFFIX list in local_conf.py
>> I'm not sure which helped (if not both).
>>
>> Now what happens is the "flv" files do download and get stored.
>> Mplayer now plays the audio, but not video for flv files.
>> I'm using the later version of mplayer available in fedora 7 repo.
>>
>> For mplayer, I need to force -vo xxmc and -vc ffmpeg12 to play my HD
>> recordings. I think I now need to rethink how I
>> have this setup (in local_conf.py) to allow mplayer to play flv files now as
>> well as HD mpeg files (I'm guessing at this
>> point). I'm sure I can figure this out now.
>>
>> Is there a method for deleting the podcasts other than going into the file
>> system and manually deleting them?
>>
>> I'm really exciting about the podcast feature ...
>>
I think what you are looking for is the correct MPLAYER_ARGS in
local_conf.py. It is the file extension that is used so you can set
specific options for particular file types.
HTH
Duncan
>> "Duncan Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Jim Duda wrote:
>>>> I've upgraded to 1.7.5. Thanks for all the new features and great work
>>>> everyone!!
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to use the new vpodcast and apodcast features.
>>>>
>>>> The audio podcasts download and play fine. Is there supposed to be a
>>>> menu subitem to allow deletion of the podcast?
>>>>
>>>> I cannot get the vpodcasts to play. To start with, I simply used the
>>>> example configuration found in the plugin documentation. I can see the
>>>> items to play (example, various utube items), however, when I use the
>>>> SELECT button, nothing happens. Should I expect the video to play?
>>>> What is needed beyond xine and mplayer?
>>> Both the video and audio podcasts examples work out of the box. What I
>>> suspect is that your version of mplayer cannot handle http:// feeds.
>>> What you can do is to enable DEBUG_CHILDAPP=1 in local_conf.py and then
>>> try it from freevo, then go to the log, find the mplayer or xine command
>>> and try this from the command line. Or may be check what is in the
>>> mplayer-std*.log.
>>>
>>> Duncan
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