On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Laurence Huizinga wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed freevo from sid repositories after a standard debian lenny
> install with kde as a de.
> I have just started setting freevo up and am keen to have it set up nicely
> to play music, videos and tv including timeshifting. My question today is
> simply as which user I should run freevo. I noticed that there have been
> audio and video as well as recording folders created in /home/freevo
> instead of in my /home/larry/freevo directory.
> Should I move these folders or try and transfer my media collection to
> these folders. At the moment I don't seem to have permissions to copy files
> into these folders as a normal user (larry).
That's a Debian install. Don't worry about copying the files etc. Make
symlinks.
> When I run freevo I get the following terminal messages:
>
> la...@wetland:~$ freevo
> You are not part of the group 'freevo', you cannot exploit shared resources
> (such as the cache). Your data will be saved in /home/larry/.freevo
> Error: VIDEO_SHOW_DATA_DIR not found
> ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added "('/media/cdrom0', '/dev/scd0',
> 'CD-1')"
>
> Error: can't find /home/larry/.freevo/static/TV.xml
> Use xmltv to create this file or when you don't want to use the tv
> module at all, add TV_CHANNELS = [] and plugin.remove('tv') to your
> local_conf.py. TVguide is deactivated now.
>
> WARNING: '/etc/freevo/lircrc' not found!
> WARNING: '/etc/freevo/lircrc' not found!
> init MpdBaseScreen
> Plugin Interface items
> MpdMainMenu init
> Freevo 1.8.3 ready
>
> I am mostly interested in the first two lines. Any help with my setup
> here? My local_conf.py is mainly unchanged as yet.
> Any tips for the mpd daemon? My music collection is an important part of
> the htpc.
> Cheers,
> Larry
>
First of all, is user larry still going to use this computer, or is it going
to be freevo fulltime?
If it is to be freevo fulltime, you will save a lot of heartache by purging
freevo, making a new user freevo with normal permissions and then installing
freevo.
I didn't track down which was the last group to which to add my user to stop
those error messages and did that to solve those errors.
Then make symlinks to all your existing collections, keeping the Debian
system, because otherwise you have to chase down quite a few places you have
to change, and the Debian setup makes the recordserver etc work properly
without tears.
Which mpd plugin have you got setup?
I am quite familiar with one, because I strongarmed by son into writing it.
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