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Today's Topics:
1. freevo remote volume does not work (Dana E Hoffman Jr)
2. Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver (James Trietsch)
3. Re: Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
(James Trietsch)
4. Re: Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
(Elizabeth Dodd)
5. Re: Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
(James Trietsch)
6. Re: freevo remote volume does not work (Dan Schmidt)
7. Re: freevo remote volume does not work (Alan)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:44:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Dana E Hoffman Jr <[email protected]>
Subject: [Freevo-users] freevo remote volume does not work
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Hello all,
I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64 with a microsoft mceusb remote,
with mplayer.
For some reason I can not get the remote volume up/down or mute when watching a
movie in freevo.
When I play a movie with just mplayer my remote volume up/down mute works.
for some reason I can not get it working in freevo.
Any ideas or suggestions would be great
thanks
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:08:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Trietsch <[email protected]>
Subject: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting
Recordserver
To: Freevo Users List <[email protected]>
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Did some recent upgrades to Debian and I seem to have broken the recordserver.
It throws an exception trying to load the previouslyRecorded.pickle:
2010-09-23 21:49:47,517 INFO recordserver.py (275): Got ScheduledRecordings
(version 3).
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 1612, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 1578, in main
recordserver = RecordServer()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 142, in __init__
self.updateFavoritesSchedule()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 1449, in updateFavoritesSchedule
self.removeScheduledRecording(prog)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 782, in removeScheduledRecording
self.removeRecordingFromSchedule(prog)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 474, in removeRecordingFromSchedule
self.removeDuplicate(prog)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 421, in removeDuplicate
self.loadPreviouslyRecordedShows()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 322, in loadPreviouslyRecordedShows
self.previouslyRecordedShows = pickle.load(open(cacheFile, 'rb'))
ValueError: insecure string pickle
2010-09-23 21:49:47,563 WARNING recordserver.py (1620): insecure string pickle
I'm researching the error as we speak, but I thought I'd throw it to the list
and see if anyone had a quick fix. Obviously this isn't a killer error; I can
dump the existing .pickle and Freevo will start a new one. But I've done this
kind of lobotomy at least once before and it's always a hassle for it to start
recording all the shows it recorded before and was skipping the re-runs.
Any help resurrecting the existing previouslyRecorded.pickle would be greatly
appreciated. But if it can't be done, then it can't be done.
Thanks guys.
James
Springfield, OR USA
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Trietsch <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting
Recordserver
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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I think I solved it on my own, after a bit of hammering and research. The
.pickle may have gotten truncated somehow, possibly when I did a hard-reset one
time during some recent tinkering.
I trimmed up the end of the file (as best I could tell), then spent way too
long
battling an EOFerror. Turns out Pickle was looking for the 's.' at the end of
the file. Once I added that, it re-loaded into the recordserver without
throwing
an exception.
Nothing has complained yet... so we'll see if it has its memory back.
James
----- Original Message ----
> From: James Trietsch <[email protected]>
> To: Freevo Users List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thu, September 23, 2010 10:08:14 PM
> Subject: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
>
> Did some recent upgrades to Debian and I seem to have broken the
> recordserver.
> It throws an exception trying to load the previouslyRecorded.pickle:
>
> 2010-09-23 21:49:47,517 INFO recordserver.py (275): Got
ScheduledRecordings
> (version 3).
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
> line 1612, in <module>
> main()
> File
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
>
> line 1578, in main
> recordserver = RecordServer()
> File
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
>
> line 142, in __init__
> self.updateFavoritesSchedule()
> File
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
>
> line 1449, in updateFavoritesSchedule
> self.removeScheduledRecording(prog)
> File
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
>
> line 782, in removeScheduledRecording
> self.removeRecordingFromSchedule(prog)
> File
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
>
> line 474, in removeRecordingFromSchedule
> self.removeDuplicate(prog)
> File
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
>
> line 421, in removeDuplicate
> self.loadPreviouslyRecordedShows()
> File
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
>
> line 322, in loadPreviouslyRecordedShows
> self.previouslyRecordedShows = pickle.load(open(cacheFile, 'rb'))
> ValueError: insecure string pickle
> 2010-09-23 21:49:47,563 WARNING recordserver.py (1620): insecure string
>pickle
>
> I'm researching the error as we speak, but I thought I'd throw it to the
> list
> and see if anyone had a quick fix. Obviously this isn't a killer error; I
> can
> dump the existing .pickle and Freevo will start a new one. But I've done
> this
> kind of lobotomy at least once before and it's always a hassle for it to
> start
>
> recording all the shows it recorded before and was skipping the re-runs.
>
> Any help resurrecting the existing previouslyRecorded.pickle would be
> greatly
> appreciated. But if it can't be done, then it can't be done.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> James
> Springfield, OR USA
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:04:52 +1000
From: Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting
Recordserver
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <20100924190452.49c49...@mum-quad>
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
James Trietsch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think I solved it on my own, after a bit of hammering and research.
> The .pickle may have gotten truncated somehow, possibly when I did a
> hard-reset one time during some recent tinkering.
>
> I trimmed up the end of the file (as best I could tell), then spent
> way too long battling an EOFerror. Turns out Pickle was looking for
> the 's.' at the end of the file. Once I added that, it re-loaded into
> the recordserver without throwing an exception.
>
> Nothing has complained yet... so we'll see if it has its memory back.
>
> James
>
could you summarise this gem for the wiki?
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:50:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Trietsch <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting
Recordserver
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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----- Original Message ----
> From: Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 2:04:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
>
> could you summarise this gem for the wiki?
Sure. I'm suspecting that when I did a hard reset not too long after starting
the Freevo, it may have caused an incomplete write to the
previouslyRecorded.pickle file. Either way, the recordserver would not start,
throwing an exception: Insecure String Pickle.
(By the way, that's got to be the most awesome exception message I've run into.
I've been amusing my friends with it all day long.)
It appears in an attempt to keep harmful tampering to a minimum, (c)Pickle does
basic checks before loading a pickle file. Judging from the posts on the web,
things like Windows-style EOL characters (\n\r) instead of Linux (\n) will
cause
problems. In this case, the last line of the file was truncated mid-line and I
think that was setting off alarm bells. I neatened up the end of the
previouslyRecorded.pickle file, trying to end it at a proper boundry, but I
think I didn't hit it exactly. It doesn't seem to cause too much trouble, but
that last object is probably missing bits. Hopefully nothing important.
Trying to start recordserver now yeilded an EOFerror exception when trying to
load the pickle file. I did way too much searching and trying small Python
scripts to read in the file and write it back out and properly close it and
doing tests in the freevo prompt shell... all no good. My research turned up
that pickle files end with a '.', and that gave me a clue. It wasn't until I
started up recordserver and let it create a new pickle file I found that the
file ends with 's.' on the final line. I added that (taking steps to eliminate
the final EOL character that vim adds by default) and the
previouslyRecorded.pickle would then load properly into the recordserver.
I haven't had a chance to see if it's really working, or if nothing that I've
already recorded is in the schedule right now. But that's just laziness on my
part. Suffice to say, recordserver is reading the file without throwing an
exception, so I'm happy again.
If you let me know where you think this should be put in the Wiki, I can give
it
a go myself...
James
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:23:52 -0600
From: Dan Schmidt <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] freevo remote volume does not work
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Are you using mplayer in Freevo or xine?
On 09/23/2010 12:44 PM, Dana E Hoffman Jr wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64 with a microsoft mceusb remote,
> with mplayer.
> For some reason I can not get the remote volume up/down or mute when watching
> a movie in freevo.
>
> When I play a movie with just mplayer my remote volume up/down mute works.
> for some reason I can not get it working in freevo.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions would be great
> thanks
>
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:11:11 +0900
From: Alan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] freevo remote volume does not work
To: [email protected]
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Dana E Hoffman Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64 with a microsoft mceusb remote,
> with mplayer.
> For some reason I can not get the remote volume up/down or mute when watching
> a movie in freevo.
>
> When I play a movie with just mplayer my remote volume up/down mute works.
> for some reason I can not get it working in freevo.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions would be great
> thanks
I wrote a program that allows you to change the volume and mute your
soundcard with a nice OSD display.
The advantage is that it will work while watching moviesing, listening
to music, etc. and the volume setting / mute state is not forgotten
like when you use the standard installation.
http://www.mizrahi.com.ve/projects/airmix/
Project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/airmix/
All you have to do is install it and run it in your freevo init
script, I run it like this:
airmix --daemon --color white
Unfortunately I don't have any 64-bit RPM built yet, but the source is
there and its really easy to build. If you need any help with that
please let me know.
Alan
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Dan Schmidt thanks for your reply, I am using mplayer.
Alan thanks for your reply, I would need some help with fedora 13 x86_64, if
you could with AirMix, if this is the only way to use my remote volume in
freevo?
thanks
Dana E Hoffman Jr
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