On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Preston Hagar <prest...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Evan Hisey <ehi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Using the FXD is lot simpler than the approach I was going to take. I >> use freevo as the desktop on mine. May have to change ow that I think >> about. hulu would need a window manager. >> >> Evan >> > > I installed ratpoison (apt-get install ratpoison on ubuntu) and then > added this to /etc/ratpoisonrc > > #start config > msgwait 1 > startup_message off > defborder 0 > set padding 0 0 0 0 > set bgcolor black > set bargravity southwest > exec xset -dpms > exec xset s off > exec xsetroot -display :0 -solid "#000000" > exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr > > #end config > > Basically, I turn off the start up message, make it fill the screen, > set the background color black in case hulu desktop doesn't completely > fill the screen for some reason and turn the screen saver off. > > Then, in my freevo local_conf.py I added the following: > > COMMAND_SPAWN_WM = '/usr/bin/ratpoison &' > COMMAND_KILL_WM = 'killall ratpoison' > > With the <spawnwm /> in the FXD file, it will start ratpoison, set my > config settings load hulu desktop. Then when I exit hulu desktop > (from the hulu menu) it closes ratpoison and takes me back to freevo > (the freevo screen saver comes back as well). > > I have also created similar FXD files that load the video pages of > websites in Chrome. For example, my daughter likes Special Agent Oso > on Disney Jr., so I have a FXD file like this: > > <?xml version="1.0" ?> > <freevo> > <command title="Playhouse Disney"> > <cmd>/usr/bin/google-chrome > --app=http://disney.go.com/disneyjunior/special-agent-oso/special-agent-oso-videos-episodes</cmd> > <nostdout /> > <stoposd /> > <spawnwm /> > <info> > <content>Playhouse disney videos</content> > </info> > </command> > </freevo> > > which loads the Agent Oso video page. It is a little bit of a pain to > use my "remote mouse" (I have a Harmony 300 with one of the functions > set as a Media Center remote with the number keys at the bottom > emulating a mouse) to click the video to start, but once it does, I > make it full screen and we can watch it. > > As one other note, as I mentioned before, Hulu seems to take a lot of > processing power. For some reason, no matter what governor I picked, > it seemed that my CPU wouldn't scale up to its max speed when Hulu was > running, leading to jumpy playback. I created a simple script file > with the following: > > cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 3.0GHz > cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 3.0GHz > /usr/bin/huludesktop > cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1.0GHz > cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1.0GHz > > Called it starthulu, made it executable, and put it in /usr/bin. I > then set my FXD to use this script instead. Basically, it sets each > of the cores of my CPU to their max speed (3.0 GHZ), starts Hulu, and > then turns them back down to their min speed when I exit from Hulu. > You might not need that, but I thought I would share in case it might > help. > > Preston
This is really nice. Think you could added it to the freevo Wiki? I am sure alot of other folks could use this in the future. Evan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
