[Freevo-users] Graphics card query.
Hi, just a quick question. Came across a Guillemot Cougar Video Edition AGP card left over from a PC I've just upgraded. Anyone using one of these for Freevo use? It has composite and s-vhs out, and captures via s-vhs input. Its apparently an Nvidia tnt2 based card. If anyone is using one, are there any hints and tips that would make configuration neasier? Cheers, Ashley. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Freevo cache hangs.
Hi, got a problem that has me perplexed. When running ‘freevo cache’, after processing all sub directories, the process hangs on the root. The particulars are: Directory is an NFS mount. Path/folder structure is /movies//VIDEO_TS All directories are processed apart from /movies which hangs at 55% and I am unable to CTRL-C out and end up powering down the PC. I have nothing in any logs, and have run an fsck locally on the filesystem. ‘df –h’ shows Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 2.8G 2.4G 441M 85% / /dev/hda5 3.8G 2.1G 1.8G 55% /UT2003 /dev/hda6 1.9G 197M 1.7G 11% /Karaoke /dev/hda7 112G 101G 12G 90% /Movies /dev/hda8 33G 17G 16G 52% /Music To check the freevo box, I telnetted to it while running freevo cache, and saw no evidence of any filesystems running out of space, which was my initial thought as to the cause of the problem. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Ashley. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.
Chris, I had been thinking along those lines regarding the micro drive / flash solution, but I was unsure of repeated read/writes to CF for logs etc, hence the micro-drive. I also have a file server for my media; this will soon be updated to a 1TB NAS solution (just got to work out how to get it thru the door and installed without the missus noticing ;¬) )so storage not really an issue, although I am curious as to the 'best' way to access network shares. I currently mount the shares using NFS and amend the Freevo configuration; does Freevo support direct access to them or must they be mounted? I have a micro atx board in a very nice Silverstone Lascala LC11 case and have had no issues with playback of DVD (discs or files) or TV so I am pretty happy with the hardware side and I have a Blueyonder TV Drive PVR so don't intend to utilize any TV recording. I might be a bit biased regarding distro, as I am used to Slackware I didn't really look at any others, but I'm sure there would be a huge discussion on the best distro for the job, so I'm not going to go there !! Hadn't heard of Freepia, so I'll be checking that out later. Ashley. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Thomas Sent: 11 September 2006 19:27 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. The key ingredient in my stand-alone freevo box is an EPIA ME6000 mini-itx motherboard. This board has mpeg2 decoding built-in, so dvd playback will be smooth without any additional hardware. The next step is storage. Where will you save the system and where will you save your media. I chose to save my media on a seperate file server, thus eliminating the amount of noise coming from my freevo box. I then installed Gentoo along with Xorg, Freevo, Lirc, etc... on it using a standard hard drive. I configured everything just the way I wanted it (including booting straight into Freevo). http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/BootFreevo I then copied the image of the hard drive to a compact flash card. Using a CF-IDE adapter I was able to boot directly from the card and mount my media over the network. My setup isn't perfect, but I'm waiting for Freevo 2.0 until I make any big changes. Using Debian and mounting the system read-only would be 2 improvements. You can follow Karl's advice and use a fancy bootsplash to get add some eye candy. Also, check out Freepia: http://freepia.shaibn.com Hope this helps. -Chris On 9/11/06, Karl Lattimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ashley, > > You mentioned pretty boot process; > > http://www.bootsplash.org/ > > Try that, suse have been using it for a while, you can do things like > animations (fbmngplay) and progress bars using it, and its not as bulky > as RHGB. > > as far as hardware is concerned a good UK provider is > > https://linitx.com/ > > I could probably help out with building a distribution especially for > freevo... Are you going to linux from scratch it? I personally would > prefer to build it out of a seriously trimmed down redhat/fedora or > ubuntu. I don't have a great deal of time however with the projects I'm > currently involved in. > > The advantage of fedora is anaconda which can be used to build a > bootable install disc from whatever packages are on an installed system. > The advantage of ubuntu is the live CD aspect. > > I also have some SVGs of the freevo logo and a device I did a while back > which unfortunately I've still not managed to complete a website with. > > K, > > PS. Where abouts in the UK are you? > > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:47 +0100, Ashley Dawkins wrote: > > Hi Evan, still not going as I would like, but not had as much time as I > > would like to experiment further :¬( Still interested in any information > > regarding a standalone solution, especially a nice looking process to boot > > directly into Freevo. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Ashley. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Hisey > > Sent: 09 September 2006 19:10 > > To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. > > > > Ashley- > > How is the project coming? > > Evan > > > > > > > > - > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120
Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.
Hi Karl, had a look at the bootsplash option, which sort of started my problems, as I can only seem to get output to the monitor, not the TV, during the boot process. There is a nice bootsplash download in the themes section of the Freevo site, which I was hoping to use. My current setup has the TV out initialized in my rc.local, which is well past the point of the bootsplash. I am currently hunting around the Matox forums; there is a fairly recent BIOS update for the card, so I might pop it into an old Windoze box I have, and update it to see if that makes a difference. The thing that I find confusing, is that the LILO boot screen displays to the TV when connected (at this point obviously I have not run any of the commands to move frame buffers etc, as per the How-To), but as the kernel boot messages appear, they only display on the monitor. This is possibly my lack of understanding about how the Matrox FB drivers work/should be configured, but don't really know As far as hardware/configuration goes, I have a workable Freevo install on Slackware 10.1, with which I am quite familiar, so not a problem at the moment, but I would be keen to look at getting to an almost 'embedded' type install, hopefully on a micro-drive or flash card, but not researched that fully; that was to be the next stage once the actual 'proof was in the pudding'. As for location, I am in the South West, about 9 miles East of Bath. Cheers for now, Ashley. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Lattimer Sent: 11 September 2006 19:04 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. Hi Ashley, You mentioned pretty boot process; http://www.bootsplash.org/ Try that, suse have been using it for a while, you can do things like animations (fbmngplay) and progress bars using it, and its not as bulky as RHGB. as far as hardware is concerned a good UK provider is https://linitx.com/ I could probably help out with building a distribution especially for freevo... Are you going to linux from scratch it? I personally would prefer to build it out of a seriously trimmed down redhat/fedora or ubuntu. I don't have a great deal of time however with the projects I'm currently involved in. The advantage of fedora is anaconda which can be used to build a bootable install disc from whatever packages are on an installed system. The advantage of ubuntu is the live CD aspect. I also have some SVGs of the freevo logo and a device I did a while back which unfortunately I've still not managed to complete a website with. K, PS. Where abouts in the UK are you? On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:47 +0100, Ashley Dawkins wrote: > Hi Evan, still not going as I would like, but not had as much time as I > would like to experiment further :¬( Still interested in any information > regarding a standalone solution, especially a nice looking process to boot > directly into Freevo. > > Thanks. > > Ashley. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Hisey > Sent: 09 September 2006 19:10 > To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. > > Ashley- > How is the project coming? > Evan > > > > - > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > ___ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.
Hi Evan, still not going as I would like, but not had as much time as I would like to experiment further :¬( Still interested in any information regarding a standalone solution, especially a nice looking process to boot directly into Freevo. Thanks. Ashley. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Hisey Sent: 09 September 2006 19:10 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. Ashley- How is the project coming? Evan - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.
Hi, one thing about Freevo is that there are many ways to achieve the same result. Based on the articles in the Wiki and a good price on the card, I purchased a Matrox G400. I have a good Freevo setup for a standalone Media Centre style box, but moving it to a completely monitor/keyboard/mouse free set-up is giving me some grief. I have followed the articles in the Wiki to get TV out, I use the mga drivers from the Mplayer source with good results, but I find I am unable to tweak the configuration to my satisfaction. Some of this is outside the scope of the Freevo project, but hopefully someone who has a nice standalone solution can offer some most welcome words of wisdom. I will step through my ‘niggles’ I use lilo to boot the system, which initially outputs to the TV when it is connected to the composite connection on the second head of the G400. As the kernel output starts, this only appears on the monitor. I was looking at the nice bootspalsh solution in the skins section, but if I only had the TV connected, my current configuration would not show this. I have the commands to enable TV out in my rc.local as per the Wiki. When executed, I have the TV output back with no output on the monitor. When I start Freevo, I get output to both the monitor and the TV. Okay, I could disconnect the monitor and achieve what I am after, but I still don’t get what is going on and I would like to understand it. I would love to be able to contribute to the Wiki, but the bits are not quite gelling together for me to feel confident about doing this. Any help or suggestions to overcome the above issues would be very much appreciated, as would any other suggestions or comments regarding a standalone project. Has anyone used a microdrive in a project, and if so, how does it perform? My box is based on Slackware 10.2 with Freevo 1.5.4. Thanks in advance. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] No audio with tv using mplayer.
Hi, having trouble with getting any audio when watching TV. I have Freevo 1.5.4 installed on Slackware 10.2 with a custom compiled 2.6.13 kernel. Freevo and mplayer are running perfectly in all areas apart from watching TV. I can select my channel from the tv guide, but I have been unable to get any audio, despite my tinkerings. The mplayer log reads: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/freevo# cat mplayer-stdout.log MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Playing tv://. TV detected! ;-) Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> comment: first try, more to come ;-) Selected device: BT878 video (Pinnacle PCTV Stud Tuner cap: Tuner rxs: MONO Capabilites: video capture video overlay VBI capture device tuner read/wri te streaming supported norms: 0 = PAL; 1 = NTSC; 2 = SECAM; 3 = PAL-Nc; 4 = PAL-M; 5 = PAL-N ; 6 = NTSC-JP; 7 = PAL-60; inputs: 0 = Television; 1 = Composite1; 2 = S-Video; Current input: 0 Current format: YUYV v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO == Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1 SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Packed YUY2 to BGRA using MMX2 VO: [fbdev] 640x480 => 640x480 BGRA [fs] Selected video codec: [rawyuy2] vfm:raw (RAW YUY2) == Audio: no sound Starting playback... V: 0.0 etc, etc…… As far as I can see, all devices are present with the correct permissions, so where should I start to constructively debug this problem; kernel config, udev, alsa, freevo mplayer arguments ??? Your help will be much appreciated, let me know what other logs/output would assist. Thanks and regards. Ashley.
RE: [Freevo-users] Error on startup and shutdown.
Hi Evan, I am using your packages in this instance for all bar MPlayer, for which I downloaded the source and compiled myself ( mainly as MPlayer was giving me a message about runtime CPU detection not being optimal, and as I have now acquired a G400 card I wanted the mga_vid driver/support). I have liitle Python knowledge, I am a 4GL and Kornshell man myself, but I initially thought I had removed an option in the kernel re-compile that os.py was trying to query as there seemed to be some conditional stuff based on OS detection in the code, but as I said, I'm no expert. Just for info, I had the same issue with the mixer plugin, on both the 10.1 and 10.2 versions and had to use the ossmixer plugin to be able to adjust the volume, although sound output was working, but only at the default level. I had assumed it was a problem with my setup, even though all /dev devices were fine and apps outside of Freevo did not seem to have an issue. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the Slackware packages, they eased my installation no end and removed my hair pulling sessions where I did not have a dependency installed after hours of compiling. Regards, Ashley. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Hisey Sent: 19 September 2005 20:11 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Error on startup and shutdown. Ashley- Not tested it yet on a 10.2 box, but are you using my .tgzs or your own? Off hand it looks like a Python issue. I had something similiar happening with the default mixer plugin and had to switch to the ossmixer plugin to fix it. also made sound work right :) Evan On 9/17/05, Ashley Dawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, have installed Freevo on a new Slackware 10.2 box. I have 'tweaked' the > kernel, which is 2.4.31. Freevo is functioning as expected, but I have a > strange error when starting and stopping Freevo. It does not appear in the > log (DEBUG and CHILDAPP_DEBUG both turned on) and mailing list/Google search > does not shed any light. The output to the screen is : > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File /usr/bin/freevo, line 473, in ? > > start(name, python + proc , bg, check) > > File /usr/bin/freevo, line 270, in start > > os.execvp(arg[0], arg) > > File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 348, in execvp > > _execvpe(file, args) > > File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 386, in _execvpe > > func(fullname, *argrest) > > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File /usr/bin/freevo, line 473, in ? > > start(name, python + proc , bg, check) > > File /usr/bin/freevo, line 270, in start > > os.execvp(arg[0], arg) > > File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 348, in execvp > > _execvpe(file, args) > > File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 386, in _execvpe > > func(fullname, *argrest) > > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > > > Have I removed something from the kernel I should not have or is something > else amiss? > > > > Many thanks, snickwad. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Error on startup and shutdown.
Hi, have installed Freevo on a new Slackware 10.2 box. I have ‘tweaked’ the kernel, which is 2.4.31. Freevo is functioning as expected, but I have a strange error when starting and stopping Freevo. It does not appear in the log (DEBUG and CHILDAPP_DEBUG both turned on) and mailing list/Google search does not shed any light. The output to the screen is : Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/freevo, line 473, in ? start(name, python + proc , bg, check) File /usr/bin/freevo, line 270, in start os.execvp(arg[0], arg) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 348, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 386, in _execvpe func(fullname, *argrest) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/freevo, line 473, in ? start(name, python + proc , bg, check) File /usr/bin/freevo, line 270, in start os.execvp(arg[0], arg) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 348, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 386, in _execvpe func(fullname, *argrest) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Have I removed something from the kernel I should not have or is something else amiss? Many thanks, snickwad.
[Freevo-users] Newbie questions.
Sorry, some newbie questions that I have been unable to find answers for. I am configuring a prototype style setup and all is well apart from a couple of niggly issues. I have xmltv sorted and I am able to browse my listings from within Freevo, but when I select a channel to view I only get statis displayed. My tv card/tuner is a Pinnacle (dmesg show it detected as PCTV Rave/Studio). I am presuming the hardware is set up correctly and that I have not edited the config files correctly. After trying to watch the TV, dmesg shows tuner: TV freq (0.00) out of range (44-958). Could someone point me in the right direction here please? I have also been getting errors in various aspects of the overall setup, where the DISPLAY variable is detected as not set. This was first noticed following running freevo setup, which set display = x11, but when starting freevo I got an error reporting DISPLAY not set, using fbdev. This unset variable has caused other errors when compiling perl dependencies etc, and again, have I missed something obvious? As stated, this is a prototype, so I am currently using the onboard graphics whilst setting this up, but will ultimately be using the TV-out on the Pinnacle; how do I move the display output to the TV-out or will it require a re-install? Many thanks, snickwad.
