[Freevo-users] Via C3 and i810 performance

there are any other Freevo users out there with C3's and the i810 video chip - what is playback performance like? Ta -John John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- School of Medical Education Development Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing

RE: [Freevo-users] xbox or Tivo

Yes, you need to flash the onboard bios, (notice I didn't say otherwise), but installing a modchip is no longer required. Works fine as my in-car Freevo client :-) John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- School of Medical Education Develo

RE: [Freevo-users] xbox or Tivo

put option is USB 1.1) something else is probably a better option though. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- School of Medical Education Development Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing University of Newcastle >-Original Message-

RE: [Freevo-users] Green screen on TV (either SVIDEO or Composite)

You need to alter one of the options in list of parameters when you load the em8300 module. Details are on the dxr3 homepage. Direct link to FAQ: http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/faq.html#green John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical

RE: [Freevo-users] DXR3 pygame.error: No Available video device

u to create games or >other SDL >display things like menus. This is what Freevo uses to display >all it's >menus so without pygame working you wouldn't see Freevo at all. > >Paul > >John Snowdon wrote: > >>Does Freevo actually display ok? I got the dxr3 to

RE: [Freevo-users] DXR3 pygame.error: No Available video device

Does Freevo actually display ok? I got the dxr3 to work ok and films, freevo and recordings etc display fine but could I heck make it work with any SDL games!... they all complain about no video device or compatible video modes. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist

RE: [Freevo-users] unable to record on fat32 partition

I looks to me as if it is bombing out before doing any recording at all. Python seems to be trying to open a file for writing (mode 'w'), and the O/S is reporting that that particular mode is not allowed on the file. Looks like a python/linux-fat32 driver problem, rather than free

[Freevo-users] DXR3 in other SDL applications

ice version of SDL. XMAME (0.77.1) in particular complains about 'SDL: Vidmode_8 in Video16', or words to that effect. For the life of me I can't seem find anyway around this problem... Any ideas? John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Fa

RE: [Freevo-users] xbox freevo

2 internal fans with nice silent jobs if you want it as a completely silent set top box or to sit in amongst a VCR/satellite/cable/hi-fi setup - it would be about a 15 minute job and they're pretty standard sizes IIRC. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -=

RE: [Freevo-users] xbox freevo

A bit late in reply, but I've been using Xbox/Linux/Debian/Freevo as an in-car media system for a little under a year. Works great. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Educ

RE: [Freevo-users] Freevo - My Experiences/Ideas/Comments

t out for you! John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle >-Original Message- >From: Tom Van den Bon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sen

RE: [Freevo-users] Freevo MAME ponderings

Hit tab during the game and map the MAME functions to button presses on the gamepad. It should remember them for the next session. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education

RE: [Freevo-users] best wireless joystick for freevo

Logitech Wingman cordless usb. Works great on my xbox+freevo. modprobe adi modprobe joydev jscal easy peasy John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of

RE: [Freevo-users] Booting into freevo

Remember if you're calling 'startx' instead of 'X', you need to give a double minus '--' before you add any arguments. E.g. Startx -- -dpms (etc.) John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Science

[Freevo-users] Snes emulation / should I update?

acked down? John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:Thin

RE: [Freevo-users] memory card reader

look at automount to remove the manual mount procedure if you need it. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle -Original Message- From:

RE: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86

including subfolders) and puts a symlink to them in a single 'All songs' freevo playlist. It rebuilds every boot so anything added get automatically added to the playlist. Takes about 2 seconds for a tree of around 40 albums (~500 tracks?) John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -===

RE: [Freevo-users] memory card reader

Excellent, I'll have to give that a try. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle Phone : 0191 245 4230 Email : [EMAIL PROT

RE: [Freevo-users] memory card reader

ay of temporarily adding an album or two (should be fast enough for mp3 playback).. By sticking the memory into a usb socket in the dashboard or something. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Me

RE: [Freevo-users] Mame Problems?? Also Some help with CVS Please

-f tells make to use a specific file as its makefile (it defaults to 'Makefile' and then 'makefile' within the current directory by default). Yet another bit of useless information to file away ;-) John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -===

RE: [Freevo-users] Mame Problems?? Also Some help with CVS Please

Edit makefile.unix And then... Make -f makefile.unix Off the top of my head! (no capital on make, of course; damn outlook) John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education

RE: [Freevo-users] Mame Problems?? Also Some help with CVS Please

No problem Paul John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle Phone : 0191 245 4230 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From

RE: [Freevo-users] Mame Problems?? Also Some help with CVS Please

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[Freevo-users] Re: Any UK users here?

Yep, I run Freevo+Debian Linux on my Xbox as an in car media system. http://www.target-earth.net/xbox/page.html -John John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development

[Freevo-users] XMMS

ball that I can get xmms working with. No offence, but that suits my solution better than mplayer+track and time info. -John --=[ John Snowdon, author of TargetEarth ]=-- --=[ A wargame of Mecha, Grunts and Guns! ]=-- --=[TargetE

[Freevo-users] Key remapping

Can anyone point me in the right direction to remap some of freevo's keys? In the target system for my use of freevo there will only be a numeric keypad for control, hence the navigation, play, pause, select and escape keys require remapping. Cheers -John --=[ John Snowdon, auth