Re: [Freevo-users] Recording Bug/Feature Request & other ideas
> This could probably be done as a Plugin. I might give it a go myself > if I get time (Ha! Ahem...) I'd envisage a separate Transcode Daemon > to take care of the transcoding, perhaps auto pause/resuming > transcoding based on system load and/or other Freevo activity (ie; if > Freevo not playing anything, and not recording, then Transcode!). > Check out the encoding server package from the addons page. den_RDC wrote it with these exact features in mind. It may be that only a plugin is required. I'd be happy to to assist its developement, the existing plugin will only send dvd's to the encoding server, I'd like th new plugin to be able to create DVD's from any multimedia file and so forth.. > There could also be options to auto-transcode if a show is old, and > disk is low... > Yes, this could easily be done within the same plugin. I have written one which will delete the the oldest avi in the tv_rec dir. This could easily be extended to listen to the recordign extention and then just send it to the record server for re-coding... Mick --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Recording Bug/Feature Request & other ideas
I forgot one thing to mention as a future request; Apart from the allready available option to select a player for certain suffix, is it possible to make the same kind of selection for vcd dvd players? -- Groetjes Japie --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Recording Bug/Feature Request & other ideas
I've recently started using Freevo to watch & record TV, and there's a few niggling issues, or missing features with Freevo that bug me. First up is the record padding. It would be REALLY nice if there was a separate pre- and post- record padding. Shows here have a tendency to start anywhere from on-time to minutes late, and can quite frequently run even later. Ergo, I need a minimal pre-padding (a minute or two), but a large post-padding (up to 15 mins). I've hacked my own Freevo to support Pre/Post padding, and it works quite well. Ideally, it'd be nice to set this per-channel, since some channels are pretty decent, while others vary wildly. Second up, a related issue, is record scheduling. I'd really like to have the option of editing the details of a record item. I've had times where the Guide has been a little inaccurate (and now once where the finish time for a show was out by an hour). Sure, I could manually add an item to record and stick in ALL the data, but it would be much easier to just go "Schedule to Record", then "Edit", and tweak those values which need it. Such a facility should be easy to implement in the Webserver (and I may have a go at it myself if no-one else wants to), but it'd be nice to have it in the normal interface as well. Next, which is sort of a mix of the two above - an easy way to "tweak" the padding of a recording/recorded show. So if you KNOW a particular show is famous for running overtime (chat-shows have a tendency to do it here), you can easily add/remove extra record time, say, in 2 minute chunks? (Gee - can you tell I've missed the last 5 minutes of way too many shows? ^_^) The next idea is also Recording, but a different slant - transcoding. I have a DVB card, which means I natively get good quality mpeg2 streams saved when I record. This takes up quite a bit of disk tho, so stuff I want to keep, I'd like to transcode into DivX. I have a little script I whipped up to do this for me, but it's a manual process. What would be great would be an option within Freevo to tag a recorded show for transcoding. Even better would be a few transcoding options, for different bit-rates (cooking shows (don't ask ^_^) don't need as much bitrate as movies), and different cropping options (some shows are 16:9, some are 4:3 - the signal/stream is always 16:9). This could probably be done as a Plugin. I might give it a go myself if I get time (Ha! Ahem...) I'd envisage a separate Transcode Daemon to take care of the transcoding, perhaps auto pause/resuming transcoding based on system load and/or other Freevo activity (ie; if Freevo not playing anything, and not recording, then Transcode!). There could also be options to auto-transcode if a show is old, and disk is low... Something that's been mentioned briefly in the past - the auto-icon support. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it really doesn't. I've had shows where the icon was of the show before (which still had recorded bits of) - and sometimes it shows an Ad. The former can be avoided by picking a frame nearer the middle of the show, rather than the start. The latter is a bit harder to fix. One solution would be to have an option to regenerate the icon which shows a selection of images (9? 12?), and you select which to keep as the icon. Oh, and while I'm at it - support for widescreen layout of Freevo menus would be appreciated. ^_^ Also, maybe some variants of the standard skins using smaller fonts? (And more TV Guide columns? Is that definable?) Lastly - a "bug" of sorts. I keep having issues watching DVB streams (ts/mpg) with Freevo. Sometimes it sucks all my CPU (not a very fast one), the Sync goes straight out the window, and sometimes I get black dots scattered around & in the borders of hard-white output. I *think* it's rogue unneeded filters for mplayer kicking in, but I've yet to reliably disable them. Any ideas? -- Trevor Phillips - http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ Web Technical Administrator - IT Services, Murdoch University "On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of course. But mostly evil, on the whole." -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] Re: dvb aspect choices
What about the remote? Is it AA or AAA? (i just don't like AAA ;-) > For those who are interested, my next project will be to get FoxTel (pay > satellite broadcast) working through Freevo as well. I will start > looking into this once I am completely happy with HDTV and associated > functions. > I'm interested. How do you propose to do this? With a DVB-S card or with the av-out from the Foxtel STB? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Freevo and PCI based Video Card?
Title: Message Hi all, I have a cheap Fry's machine that I picked up for $100 that I want to set up as a Freevo box. The machine has a 1.3 Ghz processor with a 30 Gig drive which should be adequate for what I need it to do. However the box does not have an AGP slot, only 3 pci slots. Does anyone have any comments about running Freevo with a PCI based card? I see lots of thumbs up for the Matrox card and there is a PCI based version of the Matrox G450, is this adequate or am I going to wish I had an AGP version? Also I'll probably want to put in a sound card rather than use the built in sound. Any recommendations there? Thanks a bunch Gordo
[Freevo-users] G400 color controls
Has anyone gotten the G400 picture stuff (color, saturation, contrast, brightness, etc...) working? I’ve tried the maven-prog.tgz program referened in the Wiki, but no matter what I set, it doesn’t change anything. I’m sooo close to having a stand alone media box. If I could just get TV-Out working good. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Andrew Jergens
[Freevo-users] Re: website maintainer wanted
Dale Cooper wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Well, I guess I could do it - taking care of the site, installing > whatever wiki you/we choose, could offer hosting as well (hmmm unless > the bandwidth is really really high). The bandwidth isn't that high, but Freevo will need some sort of real ISP for hosting. I don't know what you have there. The downloads will still be at sf, but all the content can move to a different server. Krister also owns www.freevo.org, it may be cool to use that domain, too. Dischi -- Never say 'OOPS!' Always say 'Ah, Interesting!' pgpvSr1vnSUCP.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Freevo-users] Re: website maintainer wanted
Dale Cooper wrote: > Oh well. I for one do not like the openness of wiki that much in > general. One malicious person can potentially delete all content > ... Yes, you have got old version but anyway... Also, the spam is > terrible, I removed it from current wiki as well and it is really > annoying. Yes > Well, as I proposed to be the maintainer -although noone said yes, > neither no - I just took a look at MediaWiki and installed that on my > home server... ahem... it is not so easy to setup logins etc. But > could be done. Great. But maybe a home server isn't that good, Freevo isn't a small project anymore. So the ideas are either 1. still use sf, but with better security, a different wiki with logins, maybe a CMS. 2. use an isp and www.freevo.org. Move all the web stuff to a new server. I don't care what solution we choose, the only thing is: I want to code and someone else should take care of all the web stuff. If someone has a root server somewere, this would be really cool! Dischi -- What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. pgpA5NnrDrBcC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Freevo-users] website maintainer wanted
- Original Message - From: "Dale Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] website maintainer wanted > Oh, well. I am not talking about killing the mail list or something like > that. Forums would run in parallel. > > This is probably very much personal preference but IMHO I simply like > forums for these reasons: > a) you go there on request, when you want to > b) your mail address is not published anywhere (spam, again) > c) threads are very well visible > d) do not know how about you but I am not keeping all messages in my > mailbox and on local disk. Therefore if I want to search for any > messages I go to the web archive anyway > e) if some interesting thread concerning my problems was already on the > mailing-list while I was not subscribed already, I will miss that and: > - either must go to web search anyway > - or am bothering with the sam questions over and over again (which will > be exactly the case once I find little time and summarize the troubles I > have with my DVB-T card :) ) > f) and this is purely my assumption - more people realize web is > searchable and do the search. If they do not find info on the web they > go and fire the question. This puts evidently more load on developers. > this one is indexed on the web and very good searchable http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/ perhaps mentioning worth on the websitesomething for the maintainer? it's my wiki allthough a forum is a good idea, it's more troublesome as receiving a mail. > OK, as I said, it is personal preference. > D > > TC Wan wrote: > > > > > On Wed, September 29, 2004 12:11 am, Dale Cooper said: > > > > >Also, what I was wondering, would not be adding support-forums helpfull? > > >E.g. phpBB? > > > > > > Dunno. I prefer a simple mailing list so that I don't have to login to > > check for new messages. > > > > T.C. > > -- > > Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) > > School of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Science Malaysia, > > 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 > > NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-F Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 > > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan > > GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcwan-nrg-20040805.asc > > F'print : 4B2E F0BF AAD7 2F51 CB41 4386 F72B 7859 8278 BDC4 > > > > > > > > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > ___ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: forcing freevo to only display filenames
Dirk Meyer wrote: Morten Nilsen wrote: Hi, I have several movie files where the info headers contain nonsensical data, making freevo in some cases show 10 clips, all named "TDC" or whatever the field in the avi was set to. I would like for freevo to disregard this field, and always show the filename (sans extension) - All the files in my collection have sane names. Any way of doing this with a simple change? Hit ENTER on the directory and turn off using tag names for title creation. hiting either enter key on my keyboard does nothing aside from entering the folder... isn't there a place I can make a small edit to permanently turn it off globally? Cheers, -- Morten --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] website maintainer wanted
Oh, well. I am not talking about killing the mail list or something like that. Forums would run in parallel. This is probably very much personal preference but IMHO I simply like forums for these reasons: a) you go there on request, when you want to b) your mail address is not published anywhere (spam, again) c) threads are very well visible d) do not know how about you but I am not keeping all messages in my mailbox and on local disk. Therefore if I want to search for any messages I go to the web archive anyway e) if some interesting thread concerning my problems was already on the mailing-list while I was not subscribed already, I will miss that and: - either must go to web search anyway - or am bothering with the sam questions over and over again (which will be exactly the case once I find little time and summarize the troubles I have with my DVB-T card :) ) f) and this is purely my assumption - more people realize web is searchable and do the search. If they do not find info on the web they go and fire the question. This puts evidently more load on developers. OK, as I said, it is personal preference. D TC Wan wrote: On Wed, September 29, 2004 12:11 am, Dale Cooper said: >Also, what I was wondering, would not be adding support-forums helpfull? >E.g. phpBB? Dunno. I prefer a simple mailing list so that I don't have to login to check for new messages. T.C. -- Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Science Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-F Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcwan-nrg-20040805.asc F'print : 4B2E F0BF AAD7 2F51 CB41 4386 F72B 7859 8278 BDC4 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: website maintainer wanted
Dirk Meyer wrote: Gustavo Barbieri wrote: People at my university migrated rom MoinMoin to MediaWiki, the wiki developed and used by Wikipedia... it's much better and you can do these login stuff. I don't care what WiKi. I only want something working without spam. Dischi Oh well. I for one do not like the openness of wiki that much in general. One malicious person can potentially delete all content ... Yes, you have got old version but anyway... Also, the spam is terrible, I removed it from current wiki as well and it is really annoying. Well, as I proposed to be the maintainer -although noone said yes, neither no - I just took a look at MediaWiki and installed that on my home server... ahem... it is not so easy to setup logins etc. But could be done. I was also considering php-nuke, which is not "wiki" but CMS. And I guess CMS is what we are looking for, right? However it is known for a lot of security flaws. So, anyone knows any good system that would fit the needs? D
[Freevo-users] Re: website maintainer wanted
Gustavo Barbieri wrote: > People at my university migrated rom MoinMoin to MediaWiki, the wiki > developed and used by Wikipedia... it's much better and you can do > these login stuff. I don't care what WiKi. I only want something working without spam. Dischi -- Smash forehead on keyboard to continue. pgpliFQpWmEyV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Freevo-users] webradio question - radio paradise
I get that same error using mplayer, however it opens fine in RealPlayer for windows. Have not yet checked with xmms. using wget on the stream produces an error also: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 11:28:52 ERROR -1: Malformed status line. - Styx Mary Strimel wrote: I have installed the sample fxd file for webradio and it works great. Now i want to add my own favorite station, radio paradise, and I tried to follow the format in the fxd file but it doesn't work. When I run "mplayer -playlist http://www.radioparadise.com/musiclinks/rp_128.m3u, from the cmmand line, it fails with: Playing http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/2001. Connecting to server 64.236.34.4[64.236.34.4]:80 ... Error: ICY-Server couldn't find requested stream, skipping! Unable to open URL: http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/2001 I've checked the Radio Paradise site and mplayer list but found no suggestions, so I'm writing to the experts! Thanks, Mary --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
