RE: [Freevo-users] VCRVO project, a note on cables
I think a few people need to get into high fidelity audio. To be clear : cable is cable, it's just a piece of metal.( Some people claims they can hear the difference between a gold and a copper cable, come on, let's be serious) Seriousely, ALL cables have a sonic signature. Silver is, in general, a harsher sounding material. Copper is, again, in general, a warmer sounding material. Stranded cables can have a sort of grainy sound, while solid cables sound different depending on the guage. You will find the differences into the higher tones. Not all people are having the same audio bandwidth. Most people are limited into the higher tones. Making high quality setups useless for this people. The level of treatment you are talking about, goes beyond the costs of a cable or a connector. Boxes, the environment and background noise (FAN) comes to my mind as potential disturbing factors, which should be treated as well. So, if you've got a freevo system wich produces some background noise (fans, hd), it isn't worth the pain to spend a lot of money into cabling. Avoiding oxidation however is a must for a professional aproach and has nothing to do with the initial quality, but everything with long term quality. BTW: anyone have build a noiseless Freevo? http://gedeco.no-ip.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Possible patch for tvtime channel lookup query
Hello all, I mentioned that I'd have a question or two with regards to patches well here's the first. Basically when the tvtime plugin needs to get a channel it tries to guess the correct channel name from its ChannelsLookupTables. Now I'm not sure why this was done in the first place but it has caused me some problems and I've seen other posts on the list too. My problem was that the channels from my cable provider in Ireland are outside of the predefined sets in those lists. It's a long time since I patched this and I'm at work now so forgive the vague details. I simply changed the plugin to call the channel in the same manner as the mplayer plugin, i.e. it does the lookup from freq.py. So my question is is there a reason the plugin should not be changed so they both use this method instead? John --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] what is the currently best tv tuner card for freevo?
Hi all! I am quite satiesfied with my freevo and xbox/debian setup so far - but I would like to move now to another system and need some advise. 1. what is the best TV Tuner card for freevo? Especially: are digital tuners supported as well (input: digital cable in germany) 2. what is the best way of setting everything up? TV Tuner Card in a remote server, that runs the whole time (for recording tasks). Or getting rid of the xbox setup and use a box-pc with the tuner card in it? But then I need to leave it running, when I want to record things, right? 3. Is it useful to watch TV only via freevo when considering the questions above? When I use a remote record server, then I need an additional TV Tuner Card in the PC, that is used as the freevo frontend, right? Or can I transport the TV Images via network from the System with the remote TV Tuner Card to the freevo frontend System? Is this useful and/or practiable?? I'm happy for every input!! cheers, Hans --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] VCRVO project, a note on cables
My god, do you guys listen to your stereo equipment, or the music coming out of the speakers? :) Geert Decorte wrote: I think a few people need to get into high fidelity audio. To be clear : cable is cable, it's just a piece of metal.( Some people claims they can hear the difference between a gold and a copper cable, come on, let's be serious) Seriousely, ALL cables have a sonic signature. Silver is, in general, a harsher sounding material. Copper is, again, in general, a warmer sounding material. Stranded cables can have a sort of grainy sound, while solid cables sound different depending on the guage. You will find the differences into the higher tones. Not all people are having the same audio bandwidth. Most people are limited into the higher tones. Making high quality setups useless for this people. The level of treatment you are talking about, goes beyond the costs of a cable or a connector. Boxes, the environment and background noise (FAN) comes to my mind as potential disturbing factors, which should be treated as well. So, if you've got a freevo system wich produces some background noise (fans, hd), it isn't worth the pain to spend a lot of money into cabling. Avoiding oxidation however is a must for a professional aproach and has nothing to do with the initial quality, but everything with long term quality. BTW: anyone have build a noiseless Freevo? http://gedeco.no-ip.org -- Jacob Briggs Systems Engineer Core Technology Ph: +64 (04) 499 1102 -- Named after its country of origin 'England', English is a little known dialect used by up to 1.5 billion non-Americans worldwide. Some interesting but obviously incorrect features of the language include: - queues of people - wonderful coloUrs - the useful metal aluminIum - the exotic herbs (h-urbs), basil (ba-zil) and oregano (o-re-gaa-no) - specialiSed books called 'dictionaries' that tell you how to spell words correctly Many people using this bizarre gutter speak also subscribe to the pagan belief that water freezes at 0 degrees and that distances should be measured in the forbidden mathematical system of base-10... --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] what is the currently best tv tuner card for freevo?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I am quite satiesfied with my freevo and xbox/debian setup so far - but I would like to move now to another system and need some advise. 1. what is the best TV Tuner card for freevo? Especially: are digital tuners supported as well (input: digital cable in germany) hauppauge pvr cards or similar work quite well. i am using a pvr-250 for some time now and am really happy with it. concerning dvb support i cannot give much advice, but iirc dischi/rshortt have dvb cards in their freevo boxes. 2. what is the best way of setting everything up? TV Tuner Card in a remote server, that runs the whole time (for recording tasks). Or getting rid of the xbox setup and use a box-pc with the tuner card in it? But then I need to leave it running, when I want to record things, right? get rid of the xbox a build a small and silent mini-itx system. if you have a tv-card with hardware mp2-encoder (which is highly recommended), an old p3 system will suffice. p3 cpus are quite powerfull and can be kept cool without much noise. 3. Is it useful to watch TV only via freevo when considering the questions above? When I use a remote record server, then I need an additional TV Tuner Card in the PC, that is used as the freevo frontend, right? Or can I transport the TV Images via network from the System with the remote TV Tuner Card to the freevo frontend System? Is this useful and/or practiable?? freevo does not have streaming support at this time. it could become available if the timeshifting stuff is done. personally i still use my tvset for watching live tv, because zapping in freevo is too slow. :) I'm happy for every input!! cheers, Hans --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
