Re: [Freevo-users] multiple audio outputs using mplayer? (HDMI + SPDIF)
On 16/06/2010 22:55, John Molohan wrote: Hi Stephen, Glad to hear you got it all running in the end. Can you return the favour and help the community by posting this up to the wiki? Thanks, John Very good point! I always forget the wiki :( There is now an extra section in the TipsAndTricks section to deal with audio output to 2 devices: http://doc.freevo.org/TipsAndTricks#head-4ca196866b6ae120b2c0ce473c0e5c181ae88ca2 -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo shuts down immediately after coming up
Eureka! The hat goes on the head! (Sorry, couldn't resist a quote from Futurama) I fixed the sporadic immediate shutdown issue. I had the good fortune of watching it crash right in front of me after finishing a recording. I checked a few things and found the filesystem was nearing capacity (again, the clean-out daemon runs under the GUI), so I deleted a few things and tried the GUI and it came up! A-ha! Long story short, every time the remaining free space fell under the deletion minimums, the GUI stopped working. I enlisted a host of print statements to narrow down where it was crashing and on what particular program entry. It was giving up trying to find the last-accessed time for a particular MPEG file. I went to check the file and found out I had an orphaned FXD! The FXD existed and was being put into the menu but the MPEG had somehow been removed. It was trying to find the last-accessed time for a nonexistent file. Why it was silently crashing, I'm not sure (unless it has to do with that process running as a daemon). I deleted the orphan FXD and everything is back to normal. It even cleaned up the directory back above space minimums. By the way, the check on last modified time is something I added myself (and haven't submitted yet) because I had run into trouble where if the Freevo was recording and ran out of space while you were watching a previously recorded show that happened to be the best candidate for deletion... it would delete it while you were watching. Or it would delete it right after you finished watching it, so you never got a chance to mark it to keep if you wanted to keep it. I put in some code that anything accessed in the last 5 minutes would not be put on the candidate list and it seems to work. But now I may need to add some error-trapping to it. Or something to look for orphaned FXDs and/or MPEGs couldn't hurt either. Thanks for all your support my friends, even though this turned out to be esoteric and weird. I figured it had to be, just by the way it was behaving. James - Original Message From: John Molohan john.molo...@gcd.ie To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: James Trietsch kero...@yahoo.com Sent: Mon, June 14, 2010 1:56:32 PM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo shuts down immediately after coming up Hi James, Can you try the latest version of svn and see if this still exists? John -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] SATA harddrive swap ?
As idea - I use udev scripts to mount/unmount usb devices, may be this approach works with SATA as well. Reggie -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo shuts down immediately after coming up
On Wed, June 16, 2010 7:39 pm, James Trietsch wrote: Eureka! The hat goes on the head! (Sorry, couldn't resist a quote from Futurama) I fixed the sporadic immediate shutdown issue. I had the good fortune of watching it crash right in front of me after finishing a recording. I checked a few things and found the filesystem was nearing capacity (again, the clean-out daemon runs under the GUI), so I deleted a few things and tried the GUI and it came up! A-ha! Long story short, every time the remaining free space fell under the deletion minimums, the GUI stopped working. I enlisted a host of print statements to narrow down where it was crashing and on what particular program entry. It was giving up trying to find the last-accessed time for a particular MPEG file. I went to check the file and found out I had an orphaned FXD! The FXD existed and was being put into the menu but the MPEG had somehow been removed. It was trying to find the last-accessed time for a nonexistent file. Why it was silently crashing, I'm not sure (unless it has to do with that process running as a daemon). I deleted the orphan FXD and everything is back to normal. It even cleaned up the directory back above space minimums. By the way, the check on last modified time is something I added myself (and haven't submitted yet) because I had run into trouble where if the Freevo was recording and ran out of space while you were watching a previously recorded show that happened to be the best candidate for deletion... it would delete it while you were watching. Or it would delete it right after you finished watching it, so you never got a chance to mark it to keep if you wanted to keep it. I put in some code that anything accessed in the last 5 minutes would not be put on the candidate list and it seems to work. But now I may need to add some error-trapping to it. Or something to look for orphaned FXDs and/or MPEGs couldn't hurt either. Interesting, an edge case I hadn't considered. I'm in the process of rewriting the Recording Manager as a UPnP Server and a client Plugin. This is to fix the problem of the GUI having to be active to clean up the disk if it gets full. At the moment I have a separate backend server running 24x7 and a frontend that is only on when needed, so I need a separate app running on the server to clean up the disk. Making it UPnP means it can export the recordings to XBMC/Myth/Or anything else that understands UPnP Content Directory Servers and means I don't have to mount the disk over NFS. I may steal your idea and add it to the server process to catch this edge case :-) Cheers Adam -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] SATA harddrive swap ?
Could you share your scripts with me? :) Thanks Toan 2010/6/17 Redzinalds Knipsis reggie12...@googlemail.com: As idea - I use udev scripts to mount/unmount usb devices, may be this approach works with SATA as well. Reggie -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] SATA harddrive swap ?
Sure :)
I have gentoo. Scripts are for USB, though when I tested them with udevadm
trigger, it mounted hdd partitions as well, because of non effective match
part.
1. In /lib/udev 2 scripts:
script usb_mount
#!/bin/sh
[ $ACTION = add -a $DEVTYPE = partition ] || exit 0
#did not work for me
#[ x$ACTION = xadd -a x$DEVTYPE = xpartition -a x$ID_BUS = xusb
] || exit 0
#[ x$ACTION = xadd -a x$DEVTYPE = xpartition -a x$SUBSYSTEMS =
xusb ] || exit 0
MNTDIR=/mnt/usb/$(echo $DEVNAME | sed 's,\/dev\/,,')
#for tests
echo $MNTDIR /root/udev.usb
echo $ID_BUS /root/udev.usb
echo $DEVNAME /root/udev.usb
echo $ID_FS_LABEL_ENC /root/udev.usb
echo --- /root/udev.usb
chown root:disk $DEVNAME
chmod 0660 $DEVNAME
mkdir $MNTDIR
/bin/mount -t $ID_FS_TYPE $DEVNAME $MNTDIR -o
noatime,noexec,nosuid,nodev,nodiratime,nosuid,ro,umask=0,dmask=0,fmask=111,uid=65534,gid=65534
script usb_unmount
#!/bin/sh
#[ $ACTION = remove ] (grep -q ^$DEVNAME /proc/mounts || grep -q
^$DEVNAME /etc/mtab) || exit 0
[ $ACTION = remove ] || exit 0
#device name with 2 // - e.g. //dev/ubb1
MNTDEV=$(echo $DEVNAME | sed 's,\/\/,\/,')
MNTDIR=/mnt/usb/$(echo $DEVNAME | sed 's,\/dev\/,,')
#echo Unmount /root/udev.usb
#echo $MNTDEV /root/udev.usb
#echo $MNTDIR /root/udev.usb
#echo --- /root/udev.usb
/bin/umount -l $MNTDEV
rmdir $MNTDIR
2. modify /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules - I commented out
original line and added extra line
#ENV{DEVTYPE}==partition, ENV{ID_PATH}==?*,
SYMLINK+=disk/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}-part%n
ENV{DEVTYPE}==partition, ENV{ID_PATH}==?*,
SYMLINK+=disk/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}-part%n, RUN+=/lib/udev/usb_mount,
ENV{REMOVE_CMD}=/lib/udev/usb_unmount
3. I added /mnt/usb in Freevo music/movie etc parts.
Lines with comments can be removed. Echos just for tests.
I believe there should be more effective match in ACTION part, but I'm not
really udev guru :) If you find something which works, post it back, it
would be interesting.
Reggie
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[Freevo-users] patch to add ASPECT event
FYI, this is a patch to freevo-1.x source to add an ASPECT event to cycle
through 4/3, 16/9, 2:35, 0 (original) aspect ratios. It works for
mplayer video player
only.
To assign it to a remote button, define something like this in your lircrc file:
begin
prog = freevo
button = Aspect
repeat = 0
config = ASPECT
end
Best regards
Toan
Index: freevo/src/video/plugins/mplayer.py
===
--- freevo/src/video/plugins/mplayer.py (revision 11675)
+++ freevo/src/video/plugins/mplayer.py (working copy)
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@
self.plugins= []
self.paused = False
self.stored_time_info = None
+ self.aspect = 0
+ self.aspectlist = [0, 1., 1.7778, 2.35]
def rate(self, item):
@@ -124,6 +126,7 @@
self.item_info= None
self.item_length = -1
self.item.elapsed = 0
+self.aspect = 0
if mode == 'file':
url = item.url[6:]
@@ -525,6 +543,11 @@
self.show_message(event.arg)
return True
+if event == VIDEO_ASPECT:
+self.aspect = (self.aspect + 1) % 4
+self.app.write('switch_ratio %s\n' % self.aspectlist[self.aspect])
+return True
+
# nothing found? Try the eventhandler of the object who called us
return self.item.eventhandler(event)
Index: freevo/src/event.py
===
--- freevo/src/event.py (revision 11675)
+++ freevo/src/event.py (working copy)
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@
VIDEO_TOGGLE_INTERLACE = Event('VIDEO_TOGGLE_INTERLACE')
VIDEO_NEXT_ANGLE = Event('VIDEO_NEXT_ANGLE')
VIDEO_AVSYNC = Event('VIDEO_AVSYNC')
+VIDEO_ASPECT = Event('VIDEO_ASPECT')
STORE_BOOKMARK = Event('STORE_BOOKMARK')
MENU = Event('MENU')
@@ -390,6 +391,7 @@
'SUBTITLE' : VIDEO_NEXT_SUBTITLE,
'AVSYNC+' : Event(VIDEO_AVSYNC, arg=0.100),
'AVSYNC-' : Event(VIDEO_AVSYNC, arg=-0.100),
+'ASPECT': VIDEO_ASPECT,
}
DVD_EVENTS = {
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[Freevo-users] Selectable audio output when playing an item?
Hi all, Looks like my duplicate sound solution doesn't work too happily with video output :(. Audio is fine by my Video output slows down and gets out of sync occasionally before catching up again. If I output directly to 1 hardware output it is fine. So as a solution for this issue, until I have a chance to upgrade to a recent more supported distro so that I can raise bugs, I would like to be able to select how I play items. Ideally I want TV recorded files just to play via the TV if normally selected, but have the option to launch with a different -ao option, say from the menu on an item. This would allow normal playback, but if I want to watch something like Glee, which would be better via the AV amp, I can select that rather always having both outputs and having choppy video. I looked around the wiki but didn't find anything, can someone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Steve. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] patch to add ASPECT event
On 17/06/2010 3:05, Toan wrote: FYI, this is a patch to freevo-1.x source to add an ASPECT event to cycle through 4/3, 16/9, 2:35, 0 (original) aspect ratios. It works for mplayer video player only. To assign it to a remote button, define something like this in your lircrc file: begin prog = freevo button = Aspect repeat = 0 config = ASPECT end Best regards Toan Hi Toan, Thanks for the patch. Can you submit it to the tracker? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652atid=446898 John -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
