Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote: Using the FXD is lot simpler than the approach I was going to take. I use freevo as the desktop on mine. May have to change ow that I think about. hulu would need a window manager. Evan I installed ratpoison (apt-get install ratpoison on ubuntu) and then added this to /etc/ratpoisonrc #start config msgwait 1 startup_message off defborder 0 set padding 0 0 0 0 set bgcolor black set bargravity southwest exec xset -dpms exec xset s off exec xsetroot -display :0 -solid #00 exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr #end config Basically, I turn off the start up message, make it fill the screen, set the background color black in case hulu desktop doesn't completely fill the screen for some reason and turn the screen saver off. Then, in my freevo local_conf.py I added the following: COMMAND_SPAWN_WM = '/usr/bin/ratpoison ' COMMAND_KILL_WM = 'killall ratpoison' With the spawnwm / in the FXD file, it will start ratpoison, set my config settings load hulu desktop. Then when I exit hulu desktop (from the hulu menu) it closes ratpoison and takes me back to freevo (the freevo screen saver comes back as well). I have also created similar FXD files that load the video pages of websites in Chrome. For example, my daughter likes Special Agent Oso on Disney Jr., so I have a FXD file like this: ?xml version=1.0 ? freevo command title=Playhouse Disney cmd/usr/bin/google-chrome --app=http://disney.go.com/disneyjunior/special-agent-oso/special-agent-oso-videos-episodes/cmd nostdout / stoposd / spawnwm / info contentPlayhouse disney videos/content /info /command /freevo which loads the Agent Oso video page. It is a little bit of a pain to use my remote mouse (I have a Harmony 300 with one of the functions set as a Media Center remote with the number keys at the bottom emulating a mouse) to click the video to start, but once it does, I make it full screen and we can watch it. As one other note, as I mentioned before, Hulu seems to take a lot of processing power. For some reason, no matter what governor I picked, it seemed that my CPU wouldn't scale up to its max speed when Hulu was running, leading to jumpy playback. I created a simple script file with the following: cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 3.0GHz cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 3.0GHz /usr/bin/huludesktop cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1.0GHz cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1.0GHz Called it starthulu, made it executable, and put it in /usr/bin. I then set my FXD to use this script instead. Basically, it sets each of the cores of my CPU to their max speed (3.0 GHZ), starts Hulu, and then turns them back down to their min speed when I exit from Hulu. You might not need that, but I thought I would share in case it might help. Preston -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Preston Hagar prest...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote: Using the FXD is lot simpler than the approach I was going to take. I use freevo as the desktop on mine. May have to change ow that I think about. hulu would need a window manager. Evan I installed ratpoison (apt-get install ratpoison on ubuntu) and then added this to /etc/ratpoisonrc #start config msgwait 1 startup_message off defborder 0 set padding 0 0 0 0 set bgcolor black set bargravity southwest exec xset -dpms exec xset s off exec xsetroot -display :0 -solid #00 exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr #end config Basically, I turn off the start up message, make it fill the screen, set the background color black in case hulu desktop doesn't completely fill the screen for some reason and turn the screen saver off. Then, in my freevo local_conf.py I added the following: COMMAND_SPAWN_WM = '/usr/bin/ratpoison ' COMMAND_KILL_WM = 'killall ratpoison' With the spawnwm / in the FXD file, it will start ratpoison, set my config settings load hulu desktop. Then when I exit hulu desktop (from the hulu menu) it closes ratpoison and takes me back to freevo (the freevo screen saver comes back as well). I have also created similar FXD files that load the video pages of websites in Chrome. For example, my daughter likes Special Agent Oso on Disney Jr., so I have a FXD file like this: ?xml version=1.0 ? freevo command title=Playhouse Disney cmd/usr/bin/google-chrome --app=http://disney.go.com/disneyjunior/special-agent-oso/special-agent-oso-videos-episodes/cmd nostdout / stoposd / spawnwm / info contentPlayhouse disney videos/content /info /command /freevo which loads the Agent Oso video page. It is a little bit of a pain to use my remote mouse (I have a Harmony 300 with one of the functions set as a Media Center remote with the number keys at the bottom emulating a mouse) to click the video to start, but once it does, I make it full screen and we can watch it. As one other note, as I mentioned before, Hulu seems to take a lot of processing power. For some reason, no matter what governor I picked, it seemed that my CPU wouldn't scale up to its max speed when Hulu was running, leading to jumpy playback. I created a simple script file with the following: cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 3.0GHz cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 3.0GHz /usr/bin/huludesktop cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1.0GHz cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1.0GHz Called it starthulu, made it executable, and put it in /usr/bin. I then set my FXD to use this script instead. Basically, it sets each of the cores of my CPU to their max speed (3.0 GHZ), starts Hulu, and then turns them back down to their min speed when I exit from Hulu. You might not need that, but I thought I would share in case it might help. Preston This is really nice. Think you could added it to the freevo Wiki? I am sure alot of other folks could use this in the future. Evan -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Preston Hagar prest...@gmail.com wrote: This is really nice. Think you could added it to the freevo Wiki? I am sure alot of other folks could use this in the future. Evan This is my first write up of a wiki page for Freevo, but hopefully it is okay: http://doc.freevo.org/HuluDesktop Preston -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Youtube Plugin
Thanks - I could have sworn I tried this already, but a youtube-dl -v revealed that wget did not overwrite over the file. On 08/08/2011 03:32 AM, Maciej Urbaniak wrote: Is anybody else having issues with youtube recently? Download new version of youtube-dl. As of 4.08 there is a new version that fixes connection problems. http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/download.html -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
Excellent, thanks very much! If I may offer what I have found: 1. Setting screen to 640x480 and setting the quality to low (look for at the bottom of the screen) seemed to greatly smooth the picture quality on my old computer. Unable to make freevo work at 640x480 (/etc/freevo/freevo.conf - didn't make any difference, freevo was too big!!), I wrote a quick script to launch it as such: /usr/bin/xrandr -s 640x480 /usr/bin/huludesktop /usr/bin/xrandr -s 800x600 2. Finding the mythtv documentation, I got lirc working by adding the '-r' as follows: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hulu_Desktop_Integration#LIRC_Configuration Followed, of course, by a service lirc restart. Reading the output from irw, I changed my remote type and my button_name_menu in /home/freevo/.huludesktop lirc_remote_identifier = Hauppauge_350 button_name_menu = Go I have searched far and wide for documentation on how to add other buttons than the following six, but have found none. If anybody has any tips, please send along. button_name_up = Up button_name_down = Down button_name_left = Left button_name_right = Right button_name_select = OK button_name_menu = Go Thanks again - great wiki article. When I get a day off (eventually), I'll try to add a couple of my own. On 08/10/2011 11:38 AM, Preston Hagar wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Preston Hagar prest...@gmail.com wrote: This is really nice. Think you could added it to the freevo Wiki? I am sure alot of other folks could use this in the future. Evan This is my first write up of a wiki page for Freevo, but hopefully it is okay: http://doc.freevo.org/HuluDesktop Preston -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
