Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: Great price, I have to admit. I suppose if you were familiar with it, it would be a good idea. I might suggest putting a howto on the wiki for those who give up on lirc. I'll try to get to it if I can. Things have picked up this week so it might be next week. Cpufreq-set doesn't seem to work on my pentium 4. Are you over clocking your processer? Not overclocking. Not all CPUs are scalable. It depends on the CPU and the Linux driver for it. Try the following: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies If you get nothing or just one frequency, it probably won't scale. Sometimes there is a setting in the BIOS to enable it, but again it may just not be capable. My main, server/freevo box has an AMD Athlon x2 and it can scale. The freevo box in my bedroom is a P4 generation Celeron and it cannot scale. I don't scale mine above the max frequency it is capable of. Really, the who purpose of not running it full speed all the time is that probably 70-90% of the day, it is sitting more or less idle. I scale it down to 1 Ghz (from 3 Ghz) to save on power and make it easier to keep cool. A couple more tips: 1. Flashaid. The results were noticeably better. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/ I might have to check into that. I don't really have a desktop per se on that pc, nor do I have firefox (I launch things in Chrome, if needed) but I might try it out. Overall though, with the processor running at full speed, and hardware acceleration turned off, Flash generally seems to work fine. 2. Volume I like the sound up all the way when I launch hulu. Turn up the sound on the remote or with alsamixer, run '/sbin/alsactl -f asound.state store' to save the settings, then add a' /sbin/alsactl -f /home/freevo/asound.state restore' to your hulu startup script. I'll add this to the wiki too, when I cease to find any further tweaks. (Which, granted, may be the present) Another good trick. Hulu generally is more or less the same as most of my video files I play through Freevo, so I haven't had much volume issues. I pretty much keep my alsamixer volumes at around 85 and adjust the volume on the TV instead. On a side rant, I have to applaud Hulu for giving me a good legal way to use their site, and especially for doing so on Linux. No longer need to resort to rtmpdump. Agreed. There seems to be rumors that they may drop support since they have Hulu+ for set top boxes (Hulu Desktop came out first), but so far it has kept working. I haven't seen an update in quite a while though, so that might indicate something. Preston -- 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-d2d-2 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Fwd: Re: Any one using hulu on freevo?
On second thought, just set /etc/adobe/mms.cfg to: EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 OverrideGPUValidation=true Original Message Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo? Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:29:17 -0600 From: Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Don't need flash-aid, just do this: wget http://updates.webgapps.org/flashplayer32 tar xvf *flash* libflashplayer.so Set 'flash_location =' in .huludesktop. (maybe even a bash script to switch between the two) Then, do this: cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg | sed '/EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1/d' | sudo tee /etc/adobe/mms.cfg And see if things improve. Let me know if you notice any stability issues. yes, I WILL get this up on the wiki someday soon. On a side rant, Boxee runs terribly for me; I hope they continue to develop huludesktop. If hulu wants people to stop using rtmpdump, they will have much more luck by offering huludesktop than relying on flash to create more complicated SWFverification. On 08/17/2011 10:59 AM, Preston Hagar wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: Great price, I have to admit. I suppose if you were familiar with it, it would be a good idea. I might suggest putting a howto on the wiki for those who give up on lirc. I'll try to get to it if I can. Things have picked up this week so it might be next week. Cpufreq-set doesn't seem to work on my pentium 4. Are you over clocking your processer? Not overclocking. Not all CPUs are scalable. It depends on the CPU and the Linux driver for it. Try the following: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies If you get nothing or just one frequency, it probably won't scale. Sometimes there is a setting in the BIOS to enable it, but again it may just not be capable. My main, server/freevo box has an AMD Athlon x2 and it can scale. The freevo box in my bedroom is a P4 generation Celeron and it cannot scale. I don't scale mine above the max frequency it is capable of. Really, the who purpose of not running it "full speed" all the time is that probably 70-90% of the day, it is sitting more or less idle. I scale it down to 1 Ghz (from 3 Ghz) to save on power and make it easier to keep cool. A couple more tips: 1. Flashaid. The results were noticeably better. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/ I might have to check into that. I don't really have a desktop per se on that pc, nor do I have firefox (I launch things in Chrome, if needed) but I might try it out. Overall though, with the processor running at full speed, and hardware acceleration turned off, Flash generally seems to work fine. 2. Volume I like the sound up all the way when I launch hulu. Turn up the sound on the remote or with alsamixer, run '/sbin/alsactl -f asound.state store' to save the settings, then add a' /sbin/alsactl -f /home/freevo/asound.state restore' to your hulu startup script. I'll add this to the wiki too, when I cease to find any further tweaks. (Which, granted, may be the present) Another good trick. Hulu generally is more or less the same as most of my video files I play through Freevo, so I haven't had much volume issues. I pretty much keep my alsamixer volumes at around 85 and adjust the volume on the TV instead. On a side rant, I have to applaud Hulu for giving me a good legal way to use their site, and especially for doing so on Linux. No longer need to resort to rtmpdump. Agreed. There seems to be rumors that they may drop support since they have Hulu+ for set top boxes (Hulu Desktop came out first), but so far it has kept working. I haven't seen an update in quite a while though, so that might indicate something. Preston -- 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-d2d-2 ___ 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-d2d-2___ Freevo-users mailing list
Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo 2.0
On a side note, I am in no rush to try 2, I fairly happy with Freevo 1. (For the life of me, I never could get dvbstreamer working nor svn, but 1.9 works for my needs) And, my wife will kill me if I mess around with that thing anymore. Never tried XBMC but, if it's anything like Boxee, it's nice, but it's not Freevo - it's cluttered, sluggish on my old pentium4, and it doesn't record. Using Freevo to launch Boxee or Huludesktop is great, but not enough to make me want to get rid of Freevo. I am in the same boat as you, I'm hesitant to update my Freevo installation anytime soon. I would rather see the bugs present in 1.9 fixed before jumping to a new version that will probably have its own issues. For example, Freevo crashes whenever it tries to play a file with accents or japanese in its name. Some plugins don't work. etc. These are all issues that haven't been fixed in a long time, and I don't think a new version would fix this. -- 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-d2d-2 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
