Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo(.org)
Since there will be no more changes for the time being, how about a last official release? Nothing fancy, just tarballs in the website with a proper version number and a small README and INSTALL. I never participate here, but I'm a Freevo fan too. It is still being used, its just that there are so many other options now and more actively developed too. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure why Freevo wasn't more popular. Python makes modification easy, even if you aren't a programmer. I still prefer to launch my favorite media centers from Freevo 1. I regret that I never did get around to working on the wiki. Thanks to all who put so much work into it. On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Dirk Meyer dis...@freevo.org wrote: Hi, this is an answer to all the mails regarding this subject on the lists. Thanks for the mails to show that there are still people using Freevo. Besides DLNA und XBMC, Freevo is still a good compromise between simple and usefull. Keep using Freevo, maybe send patches :) I may have not enough time for Freevo hacking, expressially stuff I do not need, but I have time to accept patches. Regarding Freevo 2.0, I know that it lacks documentation and why should you change from 1.x if your current setup is working. Well, I cannot answer that :) Just try it out. It works great for me. Freevo.org has moved to a different server using other websites as well. The php stuff is now replaced be static pages, the Wiki is saved as static pages as well. I have a backup of the SVN, the Wiki source and the old homepage. So nothing is lost ... well except the 2.0 Wiki which was too outdated and more a confusion that real help. My mail wasn't a good bye :) It is only a facing-the-facts. The project is not dead, it is only sleeping. Regards, Dischi -- The opinions above are solely those of a 12 year old hacker who has broken into my account, and not those of my employer or any other organization. -- Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Freevo crashes with non-ascii filenames
Whenever I try to play any file with filenames that have non-ascii character, freevo crashes. It just crashed when trying to play a file with japanese characters, but I have seen it crash before when playing a file with a ñ in its name. Has anybody else encountered this? -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Idea for Freevo config file
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I had an idea (which I cannot make happen) for a web based program to produce a config file. I don't know why I thought that a web based interactive program would be better than one packaged in with Freevo, except that it should be easier to maintain, as it would not be distro based. To me, making the python config file work is the hardest part of installing Freevo, and trying to get the right bits in place for TV the hardest part again. I agree, it should be simpler, but a web interface is way out of proportion. If anything, I think running freevo setup should also create a sample local_conf.py in the user's directory if it doesn't already exist. -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] mpd interface for freevo
I have a good idea for freevo: A real mpd interface (eg: using libmpdclient, and not simply parsing mpc's output). I recently tested an mpd client called GMPC [1] and it looks really impressive. It would be neat to have an interface similar to this, with the ability to load or create playlists, and to leave part of the complexity to mpd. It could even have visualizations via projectM [2]. Any thoughts on that? [1] http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome_Music_Player_Client [2] http://projectm.sourceforge.net/ -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
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
Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo 2.0
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dirk Meyer dis...@freevo.org wrote: Hi, On 19.07.2011 23:43, Andreas Dick wrote: Hei Dischi great to hear that freevo 2 is back on the road! For me, the main plus of freevo 1.x is the simple plugin API... and the powerfull configuration options. Is there allready a plan, how the plugins can be used/reused in freevo 2? is there a new API or just copy and past of the old ones? The basic concept with menus, items and stuff like that is identical, but the API is different, it is more powerfull. Plugins cannot just be used from Freevo 1.9, but porting them should not be too hard if they only use the menu. Plugins using the GUI directly (e.g. the idlebar) may need more work. It would be great to have a complete DBUS interface too. That would allow integration with external programs without touching the Freevo code. I'm sure many people have good ideas for the next version of Freevo, it would be nice to have a collaboration system for this (if it doesn't exist yet). Could be as simple as a wiki page. -- Storage Efficiency Calculator This modeling tool is based on patent-pending intellectual property that has been used successfully in hundreds of IBM storage optimization engage- ments, worldwide. Store less, Store more with what you own, Move data to the right place. Try It Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51427378/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo vs XBMC vs Boxee
My HTPC usage is similar to yours, I don't have a tv tuner, I use it for movies and tv shows, music and occasionally gaming. A long time ago I was using MMS (My Media System) but then I moved to Freevo. MMS has some advantages over Freevo, namely the ability to create playlists through the interface, and then even save them. Its also way more stable and doesn't have the plethora of bugs that Freevo has. The CPU usage is way lower, probably because it is coded in C++. The user interface is well designed and easy to use. On the downside, MMS is not so configurable nor themeable, less extensible (Freevo has a big number of plugins, although many don't work), and there hasn't been any release since 2009, which makes me think that its either very mature or it dying. I also tried MythTV for a while, but abandoned it because its strong point was TV recording which I'm not interested in, and it was too complex. I have yet to try XBMC or Boxee. -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] What is freevo doing while Idle?
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Jim Duda j...@duda.tzo.com wrote: I noticed that when freevo has nothing to do, the python process is still consuming 10% of my processor. All it should be doing is polling the LIRC socket (I think). This is a really old bug, but since you didn't mention what version you are using, check it out: http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17063.html -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Subtitles in video files - sorry if this has been asked already
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, davor beuc davor.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to configure Freevo in a way that it allows me to
select both the AVI file that I want to play and its .srt subtitle? It
works good if AVI and SRT files have exactly the same name (except
extension, of course). But this is not always the case and it would be
a payne in th back side if i start now renaming subtitles for my huge
collection of films and tv shows :)
So, any ideas, preferably that don't include creating fxd files or
renaming my entire collection, which is 2 TB worth of video files,
btw.
I had the same problem before because I wanted to switch between
subtitles of different languages, or disable them altogether, so I
added this to my local_conf.py file:
EVENTS['video']['tv-3'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='sub_select')
tv-3 is the lirc command that changes the subtitles. Every time
freevo receives tv-3 it will send the command to mplayer.
Check out the mplayer documentation for all possible commands.
These are the commands I use, you might find some of them useful:
# Muestra el nombre del archivo
EVENTS['video']['tv-1'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='osd_show_property_text ${filename} 5000')
# Cambia velocidad de reproduccion
EVENTS['video']['tv-2'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='speed_incr -0.25')
EVENTS['video']['tv-7'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='speed_incr +0.25')
# Selecciona subtitulo
EVENTS['video']['tv-3'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='sub_select')
# Selecciona canal de audio
EVENTS['video']['tv-8'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='switch_audio')
# Cambia aspecto
EVENTS['video']['tv-4'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='switch_ratio 1.8')
EVENTS['video']['tv-9'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='switch_ratio 1.4')
# OSD
EVENTS['video']['tv-10'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='osd')
# Cambia defase de subtitulos
EVENTS['video']['tv-11'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='sub_delay -0.050')
EVENTS['video']['tv-up'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='sub_delay +0.050')
# Cambia defase de audio
EVENTS['video']['tv-12'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='audio_delay -0.050')
EVENTS['video']['tv-down'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='audio_delay +0.050')
# Comandos de DVD
EVENTS['video']['tv-input'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='switch_title')
EVENTS['video']['tv-left']= Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='switch_angle')
EVENTS['video']['tv-display'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='seek_chapter -1')
EVENTS['video']['tv-right'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='seek_chapter +1')
# Cambia tamano de subtitulos
EVENTS['video']['tv-power'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='sub_scale -0.05')
EVENTS['video']['tv-sel'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD,
arg='sub_scale +0.05')
# Esto lo hace freevo solito
# EVENTS['video']['ch-'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='pt_step +1')
# EVENTS['video']['ch+'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='pt_step -1')
# right y left lo maneja freevo automaticamente
# Arriba y abajo avanza y retrocede 5 minutos cada vez
EVENTS['video']['UP'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='seek +300')
EVENTS['video']['DOWN'] = Event(VIDEO_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD, arg='seek -300')
Best regards,
Alan
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Re: [Freevo-users] Using MPD
2010/10/2 Leandro sullo sgorbio lnofe...@cybervalley.org:
Alan lameventa...@gmail.com writes:
Can anybody explain me how to use Freevo 1.9.0 with MPD?
It works for me and these are the lines for configuration:
MPD_SERVER_HOST='192.168.1.105' # the host running the mpd server
(in my configuration was the same
pc where freevo runs but I need to
indicate this address because mpd
can listen only on an address)
MPD_SERVER_PORT=6600 # the port the server is listening on
MPD_SERVER_PASSWORD=None # the password to access the mpd server
MPD_MUSIC_BASE_PATH='/dati/Musica/' # the local path to where the music is
stored, must have trail
MPD_EXTERNAL_CLIENT=None # the location of the external client you want to
use, or N
# MPD_EXTERNAL_CLIENT_ARGS='' # arguments to be passed to the external
client, or None [not i
plugin.activate('audio.mpd_playlist')
plugin.activate('audio.mpd_status')
Yes, this is exactly the configuration I have, but its not usable.
The output is really strange, and all I can do is advance in a
playlist that has been already playing by using another client.
I think this plugin requires a specific version of mpc which I don't have.
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[Freevo-users] Using MPD
Hello, Can anybody explain me how to use Freevo 1.9.0 with MPD? I know there are 2 plugins, adn I have tried them both. The old one shows a separate MPD menu entry. Apparently it runs mpc and shows exactly the same output as mpc in the screen, which is the volume level. The new one doesn't even show up anywhere, and if I try to play my music apparently it tries to play it directly (without MPD). Alan -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] freevo remote volume does not work
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Dana E Hoffman Jr d...@fedoraunity.org wrote: Hello all, I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64 with a microsoft mceusb remote, with mplayer. For some reason I can not get the remote volume up/down or mute when watching a movie in freevo. When I play a movie with just mplayer my remote volume up/down mute works. for some reason I can not get it working in freevo. Any ideas or suggestions would be great thanks I wrote a program that allows you to change the volume and mute your soundcard with a nice OSD display. The advantage is that it will work while watching moviesing, listening to music, etc. and the volume setting / mute state is not forgotten like when you use the standard installation. http://www.mizrahi.com.ve/projects/airmix/ Project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/airmix/ All you have to do is install it and run it in your freevo init script, I run it like this: airmix --daemon --color white Unfortunately I don't have any 64-bit RPM built yet, but the source is there and its really easy to build. If you need any help with that please let me know. Alan -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Restarting from an MCE remote when mplayer freezes
Yes, irexec is the way to go. Just start irexec this way: irexec /path/to/config Then write in /path/to/config: begin button = POWER (or whatever button you have) config = sudo /sbin/reboot end The SysReq solution doesn't reboot your machine properly (it doesn't stop processes, etc). On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the idea, I will try that when the weather gets cold. Does anybody have an example of how they've implemented irexec? On 09/11/2010 04:58 PM, Jonathan Isom wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: On live TV, xine crashes on me all the time. Can you get to another shell? ctrl-atl-f2, login, sudo killall xine, ctrl-alt-f9 I'm good. If I could map killall xine to an unused remote key, I would. look at irexec assuming you have an unused key. you can use it with freevo or any other app that uses lirc. -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Neo Geo support
Hello,
I want to share my experience on adding support for Neo Geo games to
Freevo 1.9 in case anybody is interested.
I've found that the procedure a bit complicated, but the results are
worth it. The quality of the games is impressive.
Here is what has to be done:
1. Install gngeo 0.7 from http://gngeo.berlios.de/
If you want an assembler optimized build you should first install
nasm, and then configure gngeo with:
--enable-i386asm --enable-star --enable-raze
2. Download the BIOS rom files for neogeo. This is the hard part,
because there are so many versions, and not all of them work with all
games. The one I'm using allows me to run most games, but I'm still
missing KoF, and other interesting games. I found the BIOS rom files
in a torrent website, its called neogeo.zip, and its a 2.1Mb file.
If anybody can point me to where to find valid bios rom files for KoF
I would appreciate it.
3. Configure gngeo for your freevo user. You can copy a sample
configuration file from the gngeo tarball, but you have to configure
two important options:
rompath should point to where you store your games rom files. Game
rom files must be kept inside their zip archives.
biospath should point to where you store your bios rom files (this
is missing in the sample configuration). I keep my bios rom files in
a separated directory from games, uncompressed.
You might want to enable fullscreen and configure the joysticks as well.
I'm using these gamepads:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/super-nes-nintendo-controller-usb,9809.html
The website says they cost 2700 yen, but I only paid 1000 yen for each.
With these gamepads I used this button configuration:
p1joy 3,1,0,2,7,6,0,1,1,1
p2joy 3,1,0,2,7,6,0,1,1,1
4. Configure Freevo for gngeo. You have to add a new item to the
GAMES_ITEMS configuration option.
It should be possible to just use the GENERIC type, but I implemented
a new type called NEOGEO.
I'm attaching a patch to this message that enables you to use the
NEOGEO type as well.
I'm no python programmer, so my patch is very simple: I just copied
the classes used for MAME and changed a few things to make them work
with gngeo.
I would be very happy if this is integrated into the official Freevo
distribution.
To apply the patch just save the attachment to /tmp and then run:
patch -p 2 -d /usr/lib/python/site-packages/freevo/games -i
/tmp/freevo-neogeo.patch
Then configure freevo like this:
In /etc/freevo/local_conf.py:
GAMES_ITEMS = [
('Super Nintendo', '/data/roms/snes', ('SNES',
'/var/lib/freevo/bin/zsnes', '-m', '', None )),
('Neo Geo','/data/roms/neogeo', ('NEOGEO',
'/var/lib/freevo/bin/gngeo', '-f', '', [ 'zip' ])),
]
In /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py:
GAMES_NEOGEO_CACHE = '%s/romlist-%s.pickled' % (FREEVO_CACHEDIR, os.getuid())
Note: you can make this second change in /etc/freevo/local_conf.py
instead of /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py, because files in /usr
will be overwritten when you upgrade Freevo.
That's all.
I would be glad to get any comments or suggestions. I'm willing to
post this information to the Wiki if anybody considers it useful, but
first I would like to know if the developers are willing to include my
trivial patch in the official distribution.
Alan
diff -r -N -u freevo/games.orig/__init__.py freevo/games/__init__.py
--- freevo/games.orig/__init__.py 2010-08-27 10:04:53.901408997 +0900
+++ freevo/games/__init__.py 2010-08-27 10:09:02.838050612 +0900
@@ -35,9 +35,11 @@
import menu
import mame_cache
+import neogeo_cache
import plugin
from mameitem import MameItem
+from neogeoitem import NeogeoItem
from snesitem import SnesItem, snesromExtensions
from genesisitem import GenesisItem, genesisromExtensions
from genericitem import GenericItem
@@ -91,6 +93,14 @@
files.remove(rm_file)
for ml in mame_list:
items += [ MameItem(ml[0], ml[1], ml[2], cmd, args, imgpath, parent, ml[3]) ]
+elif gtype == 'NEOGEO':
+neogeo_files = util.find_matches(files, [ 'zip' ] )
+# This will only add real neogeo roms to the cache.
+(rm_files, neogeo_list) = neogeo_cache.getNeogeoItemInfoList(neogeo_files, cmd)
+for rm_file in rm_files:
+files.remove(rm_file)
+for ml in neogeo_list:
+items += [ NeogeoItem(ml[0], ml[1], ml[2], cmd, args, imgpath, parent, ml[3]) ]
elif gtype == 'SNES':
for file in util.find_matches(files, snesromExtensions + [ 'zip' ]):
items += [ SnesItem(file, cmd, args, imgpath, parent) ]
diff -r -N -u freevo/games.orig/neogeo_cache.py freevo/games/neogeo_cache.py
--- freevo/games.orig/neogeo_cache.py 1970-01-01 09:00:00.0 +0900
+++ freevo/games/neogeo_cache.py 2010-08-27 18:39:03.944990456 +0900
@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1
Re: [Freevo-users] Video groups and mutliple channels
Thanks.
Using MythTV as the backend might work but my WAF would drop
dramatically. It is an interesting option though.
I had assumed that I could record one channel per card and so was going
to setup 9 channels (ie TV1-Sat1, TV1-Sat2, TV1-Aerial, ... ). But your
comment suggests I can only record one channel even if I have two or
more cards. So would my plan work?
I do know python but haven't looked at the Freevo code so I don't think
changing the recordserver is a good idea for me. Putting effort into
helping with V2.0 would be a better plan.
-Original Message-
From: John Molohan [mailto:john.molo...@gcd.ie]
Sent: Sunday, 5 July 2009 9:43 p.m.
To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Video groups and mutliple channels
Alan Walls wrote:
I'm a MythTV user who is considering moving my system to Freevo. I
came across an issue that might be a deal breaker and want to make
sure
its not my misunderstandings and/or prejudice.
Consider this system (which is a simplification of what I have)
* A server with two DVB-S card and one analogue card
* My family has three channels (TV1,TV2 TV3 {newzealand has
creative channel names ;-) } ) they watch all the time.
* They are available on all three cards but the analogue signal has
very bad reception with lots of ghosting.
What is the best way to setup Freevo?
With mythtv as the backend doing the recordings and freevo as your
frontend.
At least I would like to record any two programs on any of the three
channels using the DVB-S cards.
Ideally I would like to record a third program using the lower
quality card.
I can live without watching live TV.
I'm afraid that it's only possible to record from one device at a time
regardless of whether you're watching tv on another device or not. I
haven't looked at the recordingserver code but it should be possible
to
add multiple simultaneous recordings if you know python.
If this isn't possible will version 2.0 be able to do this?
Yes. Jason and Dischi would be the people to comment on when the 2.0
branch might be ready with a pre release that will allow you play
around
with this.
Thanks for your help.
Alan
John
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[Freevo-users] Video groups and mutliple channels
I'm a MythTV user who is considering moving my system to Freevo. I came across
an issue that might be a deal breaker and want to make sure its not my
misunderstandings and/or prejudice.
Consider this system (which is a simplification of what I have)
* A server with two DVB-S card and one analogue card
* My family has three channels (TV1,TV2 TV3 {newzealand has creative channel
names ;-) } ) they watch all the time.
* They are available on all three cards but the analogue signal has very bad
reception with lots of ghosting.
What is the best way to setup Freevo?
At least I would like to record any two programs on any of the three channels
using the DVB-S cards.
Ideally I would like to record a third program using the lower quality card.
I can live without watching live TV.
If this isn't possible will version 2.0 be able to do this?
Thanks for your help.
Alan
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo + mp1e
Hi Aubin,
--- Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a shell script to change channels via
mplayer awhile back;
That would be your 'schedulerec' script. correct? If
so, I did a search for that on both the Users and
Devel archives, but no luck (I did find references to
'schedulerec', but mostly in error postings)
Since Sourceforge's search is useless if you are
searching for more than one word, my search options
were very limited.
for the 'timecode' it just uses min:sec rather
than raw seconds like mencoder, so make sure your
VCR_CMD has %(timecode)s instead of %(seconds)s
It does. My full VCR_CMD I tried for mp1e is posted
below, followed by the traceback that appears in the
recordserver log.
--- VCR_CMD ---
VCR_CMD =
('/usr/local/freevo/runtime/apps/mp1e ' +
'-v -m3 ' +
'-p/dev/dsp1 ' +
'-r14,100 ' +
'-s32 ' +
'-a0 ' +
'-c/dev/video0 ' +
'-s640x480 ' +
'-b3 channel=%(channel)s ' +
'-n %(timecode)s ' +
'-o %(filename)s.mpg')
--- VCR_CMD ---
--- TRACEBACK ---
2003/10/10 21:00 PDT [*RecordServer*] Traceback (most
recent call last):
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/python/log.py,
line 52, in callWithContext
return context.call({ILogContext: newCtx},
func, *args, **kw)
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/python/context.py,
line 32, in callWithContext
return func(*args,**kw)
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/internet/default.py,
line 122, in run
self.mainLoop()
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/internet/default.py,
line 130, in mainLoop
self.runUntilCurrent()
--- exception caught here ---
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/internet/base.py,
line 368, in runUntilCurrent
call.func(*call.args, **call.kw)
File ./src/helpers/recordserver.py, line
698, in minuteCheck
self.record_app.Record(rec_prog)
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/src/tv/plugins/generic_record.py,
line 92, in Record
self.rec_command = config.VCR_CMD %
cl_options
exceptions.KeyError: timecode
--- TRACEBACK ---
I hope this helps.
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo + mp1e
Hi Aubin,
Actually, I installed xawtv-control, and I think I can
control channel changing using 'v4lctl' to do the
channel changing. Here is my VCR_CMD now:
--- VCR_CMD ---
VCR_CMD = ('/usr/bin/v4lctl setnorm NTSC; ' +
'/usr/bin/v4lctl setchannel %(channel)s; '
+
'/usr/local/freevo/runtime/apps/mp1e ' +
'-v ' +
'-m3 ' +
'-p/dev/dsp1 ' +
'-r14,100 ' +
'-S32 ' +
'-a0 ' +
'-c/dev/video0 ' +
'-s640x480 ' +
'-b3 ' +
'-n%(timecode)s ' +
'-o %(filename)s.mpg')
--- VCR_CMD ---
However, the traceback looks the same:
--- TRACEBACK ---
2003/10/11 09:00 PDT [*RecordServer*] Traceback (most
recent call last):
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/python/log.py,
line 52, in callWithContext
return context.call({ILogContext: newCtx},
func, *args, **kw)
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/python/context.py,
line 32, in callWithContext
return func(*args,**kw)
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/internet/default.py,
line 122, in run
self.mainLoop()
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/internet/default.py,
line 130, in mainLoop
self.runUntilCurrent()
--- exception caught here ---
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/internet/base.py,
line 368, in runUntilCurrent
call.func(*call.args, **call.kw)
File ./src/helpers/recordserver.py, line
698, in minuteCheck
self.record_app.Record(rec_prog)
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/src/tv/plugins/generic_record.py,
line 92, in Record
self.rec_command = config.VCR_CMD %
cl_options
exceptions.KeyError: timecode
--- TRACEBACK ---
However, I think the problem may be a little more than
that, since if I use the above mp1e commands on the
command line, nothing gets recorded; it just sort of
sits there, so I will see if I can get that working
first, but in the meantime, any ideas on what the
traceback is showing would be appreciated.
TIA,
Alan
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[Freevo-users] Freevo + mp1e
Hello, I wish to play around with using mp1e with Freevo, but am not having much luck. I can't get the coding for the timecode right, and also it appears from previous posts that mp1e does not know how to change channels, so usually some sort of wrapper is required. Is there a posting of someone's solution to this? TIA, Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] TV GUide crash
Hello, Mandrake 9.1 Freevo 1.3.4 When I try to view the program guide under Freevo 1.3.4, I get the little popup saying Preparing the program guide, then it eventuallt crashes, with the following traceback in 'internal-main-0.log': --- internal-main-0.log --- strange cPickle error...try pickle Crash! Traceback (most recent call last): File src/main.py, line 420, in ? main_func() File src/main.py, line 358, in main_func app.eventhandler(event) File src/menu.py, line 529, in eventhandler action( arg=arg, menuw=self ) File src/menu.py, line 105, in select self.function(arg=self.arg, menuw=menuw) File src/tv/tv.py, line 202, in start_tvguide TVGuide(start_time, stop_time, guide.chan_list[0].id, prg, start_tv, menuw) File src/tv/tvguide.py, line 94, in __init__ menuw.pushmenu(self) File src/menu.py, line 306, in pushmenu menu.refresh() File src/tv/tvguide.py, line 155, in refresh self.menuw.refresh() File src/menu.py, line 313, in refresh return self.skin.draw((menu.type, menu)) File skins/main1/skin_main1.py, line 579, in draw a.draw(settings, object, style, type, self.force_redraw) File skins/main1/area.py, line 375, in draw self.update_content() File skins/main1/tvlisting_area.py, line 173, in update_content recordingshows = self.check_schedule() File skins/main1/tvlisting_area.py, line 410, in check_schedule start_time = time.mktime(time.strptime(vals[0], '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')) OverflowError: mktime argument out of range --- internal-main-0.log --- I had experienced the same thing a couple times before, and so just before trying to view the Program Guide this time, I removed any 'TV*.pickled' files from /var/cache/freevo. Any idea what is happening here, or how to correct it? Other than that though, I must say that I very much like this version of Freevo. A Search feature similar to what the Web inerface has would be good as well :-) TIA, Alan Murrell __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Error running 1.3.4
Hi,
I didn;t see this on the list, but hopefully someone
can shed some light on what is not happening.
Mandrake 9.1
Freevo 1.3.4 (binary download)
When I reboot my machine, and have it run the 1.3.4
version of Freevo, it does not run. The following is
the only entry that shows up in
/var/log/freevo/internal-main-0.log:
--- CUT HERE ---
ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom',
'/dev/cdrom', 'CD-1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File src/main.py, line 123, in ?
import osd # The OSD class, used to
communicate with the OSD daemon
File src/osd.py, line 96, in ?
from mmpython.image import EXIF as exif
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.3.4/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/__init__.py,
line 86, in ?
import disc.audioinfo
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.3.4/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/disc/audioinfo.py,
line 32, in ?
import CDDB
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.3.4/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/disc/CDDB.py,
line 19, in ?
default_user = os.geteuid() or os.environ['USER']
or 'user'
File
/usr/local/freevo-1.3.4/runtime/lib/python2.2/UserDict.py,
line 14, in __getitem__
def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
KeyError: USER
--- CUT HERE ---
Could the error be because Freevo is being called
automatically on boot, as opposed to being called by a
user?
(this is just a guess; I really have no idea why this
is happening)
As always, TIA for your help and guidance on this.
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Re: [Freevo-users] ATI VE
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Re: [Freevo-users] power button
Or have I misunderstood what you wanted to do? I think he wants to program his Power button on his remote to shutdown his Freevo, as opposed to always having to use the Shutdown option in the main menu. Alan Murrell __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa0016ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] ATI TV Wonder, any success?
Hi Taylor, --- Taylor Dondich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if anyone had any success using a ATI TV Wonder PCI capture card with FreeVO on Linux and had success. If you are referring to the ATI VE Wonder, then yes, there is quite a lot of success; you need to use the bttv module. If this is the card you are referring to, what sort of problems are you experiencing (besides not being able to capture, that is grin). Are there any message in the log files? Any that show up on the screen? Please advise. Alan Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa0016ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo questions
Hi Dan, what kind of image quality are you getting(at what compression)? Quite good, actually. what kind of compression ratio are you acheiving(at what quality)? Hrm I cannot recall offhand, but I use MEncoder with the Freevo Standard high quality (1500Mbps??), which records at 320x240; a one-hour reording is just over 600MB. what compression codex are you using? Divx what capture cards are you using? ATI VE Wonder what sort of cpu usage are you seeing while recording? 70-80%, on an EPIA 800MHz. do you encode on the fly or off line? On the fly (for TV shows that I record, and likely will not keep) is anyone able to record two simultanious streams? I don't have the computer resources as yet, but I know of at least one person who is. does anyone have a multi headed freevo box, allowing you to watch different channels on different tvs, and maybe even recording a 3rd program at the same time? Not that I know of, but I am sure it's possible. I hope this helps. Alan Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa0016ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: imdb.py: ImportError: No module named httplib
Hi Dirk, Strange. I don't use the runtime, but httplib is part of the python distribution. Maybe this bug is fixed with pre5-testX? Actually, it wasn't a bug; it was a PEBCAK error. when I was trying to run it from the helpers directory directly, and got the error. When I ran it fromthe ~freevo directory, it worked :-) Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] imdb.py: ImportError: No module named httplib
Hello, Mandrake 9.1 Freevo 1.3.2-pre4 I decided to give the 'imdb.py' a whirl, to grab some info and images for a couple of movies I have. I ran it from the 'helpers' directory as well as the main freevo directory, but I get the same error in each case: --- ERROR --- Traceback (most recent call last): File ./helpers/imdb.py, line 5, in ? import httplib, urllib ImportError: No module named httplib --- ERROR --- I am guessing that the Python 'httlib' is not included with the Freevo runtime, but before I go out and try to add it to my system, I just wanted to make sure that I was not doing something wrong first. WOuld you be able to confirm this? TIA, Alan Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Partition type for Freevo?
Hello, industrial strength systems like XFS and JFS. Actually, I was going to give XFS a try, particualrly since it was made for video files, etc., but it seems to have disappeared from the kernel. :-( Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] USB ATI Remote
Hello, I just wanted to let everyone know that I have just added an entry to the Wiki with regards to using the wonderful 'ATI USB Remote' under Freevo. I hope this helps someone out :-) Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] X11 and TV Out ** WORKING **
Hi Tommy, (http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=296#KPLE) yet ? Check out the the item marked New (Mandrake 9.0), Looks like those are for the EPIA-M ? Maybe you will have to use them in order to get the Device parameters to work. Actually, it seems that my problem was with the version of X Windows that I was using. I was running 4.3.1(??), from the Mandrake 9.1 install. However, the EPIA trident_drv.o module supplied by VIA is for 4.2.0. So, I: - reinstalled a bare-bones Mandrake 9.1 (I didn't want to have to deal with all the dependencies I would run into if I just removed the RPMS); - downloaded and installed the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org; - dropped in your XF86Config file (I had to do a little minor tweaking of the drivers to be loaded) Result: I now have twm displaying on my screen (it's as ugly as heck, but that's onlt the first step!) Next step: get Freevo downloaded and installed so I can really test out it's performance under X. My goal, actually, is to have a system that can support both framebuffer and X. Why? Why not? :-) Thanks for your help! Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] freevo works but will not play divx video nor mp3's.
Hello Ranger, To start out I partitioned my 10 GB hard drive with a 128 MB Swap Partition, a 50 MB Boot and then just The swap space is a little small, I think. General rule of thumb is that it should be 2-2.5 times the size of your RAM, though when you get up to about 512MB of RAM, I think 1X the amount of RAM should be sufficient. The boot partition is definately way big. Most of the time, I even forgo the boot partition, but if I do create one, I find 15-20MB more than adequate (unless you plan on compiling a lot of kernels and keeping them arounnd :-) ) bootloader. After I got in I installed freevo ver 1.3.2pre4, freevo-runtime, freevo-appz, mozilla, I assume you are referring to the RPM's? I run Mandrake 9.1 (for now), but for Freevo, I tend to use the 14MB TGZ file, which is the binary download. rpm package manager. IceWM in my windows manager. Hrm, I kinda strugging with X myself (I currently run in Frambuffer), but the default window manager (twm) should be adequate; IceWM prolly just adds to the overhead. To those running Freevo under X: what window managers do you use?? my hardware working except for my sound card, (not sure what to do here). That's odd; Mandrake is usually *excellent* at detecting and configuring hardware. What sound card do you have? Perhaps you should install and confidure 'sndcfg' (or 'sndconfig'??). It should be included with Mandrake 8.2 . and looks stupid. When I try to play a video file it will display the first frame and then it Hrm, very odd. WHat is in your 'freevo.conf' file? I have enabled mplayer logging and it has shown What do the Freevo logs show? Do a 'tail /var/log/freevo/main.log' and 'tail /var/log/freevo/internal-main.log' right after one of these freezes, and post the output. :No such file or directory can't open '/root/.mplayer/codec.conf': No Such file or directory Can't Open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.config: No such fiel or directory. These are standard MPlayer error messages, since you prolly don't have a config file in your directory; it's okay though, because MPlayer will use the defauly system config file in this case. Requested audio codec family [mad] (afm=libmad) not availavle (enable it at compilation) Are you using the MPlayer that comes with Freevo? If so, I find this message *very* odd, since the person who compiles the MPlayer includes quite a lot in there, and IIRC, including 'mad' support. Xlib: extension XVideo missing on display :0.0. Sorry, XV not supported by this X11 version/driver ** Try with -vo x11 or -vo sdl WHat is in your 'freevo.conf' file for your display? Is it 'xv'? If so, try 'x11'. freevo config file and found one instance of xv and I deleted it out. It didn't fix anything Which file did you find and delete it in? Please advise. Alan Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] X11 and TV Out
Hello Tommy, I think that your problem with the TV output might be related to vertical and horisontal sync frequencies. Sorry, I know this is not so much a Freevo issue as an X issue, but I thought I would post here to see if any other ideas popped up. I was able to get a litle further, but still get the blank screen on my TV screen. In looking at the XFree86.0.log file, everything loads, but stops just at the part where the ModeLines would loaded (my laptop also uses the Trident Cyberblade (generic), and I compared the logs: everything was fairly identical, up to the point where the Modelines were loaded on my laptop, but nothing on the Freevo box) I was just reminded that there is an X module for the epia, so perhaps I will give that a try (though it's proprietary, which is rather bad, but what can you do) Thanks! Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Documentation submission
Hello, To whom do I submit documentation? I didn't see this in the docs already, but I have successfully setup and ATI RF remote for use under Freevo using LIRC, and I figured there may be others who would be interested. Should I just post it here? Please advise. Alan Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: EPIA and Framebuffer: Not playing full screen
Hi Jason, Thank you for your response. I have the same problem with an Epia 800. (a Trident CyberBlade-based board). Actually, I think that's the same board I have :-) I actually bought it to play with, and once satisifed with the results, will likely upgrade to one of the other models, and perhaps give this one as an Xmas gift or something to a friend :-) - set overscan/ntsc in the bios I think I've done that. - use the standard kernel vesa framebuffer (not an accelerated one) Hrm, how does this affect playback of DivX, etc.? I heard it's fairly slow on this platform. Actually, one thing I have noticed is when playing an MP3 in framebuffer, if I press FFWD or some other key, everything freezes :-( - don't use any tvtool or tvout to set anything (It automatically uses tvout if no monitor is attached) I think this is only required with the epiafb module, since when it is inserted, it makes the display go all wonky until you specify the '-b ntsc' with the tvout tool (I think the epiafb uses PAL by default) - use -vo fbdev:vidix with mplayer. It has built-in support for the hardware. Hrm, I will have to give that a try. It may even correct the problem I just mentioned regarding the MP3's, if there's built-in support :-) X seemed slow to me too. I didn't try freevo under X on the epia, but mplayer was far slower under X. Actually, I was playing with Freevo + X (on the epia) this morning (output to a monitor, since I still haven't been able to X to display ont he TV screen yet), and there was no window manager running (I figured out how to do it). It seemed pretty okay, actually. We'll see when I actually get it outputting to my TV screen (I want to have both framebuffer and X support) I'm wondering if tools compiled specifically for the epia (MPlayer, etc.) would help performance any? X driver, so that's not really a good test. Did you try it? Actually, no, I plum forgot about it. Perhaps rather than smack my head against the wall, I should give it a go :-) That sounds nice, I may have to experiment with X again. The color of the epia 800 tv out leaves something to be desired. Actually, when I think about it, I am not sure that the vibrant blue will come out through X even on the TV screen, or at least, prolly not on my TV, since the colour palette is prolly fairly limited. Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] X11 and TV Out
Okay, so I'm making a little progress. I am getting
the ModeLines; in fact, everything seems to be
loading, except my screen is still blank (but a sort
of darker blank, if you know what I mean?)
Running 'ps -aux' confirms that Freevo is running:
root 1215 0.0 0.9 2380 1124 vc/1 S
22:55 0:00 /bin/sh ./xfreevo
root 1220 0.0 0.4 1380 520 ?S
22:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd -
root 1221 0.0 0.5 2300 612 vc/1 S
22:55 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xi
root 1222 0.1 7.1 19960 8476 ?S
22:55 0:01 /etc/X11/X :0
root 1224 0.0 0.9 2376 1132 vc/1 S
22:55 0:00 /bin/sh /root/fre
root 1225 0.0 0.9 2384 1160 vc/1 S
22:55 0:00 /bin/sh ./freevo
root 1227 0.4 29.3 45612 34676 vc/1S
22:55 0:03 ./runtime/dll/fre
root 1235 0.0 29.3 45612 34676 vc/1S
22:55 0:00 ./runtime/dll/fre
root 1236 0.0 29.3 45612 34676 vc/1S
22:55 0:00 ./runtime/dll/fre
root 1241 0.0 29.3 45612 34676 vc/1S
22:55 0:00 ./runtime/dll/fre
root 1242 0.0 29.3 45612 34676 vc/1S
22:55 0:00 ./runtime/dll/fre
('./xfrevo' is my startup script, which I more or
lessgrabbed from the RH8 Freevo link in the
documentation)
So I am almost there; just gotta get the display to
actually show up on the screen instead of this dark
blank :-)
Alan
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RE: [Freevo-users] How to do TV recording??
Hi K, --- K. Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the src/tv/record_daemon.py script find the line import os and this line after it: os.environ['LD_PRELOAD'] = '' # Add this line to stop GLIBC_2.X preload errors Yup, that worked for me too! Yay! And for some reason, the recording done through Freevo doesn't have the semi-high-pitched whine that i get when using my script :-) Thanks a bunch! Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] BUG: serious loop
Hello, I am running freevo binary 1.3.2-pre2 . It was working great until I started messing (unsuccessfulyl) with 'freevoweb'. I abandoned it, and uninstalled Apache, etc. Now, the regular Freevo will not start. The log file complains it cannot find 'freevo_config.py', even though it exists in exactly the same place it always has: in '/usr/local/freevo'. And if I make a symbolic link to it in '/etc/freevo', the log says that it has found 'freevo_config.py', but to remove it and use 'local_conf.py' instead (it too exists where it always has: in '/usr/local/freevo'). I cannot seem to get rid of this loop. How do I get Freevo running again? Thanx! Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo specs (capacity/recording time) ?
AVI supports more encoders though, so you can use divx which is apparently smaller. I'm not sure about that; in mencoder, I changed 'vcodec=mpeg4' to 'vcodec=mpeg1video', and the output files sizes were the same size (both ~600MB for one hour). All other settings (bitrate, etc.) were the same. Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] How to do TV recording??
Hello All, --- Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try taking out the '#' and set the date to sometime in the future, Okay, I scheduled another recording, then checked '/tmp/freevo_record.lst'. There was no '#' in front of the time this time. However, the recording never happened, and when I checked '/tmp/freevo_record.lst', it appears that Freevo had added the '#' to the time and date. I'm really not sure why this is failing; the logs indicate that the recording is parsed, but nothing shows up as far as attempting to record. Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] How to do TV recording??
Hello K, --- K. Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you get anything in that user's mail? Nope. I am running it as root, and root has absolutely no mail spool. And I can see from the 'freevo_record.log', as well as '/var/log/messages' that the cron job is running properly. Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] How to do TV recording??
Hi K, --- K. Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure the # wasn't added later, after the event had passed? Not 100% sure, but maybe about 90% (I scheduled it a good 20 mins before the start time) :-) I can schedule another recording tonight, and immediately check the '/tmp/freevo_record.lst' file to see if it made it in there right away. Alan- where does root's mail go? Is it redirected to another user? Nope, not as yet, anyay. This is a relatively fresh install, so I haven't really done any system setup stuff as far as that goes. I will check the 'alan' mailbox though, just in case, but I think that only exists because I was playing with using Samba as a Win2k domain controller over the weekend :-) Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] How to do TV recording??
Hello Aubin, --- Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's commented out... Hrm, I didn't think that could be the problem, since I had never seen a proper entry to compare to. recording stuff if: (a) it was recorded by the daemon or (b) it started recording while being Well, I did add it about 15 or 20mins prior to the actual time to be recorded. I am not sure wha you mean by '(a)'? I did schedule the recording through the program guide in freevo... is that what you mean? So if I do that, I then have to edit the 'freevo_record.lst' file to uncomment the entry? Try taking out the '#' and set the date to sometime in the future, I'll schedule another recording when I get home tonight, and make sure the '#' is removed. If I have any other issues with it, I will let you know... :-) Thanx! I hope it works! :-) Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
** SOLVED ** Re: [Freevo-users] IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Hello Again, I think I figured out the reason for it not starting: I had set my 'btaudio' module to load automatically upon booting, but when it does that, it does weird things to the available sound channels. This is what I got when I ran 'aumix -q': [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# aumix -q line1 0, 0, P line2 0, 0, R line3 0, 0, P When I disable the btaudio module and rebooted, Freevo started up just fine. I still don;t appear to be getting any sound output, but that may have something to do with how I have set things up physically with my sound inputs/outputs; I will have to confirm. Ayyway, just thought I'd let you know :-) Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] How to do TV recording??
Hello,
I've been trying to get TV recording working. I am
abloe to record with MEncoder using the following
MEncoder commands:
/usr/bin/mencoder -tv
on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:alsa:amode=1:width=320:height=240:norm=NTSC:chanlist=us-cable:channel=channel
-o /media/Video/recorded/program-DATE.avi -ovc
lavc -lavcopts ${LAVCOPTS} -oac mp3lame -lameopts
br=128:cbr:mode=0 -endpos MINS * 60 -1
NOTE: The information on the '' brackets are
typically variables filled in from input when then
script is called.
I edited my local_config.py file so the MEcoder
options match what I have in my script that works, and
I get a 'freevo_record.lst' and 'freevo_record.log'
file in mt '/tmp' directory.
I also made the following entry inmy crontab:
* * * * * /usr/local/freevo/freevo execute
/usr/local/freevo/src/tv/record_daemon.py
so that the 'record daemon' gets run every minute.
The 'freevo_record.log' indicates that it sees the
entry in 'freevo_record.lst', but alas, nothing ever
gets recorded.
Is there something I haven't enabled?
TIA, as always :-)
Alan
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[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.3.2-pre2: minor problems
Okay, I've been playing around with Freevo 1.3.2-pre2 for about a week now (now that I figured out the Lircd problem... well, work-around, really :-) ) Anyway, I have come across a couple of problems: 1. RECORDING When I hit the record button on my remote, everything seems to go as planned (i.e., it is indicated that the program is scheduled, and there even appears a couple files to that effect in '/tmp'), however, when the appointed time comes around, nothing is recorded. I have tried using the menocder binary that comes with Freevo, as well as the system mencoder I installed, and neither work. I have tried putting the same mencoder commands manually on the command line, and they work fine; just the scheduling does not seem to go as planned. Most likely something I am doing wrong, but just thought I'd post, just in case :-) Also, I have noticed that when I try to change the video quality from High to Medium or Low, Freevo crashes (actually, it craches if I try to change any of the defaults). I can post the log showing the crash, if you would like. Anyway, overall I am a much happier camper now :-) This recording thing is a minor annoyancxe since I am able to do it from a script, but it would be nicer to be able to do it from Freevo as well :-) TIA, Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Tablet PC. Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] /etc/freevo/lircrc not found?
Hello, I've made some progress, but the remote still isn;t working, but I am now getting a different error. My 'internal-main-0.log' now reveals the following: WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found! My remote's config file is named '/etc/lircd.conf', and this is the file that Lircd loads when it starts. I tried making a symlink from this file to '/etc/freevo/lircrc', and I also tried copying this file directly over to '/etc/freevo/lircrc', but that error still shows up in the log. Is this the file that 'lircrc' should be, or is it a totally different file? If it is a totally different file, what is it supposed to look like? As always, TIA, Alan :-) __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Successful with Freevo + DevFS?? [WAS Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo + Mandrake 9.1 + Lircd]
Hello Again, Still working away on this problem, trying to think outside the box, as it were :-) I did a 'grep' for '/dev/lirc' in all he files in my '/usr/local/freevo' directory, and discovered that 'remote.py' seems to look for '/dev/lircd', which, if I am not mistaken, is the typical device file for lirc? I am currently running DevFS, which places the lirc device file (serial) as '/dev/lirc/serial'. I tried making a symlink to this as '/dev/lircd', but still no joy. However, I just thought I would ask this: is there *anyone* successfully using Freevo + Lirc under DevFS? TIA, Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Freevo + Mandrake 9.1 + Lircd
Hello, This is mostly for anyone who is using Freevo with the lircd RPM that installs with Mandrake 9.x. I have another interesting problem that I can't seem to figure out. I upgraded my system to Mandrake 9.1 (RC2) and decided to try the lircd RPM (I had previously installed from source). I got it configured properly, so that when it is started, and I run 'irw' I am getting the correct key presses from my remote. However, when I start Freevo, I get the Freevo menu, etc., but the remote no longer seems to work (or at least not with Freevo). Anyone else come across this? Alan __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
