[Freevo-users] Graphics card query.
Hi, just a quick question. Came across a Guillemot Cougar Video Edition AGP card left over from a PC I've just upgraded. Anyone using one of these for Freevo use? It has composite and s-vhs out, and captures via s-vhs input. Its apparently an Nvidia tnt2 based card. If anyone is using one, are there any hints and tips that would make configuration neasier? Cheers, Ashley. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Freevo cache hangs.
Hi, got a problem that has me perplexed. When running freevo cache, after processing all sub directories, the process hangs on the root. The particulars are: Directory is an NFS mount. Path/folder structure is /movies/movies name/VIDEO_TS All directories are processed apart from /movies which hangs at 55% and I am unable to CTRL-C out and end up powering down the PC. I have nothing in any logs, and have run an fsck locally on the filesystem. df h shows Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 2.8G 2.4G 441M 85% / /dev/hda5 3.8G 2.1G 1.8G 55% /UT2003 /dev/hda6 1.9G 197M 1.7G 11% /Karaoke /dev/hda7 112G 101G 12G 90% /Movies /dev/hda8 33G 17G 16G 52% /Music To check the freevo box, I telnetted to it while running freevo cache, and saw no evidence of any filesystems running out of space, which was my initial thought as to the cause of the problem. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Ashley. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.
Hi, one thing about Freevo is that there are many ways to achieve the same result. Based on the articles in the Wiki and a good price on the card, I purchased a Matrox G400. I have a good Freevo setup for a standalone Media Centre style box, but moving it to a completely monitor/keyboard/mouse free set-up is giving me some grief. I have followed the articles in the Wiki to get TV out, I use the mga drivers from the Mplayer source with good results, but I find I am unable to tweak the configuration to my satisfaction. Some of this is outside the scope of the Freevo project, but hopefully someone who has a nice standalone solution can offer some most welcome words of wisdom. I will step through my niggles I use lilo to boot the system, which initially outputs to the TV when it is connected to the composite connection on the second head of the G400. As the kernel output starts, this only appears on the monitor. I was looking at the nice bootspalsh solution in the skins section, but if I only had the TV connected, my current configuration would not show this. I have the commands to enable TV out in my rc.local as per the Wiki. When executed, I have the TV output back with no output on the monitor. When I start Freevo, I get output to both the monitor and the TV. Okay, I could disconnect the monitor and achieve what I am after, but I still dont get what is going on and I would like to understand it. I would love to be able to contribute to the Wiki, but the bits are not quite gelling together for me to feel confident about doing this. Any help or suggestions to overcome the above issues would be very much appreciated, as would any other suggestions or comments regarding a standalone project. Has anyone used a microdrive in a project, and if so, how does it perform? My box is based on Slackware 10.2 with Freevo 1.5.4. Thanks in advance. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] No audio with tv using mplayer.
Hi, having trouble with getting any audio when watching TV. I have Freevo 1.5.4 installed on Slackware 10.2 with a custom compiled 2.6.13 kernel. Freevo and mplayer are running perfectly in all areas apart from watching TV. I can select my channel from the tv guide, but I have been unable to get any audio, despite my tinkerings. The mplayer log reads: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/freevo# cat mplayer-stdout.log MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Playing tv://. TV detected! ;-) Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] comment: first try, more to come ;-) Selected device: BT878 video (Pinnacle PCTV Stud Tuner cap: Tuner rxs: MONO Capabilites: video capture video overlay VBI capture device tuner read/wri te streaming supported norms: 0 = PAL; 1 = NTSC; 2 = SECAM; 3 = PAL-Nc; 4 = PAL-M; 5 = PAL-N ; 6 = NTSC-JP; 7 = PAL-60; inputs: 0 = Television; 1 = Composite1; 2 = S-Video; Current input: 0 Current format: YUYV v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO == Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 - 4 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 - 4 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 - 1 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 - 1 SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Packed YUY2 to BGRA using MMX2 VO: [fbdev] 640x480 = 640x480 BGRA [fs] Selected video codec: [rawyuy2] vfm:raw (RAW YUY2) == Audio: no sound Starting playback... V: 0.0 etc, etc As far as I can see, all devices are present with the correct permissions, so where should I start to constructively debug this problem; kernel config, udev, alsa, freevo mplayer arguments ??? Your help will be much appreciated, let me know what other logs/output would assist. Thanks and regards. Ashley.
RE: [Freevo-users] Error on startup and shutdown.
Hi Evan, I am using your packages in this instance for all bar MPlayer, for which I downloaded the source and compiled myself ( mainly as MPlayer was giving me a message about runtime CPU detection not being optimal, and as I have now acquired a G400 card I wanted the mga_vid driver/support). I have liitle Python knowledge, I am a 4GL and Kornshell man myself, but I initially thought I had removed an option in the kernel re-compile that os.py was trying to query as there seemed to be some conditional stuff based on OS detection in the code, but as I said, I'm no expert. Just for info, I had the same issue with the mixer plugin, on both the 10.1 and 10.2 versions and had to use the ossmixer plugin to be able to adjust the volume, although sound output was working, but only at the default level. I had assumed it was a problem with my setup, even though all /dev devices were fine and apps outside of Freevo did not seem to have an issue. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the Slackware packages, they eased my installation no end and removed my hair pulling sessions where I did not have a dependency installed after hours of compiling. Regards, Ashley. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Hisey Sent: 19 September 2005 20:11 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Error on startup and shutdown. Ashley- Not tested it yet on a 10.2 box, but are you using my .tgzs or your own? Off hand it looks like a Python issue. I had something similiar happening with the default mixer plugin and had to switch to the ossmixer plugin to fix it. also made sound work right :) Evan On 9/17/05, Ashley Dawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, have installed Freevo on a new Slackware 10.2 box. I have 'tweaked' the kernel, which is 2.4.31. Freevo is functioning as expected, but I have a strange error when starting and stopping Freevo. It does not appear in the log (DEBUG and CHILDAPP_DEBUG both turned on) and mailing list/Google search does not shed any light. The output to the screen is : Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/freevo, line 473, in ? start(name, python + proc , bg, check) File /usr/bin/freevo, line 270, in start os.execvp(arg[0], arg) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 348, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 386, in _execvpe func(fullname, *argrest) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/freevo, line 473, in ? start(name, python + proc , bg, check) File /usr/bin/freevo, line 270, in start os.execvp(arg[0], arg) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 348, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 386, in _execvpe func(fullname, *argrest) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Have I removed something from the kernel I should not have or is something else amiss? Many thanks, snickwad. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Error on startup and shutdown.
Hi, have installed Freevo on a new Slackware 10.2 box. I have tweaked the kernel, which is 2.4.31. Freevo is functioning as expected, but I have a strange error when starting and stopping Freevo. It does not appear in the log (DEBUG and CHILDAPP_DEBUG both turned on) and mailing list/Google search does not shed any light. The output to the screen is : Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/freevo, line 473, in ? start(name, python + proc , bg, check) File /usr/bin/freevo, line 270, in start os.execvp(arg[0], arg) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 348, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 386, in _execvpe func(fullname, *argrest) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/freevo, line 473, in ? start(name, python + proc , bg, check) File /usr/bin/freevo, line 270, in start os.execvp(arg[0], arg) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 348, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py, line 386, in _execvpe func(fullname, *argrest) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Have I removed something from the kernel I should not have or is something else amiss? Many thanks, snickwad.
[Freevo-users] Newbie questions.
Sorry, some newbie questions that I have been unable to find answers for. I am configuring a prototype style setup and all is well apart from a couple of niggly issues. I have xmltv sorted and I am able to browse my listings from within Freevo, but when I select a channel to view I only get statis displayed. My tv card/tuner is a Pinnacle (dmesg show it detected as PCTV Rave/Studio). I am presuming the hardware is set up correctly and that I have not edited the config files correctly. After trying to watch the TV, dmesg shows tuner: TV freq (0.00) out of range (44-958). Could someone point me in the right direction here please? I have also been getting errors in various aspects of the overall setup, where the DISPLAY variable is detected as not set. This was first noticed following running freevo setup, which set display = x11, but when starting freevo I got an error reporting DISPLAY not set, using fbdev. This unset variable has caused other errors when compiling perl dependencies etc, and again, have I missed something obvious? As stated, this is a prototype, so I am currently using the onboard graphics whilst setting this up, but will ultimately be using the TV-out on the Pinnacle; how do I move the display output to the TV-out or will it require a re-install? Many thanks, snickwad.
