Re: [Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:26:25PM EST, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, John Molohan wrote: Or that the maintainer didn't clean his/her install before making the packages? Either way it sounds like a package problem. John it is a packaging problem i ran the rm-r on the directory and reinstalled the kaa modules and mine works too the package is identified with a team email address rather than an individual so i hope that they on this list There are acutally two bugs already open in the debian tracking system, #531340, and #531408. I eventually followed the workaround in 531340 and reinstalled the kaa packages, and indeed now freevo takes off like a champ. Go figure. CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:51:16AM EST, John Molohan wrote: Chris Jones wrote: I'm setting up debian Squeeze on a separate partition and the version of Freevo is 1.9.0. Freevo starts on vt9 at boot time, I see the screen with the progress bar but before I get to the main menu, there is a message informing me that freevo is shutting down and I'm bounced back to a linux console. [..] This rings a bell about a bug in 1.9.0, I thought there was a fix for it but maybe that's only in svn. The maintainer of the 1.x branch has been pretty busy with other stuff for the last while so there's no release scheduled at the moment but you might want to check out an svn copy of the 1.9 code and see if that fixes it. Sounds like a plan. Please let me know where I can check on open Freevo 1.9 bugs so I can report this to the debian maintainer before squeeze goes stable. Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:40:12PM EST, John Molohan wrote: [..] The bug tracker for 1.x is here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=446895group_id=46652. But it looks like this might just be the result of having old kaa modules around. I've just had a look back through my imap archive and someone posted the same error as you. rm -r /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa* then reinstalling kaa fixed it up for them. Saw that thread. That's what I meant by inconclusive. ;-) But this is debian, and I'm not sure I want to do anything that would break apt. I'm really only using this debian system for evaluation purposes and to report bugs while there's time to fix them rather than have them hit me when squeeze goes stable. Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately
I'm setting up debian Squeeze on a separate partition and the version of Freevo is 1.9.0. Freevo starts on vt9 at boot time, I see the screen with the progress bar but before I get to the main menu, there is a message informing me that freevo is shutting down and I'm bounced back to a linux console. This is what I see at the end of the freevo log: [..] Freevo 1.9.0 ready 2009-11-07 20:26:23,400 ERRORUnhandled InProgress exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/thread.py, line 355, in __call__ result = super(MainThreadCallback, self).__call__(*args, **kwargs) File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/callback.py, line 212, in __call__ result = cb(*cb_args, **cb_kwargs) File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/timer.py, line 145, in start self._id = notifier.timer_add(int(interval * 1000), self) File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/nf_wrapper.py, line 124, in __call__ init() File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/nf_wrapper.py, line 175, in init if notifier.loop: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'loop' 2009-11-07 20:26:23,401 INFO Create-stack for InProgress from preceding exception: File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/main.py, line 559, in module rc.post_event(FREEVO_READY) File /usr/share/pyshared/freevo/rc.py, line 73, in post_event return get_singleton().post_event(event) File /usr/share/pyshared/freevo/rc.py, line 598, in post_event event.post() File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/event.py, line 88, in post return manager.post(event) File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/event.py, line 172, in post self.timer.start(0) File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/thread.py, line 123, in newfunc in_progress = callback(*args, **kwargs) 2009-11-07 20:26:23,403 INFO create thread notifier pipe Freevo 1.9.0 r11576 finished at Sat Nov 7 20:26:08 2009 A Freevo ready message, a couple of python back traces and immediately afterwards the Freevo finished message. So it looks like the problem is with one of the kaa packages, I have googled a bit to try and learn more about this, but I haven't seen anything conclusive, only hints that other users have run into a similar problem. I had a feeling this might be caused by a plugin or other and I removed them one at a time but trimming down to a barebones configuration hasn't made any difference. The only other issue I'm having with debian testing on the laptop is that certain keys are mapped to the wrong keycodes. I don't see this having any bearing on this issue, but I thought I'd mention it. Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] set DIRECTORY_USE_MEDIAID_TAG_NAMES
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 04:00:34AM EDT, togtog wrote: This folder.fxd file also looks like the right way to disable use of tags in my videos, via the DIRECTORY_USE_MEDIAID_TAG_NAMES option, without also turning off tags for my music. A lot of my videos seem to have garbage tags. I had the same problem lately. The folder.fxd file is one way. The other way is: From: John Molohan john.molo...@gcd.ie ... If you press 'e' on the keyboard when you have highlighted the folder that contains the files you'll get a whole load of directory options including smart tag use and others. I think altering these settings should do it for you. togtog PS: I have know idea, how to cite an email correctly. As long as the message is available from an online archive, I prefer pasting a link - avoids duplication gives the reader access to the entire thread metadata. In this instance, something like: Select directory and press 'e' to configure directory..# my .02 ¢ See this for details: # quote http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg19701.html (wrong message, I couldn't find the one you quoted) One minor issue with the way you did it is that at least with my mailer, the excerpt that starts with From: John Molohan and the paragraph that starts with This folder.fxd.. appear to be from the same poster since they are displayed at the same indentation level. CJ -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.1 - VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER='mplayer' - freevo looks for Xine
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:49:21AM EDT, Michel Hoogervorst wrote: On my system, Freevo indeed plays DVD's with Xine whenever available, even though I have set mplayer as my preferred player. I always fixed this simply by removing Xine the way you did... have you removed xine from /etc/freevo/freevo.conf as well? Well, Michel.. it's about time... :-) It's five in the morning and I just can't believe you have just fixed this for me. I had thought at least a couple of times I should check that file just in case and never got down to it.. Why on earth freevo needs two different config files is beyond me :-) I just deleted a line that said something like: xine=/usr/bin/xine Started freevo and the problem is gone... And contrary to xine that I had never configured (didn't even know I had it installed) the DVD plays absolutely fine. Lars Von Trier's The Element of Crime - a movie I absolutely recommend. Well all silly jokes aside, I am very grateful you took the trouble to reply and I do wish you an excellent day. CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.1 - VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER='mplayer' - freevo looks for Xine
I tried playing a DVD and Freevo started Xine. I verified that my preferred video player in /etc/local_conf.py is set to mplayer. I removed Xine from the system via an apt-get remove and now Freevo crashes whenever I try to play a DVD. Has anyone seen this? Is there something else I need to configure? Do I need to refresh the cache for the Freevo user via a freevo cache - and if so how do I do that since I cannot log on as the freevo user..?? Since I use mplayer for everything audio or video, I don't want to reinstall Xine.. I don't even know how it was installed on that machine in the first place since I never use it. Neither Google nor the wiki helped, so hopefully s/o can advise. Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Update of Freevo packages for distributions?
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:30:24PM EDT, Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 19:58 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote: In truth Mailing lists get much faster responses and more viewing than forums do. Forums just tend to be easier to google. Neither is intrinsically better than the other, I think. Well, I certainly don't think that a web interface designed to meet the needs of the entire population can compare with the MUA setup that I and many others like myself painstakingly configured over the years to meet their own particular needs and preferences. Mailing lists are intrinsically superior to forums if only because they are accessible via an interface that empowers the user rather than turning them into lemmings. CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Update of Freevo packages for distributions?
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:58:49PM EDT, Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:08 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: Well, I certainly don't think that a web interface designed to meet the needs of the entire population can compare with the MUA setup that I and many others like myself painstakingly configured over the years to meet their own particular needs and preferences. Mailing lists are intrinsically superior to forums if only because they are accessible via an interface that empowers the user rather than turning them into lemmings. Your unstated major premise is that increased complexity for user-controlled customization/flexibility is better than the converse (less flexibility but more convenience). It may be true for you and me, but it's not absolutely true. For a lot of users, convenience and a lower barrier to entry is preferable. Maybe the last point you raise is another reason I'd rather stay away from forums :-) OT anyway.. so I'll leave it at that. CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Update of Freevo packages for distributions?
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:58:08PM EDT, Evan Hisey wrote: 2009/8/9 bluepuma.excite bluep...@excite.com: [..] By the way, I would prefer to have a regular Freevo forum over this mailing list, the handling is not very user friendly. In truth Mailing lists get much faster responses and more viewing than forums do. Forums just tend to be easier to google. If a mailing list is not user-friendly for you, you might want to consider changing you mail client. No insult intended, just that a mailing list is only as friendly as your mail client. +1 CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo+mplayer - Audio/video out of sync'
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:24:35AM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Has anyone seen this with Freevo 1.8.1 and found some way to address or alleviate this issue? yes and since i put --framedrop in the command it is in sync, and i certainly don't notice the framedrops happening Thanks, I added -framedrop and it seems to do the trick on the streams that I have tried: I've watched a stream for 10-15 minutes, switched to another, switched to yet another.. etc. and though it's not perfect, I have not seen anything as bad in terms of A/V falling completely out of sync'. CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.9 appletrailers crash
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:57:46AM EDT, Matthew Job wrote: I think what you just did is called hijacking an existing thread. Its contrary to netiquette, but practically, it means that you will get better response starting your own thread, e.g. from subscribers who may have filtered my postings or just decided they were not interested in my issue I posted about. CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 12:04:46PM EDT, John Percival wrote: I modified the code to make it work (for my location it displays a weather map, not a radar map - but at least it is a map). I checked it with Long Island and it does display a map, not sure if it's the sort you want though. I attach the code for what it's worth. I'm a hacker, not a Python programmer - but I'm trying to learn! John. Hmm.. I copied your version to /usr/share/pyshared/plugins/ and I'm still getting the same message. Is there a cache that needs to be refreshed..? Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast
Two things: There is definitely some form of cache issue involved. I ran your improved version of oneclick.py under my personal id, rather than the freevo id, that normally runs on vt9, and I was able to display a map for many areas, including China, South America, and various European countries. The maps you grab are great - much better than those rather useless radar maps that I for one do not know how to read. Hope they make it the official version real soon..!!! The second issue is that I tried East Islip, here on L.I. and also San Fran', CA.. and with these particular weather stations, I am still getting the error I reported in my earlier post. So could this be a problem with U.S. weather stations..? Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:52:43PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: Also, I mistyped RSXX063 (Moscow, Russia) and entered RUXX063 instead and this causes freevo to crash. CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 03:16:39PM EDT, John Percival wrote: Chris, Don't know about a cache. There is WEATHER_AGE which I have set to 1 sec to force it to get the data every time (normally it's set to an hour). Now it's working.. Must have been sloppy testing on my part. I'll have a look at the places you're having trouble with. I did warn you it was a hack, though !! One who fixes a lowly user like myself's issue in a couple of hours becomes the official maintainer of the code. That's precisely why I was giving you a heads-up re: the results of my testing. A possible design flaw in the plugin is that it fetches all the data for all weather stations when you access the subdirectory from the main menu. This is OK when you have about 2-3 entries.. less so when you have defined 20-30 entries or more. Takes forever.. so maybe it would be better to retrieve the data when the user actually accesses a given weather station. Seriously, I was NOT whining, quite the contrary.. I figured some form of feedback from a real life user might be useful. Thanks for fixing my problem...!!! CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Weather forecast
I have found several plugins that appear to add a Weather Forecast entry to the main freevo menu and I'm not sure which I should use. There appears to be a weather plugin, a weatherdata plugin and.. took me a while to find it a oneclick plugin. I eventually set up the oneclick.py and this seems to work OK - configured it to display the weather here on Long Island, NY.. as well as the UK (London), Shanghai, China.. Buenos Aires, Lima, Peru, Paris, France, etc. and the only glitch appears that for all of these, the last step when I arrow down through the successive screens should display the radar map. For all of the above, a Radar Map for xx message is displayed and and error message that reads: error encountered while trying to download weather map. I do get a transient message Fetching radar map for xx when I hit the space bar to refresh the display. Is there any way I could fix this, or if not, altogether skip the display of this last screen? Is the radar map url incorrect in the plugin source? Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] LIrc not working in freevo, but works with irw
What permissions does /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid have? -Chris 2009/7/29 Bernard Mentink bment...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Bernard Mentink bment...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Jason Tackaberry t...@urandom.ca wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 17:15 +1200, Bernard Mentink wrote: It seems like freevo is looking at the wrong device (I have a /dev/lirc0 and a /dev/lirc_01) Is there some configuration file where I need to tell freevo the device? Freevo (via pylirc) doesn't talk to the lirc device, but rather through lircd. Is /dev/lircd readable by the user running freevo? Hi, The device has 666 permissions anything else I should check. Cheers, Bernie Ok, I am in a right pickle now. I can't even run irw as a normal user, I have to run it as root. Really confused over the permission thing. At the moment /dev/lircd, /dev/lirc0 all have 666 permissions, all have owner as root.root /usr/local/sbin/lircd has 777 permissions owner root.root... When I try to run lircd as a normal user, I get this error: lircd -d /dev/lirc0 lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid lircd: Permission denied I have set /var/run/lirc and /var/run/lirc/lircd to 666 permissions as well. Do I have to set all the above programes to user root.myuser as well? Any help appreciated. Cheers, Bernie -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] xxmc/xvmc
Thanks. VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine' XINE_ARGS_DEF = -V xxmc Worked! -Chris On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Duncan Webbdun...@freevo.org wrote: On 23/07/2009 17:34, Chris Thomas said the following: Ok I tried almost every possible combination to get mpeg decoding working in Freevo 1.8.1-3 with my CLE266 Via chip. You can't do this: VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xxmc' VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'mplayer -vo xxmc -vc ffmpeg12mc' But you can do this: VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine' or VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'mplayer' Then you need to set the DEFAULT arguments: -V xxmc or -vo xxmc -vc ffmpeg12mc Should be described in the local_conf.py.example. # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xxmc' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine' VIDEO_USE_XVMC = 1 # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'mplayer -vo xxmc -vc ffmpeg12mc' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xvmc' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'mplayer' VIDEO_USE_XVMC = 1 # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xvmc' VIDEO_USE_XVMC = 1 Duncan -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Does freevo change system mixer settings..?
I am a little baffled by this: since I installed freevo, I find that my mixer settings as displayed by alsamixer are regularly tampered with. The machine is an old laptop with cheap speakers - they're a no-brand 3-way outfit I paid less that twenty dollars for in CompUSA some 4-5 years ago - and my problem is not sound quality, but more prosaically to get them to play loud enough so I can actually tell something is being played :-) At this point, I regularly have to launch alsamixer and set the master and PCM levels back to the max - 100. Not a major issue, but I was wondering if there was a way I could tell freevo _not_ to tamper with my system's settings. Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Does freevo change system mixer settings..?
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:17:59PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: I am a little baffled by this: since I installed freevo, I find that my mixer settings as displayed by alsamixer are regularly tampered with. [..] It's in local_conf.py, in the first paragraph Set these to the desired settings MIXER_MAJOR_CTRL = 'VOL' # Freevo takes control over one audio ctrl # 'VOL', 'PCM' 'OGAIN' etc. MIXER_VOLUME_MAX = 90 # Set what you want maximum volume level to be. MIXER_VOLUME_DEFAULT = 80 # Set default volume level. I played with these.. or # MIXER_CONTROL_ALL = 1# Should Freevo take complete control of audio uncomment the line and make the value 0 .. and completely missed the obvious... :-( I'll test this setting and confirm whether is does the trick. Thanks again for all your help..! CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Normalize sound level
Does freevo provide for any means to normalize sound levels..? I'm watching a web TV stream and the commercials sound about twice as loud as the show. This means that since it's getting late I have to get ready for the next batch of commercials and make sure I turn down the volume by about 30% to maintain a good relationship with my neighbors. I was wondering if there was any way I could have freevo adjust sound levels automatically. Thanks, CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 03:27:38PM EDT, Duncan Webb wrote: [..] /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py is the default config file and has the events, look for EVENTS = Adding something like this to local_conf.py you can see all the events: print_events = True if print_events: # Print configured events for(k, v) in EVENTS.items(): print '===' print '%s' % (k) print '---' for (k2, v2) in v.items(): if v2.handler != None: print ' %s %s %s %s:%s' % (k2, v2.name, v2.arg, v2.context, v2.handler) elif v2.context != None: print ' %s %s %s %s' % (k2, v2.name, v2.arg, v2.context) elif v2.arg != None: print ' %s %s %s' % (k2, v2.name, v2.arg) else: print ' %s %s' % (k2, v2.name) Helped a lot..! I added the following bindings to my local_conf.py: EVENTS['menu']['j'] = Event(MENU_DOWN) EVENTS['menu']['k'] = Event(MENU_UP) EVENTS['menu']['q'] = Event(MENU_GOTO_SHUTDOWN) and this has made it a lot easier to navigate the menus. I had no luck trying to bind 'h' to MENU_BACK_ONE_MENU .. can't figure out how to unbind it from the display help screen event. 2. Many of the .flv's that I have are music and I would prefer having them recognized as such by freevo in order to have the benefit of features like playlists (such as playing an entire directory) and possibly random play, repeat, etc. I have seen some promising hints in local_conf.py that this might be possible. This is simple, looks at the _SUFFIX settings. Got that to work. 3. I haven't had time to look into web TV radio as yet but this should be straightforward. I just need to retrieve the links from my bash history and figure out how to pass options such as cache size etc. to mplayer. MPLAYER_ARGS['flv'] = '-nocache -forceidx' This too.. 4. When using mplayer from the bash prompt, watching web TV or .flv clips, I specify a geometry so that the output is positioned in a small window somewhere near the top right corner of the screen, out of my way, so I can get on with whatever I am doing. Then, I would use 'f' to toggle full screen mode. Not sure if I can achieve something similar with freevo. Could be tricky, the design goal was for a stand-alone media centre. No luck with this. I tried to change the geometry in freevo.conf but smaller pixel counts mess up the display and I got a syntax error when I tried to tell freevo where I wanted the top left corner of the window via and, e.g. 800x600+1200+20.. One thing I would like to do is replace the DejaVu fonts by M$ Verdana or Tahoma (or even their Arial Unicode) and also use much smaller sizes since after all I'm running Freevo on a laptop. The headlines plugin in particular should benefit by this. I don't have the time to create a specific skin but I think that I read somewhere in the doc that most everything can be inherited from a given skin, but I have not found how or where I can override the fonts and font sizes. Thanks, CJ -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Switch CapsLock Control keys [SOLVED]
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:54:22PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:02:14AM EDT, Jonathan Isom wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Chris Jonescjns1...@gmail.com wrote: [..] What's a clean way to add the xmodmap tweak to the freevo standalone startup scripts? [..] Hi try #su freevo //add freevo to end of .xinitrc ---8- #!/bin/sh xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap freevo ---8- #startx -- -config xorg.conf.tvout :1.0 vt09 not as nice as starting freevo starting x. then put startx -- -config xorg.conf.tvout :1.0 vt09 in a script to start freevo to save time. That's pretty good. I'll give it a shot tonight. Well, more than ten days later.. :-) I found time to look at this again and thought I'd try to find a way to avoid having to start freevo manually at boot time. I vaguely remembered an Xconfig trick I had read about in the past that let you swap the two keys, and eventually found it again via google. I added the following to my xorg.conf in the keyboard section and that did the trick: Option XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps A minimal change, and one thing I like about this solution is that if I remember correctly, debian saves a backup copy of xorg.conf whenever you upgrade X. Naturally, this only works because this is my home machine and I can change the X server's config file without asking anyone's permission. And of course, there's no guarantee that this keyboard option will not be deprecated at some point in the future. So maybe this should be part of freevo's keyboard configuration..? Thanks, CJ -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] xxmc/xvmc
Ok I tried almost every possible combination to get mpeg decoding working in Freevo 1.8.1-3 with my CLE266 Via chip. # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xxmc' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine' VIDEO_USE_XVMC = 1 # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'mplayer -vo xxmc -vc ffmpeg12mc' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xvmc' # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'mplayer' VIDEO_USE_XVMC = 1 # did not work VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xvmc' VIDEO_USE_XVMC = 1 Any ideas? -Chris On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Chris Thomassruch...@gmail.com wrote: I reinstalled Freevo recently and I'm having trouble getting mpeg decoding working. In the past I would just do: VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xxmc' and it would work. Now there a new setting: VIDEO_USE_XVMC = 1 which I've tried in combination with both: VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xxmc' and VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine' all without any luck. Decoding is working fine outside of Freevo as: xine -V xxmc movie.mpg works fine. Any thoughts? -Chris -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.1 - No headlines found - [SOLVED]
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:18:21AM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: [..] Per the [Freevo-users] list archive, there appears to be a bug in the headlines plugin that ships with the 1.8.1 version of freevo that I am running: http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net/9443626.html I haven't checked whether this is the same issue as described in the above thread, but it looks promising. It definitely was the same issue: I downloaded the 1.8.2 tarball and after copying headlines.py to /usr/share/pyshared/freevo/plugins as a drop-in replacement, I am now able to read RSS feeds. CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] xxmc/xvmc
I reinstalled Freevo recently and I'm having trouble getting mpeg decoding working. In the past I would just do: VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xxmc' and it would work. Now there a new setting: VIDEO_USE_XVMC = 1 which I've tried in combination with both: VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine -V xxmc' and VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'xine' all without any luck. Decoding is working fine outside of Freevo as: xine -V xxmc movie.mpg works fine. Any thoughts? -Chris -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] RSS link that is known to work with freevo
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:57:08PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
[..]
plugin.activate('headlines', level=45)
HEADLINES_LOCATIONS = [
('ABC', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/syndicate/sciencerss.xml'),
]
#plugin.remove('headlines')
Thanks, I get the exact same result with message:
ERROR: could not open http://www.abc.net.au/news/syndicate/sciencerss.xml
Per the [Freevo-users] list archive, there appears to be a bug in the
headlines plugin that ships with the 1.8.1 version of freevo that I am
running:
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net/9443626.html
I haven't checked whether this is the same issue as described in the
above thread, but it looks promising.
CJ
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Re: [Freevo-users] Switching CapsLock Right Control keys
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:43:50PM EDT, Jonathan Isom wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Chris Jonescjns1...@gmail.com wrote: [..] What's a clean way to add the xmodmap tweak to the freevo standalone startup scripts? I I'm not sure if there is a easy way to add to the scripts, but I just xinit and have it start freevo. I can then start anything I may need, such as nvidia-settings to adjust the screen on the tv. I copied my ~/.xinitrc and my ~/.Xmodmap tweaks to /home/freevo/ and it hasn't made any difference. Looks like .xinitrc is not executed when starting X via the freevo startup script in /etc/init.d. Looks like this is going to be fun. CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Switching CapsLock Right Control keys
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:02:14AM EDT, Jonathan Isom wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Chris Jonescjns1...@gmail.com wrote: [..] What's a clean way to add the xmodmap tweak to the freevo standalone startup scripts? [..] Hi try #su freevo //add freevo to end of .xinitrc ---8- #!/bin/sh xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap freevo ---8- #startx -- -config xorg.conf.tvout :1.0 vt09 not as nice as starting freevo starting x. then put startx -- -config xorg.conf.tvout :1.0 vt09 in a script to start freevo to save time. That's pretty good. I'll give it a shot tonight. CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] List of non working radio links provided in freevo-1.x
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 07:17:33PM EDT, John Molohan wrote: Hi, This was mentioned in another threat and has been true for quite a while. The web radio links that 1.x provides are somewhat broken. This should probably be a bug report I wouldn't go this far, but for anyone learning the application, it would be a good idea to provide web radio and web TV links that are known to work. but I'll list them here 1st. I'll probably start another thread for users to post their current working entries by category. [..] Let's anticipate: Two excellent Classical Music (whatever that means..) radio links that work as of today _and_ have been stable for as long as I can remember: New York Times - aka WQXR 96.3 here in New York: mms://c9l.earthcache.net/wlc-01.media.globix.net/COMP005996BCT1_wqxr_live_hi.wmv Mainstream stuff, Mozart, Beethoven, 19th century music. France Musique - French state music channel: http://www.tv-radio.com/station/france_musique_mp3/france_musique_mp3-128k.m3u Eclectic, music ranging from Palestrina to experimental music, excellent jazz, ethnic music. On my hardware, both stations have very good sound quality. Others stations that I listen to with currently functional links: RAI3 - Italy - Classical music with an Italian bias: rtsp://live.media.rai.it/broadcast/fd5.rm NRK Alltid Klassisk - Norway http://radio.hiof.no/nrk-alltid-klassisk-128 Radio Classique Paris - music only - 19th century mostly: http://www.tv-radio.com/station/classique-mp3/classique-mp3-128k.pls Klara - Belgium: http://mp3.streampower.be/klara-high As to webtv, the only ones I have left at this point are two French news channels: mms://vipmms9.yacast.net/bfm_bfmtv mms://stream1.france24.yacast.net/f24_livef Postage stamp display, but very stable. That's about all the webtv I have right now since the Spanish, German, Italian, and British news channels that I used to watch appear to have gone awol. Cheers, CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] RSS link that is known to work with freevo
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[Freevo-users] Switching CapsLock Right Control keys
On a linux debian lenny box, I have freevo start up on vt9 at boot time. After I the freevo main menu is displayed, I Alt+Ctrl+F1 back to the linux console and startx to log into my regular environment. I am then able to switch back and forth between the two environements by hitting Alt+Ctrl+F7/F9 keys. This suits me to a tee: lets me keep the multimedia environment and the working environment totally separate and yet switch from one to the other via a simple keyboard action, even better than if I had the luxury or two machines. One minor problem is that I have an xmodmap tweak that swaps the right Control keys with CapsLock on vt7. So I have to fight my muscle memory when I'm on the freevo desktop and I need to switch to the other desktop. What's a clean way to add the xmodmap tweak to the freevo standalone startup scripts? Thanks, CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:28:11PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: [..] no, if you have a system in which your mp3 files / flv files are not in a SINGLE directory TREE you could just point it at '/' and navigate anywhere but if you have /home/user/Music you point freevo at '/home/user/Music' Thanks, this makes sense. Having to customize via a configuration file is the price you have to pay for the simplicity of the interface. What fooled me is that the debian packaging should really provide a post-install script that lets you set at least the basic options, and optionally tell you where to go for additional customization. I had not trouble editing the local_conf.py file - or rather the copy I made to my home directory - and pretty much everything that I needed now works (this is a laptop and I don't have a TV/radio card, for instance). But I am an intermediate user of linux with a good command of his editor and some knowledge of python syntax. I hate to think how long it would take the average Windows defector to get this to work..! Things that are not working smoothly at this point: 1. Switching to full-screen mode results in a blank (black, actually) screen: I have set freevo to start full-screen but after I hit 'z', the currently playing video clip is scaled back to the default size that I specified in local_conf.py and positioned at +x+y = +0+0 (top left corner of display) and the rest of the screen is black. If I hit 'z' a second time, I get a black screen - I have to hit 'z' again and then the escape key to get out of this and back to the freevo menu. 2. RSS is not working - neither with the default freevo feeds nor links that I copied from google.news for instance. I get a No Headlines found message. I don't have a standalone aggregator handy on this system to help me make good guesses. I need to take a closer look. Things that I would like to tweak/improve: 1. Keyboard actions do not suit my habits - mainly I would need to bind the hjkl keys to navigate the screens more efficiently and something like q to the shutdown option. I saw a stanza near the end of the local_conf.py file named events that has a few examples of how you define custom bindings but I would need a list of the events' canonical names in order to do that. I'll read the doc tomorrow - otherwise they should be defined somewhere in /usr/bin/freevo.real, I guess. 2. Many of the .flv's that I have are music and I would prefer having them recognized as such by freevo in order to have the benefit of features like playlists (such as playing an entire directory) and possibly random play, repeat, etc. I have seen some promising hints in local_conf.py that this might be possible. 3. I haven't had time to look into web TV radio as yet but this should be straightforward. I just need to retrieve the links from my bash history and figure out how to pass options such as cache size etc. to mplayer. 4. When using mplayer from the bash prompt, watching web TV or .flv clips, I specify a geometry so that the output is positioned in a small window somewhere near the top right corner of the screen, out of my way, so I can get on with whatever I am doing. Then, I would use 'f' to toggle full screen mode. Not sure if I can achieve something similar with freevo. The irony of it is that I was looking for a curses-based front-end to mplayer because as I may have mentioned elsewhere I didn't need the aggravation of a GUI.. and I end up with this really delightful freevo interface.. let's call it a post GUI concept. :-) Outside the CLI or text-mode screen-oriented applications, it's the first time I run into an application that does what the user needs rather than what the developer thought would be good for the user. Thanks much for help and any pointers and comments about the above much appreciated. Naturally, many thanks to the author(s) of freevo..! CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's
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Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 03:27:38PM EDT, Duncan Webb wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
I had not trouble editing the local_conf.py file - or rather the copy I
made to my home directory - and pretty much everything that I needed now
works (this is a laptop and I don't have a TV/radio card, for instance).
There are USB DVB dongles that work pretty well.
I should have imagined it .. ;-/
They should work on this laptop - even though the USB is the old 1.2 -
well, not 2.0, anyway.
I'm not a perfectionist but are there any you would recommend or any I
should avoid?
Things that are not working smoothly at this point:
1. Switching to full-screen mode results in a blank (black, actually)
[..]
More than likely the geometry settings in your freevo.conf. I always
start freevo with the --fullscreen option.
I don't have this flag with lenny's version - 1.8.2, I think .. off the
top of my head.
But I specified:
START_FULL_SCREEN = 1
in my ~/.freevo/local_conf.py - so I should be OK.
What I have to do is make sure I'm in full screen mode before I start
playing any videos.
2. RSS is not working
Difficult to get all feeds to work. Can be improved when we know which
pages don't work.
Yes, one problem is that I don't have an RSS aggregator on this system, so I
can't really tell if there's a problem with the feed or not. I mean, if it
failed both with freevo and another aggregator, I guess that would strongly
suggest that the problem is with the feed rather than the software.
I've tried this one for instance:
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1ned=ushl=enoutput=rss
and this doesn't work. I just get the No Headlines found message.
Here's what my headlines stanza in ~/.freevo/local_conf.py looks like:
plugin.activate('headlines', level=45)
HEADLINES_LOCATIONS = [
('Freevo news releases',
'http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=46652'),
('Google News - U.S.',
'http://news.google.com/news?pz=1ned=ushl=enoutput=rss'),
]
I can't see a syntax error in this.
Mind you, I know nothing about rss, so since the Freevo News link and
the google link have rather different syntax, maybe that's the problem?
Things that I would like to tweak/improve:
1. Keyboard actions do not suit my habits - mainly I would need to bind
the hjkl keys to navigate the screens more efficiently and something
like q to the shutdown option. I saw a stanza near the end of the
local_conf.py file named events that has a few examples of how you
define custom bindings but I would need a list of the events' canonical
names in order to do that. I'll read the doc tomorrow - otherwise they
should be defined somewhere in /usr/bin/freevo.real, I guess.
/usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py is the default config file and has
the events, look for EVENTS =
Adding something like this to local_conf.py you can see all the events:
print_events = True
if print_events:
# Print configured events
for(k, v) in EVENTS.items():
print '==='
print '%s' % (k)
print '---'
for (k2, v2) in v.items():
if v2.handler != None:
print ' %s %s %s %s:%s' % (k2, v2.name, v2.arg,
v2.context, v2.handler)
elif v2.context != None:
print ' %s %s %s %s' % (k2, v2.name, v2.arg,
v2.context)
elif v2.arg != None:
print ' %s %s %s' % (k2, v2.name, v2.arg)
else:
print ' %s %s' % (k2, v2.name)
Thanks, I'm saving this one for later.
What I'm looking for is a list of bind-able events, something like
NEXT_MENU_ITEM that I could bind to the 'j' key and PREVIOUS_MENU_ITEM
that I could bind to the 'k' key.
Then there would be something like UP_MENU_LEVEL that I could bind to
'h' and DOWN_MENU_LEVEL that I could bind to 'l'.
So I could use the hjkl keys to navigate in the same way I do it in the
ELinks web browser - next/previous link and back/forward.
Little things that make life bearable at times :-)
2. Many of the .flv's that I have are music and I would prefer having
them recognized as such by freevo in order to have the benefit of
features like playlists (such as playing an entire directory) and
possibly random play, repeat, etc. I have seen some promising hints
in local_conf.py that this might be possible.
This is simple, looks at the _SUFFIX settings.
I got that to work .. eventually .. problem with the local_conf.py file
syntax.. and more importantly a problem with permissions.
What I did was to configure both the system wide freevo that runs
under the freevo user - nice touch to have it take of at boot on vt9
btw, and my id's freevo.
I just need to figure out where I can switch the CapsLock and Control
keys on that standalone freevo/X session, so that it is in sync with
my regular X session.
Not sure where I can plug in an xmodmap command.
Not sure these are much of an issue
Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:39:29PM EDT, Jake Briggs wrote: Chris Jones wrote: and we agree that configuring Freevo is not simple. Try sendmail :-) Off topic, but I have to agree here! Configuring freevo is cake compared with sendmail, you could do a lot worse Especially when you're doing novice freevo stuff like me.. OT, of course but I doubt _anyone_ would take a second look at sendmail these days, unless they were paid for it and had not other choice. :-) CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's
I was initially looking for a non-GUI interface to play directories that contain .mp3's and .flv's. I don't like traditional GUI application with their toolbars, pull-down menus, icons, etc. and I was looking for a lean and mean way of managing my audio and video content. I couldn't find an ncurses application in the debian lenny repositories, but I found freevo, which handles like a (much) prettified equivalent. I absolutely like the looks of it and the interface is a dream as compared to all those menus, submenus, sub-sub-menus, not to mention popups the size of postage stamps where you continuously need to grab the mouse to resize - if they actually let you resize the popup, because they were created with a different screen resolution in mind. I understand that the main objective of freevo is not to just front-end mplayer, but all the same, getting it to do what I want sounds like a better idea than rolling out my own mplayer front-end. :-) I have a few trees with .mp3's and .flv's and I tried the following: $ cd mp3-directory $ freevo I then navigated to Listen to Music - Audio Folder and all that happens is that I am told that This directory is empty - which obviously is not the case. Is there any way I can convince freevo to give me access to these directories, or am just using the wrong tool for the job? Thanks, CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:27:48PM EDT, John Molohan wrote: Chris Jones wrote: [..] Is there any way I can convince freevo to give me access to these directories, or am just using the wrong tool for the job? Thanks, CJ You'll need to tell freevo where you mp3s and flvs are. You do this by defining AUDIO_ITEMS and VIDEO_ITEMS in your local_conf.py file. Thanks for prompt response. Do you mean that if I have 20-30 directories with .mp3's or .flv's, I need to edit the config file every time I want to switch to a different directory.? -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:59:56PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Do you mean that if I have 20-30 directories with .mp3's or .flv's, I need to edit the config file every time I want to switch to a different directory.? no, be smarter than that. If they are not in the same directory tree then make a music directory direct freevo to that directory put symlinks in to your music. you can then navigate the directory tree in freevo You mean there is no simple way I can just point freevo to a directory that contains .mp3 or .flv files..?? Do I need to create a freevo directory with a symlink to each of the thousands of .mp3/.flv files on this system and then edit the local conf file to point freevo to that directory of symlinks..? No way I could do that by hand, so I'd have to write a script to handle this. Is there anywhere in the freevo documentation that explains how I'm supposed to do this? CJ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] WinTV-1800
I've had a HVR-1800 for almost a year now and have yet to get it (standard cable tuning) working in Gentoo. From what I've read the digital tuner works using mplayer. I haven't fiddled with it recently this thread is helpful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785476 -Chris On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Davin Desborough freevol...@desboroughs.net wrote: I have been happily using Freevo with my PVR-250 for several years now After taking the Freevo survey, however, I am inspired to upgrade my freevo box (both hardware and software). I am considering my options for digital cable solutions. Has anyone used a Hauppauge WINTV-HVR-1800? Are there other cards that are deemed to have better support in Linux? I've done some reading of the Freevo wiki (as well as some others), but I wanted to get some first-hand opinions from the list. Thanks, Davin -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] xxmc
What is the correct setting to get Freevo to use xxmc? X.org loads xxmc, but when I play a video using either Xine or MPlayer, neither one uses xxmc. I've tried forcing xxmc in the Xine config, setting my default freevo movie player in local.py to xine -V xxmc and setting xxmc in the xine settings in local.py all with no luck. Any suggestions? -Chris - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] F-keys and mplayer
Hi, I was configuring freevo to fit some mediacenter-pc i bought. It came with a remote controle which sends keycodes. Unfortunately some of the keys are mapped to f1-f12, which is no problem in freevo itself, but when mplayer is running all keypresses on these keys are ignored. Is there any way to change this? Other keys are e.g. the arrow-keys on the numblock, for which pygame.locals doesnt have support. Any chance getting this to run wthout hacking pygame? Thank you in advance -Chris- - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Flash-based (or Diskless) Freevo Frontends...
I'm running Freevo from a 1GB compact flash card. I have an epia me6000 that runs Debian. The epia has mpeg decoding, which is very nice. I nfs mount the freevo cache, freevo log and my media for playback. I've also disabled most of the logging to save on writes. The cf card hasn't failed in 3 years, so I'm happy. The cf card is half full (516MB). Totally silent. The next step is to eliminate X (using framebuffer) and net boot the whole system. -Chris On Jan 7, 2008 10:43 PM, Michael Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks! Curious if anyone has done a disk-less or flash-based Freevo strictly for viewing materials. I just finished building a new Freevo box today for our Bedroom, and the hard disk whine is already getting annoying (it's an older re-purposed 30GB drive I had kicking around). To quiet it down, I'm thinking I'll strip down the Ubuntu set-up I've got, and configure something that will fit on a USB drive for booting. All the media is stored on a server which runs Freevo Record Webservers. I've got a few Freevo specific questions on this topic... Can the Freevo vfs cache directory be kept on an NFS mount? If so, is if possible to share the vfs cache between front-ends? I have two front-ends which are off when not in use, so it'd be nice if the server could maintain the cache, and the two front ends just make use of it. Would there be any issues with concurrent access? Can the Freevo logs/log directory be stored on an NFS mount? Are there any Freevo processes which require RW access to certain files or file systems? I'm guessing the new webserver config tool will require RW to the /etc/freevo directory, so I could make a writable /etc/ partition on the flash drive (since it wouldn't be written to very often). Anything else? Any other tips or comments? FYI, I'm using an Antec Fusion 430 Black case, with Codeka's LIRC/lcdproc patches for the integrated iMon Soundgraph LCD/IR. http://codeka.com/blogs/index.php?cat=30 I had to re-record the MCE remote to create a new lircd.conf, since the standard configs that ship with LIRC didn't work for me (the receiver seems to output them differently from the standard MCE USB receiver. Freevo's LCD plugin works with it through the patched lcdproc. Thanks for your time! /Mike Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Xine will not run through freevo
Do you have have any settings for xine in your local_conf.py? -Chris On Dec 19, 2007 11:48 AM, Ryan Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running SVN version and I have cleaned and reinstalled freevo and kaa, but everytime I run xine through freevo I get a quick black screen and then I am back to the menu. I am able to view the same files through xine outside of Freevo. Any ideas? - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.7.3 on Via EPIA MII/Zenwalk linux wont start, no (?) errors
Comment out this line:
AUDIO_ITEMS = [ ('Music Collection', '/freevo/audio/albums/'),
'fxd/webradio.fxd' ]
and then try it.
-Chris
On 9/17/07, Jack Catchpoole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duncan Webb wrote:
I wrote a quick start guide for first time users that may help,
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/QuickStartGuide
Thanks Duncan - in fact I used your guide to get set up. Config and setup
as you describe seemed to work as expected - but I cant' seem to get any
further, and without any errors to go on I'm not sure what to try next.
Thanks.
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Re: [Freevo-users] struggling with PVR150 TV viewing
Thanks for all the help. I was able to get viewing working with the following settings: VIDEO_GROUPS = [ # Use this group for watching tv VideoGroup(vdev='/dev/video0', adev=None, input_type='tuner', tuner_norm='NTSC', tuner_type='', tuner_chanlist='us-cable', desc='Watching Video Group', group_type='ivtv', ), # Use this group for recording tv VideoGroup(vdev='/dev/video0', adev=None, input_type='tuner', tuner_norm='NTSC', tuner_chanlist='us_cable', desc='Comcast Cable', record_group='ivtv'), ] I'm still rather disappointed that I can't get anything to work with Xine, only Mplayer is working. At least I have a functional system now which looks nice with my Lumenlab projector running a VGA connection. Not HD, but looks good for std TV. Again, thanks, for your patience and taking the time to help. I have Xine working for regular mpg playback which looks good, but calls from Freevo failed. So, I still much tweaking and testing to do. On to DVD burning for the next immediate challenge. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] New site - any final thoughts before
I'd like to see forums on the site. I think they are more convenient and simpler to use than mailing lists. Sorry if this has been covered before. Chris atlbike.org - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] struggling with PVR150 TV viewing
Those setting didn't fix the problem, so I looked into the video groups, which I changed to: VIDEO_GROUPS = [ # Use this group for watching tv VideoGroup(vdev='/dev/video0', adev=None, input_type='tuner', tuner_norm=CONF.tv, tuner_type='', tuner_chanlist=CONF.chanlist, desc='Watching Video Group', group_type='ivtv', ), # Use this group for recording tv VideoGroup(vdev='/dev/video0', adev=None, input_type='tuner', tuner_norm='NTSC', tuner_chanlist='us_cable', desc='Comcast Cable', record_group='ivtv'), Which displayed on the console, when PLAY was selected: = Video Opened at /dev/video0 streamTypeV4l2ToIVTV 0 - 0 video-aspect: value 0-0 audio-sampling-frequency: value 1-1 audio-layer-ii-bitrate : value 10-10 audio-encoding-layer: value 1-1 audio-stereo-mode : value 0-0 audio-stereo-mode-extension : value 0-0 audio-emphasis : value 0-0 audio-crc : value 0-0 video-b-frames : value 1-1 video-bitrate-mode : value 0-0 video-bitrate : value 300-300 video-peak-bitrate : value 400-400 spatial-filter-mode : value 0-0 temporal-filter-mode: value 0-0 spatial-filter : value 0-0 temporal-filter : value 0-0 median-filter-type : value 0-0 video-gop-size : value 16-15 video-gop-closure : value 1-1 video-pulldown : value 0-0 streamTypeIvtvToV4l2 0 - 0 stream-type : value 0-0 setinput: val='\x00\x00\x00\x00', res='\x00\x00\x00\x00' Driver: ivtv Card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 Version: 08.00 Capabilities: 0x01030051 Enumerating supported Standards. 0: 0xf PAL-BGH 1: 0xe0 PAL-DK 2: 0x10 PAL-I 3: 0x100 PAL-M 4: 0x200 PAL-N 5: 0x400 PAL-Nc 6: 0xd SECAM-BGH 7: 0x32 SECAM-DK 8: 0x40 SECAM-L 9: 0x80 SECAM-L' 10: 0x1000 NTSC-M 11: 0x2000 NTSC-J 12: 0x8000 NTSC-K Current Standard is: 0x3000 Enumerating supported Inputs. 0: Tuner 1 1: S-Video 1 2: Composite 1 3: S-Video 2 4: Composite 2 Input: 0 Width: 720, Height: 480 Read Frequency: 3092 streamTypeV4l2ToIVTV 0 - 0 CODEC::aspect: 1 CODEC::audio_bitmask: 0x69 CODEC::bframes: 2 CODEC::bitrate_mode: 0 CODEC::bitrate: 300 CODEC::bitrate_peak: 400 CODEC::dnr_mode: 0 CODEC::dnr_spatial: 0 CODEC::dnr_temporal: 0 CODEC::dnr_type: 0 CODEC::framerate: 0 CODEC::framespergop: 16 CODEC::gop_closure: 1 CODEC::pulldown: 0 CODEC::stream_type: 0 Video Opened at /dev/video0 == Which looks like the TV is starting, no crashes or hang, but no video window displays and the screen returns to the station guide. So this must be a Xine configuration issue, right ?? The Xine stdout log shows the help options, so it must not be getting the correct startup string, I suspect... What are the usual settings for Xine with ivtv? Any suggestions ? Thx, Chris - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] struggling with PVR150 TV viewing
Previously running MythTV on the same system, appeared to running correctly on an eval install. Freevo and DVR newbie. Now running Freevo 1.7.3 on a Suse10.2 x86_64 system. Hauppauge PVR-150 card. I didn't have too much trouble getting the recording to work OK, playback in Mplayer. I've failed miserably trying to get the viewing to work. Hoping someone can point me to some some example local_conf.py files or provide some good hints. I was getting the following error attempting to run xine: This plugin only supports the ivtv group in tv mode but found only source references to this error. Mplayer was playing recorded video OK. Thx, Chris - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] lirc-compatible USB IR transmitters?
Here's a schematic and parts list on building your own USB IR receiver. http://usbirboy.sourceforge.net/board.html -Chris On 10/20/06, Rob Shortt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 20:56 -0300, Rob Shortt wrote: Yes, and available right in your home province. :) http://www.home-electro.com/ Nice. But it's sure not cheap. Twice what I paid for my Actisys. I do like the OEM version and the idea of being able to mount this internally (somehow). Have you any experience with this device? How well does it work? Right, not cheap. I have one of their IR receivers (serial) that I still use on one of my boxes (I got it a few years ago) and it works well. I was looking at getting an OEM version to mess around yet. Better yet, I'd like specs on a USB one that I could homebrew and wire up to a header on the mainboard. -Rob - 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 - 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.
I'm running Freevo off of a CF card and so far I like it. I don't have a tuner, so I just use it for video playback and photos. Having it be completely slient is great. I'm mounting both the data and parts of the system via NFS. A better approach is to use a ram disk. You want to minimize writes the CF card, so either use a ram disk or write logs, temp files, freevo cache, etc... somewhere else. I'm running Gentoo on a 512MB card. It's mounting portage so I can still add software if I need to. One tip, to reduce the long boot time when booting from a CF card, boot with the kernel option ide=nodma. -Chris On 11/16/06, Ignacio - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to everybody! Im trying to get an IDE Compact Flash Adapter, and put my hard disk as slave to record only, and put the whole system on the CF. Does anybody knows how will it work? In my opinion, it would work fine because it justs read from HDD on the boot up, and movies and music.., are a nfs mount. I would like to turn off the hdd when it does not work, lot of noise :S. Thanks. - 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 - 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.
Rid you Freevo of all noise: 1. Buy a fanless epia 2. Buy a fanless psu, http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.222/.f?category=13 3. Net boot or boot off of a cf card or usb drive -Chris On 11/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Cornelius Koelbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, thats great. I also removed the HD from my freevo box. I run the box completely with pxe-boot from a root-nfs. Unfortunately there is still this anoying fan in the power supply. :( With care, you can usually replace the fan in the power supply with one that is quieter - perhaps one with an automatic speed control, or one that is just plain quiet. My Freevo system is a 2U sized rack mount chassy with two 80mm fans in the front, and 80mm fan in the power supply, and an 80mm fan over the cpu. I can't hear it at all from the couch. Why? really quiet fans. The 80mm fans in the case and ps are NMB fans i picked up quite cheaply (identical to Dell replacement parts), the cpu fan is an outrageously expensive Sanyo-Denki, but was the only decent 80x15mm fan i could find. I use an AthlonXP-Mobile at 1.4ghz and an enormous Swiftech heatsink, comprised of about a pound of copper with several aluminum screws sticking out of it. Back when i had an Athlon 800 in there, i could run it fanless with that heatsink in all but the hottest days of summer. Take care not to overheat the system, though. Quiet fans generally move less air than their louder cousins. I may only get away with the quiet fan in my HTPC because i have two intake fans feeding one exhaust fan. - 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 - 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
Re: [Freevo-users] IMDB issues
I'm experiencing this as well. I manually had to add in the title to some movies last night. -Chris On 10/17/06, Karl Lattimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else been experiencing problems where the IMDB lookup results in an FXD file being created with a blank title? The result is that the file goes to the start of the list. There should probably be some kind of fall back solution to this based on the filename, if the title field returns blank as it is. Any suggestions welcome, K, - 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 - 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] sending a key command using lirc
I'm using Xine for movie playback in Freevo and I'm having a problem with Xine-lib 1.1.2-r2. The audio is not in sync with the video. It's a known bug and hopefully it will be fixed soon. Gentoo removed older versions of Xine-lib from portage, so I have to live with this until it gets fixed by the Xine developers, short of compiling an older version of Xine myself. However, I can press the m key several times when the movie is playing to correct this. Pressing m adjusts the a/v offset. Does anyone know a way to either start Xine with a particular a/v offest setting or to map a button on my creative IR remote to emulate the pressing of the m key? I've been reading these pages http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/KeyMaps http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/key.html#pygame.key and editing my /etc/freevo/lircrc and local.py with no luck Thanks in advance, Chris - 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] sending a key command using lirc
I'm using Xine for movie playback in Freevo and I'm having a problem with Xine-lib 1.1.2-r2. The audio is not in sync with the video. It's a known bug and hopefully it will be fixed soon. Gentoo removed older versions of Xine-lib from portage, so I have to live with this until it gets fixed by the Xine developers, short of compiling Xine myself. However, I can press the m key several times when the movie is playing to correct this. Pressing m adjusts the a/v offset. Does anyone know a way to either start Xine with a particular a/v offest setting or to map a button on my creative IR remote to emulate the pressing of the m key? I've been reading these pages http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/KeyMaps http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/key.html#pygame.key and editing my /etc/freevo/lircrc with no luck Thanks in advance, Chris - 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] Issues installing freevo, suse 10.1 i586
Hi there, I've encountered some issues installing freevo on a suse 10.1 system as follows... Firstly, I installed the required dependencies with YaST, then as root tryed to install Freevo as follows... suse-1:/home/chrisw/freevo-1.5.4 # python setup.py install checking for mmpython... not found please download it from http://www.sf.net/projects/mmpython and install it ...but mmpython is installed... suse-1:/home/chrisw/freevo-1.5.4 # rpm -q mmpython mmpython-0.4.9-1 ...if I just try to run freevo from the source folder... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/freevo-1.5.4 python freevo Can't find all Python dependencies: No module named utils Not all requirements of Freevo are installed on your system. Please check the INSTALL file for more informations. ...No module named utils would indicate Python-XML is not installed, but then... suse-1:/home/chrisw/freevo-1.5.4 # rpm -q python-xml python-xml-2.4.2-18 Can anybody throw some light on what is causing these issues? Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia. - 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.
I've setup a freevo media pc that runs locally off of a 512MB CF card using a mini-itx Via Epia board. It boots, logs in, mounts a nfs network share and starts freevo automatically. I've been running it for over a year now, and so far no problems. When Freevo 2.0 comes out I'm planning to make some additional improvements like mounting the system read-only and making updates easier. I'm not using a Matrox card, so I can't help you with that. -Chris On 8/18/06, Ashley Dawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 don't 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 - 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] dvd art
I have been copying my homemade dvds VIDEO_TS folders into a freevo directory and find that they list and play well. I have read the wiki regarding movie art but I cant figure out how to do covers for my movies using my own pictures? One of my dvd directories would look like this: [MY MOVIE] [VIDEO_TS] VIDEO_TS.VOB VTS_01_1.VOB etc. Cheers, Chris Chris Matchett blog: http://theredfleece.blogspotcom/ web: http://chrismatchett.co.uk
Re: [Freevo-users] tvtime without xmltv
Hi just setup tvtimw by running that worked for me chris Christian Lyra wrote: Hi, How can I use tvtvime to watch tv withou xmltv or record server? Until someone (or me...) write a grabber to xmltv for brazilian tv stations, xmltv is useless to me. I thought that I just had to configure TV_CHANNELS and I will be done, but it´s not true, and freevo always try to fetch information about these channels. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] tvtime without xmltv
Hi I cant actually get to my freevo box at the moment, however i did have freevo working with tvtime and NOT XMLTV, TVTime should write out the stationlist.xml file. Then in the local_conf.py i added the chanels i wanted and if i remember correctly the channel name, so lik BBC1 was channel A28, I'll try to get hold of a copy of the file for you chris Christian Lyra wrote: On Seg 10 Out 2005 12:06, Chris Ellis wrote: Hi just setup tvtimw by running that worked for me Do you mean, running the tvtime as freevo user and then configure channels, etc? I did that... and it works fine outside freevo only. May you post your local_conf.py? As I can remember from my tests, freevo try to write the stationlist.xml. chris Christian Lyra wrote: Hi, How can I use tvtvime to watch tv withou xmltv or record server? Until someone (or me...) write a grabber to xmltv for brazilian tv stations, xmltv is useless to me. I thought that I just had to configure TV_CHANNELS and I will be done, but it´s not true, and freevo always try to fetch information about these channels. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] sqlite DB for album tree plugin
Hi, I few weeks back now, someone kindly pointed me towards the album tree plugin as a better way to handle my 10,000+ mp3 collection. I've got sqlite installed and all the bindings it requires, but i've not been able to find any trace whatsoever of this meta-database that it uses. Nothing actually says how to set it up, other than a note saying it will already exist if i've used some other plugin already! I know it's not an offically official plugin, but if anyone can point me in the right direction, it'd be most appreciated. Cheers Chris --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Grouping audio directories by initial letter
Hi, I'm after a way of making my MP3 collection more accessible in Freevo, as afaik Freevo can't group anything at all, nor can I page though a list quickly . Initially i'd like to have freevo group all folders in a container based on the first letter of the directory. My directory structure is mp3/artist/album/*.mp3 and currently i am faced with a list of about 200 artists in alphanumeric order. how do i reach the Z's? down, down, down, down... ouch...! I was thinking that FXD's could maybe sort this for me if there was no way to do this within freevo already, but while i could potentially create a massive fxd file with a playlist for every single directory in a container tree, it's not nice really. Ideally I just want a different route to reach the real directory (so i can also pull in album art on demand etc..) Orignally I wrote a tiny shell script to create a nest of symlinks, but I came to think i really shouldn't *have* to do this sort of thing... and anyway this would appear to be in a different directory to the original songs so the covers i've got in the vfs overlay (i don't want to clutter my real mp3's) are lost unless i do the same to them too... and it all gets a bit nasty... Any pointers appreciated... maybe a plugin i've not seen? I'd think about writing my own, but i don't know python (yet) Oh also... I'm the guy that writes lsdvd, and i only found freevo was using it when i saw an error message scroll by, I'll admit this made me want to use you over MythTV! ;-) And you've actually got the wrong url in there on the version i'm running. for the last year it's been: http://untrepid.com/acidrip/lsdvd.html Feel free to drop a feature request in for it if it'd help you at all. Oh actually... the new version i've not released yet does python output too (actually... maybe 0.15 does too) maybe this would help you further. Cheers Chris --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] vlc timeshifting
Hi, karl that sounds like a really neat idea, you could even have a salve freevo box in another room chris Karl Lattimer wrote: Hi all, I've been playing quite excitedly with videolan client, my thought pattern went thus; 1) Wouldn't it be cool if I could watch TV on my mac through WiFi 2) WOW, if I'm streaming network video I can pause/rewind it just like web radio 3) OMFGG, if freevo had a TV player interface to a vlc streaming server running then I could pause/rewind TV in freevo Now I've been hacking around with this for hours now, most of the weekend in fact, I've managed to get video streaming to my mac, but the audio is causing a major headache, I take video from the composite input which comes out of my pace cable box, I take audio from the line input but it doesn't want to stream?! I can pause/rewind the video over the network stream, I'm busy rebuilding vlc without a gui so I can run it without it appearing over the top of freevo. So I've put a lot of the testing stuff in place, what I wanted to know is whether or not anyone has ever tried this? Or if someone with the python knowledge wouldn't mind working with me a bit to get a freevo plugin working? I think the there are the following requirements, * A VLC (running as a client) plugin for TV input * A remote interface so the play/pause/rewind/fast forward buttons work on tv * A method of changing channels ?! v4lctl/lirc-send/network somehow for situations where the TV receiver is in another machine or viewer is remote via network It would probably be best to have a tcp server app for receiving the channel change commands and then acting on them, my reasoning for this is when you have a streaming video server there is no sense in closing off the channel change function to the network. Regards Karl, --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] vlc timeshifting
Hi Karl exactly, it might also save the developers a lot of works as they don't need to write time shifting stuff I'll down load vlc and fiddle on my box over the next few days chris Karl Lattimer wrote: yeah, and multicast to all of your rooms, imagine the implications of a 'tuner box' with like 5 tuner cards in it, freevo could record from 5 channels AND timeshift all five on different freevo boxes on screen, because vlc allows you to have as many clients as your bandwidth limitations provide. Or how about, a bunch of freevo boxes which share channels each one will only ever stream a different channel, the boxes all communicate with each other so if one freevo is already providing a channel there isn't any need to start streaming it a second time, now if one of the boxes in the cluster is missing a tv tuner, that is ok, because it can request a stream from one of the others that does. If someone is watching tv on one, and an item in their recording schedule is about to start, it could utilise a tuner in a remote box also. It could also be possible to share recording schedule across all of the systems in the cluster, at that point it would probably be a good idea to set up NFS or a cluster file system to efficiently share storage requirements and ensure access to each of the freevo boxes. If one system gets nominated for the first item in the recording schedule, then the next available box can pick up the next one, and so on. The advantages of using a client/ server based TV model are pretty much endless. Not forgetting of course that you can also stream to windows/mac clients, wifi access to an ipaq also. Its a really cool method of getting this stuff to work with existing software. Another couple ideas I'd like to drop in is video surveillance, and video phone, although for the latter latency may be an issue. I just wish I knew python and could code this stuff ;S Karl, On 24 Jul 2005, at 17:39, Chris Ellis wrote: Hi, karl that sounds like a really neat idea, you could even have a salve freevo box in another room chris Karl Lattimer wrote: Hi all, I've been playing quite excitedly with videolan client, my thought pattern went thus; 1) Wouldn't it be cool if I could watch TV on my mac through WiFi 2) WOW, if I'm streaming network video I can pause/rewind it just like web radio 3) OMFGG, if freevo had a TV player interface to a vlc streaming server running then I could pause/rewind TV in freevo Now I've been hacking around with this for hours now, most of the weekend in fact, I've managed to get video streaming to my mac, but the audio is causing a major headache, I take video from the composite input which comes out of my pace cable box, I take audio from the line input but it doesn't want to stream?! I can pause/rewind the video over the network stream, I'm busy rebuilding vlc without a gui so I can run it without it appearing over the top of freevo. So I've put a lot of the testing stuff in place, what I wanted to know is whether or not anyone has ever tried this? Or if someone with the python knowledge wouldn't mind working with me a bit to get a freevo plugin working? I think the there are the following requirements, * A VLC (running as a client) plugin for TV input * A remote interface so the play/pause/rewind/fast forward buttons work on tv * A method of changing channels ?! v4lctl/lirc-send/network somehow for situations where the TV receiver is in another machine or viewer is remote via network It would probably be best to have a tcp server app for receiving the channel change commands and then acting on them, my reasoning for this is when you have a streaming video server there is no sense in closing off the channel change function to the network. Regards Karl, --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies
Re: [Freevo-users] vlc timeshifting
Hi Karls ( i should probably read emails fully before emailing lol anyway) I had a thought the other day of maybe freevo could have a webcam with say gaim or something, then you could chat to friends from the comport of your living room, maybe even use VOIP as that seem to be the latest thing, I've started learning python for a few months, i jsut can find documenation about how to write a plugin otherwised id try chris Karl Lattimer wrote: yeah, and multicast to all of your rooms, imagine the implications of a 'tuner box' with like 5 tuner cards in it, freevo could record from 5 channels AND timeshift all five on different freevo boxes on screen, because vlc allows you to have as many clients as your bandwidth limitations provide. Or how about, a bunch of freevo boxes which share channels each one will only ever stream a different channel, the boxes all communicate with each other so if one freevo is already providing a channel there isn't any need to start streaming it a second time, now if one of the boxes in the cluster is missing a tv tuner, that is ok, because it can request a stream from one of the others that does. If someone is watching tv on one, and an item in their recording schedule is about to start, it could utilise a tuner in a remote box also. It could also be possible to share recording schedule across all of the systems in the cluster, at that point it would probably be a good idea to set up NFS or a cluster file system to efficiently share storage requirements and ensure access to each of the freevo boxes. If one system gets nominated for the first item in the recording schedule, then the next available box can pick up the next one, and so on. The advantages of using a client/ server based TV model are pretty much endless. Not forgetting of course that you can also stream to windows/mac clients, wifi access to an ipaq also. Its a really cool method of getting this stuff to work with existing software. Another couple ideas I'd like to drop in is video surveillance, and video phone, although for the latter latency may be an issue. I just wish I knew python and could code this stuff ;S Karl, On 24 Jul 2005, at 17:39, Chris Ellis wrote: Hi, karl that sounds like a really neat idea, you could even have a salve freevo box in another room chris Karl Lattimer wrote: Hi all, I've been playing quite excitedly with videolan client, my thought pattern went thus; 1) Wouldn't it be cool if I could watch TV on my mac through WiFi 2) WOW, if I'm streaming network video I can pause/rewind it just like web radio 3) OMFGG, if freevo had a TV player interface to a vlc streaming server running then I could pause/rewind TV in freevo Now I've been hacking around with this for hours now, most of the weekend in fact, I've managed to get video streaming to my mac, but the audio is causing a major headache, I take video from the composite input which comes out of my pace cable box, I take audio from the line input but it doesn't want to stream?! I can pause/rewind the video over the network stream, I'm busy rebuilding vlc without a gui so I can run it without it appearing over the top of freevo. So I've put a lot of the testing stuff in place, what I wanted to know is whether or not anyone has ever tried this? Or if someone with the python knowledge wouldn't mind working with me a bit to get a freevo plugin working? I think the there are the following requirements, * A VLC (running as a client) plugin for TV input * A remote interface so the play/pause/rewind/fast forward buttons work on tv * A method of changing channels ?! v4lctl/lirc-send/network somehow for situations where the TV receiver is in another machine or viewer is remote via network It would probably be best to have a tcp server app for receiving the channel change commands and then acting on them, my reasoning for this is when you have a streaming video server there is no sense in closing off the channel change function to the network. Regards Karl, --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: VCRVO project
Jaap Struyk wrote: Op vr 17-06-2005, om 17:08 schreef Dirk Meyer: Oh men, it's working now. (and it was so funny) First time I clicked on Chris Ellis link (the only one at that time) I got redirected to www.microsoft.com (probebly by his host, I don't think firefox is pushing me there if an url isn't right) Klicking the 'show changes' link at the bottom shows me the link is edited afterwards, it contained a double http:// The net moves too fast sometimes... I can assure you what me (chris ellis) are not forwarding you to microsoft. I sugest you scan you computer for viruses and spyware. coz it works fine for every one else I hate Microsoft and i want that to be know so before blaming thinks on other people check you computer first Chris --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: VCRVO project
Hi Cheers for putting my project up. Just one note the double // between domain name and webpage is not needed just incase that is causing problems to some people, it shouldn't do it works mine on my pc. Thanks Chris Dirk Meyer wrote: Jaap Struyk wrote: Op vr 17-06-2005, om 14:22 schreef Dirk Meyer: Done. I hope it works: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/MediaCenterGallery Hai Dirk, Will every link people add there open the microsoft homepage, I didn't know you where on there payrole... ;-) Dischi --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] VCRVO project
While were on the subject of hardware, What do people thik of my freevo Media centre, Custom built for my A-level project, has remote and every thing www.chrisellis.me.uk//index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=13Itemid=6 Chris --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] IIC Media Centre
Hi The rf remote contorl stuff, was complex but it does work, there are some circuit on my site. I will update them 2night. I also use my PDA as a remtoe, it is a sony UX50 and has wifi. so i can ssh in and use a simple python script to control it. However by custom designed remote is much easier to use than a PDA and much Cooler. Jsut some market reasearch - Would you buy one, If no why and what price cheers Chris Karl Lattimer wrote: That is cool, got some serious cool factor! The RF remote seems interesting, do you have the circuit diagrams? IR is good but RF would be so much better! Karl, On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:17 +0100, Chris Ellis wrote: While were on the subject of hardware, What do people thik of my freevo Media centre, Custom built for my A-level project, has remote and every thing www.chrisellis.me.uk//index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=13Itemid=6 Chris --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] VCRVO project
Direct link to RF stuff www.chrisellis.me.uk/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=10Itemid=17 There is also some info on Manchester encoding on my site Chris --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] IIC Media Centre
Hi 1) The sound quality is very good, Almsot perfect. It is very clear and has good bass however this could be better with a subwoofer. 2) The system is very quite, when idling you can barely hear it. There is only one quite 40mm fan. The hard drive is quite anyway and mufflled by the wooden box. 3) Easy to use, yes i believe it is, altough currenlt the remote is not labels. The up/down lef/right and select key are in a specialy arrangement. I think it is easy to use. However basically if you can use a DVD palyer you can use this media centre. Infact my old dvd palyer is more difficult to use. 4) The project was more aimed at the high end of the market. The main idea was to get rid of the mess from setup where there are seperate tv, dvd, vcr, digibox etc. I also plane to build another version which will be in a sleak aluminium box, about the size of a sheet of A4 but 50mm thick. Do you think this would sell ? I really want to know of your thought on it? as i might try to get a company involved Chris Ellis www.chrisellis.me.uk --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] IIC Media Centre
HI There is no way on this planet i would even consider using microsoft windows media centre. I belive that it is shit. There is nothing wrong with Freevo and linux. Why can't people see that chris Neil wrote: Chris, I think the general impression here is that this would be a great product aimed at the high end market! Put your system next to a cheap set of BW 603 speakers (£500) and a cheap Arcam Alpha 9 (£400) amplifier and I'm sure you will revise your impression of Almost Perfect I think that will rule you out of the high end market! Have you looked at some of the stuff from KISS technology? Its quite heavy duty! The idea of the sleek aluminum case is excellent I think that is what your competitors do! When I last looked into this I liked the nano-itx motherboards which use the VIA eden processor! No fans and native TV out off the board that leaves the one PCI for a TV card! If you are serious however and want to commercialize the product you should look at using Windows Media Centre Edition! If you are in the world of academia proving concepts and tinkering stick with freevo! Well, I hope I have not offended anyone mentioning Windows personally I'm 100% freevo! But I come under the second category! Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Ellis Sent: 15 June 2005 17:05 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] IIC Media Centre Hi 1) The sound quality is very good, Almsot perfect. It is very clear and has good bass however this could be better with a subwoofer. 2) The system is very quite, when idling you can barely hear it. There is only one quite 40mm fan. The hard drive is quite anyway and mufflled by the wooden box. 3) Easy to use, yes i believe it is, altough currenlt the remote is not labels. The up/down lef/right and select key are in a specialy arrangement. I think it is easy to use. However basically if you can use a DVD palyer you can use this media centre. Infact my old dvd palyer is more difficult to use. 4) The project was more aimed at the high end of the market. The main idea was to get rid of the mess from setup where there are seperate tv, dvd, vcr, digibox etc. I also plane to build another version which will be in a sleak aluminium box, about the size of a sheet of A4 but 50mm thick. Do you think this would sell ? I really want to know of your thought on it? as i might try to get a company involved Chris Ellis www.chrisellis.me.uk --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77alloc_id492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Composite input on tv card
Is there anyway in freevo to get the composite (RCA) input of my tv card to so as a sperate chanel or inded to get it to work at all, it will work in TVtime by selecting the input to composite instead of tv thanks Chris --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] freevo on boot
Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:15, Chris Ellis wrote: Hi iam trying to setup freevo to start on boot i have MDK 10.1. If i follow the instruction in the wiki by adding this to inittab: id:3:initdefault: [...] Hi, in the beginning, I have also tried muddling around with inittab etc. Now, on my two freevo boxes, I have just created a script which contains the line su -c freevo -fs This script is linked into /etc/rc2.d like all the other start scripts. I have put that at the end of the list with something like ln -s /etc/init.d/freevostart S99zfreevostart This works very well. The only drawback (IMHO) is, that freevo runs under root... Regards, Thorsten --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users I tryed that i used freevo -fs as a start up script but had loads of problems becuase it was runnign as root. I tryed putting su cellis but id did apear to do anything thanks anyway Chris --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] freevo on boot
Chris Ellis wrote: Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:15, Chris Ellis wrote: Hi iam trying to setup freevo to start on boot i have MDK 10.1. If i follow the instruction in the wiki by adding this to inittab: id:3:initdefault: [...] Hi, in the beginning, I have also tried muddling around with inittab etc. Now, on my two freevo boxes, I have just created a script which contains the line su -c freevo -fs This script is linked into /etc/rc2.d like all the other start scripts. I have put that at the end of the list with something like ln -s /etc/init.d/freevostart S99zfreevostart This works very well. The only drawback (IMHO) is, that freevo runs under root... Regards, Thorsten --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users I tryed that i used freevo -fs as a start up script but had loads of problems becuase it was runnign as root. I tryed putting su cellis but id did apear to do anything thanks anyway Chris --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users I have just expirmented with the su command and found that using su -l username -c freevo-fs works Thansk for the help Chris --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Configuration for AverTV Studio card?
Barry Burd wrote: Can anyone suggest some easy-to-follow guidelines for setting up Freevo with an AverTV Studio card? I've looked over the Freevo configuration documentation, and I just don't know enough about video standards to make my way through it. Thanks. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users I have this card setup well currently only viewing tv. I am using mandrake linux os it is very simple, Run the command centre and it will setup the card. I don't know what this actually does but if you have TVtime run it to search for the channels and then. Ammend the two lines in freevo.conf to : chanlist = eupore-west and tv = pal (i presume you are in the UK). Then in local_conf.py add: TV_CHANNELS = [ ( 'bbc1.bbc.co.uk', 'BBC 1', 'U26' ), ( 'bbc2.bbc.co.uk', 'BBC 2', 'U33' ), ( 'itv.co.uk', 'ITV','U23' ), ( 'chanel4.co.uk', 'Chanel 4', 'U29' ), ( 'five.tv', 'Five', 'U35' ), ( 'bbc1.bbc.co.uk', 'BBC 1 V2', 'U46' ), ( 'bbc2.bbc.co.uk', 'BBC 2 V2', 'U40' ), ( 'itv.co.uk', 'ITV V2', 'U43' ) ] I have not got xmltv working yet but this is a very basic configuration. Aslso you will need to enable the tvtime plugin in loca_conf.py Hope this is some help chris --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] freevo on boot
Hi iam trying to setup freevo to start on boot i have MDK 10.1. If i follow the instruction in the wiki by adding this to inittab: id:3:initdefault: 1:3:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin USER tty1 i end up with just a login screen like runlevel 4 but a message saying tty1 respawning to offtern disable for 5 minutes chris --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light
Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ | HD- o--+ Now I'm pretty sure this is right, off the top of my head, and would relieve the headache a hard disk light in a freevo can cause. The only problem is I can't rightly remember the method of determining the values of R and c (my notes are long gone), I'll keep looking, and update as necessary and of course post a wiki. The thing is, what would be a good timing? Should we try and time it so our breathing comes in time with it as we watch a movie? Regards Karl, --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users Sorry for the reply again but i have a better circuit. This provides a slow fade of the led during the off period of the hdd light The large C the slower the fade i recomend between 220 - 2200 uF the circuit is attached this works by when the hdd led is high (5v) then the capacitor charges. and aslo suplys the led. when the hdd led is off the capacitor discharges through the resistor and led.the 5v supply in the circuit is the hdd con on the mobo please note that with either circuit you could not get the led to flash and fade at a sett rate ie breathing Chris Ellis inline: ledfade.jpginline: ledfade.jpg
Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light
Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ | HD- o--+ Now I'm pretty sure this is right, off the top of my head, and would relieve the headache a hard disk light in a freevo can cause. The only problem is I can't rightly remember the method of determining the values of R and c (my notes are long gone), I'll keep looking, and update as necessary and of course post a wiki. The thing is, what would be a good timing? Should we try and time it so our breathing comes in time with it as we watch a movie? Regards Karl, --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users Sorry for the reply again but i have the circuit working, ove a 9v battery but should work no probs off hdd light no mobo, R is 680 ohms and c is 2200 microfarads or 1000 microfarads depending on legth of fade. the high C the longer the fade Chris Ellis --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light
Geert Decorte wrote: AFAIK (my technical college time is 20 years behind me now) You need to feed a led with a current of aproximity 15 mA (should have to look a datasheets for this). Depending on the color of the led the tension could be in the neighbourhood of 1.2 V So the value of R would be R = (UHD - 1.2)/15 mA This are a few standard rules out of the head better values: http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/led.htm You have to be aware of the following: UHD is the tension measured without charge (without led). The value of R can be a variable of the resistance of the power supply and the resistor you switch in serie For this reason R = R0 + R1 This diagram would be closer to the real world output ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R0 ]--o---[R1]---+ c|-+ UHD0 UHD |---|(-+ | HD- o--o---+ R0: circuit uncharged: no led. UHD0: Voltage uncharged. 1) measure UHD0: uncharged 2) measure R0 For this we need one suplementary step: R' = UHD0/15mA We connect R' instead of the led and measure the voltage drop UHD' So R0 = (UHD0 -UHD')/15mA Now we have UHD0: The uncharged value of the led voltage R0: The own resistence of the power circuit Iled: The current trough the led (15mA) R = UHD0/Iled R1 = R -R0 Most circuitry has already it's own resistance R0, so it is possible you leave R1 = 0. Afterwards you need to determine the value of C As Chris Ellis pointed out: T = 2pi.rc or as most engineers use to calculate 6,25RC So the value of C must be much greater the the time in seconds it flickers C T/(6.25R) Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ | HD- o--+ Now I'm pretty sure this is right, off the top of my head, and would relieve the headache a hard disk light in a freevo can cause. The only problem is I can't rightly remember the method of determining the values of R and c (my notes are long gone), I'll keep looking, and update as necessary and of course post a wiki. The thing is, what would be a good timing? Should we try and time it so our breathing comes in time with it as we watch a movie? Regards Karl, --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users sorry for the second reply, I also should introduce myself a bit, i'am currenlt studding for a-levels and will be going to uni to studdy electronic engineering so are quite ok at electronics. I have put the circuit through so circuit modellign software I have and it did not seem to work. (this is not a 1005 accurate but i will also construct to have a look, it is an excellent IDEA. I think what we may need is a RC filter. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean. I must point out that T = RC not 2pi RC 2pi is used in the capacitor reactance formular but not in the timne perioc for a RC circuits Chris Ellis --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light
Karl Lattimer wrote: Is this a final breathing LED circuit? and i'll build it ;) Has aggreement been reached? Homage to apple, such a simple circuit, such simple idea's such ground breaking effects K, Chris Ellis wrote: Geert Decorte wrote: AFAIK (my technical college time is 20 years behind me now) You need to feed a led with a current of aproximity 15 mA (should have to look a datasheets for this). Depending on the color of the led the tension could be in the neighbourhood of 1.2 V So the value of R would be R = (UHD - 1.2)/15 mA This are a few standard rules out of the head better values: http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/led.htm You have to be aware of the following: UHD is the tension measured without charge (without led). The value of R can be a variable of the resistance of the power supply and the resistor you switch in serie For this reason R = R0 + R1 This diagram would be closer to the real world output ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R0 ]--o---[R1]---+ c |-+ UHD0 UHD |---|(-+ | HD- o--o---+ R0: circuit uncharged: no led. UHD0: Voltage uncharged. 1) measure UHD0: uncharged 2) measure R0 For this we need one suplementary step: R' = UHD0/15mA We connect R' instead of the led and measure the voltage drop UHD' So R0 = (UHD0 -UHD')/15mA Now we have UHD0: The uncharged value of the led voltage R0: The own resistence of the power circuit Iled: The current trough the led (15mA) R = UHD0/Iled R1 = R -R0 Most circuitry has already it's own resistance R0, so it is possible you leave R1 = 0. Afterwards you need to determine the value of C As Chris Ellis pointed out: T = 2pi.rc or as most engineers use to calculate 6,25RC So the value of C must be much greater the the time in seconds it flickers C T/(6.25R) Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c |-+ |---|(-+ | HD- o--+ Now I'm pretty sure this is right, off the top of my head, and would relieve the headache a hard disk light in a freevo can cause. The only problem is I can't rightly remember the method of determining the values of R and c (my notes are long gone), I'll keep looking, and update as necessary and of course post a wiki. The thing is, what would be a good timing? Should we try and time it so our breathing comes in time with it as we watch a movie? Regards Karl, --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users sorry for the second reply, I also should introduce myself a bit, i'am currenlt studding for a-levels and will be going to uni to studdy electronic engineering so are quite ok at electronics. I have put the circuit through so circuit modellign software I have and it did not seem to work. (this is not a 1005 accurate but i will also construct to have a look, it is an excellent IDEA. I think what we may need is a RC filter. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light
Karl Lattimer wrote: One question about the below circuit, how does the slow charge of the cap happen, the orignal point of putting the resistor before the cap was to have a slow increase and a slow decrease through the LED draining the power. if the cap has no resistance then won't it reach almost full charge of the cap instantly? Atleast thats what i think i was taught in college? Karl, Chris Ellis wrote: Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ | HD- o--+ Now I'm pretty sure this is right, off the top of my head, and would relieve the headache a hard disk light in a freevo can cause. The only problem is I can't rightly remember the method of determining the values of R and c (my notes are long gone), I'll keep looking, and update as necessary and of course post a wiki. The thing is, what would be a good timing? Should we try and time it so our breathing comes in time with it as we watch a movie? Regards Karl, --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users Sorry for the reply again but i have a better circuit. This provides a slow fade of the led during the off period of the hdd light The large C the slower the fade i recomend between 220 - 2200 uF the circuit is attached circuit this works by when the hdd led is high (5v) then the capacitor charges. and aslo suplys the led. when the hdd led is off the capacitor discharges through the resistor and led.the 5v supply in the circuit is the hdd con on the mobo please note that with either circuit you could not get the led to flash and fade at a sett rate ie breathing Chris Ellis --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users This is difffernet to your orginal circuit. the orginal was a RC filter that just lengthened the pluse fro mthe hdd led as essential it is a square wave. i built it a tested it but found that it faded on but not off (recall from meory of yesterday lol) so i bult the other circuit that when the hdd light is on charges up the capacitor which then slowly discharges through the led when the hdd led is off. Either circuit would work it just depends on how you want the led to fade / flash. I did in a post post RC values for the orginal circuit i believe it was r= 680 ohms c= 220uf remebem that r can not be to large as it will dim the led. just remeber that the timer preriod RC needs to be much greater the the Time period of the effective square wave on the HDD led pin which for mine was arounf 0.5 second when in use play music etc. but it you T is say 1S then you will need C =4700uf. My other circuit did not use such a large capacitor which was one of the main reasons i though it was better as capcitor over 1000uf can be arounf 15mm - 25mm diameter Chris Ellis --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light
Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ | HD- o--+ Now I'm pretty sure this is right, off the top of my head, and would relieve the headache a hard disk light in a freevo can cause. The only problem is I can't rightly remember the method of determining the values of R and c (my notes are long gone), I'll keep looking, and update as necessary and of course post a wiki. The thing is, what would be a good timing? Should we try and time it so our breathing comes in time with it as we watch a movie? Regards Karl, --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users the time constant for a capacitor charging through a resistor is simple T = RC. T is the time it takes a capacitor discharging through a ressitor to reach 37% of the suppy it was charged to so in charging this is to 63% of the supply voltages. To completely charge / discharge it is 5RC Chrisa Ellis --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Anybody got a copy of freevix?
Eric Jorgensen wrote:
www.freevix.org and freevix.sf.net are history. I guess freevix is dead.
Which is a shame because i came into posession of an EPIA-M1 and
some disk-on-modules and was curious about it.
Anybody have copies of that distro? I aint a'scared of updating a few
pieces of it by hand . . . .
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This is not strickly the point but anyway, I have a epia MII 12000
running freevo. I use mandrakelinux on mine. Which i have found very
easy to setup expect for the graphics driver which requires a rpm
rebuild but apart from that it all works. I also think there is a
distro called freepia, this info i got of a website:
Freepia http://www.freepia.de/org/net is a small GNU/Linux
distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards. It currently runs
on the M-9000 and M-1 (ezra and nehemiah cpu) but with some
modifications like kernel and X11 modules it should run on others too.
(if someone has get it running on other Epia\x{00B4}s let me know). The
main motivation behind this project is to build a full featured, low
noise media box to play movies/mp3s/images etc. For this it uses freevo
but in the future there maybe support for others like mythtv or vdr.
Also i think there is another epia - linux but according to distro watch
it is a embeded platform
If you want more info on the mini-itx boards visit www.mini-itx.com
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[Freevo-users] cd backup problems
Hi I am having problems getting the cd backup plugin to work. I have activated it in my config and it works partly. It will rip a cd as WAVs but when i try to rip the cd as ogg's it will not output anything. If i do ps aux whilst it is ripping i can see the cdpanaroia promgram extracting the audio. but it never seems to run the oggenc command and jsut overwites the temp wav files with the next track Also can i view a log of f the commands sent out as i suspect that oggenc command is wrong Chris Ellis --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] cd backup problems
Alberto Hernando wrote: El Martes, 5 de Abril de 2005 21:25, Chris Ellis escribi: Also can i view a log of f the commands sent out as i suspect that oggenc command is wrong Hi. I had the same problem. My solution is quite simple. In the local_conf.py file, in the ogg options, the default is having ' '. This is what causes the problem, because for some reason the oggenc command isn't well parsed. Well, just add something there. For example, '-q 3'. This is like doing nothing, because -q 3 is already the default. This was enough for me. Alberto --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95alloc_id396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users Thanks alberto its all working now Chris Ellis
Re: [Freevo-users] directfb hints, anybody?
Don't load the matroxfb_maven module - it blocks DirectFB from accessing the maven registers. Try again and post an updated log. Also, I use primary-layer=2 (not 02 - not sure if that makes a difference) - I've never needed to set bg-color or no-cursor either. - Chris On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:04:25 -0700, Eric Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've been attempting to set up directfb for my G400-DH. Like a lot of people on this list, I've run into a few problems along the way. I'm running a 2.4.29 kernel and i2c 2.9.0 on debian/sarge. using directfb 0.9.21, mplayer 1.0pre6a First thing i ran into was where the matrox directfb howto says the fusion devices are major 253 and /proc/devices says 252. Easy fix. I followed the recommendations in the 'more help with directfb' thread but I'm having the problem that was mentioned in the DirectFB / G400 / Kernel 2.6.8.1 problems - and unfortunately i don't see a solution in that thread. /etc/directfbrc looks like this: matrox-crtc2 matrox-tv-standard=ntsc primary-layer=02 matrox-cable-type=composite depth=32 bg-color=ff00 no-cursor relivant modules look like this: matroxfb_maven 13152 0 (unused) matroxfb_crtc2 7828 0 (unused) matroxfb_Ti3026 336 0 (unused) i2c-matroxfb2452 0 i2c-algo-bit7460 0 [em8300 i2c-matroxfb] matroxfb_base 19780 63 [matroxfb_crtc2 i2c-matroxfb] matroxfb_g450 4580 0 [matroxfb_base] matroxfb_DAC10648764 0 [matroxfb_crtc2 matroxfb_base] g450_pll3872 0 [matroxfb_g450 matroxfb_DAC1064] matroxfb_accel 7656 0 [matroxfb_base matroxfb_DAC1064] matroxfb_misc 14792 0 [matroxfb_maven matroxfb_crtc2 i2c-matroxfb matroxfb_base matroxfb_g450 matroxfb_DAC1064 g450_pll matroxfb_accel] fbcon-cfb24 4232 0 [matroxfb_accel] fbcon-cfb8 3304 0 [matroxfb_accel] fbcon-cfb32 3688 0 [matroxfb_crtc2 matroxfb_accel] fbcon-cfb16 3848 0 [matroxfb_crtc2 matroxfb_accel] This commandline: mplayer -ac hwac3 -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -vo dfbmga -fs dvd:// (yes, I'm using my dxr3 as a sound card until i get a motherboard that will play ball with spdif properly) dies this way: (*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'. -- DirectFB v0.9.21 - (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH (c) 2002-2004 convergence GmbH --- (*) DirectFB/Core: Multi Application Core. (2005-02-24 16:59) (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using MMXEXT optimized memcpy() (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'Fusion Dispatch' (MESSAGING, 13524)... (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'VT Switcher' (CRITICAL, 13525)... (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'Keyboard Input' (INPUT, 13526)... (*) DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (*) DirectFB/Genefx: MMX detected and enabled (*) DirectFB/Graphics: Matrox G400 0.7 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (!) DirectFB/Matrox/Maven: Error controlling `/dev/i2c-2'! -- Device or resource busy (!) DirectFB/Core/layers: Failed to initialize layer 2! -- Resource is busy! (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'layers' core! -- Resource is busy! vo_dfbmga: DirectFBCreate() failed - Resource is busy! Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Anybody tried the Nmedia HTPC cases?
It looks too tall to blend in as a hi-fi component, almost all of them do. I'm sticking with my Antec Sonata, it runs quiet and with the LED's disconnected everyone thinks it's part of the surround sound setup. - Chris On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:45:17 -0700, Eric Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: These things: http://www.nmediapc.com/product1.htm Plastic and sheet steel construction, so not particularly well made, but far more affordable than D.Vine and similar cases. Price range I've seen for the case alone is about $115-$150. Specs look good - integrated IR receiver (possibly just IrDA?) and LCD, and it doesn't look as slick as some htpc cases but not too bad and reasonably functional. My fears though - they say the LCD is a temperature readout, which is more than a little silly, and utterly worthless. Theoretically one could rip it out and install a normal LCD module. If the IR is really just irda, it might not be suitable for remote control use. So, anybody actually been inside one of these things? Or have other suggestions for a good, cheap HTPC case that doesn't have a silly door over the drive bays. --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] DirectFB / G400 / Kernel 2.6.8.1 problems
Do you have the i2c modules loaded? (send output of lsmod) On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 23:30:25 -0400, Peace Monk [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I had directfb working before, but I had to rebuild my machine. This time I am taking notes so I will post them when I have it all running with freevo. I followed instructions from http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/directfb/matrox-tv-out-howto When I run dfbterm I get: (*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'. (*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing config file '/root/.directfbrc'. -- DirectFB v0.9.21 - (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH (c) 2002-2004 convergence GmbH --- (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2004-12-01 01:34) (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using MMXEXT optimized memcpy() (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'VT Switcher' (CRITICAL, 9369)... (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'PS/2 Input' (INPUT, 9371)... (!!!) *** UNIMPLEMENTED [fusion_reactor_set_lock] *** [reactor.c:802] (*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse (1) 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'PS/2 Input' (INPUT, 9372)... (*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse (2) 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'PS/2 Input' (INPUT, 9373)... (*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse (3) 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'Keyboard Input' (INPUT, 9375)... (*) DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (*) DirectFB/Genefx: MMX detected and enabled (*) DirectFB/Graphics: Matrox G400 0.7 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (!) DirectFB/Matrox/Maven: Error opening `/proc/bus/i2c'! -- No such file or directory (!) DirectFB/Core/layers: Failed to initialize layer 2! (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'layers' core! -- File not found! (#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate]: File not found! My Kernel is 2.6.8.1. The CVS version of fusion module is insmoded into kernel. Compiled CVS version of DirectFB with ./configure --enable-multi --with-gfxdrivers=matrox cat /etc/directfbrc matrox-crtc2 matrox-tv-standard=ntsc primary-layer=02 My Kernel settings are: Processor type and features --- [*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support I2C support --- * I2C device interface I2C Algorithms --- --- I2C bit-banging interfaces (This is not selectable. Maybe it is in by default?) Graphics Support --- * Matrox acceleration * Matrox I2C support M G400 second head support [ ] Multihead support Console display driver support --- * Framebuffer Console support File systems --- Pseudo filesystems --- [*] /proc file system support [*] sysfs file system support [*] /dev file system support (OBSOLETE) [*] Automatically mount at boot [ ] Debug devfs [ ] /dev/pts Extended Attributes [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs) There are now 8 devices in /dev/fusion 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 following i2c devices i2ci2c-0 i2c-1 i2c-2 I do not have a /proc/bus/i2c file!! What happened? dmesg has: matroxfb: Matrox Millennium G400 MAX (AGP) detected matroxfb: MTRR's turned on matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x26214) matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xD400, mapped to 0xf0805000, size 33554432 fb0: MATROX frame buffer device fb0: initializing hardware vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 i2c /dev entries driver . Mounted devfs on /dev ... matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 fusion: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module No module found in object --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT
[Freevo-users] Suggestions for IR Receiver
I'm quite happy with my two Freevo boxen, but I'm growing tired of using a wireless keyboard to control them. I have an IRMan, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to get Lirc working with it. I've decided to either build or buy a new IR receiver to use with Freevo. So I'm looking for suggestions of either a nice cheap small IR receiver that works with Freevo (I've found http://www.zapway.de/e_index1.htm but I'd still like to know what people think of it) or some designs that people have built and liked. And for the self-built ones, where in the US I can find the components to build them (Mouser doesn't seem to have some of the parts needed). Thanks, -- Chris Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588alloc_id=12065op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] what is the current method for xine output on directfb
Stay tuned. One of the DirectFB guys wrote a xine output driver and I submitted some patches to allow control from within freevo. It needs some minor things done to it, but it works fine here. Once I've finished moving apartments I'll send the necessary patches to directfb and freevo lists. Thanks, Chris On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:16:50 +0800, mike lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I know there are lots of directfb users on this list, and lost of xine users, but I can't find any way to use them both.. Have I missed something? Must I use mplayer only when using directfb?? Mick --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: what is the current method for xine output on directfb
Claudio's df_xine the main patch is in CVS Wait a few days and I'll have sent the other 2 patches - they only affect ffwd, but are needed at the moment. - Chris On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:25:13 +0200, Lucian Muresan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Chris Griffiths wrote: Stay tuned. One of the DirectFB guys wrote a xine output driver and I submitted some patches to allow control from within freevo. It needs some minor things done to it, but it works fine here. Once I've finished moving apartments I'll send the necessary patches to directfb and freevo lists. Hi, that's good news! Does your work use df_xine written by Claudio that guy, or did you patch xine-lib and xine-ui? I'm asking because it's not quite clear to me, as you're mentioning just the xine output driver, which does only work with df_xine AFAIK. Regards, Lucian --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588alloc_id=12065op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Plans for mouse input?
Are there any current plans to implement mouse input in Freevo? Has anybody ported the example from the wiki to the current CVS code? Thanks, Chris Metcalf --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Cool new use of Freevo
When I build the frame for it I'm going to build in an Irman so I can control it using an IR remote. I thought about embedding buttons into one side of the frame, but there are too many keys in Freevo to really have a simple button interface. Plus with a remote I can control it from my bed, etc. But the touchscreen idea leads me to another question: What is the current plan for mouse support in Freevo? I also have an old Fujitsu Stylistic that I want to install Freevo on, but its useless unless I can get mouse support for the interface. Thanks, Chris M. On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 18:44 -0300, Rob Shortt wrote: Chris Metcalf wrote: I thought I'd tip off the list to a cool new project I've used Freevo in: http://chrismetcalf.net/blog/archives/2004/10/16/digital-picture-frame/ I've built a digital picture frame using Freevo and an old laptop. Digital picture frames have been done before, but I've never seen anybody do it using Freevo. Hey Chris, that's awesome! My first thought was that it would be cool to have touchscreen support (not that your laptop's screen does that) but you wouldn't want fingerprints on your pictures. Maybe a small keypad (gamepad-like) at the bottom would be nice. -Rob --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Cool new use of Freevo
I thought I'd tip off the list to a cool new project I've used Freevo in: http://chrismetcalf.net/blog/archives/2004/10/16/digital-picture-frame/ I've built a digital picture frame using Freevo and an old laptop. Digital picture frames have been done before, but I've never seen anybody do it using Freevo. Check it out! Thanks, -- Chris Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Mplayer Problem
Hello All Just wondering if anyone can give me some general advice, I have freevo running and watch mostly avi's/divx movies. Lately after a system reboot or shutdown the quality of playback is crap all files play but show alot more pixals. I have mplayer recompiled for my CPU and have lots of codec files linked via mplayer. Any ideas or suggestions most welcome. Cheers Chris --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047alloc_id=10808op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Some questions
With the possible exception of a hauppauge pvr-350 a G400 on directfb is as good as your going to get for TV-out. Things are drawn at 720x480 (NTSC, its something else for PAL), which is the native resoltution ... rather than scaled for TV like most TV-outs. Also the quality of the TV-out components themselves is aparently better. Xine doesn't have a stable working directfb output - so you're limited to MPlayer which means no DVD menus ... other than that I love it. - Chris On 19 Aug 2004 01:43:11 -, Peace Monk [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Guys, I am currently using VDR for scheduling and watching DVB programs. Is a great software, but lacks eyecandy and other media features. I was wondering if there is anyway to integrate freevo with VDR. i.e, I would use freeevo to browse through channels, and schedule recordings, to VDR. Basically, VDR uses a file calles timer.conf to maintain recording schedules, so I guess I just need a way to add/remove schedules to this file from freevo. Also, I have a Matrox G400. i read somewhere that freevo supports directfb. If someone is using this feature with freevo, please would you give me your opinion on the quality? Thank you. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Lirc Packard Bell IR
You do need to disable the serial port, you'll need to check which device you need (/dev/ttys0 or /dev/tts/0) # setserial /dev/tts/0 /dev/tts/0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 You also need to load both modules - check using: # lsmod |grep irc lirc_serial 7808 1 lirc_dev9232 1 [lirc_serial] I had to set the IRQ/IO settings at compile time for the lirc_serial dev. I used gentoo, so added the following to /etc/make.conf: LIRC_OPTS=--with-driver=packard_bell --with-irq=4 --with-port=0x03F8 These are the defaults for the first serial port com1: Also check /dev/lirc/0 is set up correctly: # ls -l /dev/lirc/0 crw---1 root root 61, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/lirc/0 Once its up and running it works great, but when using irrecord if says its using raw mode, repeat the whole process - it took me 3 attempts to get 'clean' codes, but once I did it works a treat. - Chris On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:18:03 +0200, Magnus Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all, I've had a struggle with Lirc and the packard bell remote. I've tried a lots of stuff but with no success. don't even get anythin gin using the mode2 command. I get something under /dev/lirc/0 and I use that when I try: mode2 -d /dev/lirc/0, but nothing. Ive tried to disable the port according to the lirc homepage: setserial ttyS0 uart none, but it didn't help. The funny thing is that it works perfectly under windows WinLirc / IRGenie. Now I've run out of clues, please help. I'm running: - Mandrake 10 - Packard bell remote /receiver - Freevo 1.5 - DevFS (if that makes any difference..) - Tried both 2.6 and 2.4 kernels. // Magnus --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] RE: Freevo TV
Hello all Just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction. I have freevo working on all counts other then TV services. I am in the UK using basic terrestrial services i.e. the following channels: BBC1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 Five What gets me is, when I select a program to watch from my xml listings, it always sends to me to the same channel. I then get the following error unable to get frequency for channel # # represents what ever channel, between 1-5. Hope that makes sense. If anyone has any words of wisdom I would be most grateful Many Thanks Chris --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721alloc_id=10040op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
