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 Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:44:10AM EST, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > 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, > yes this box, which was my media server, had freevo 1.8.x installed > from debian it now has 1.9.0 installed after an apt upgrade and it > starts and stops immediately ( as described) so the problem with the > package could be that the kaa modules are not forcibly upgraded. It's getting late over here, but I'll check the debian bug tracking system tomorrow and if I can't find anything, I guess I'll have to send in a bug report. Unless you'd rather do that yourself, since you probably know a lot more about kaa than I do.. Might make it sound more convincing :-) Just goes to show that it's probably a good idea to simulate an upgrade six months into the life of the current stable release and report bugs when the maintainers still have the time to fix them. 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=446895&group_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
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
[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 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 > > ... > > 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 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 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 Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:58:08PM EDT, Evan Hisey wrote: > 2009/8/9 bluepuma.excite : [..] > > 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
[Freevo-users] Freevo+mplayer - Audio/video out of sync'
I use mplayer to stream TV under freevo and the video and audio are often out of sync'. When watching a news channel, the audio appears to be sometime as much as 10-15 seconds ahead of the video. There are times when the video appears to be played in slow motion, and others on a random basis when the video looks as if it's doing a fast forward, trying to catch up, so to speak. This does not happen when I run mplayer directly from a shell. Leads me to think that either the options passed to mplayer by freevo, or freevo itself might be the culprit - rather than the server I am streaming from, my internet connection, or internet traffic overload. Or could it be that my 650MHz, 384M of RAM laptop is showing its age? I do not have the hardware to do a side-by-side comparison, so I hope the above description makes sense. Has anyone seen this with Freevo 1.8.1 and found some way to address or alleviate this issue? 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] 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 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
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
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 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
[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] Normalize sound level
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:58:10PM EDT, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 21:28 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > Does freevo provide for any means to normalize sound levels..? > > If you're playing back through mplayer, you might try the volnorm audio > filter. Everything is played through mplayer so I'll try that. 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 Jones 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] 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] 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
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 Jones 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] 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 Jones 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] 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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[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
[Freevo-users] RSS link that is known to work with freevo
RSS is the one area where I have not been able to get freevo to work. Could anyone provide a link that is known to work so I can use that to test my setup and figure out what's wrong with my setup? 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] 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
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
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=1&ned=us&hl=en&output=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=1&ned=us&hl=en&output=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.
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 03:42:36AM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: [..] > I was thinking of mpd and nmpd as the interface if you wanted ncurses I've had better experiences with moc - but that's only for audio. > and we agree that configuring Freevo is not simple. Try sendmail :-) Thanks for you help, I could've been stuck with this silly problem for a while. 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 Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 02:15:44AM EDT, Evan Hisey wrote: [..] > Start on the Wiki and the read through the local_conf.py. Freevo is > not exactly what you are thinking it is. It is not a frontend for > Mplayer so much as it is a Media Center frontend for Mplayer,Xine,TV > recording, Games Emulators and more. Yes, I realized that after skimming through the doc. But I obviously missed the implications in terms of configuration. On the other hand, even though it is clearly not meant to be just another mplayer frontend - heck, it's over 130 Megs of disk :-) .. it turns out to be that as well, and an excellent one at that. > Freevo does not know anything about were you launch it from, it only > knows what you have told it in the local_conf.py. To use Elizabeth's > idea as an example: [..] Apparently, Elizabeth suspected that my problem was that my directories were scattered all over the file system.. and they are not, I have a marked tendency to over-organize.. A simplified view of my setup runs like so: ../multimedia │ ├── video │ │ │ ├── video1 │ │ │ ├── video2 │ │ │ └── ... │ ├── audio │ │ │ ├── audio1 │ │ │ └── ... │ └── photos │ ├── photos1 │ └── ... And I'm very inflexible about this, not because of freevo or other, but because otherwise, I would never be able to remember where my stuff is. :-) Surprise, surprise, it fits in so perfectly with the way freevo is organized that I did not have to move a single one of my files..!! In fact, Elizabeth thought I was smarter than I really am: my problem was so basic that's it embarrassing: I just couldn't figure out how to tell freevo where to look for my stuff. :-/ I blame repeated exposure to the gui model for this regrettable lapse. 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
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] 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
[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
