Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo(.org)
A sad day indeed! Quite a few years ago I tried to get Freevo running on a Fujitsu HTPC but, no matter how I tried, I just couldn't get a signal out of the SCART socket - something quite basic one would have thought. Loads of people on the web with the same problem but no solution. So I shelved the project until, ironically, I got a Smart TV with a new-fangled HDMI connection and I'm now using REL-1_9_2b2. I did consider moving to version 2 but, quite frankly, I've invested too many years of my life in getting Freevo working at all and, more importantly, working the way I want it. Not only do I think it looks pretty cool (is it still cool to say 'cool'), but so does my wife and that's saying something. Sure I tried XBMC along the way but I don't like its look and feel. Although I do admit to ripping some code from it to create an ITV Player (I'm in the UK) for Freevo. Also, I created several other TV 'catch-up' players from scratch. I can also watch my security camera via Freevo and it's integrated with my Asterisk PBX. In fact, just this minute I've managed to get it to play my voice messages. As an old assembler programmer, I've taught myself some basic Python and thoroughly enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy, working with the Freevo infrastructure. I suppose I'd better take some backups. Very many thanks to all involved Freevo and best wishes for the future. Sob. Sob. John Percival. Jake j...@jakebriggs.com wrote:This is a sad day :( I used freevo for years but started using my TVs inbuilt dlna client when my last htpc died 3 years ago. It was a threadbare experience - but at least it didn't try to be too clever. I recently got a raspberry pi for xbmc, but I do miss freevo. It had the perfect mix of simplicity and features, my TVs dlna client is utterly braindead and xbmc tries to be too clever. Thanks for all your hard work Dirk! Dirk Meyer dis...@freevo.org wrote:Hi, I have no idea how many people still read this list, how many people still use Freevo 1.x, and how many people use 2.0 from git (I guess that is only me). I failed to get a release of Freevo 2 out. I changed too much, a complete rewrite and some parts are also written three or four times. My fault, I know -- an error made years ago and when noticed, it was too late to change it. And since I started a new job four years ago my time working on Freevo got smaller and smaller every month. Jason also is completely busy with his job. I still say Freevo 2 is ready to use, but I will not release it. I'm not sure it works with the latest clutter or gstreamer, I only know it works for me. It lacks many important features such as DVD playback (I have a BluRay Player) and TV recording. I do not need it and I don't have time to code it. Besides that, XBMC has a much biggercommunity, UPnP is enough for many people (even I use NAS + BubbleUPnP + TV sometimes) and new development such as Chromecast will reduce Freevo's usefulness even further. I will continue to use Freevo 2, I may even write an Android client for it (after learning Python with Freevo which was useful for getting my current job, hacking Android is a good next step), but I see no real future for Freevo without a live community and more people hacking code. If someone contributes something, I will add it. If someone needs help to get Freevo 2 running, I will provide it. Since we also lack someone maintaining the server we host and I do not want to pay for something we don't need, I will shut it down at the end of February. This means the SVN and the Wiki will be gone. If someone wants a backup of the Wiki please tell me. The code is already on github and will remain there. The mailing list on SF will continue andso will the mail server hosting freevo.org and all mail addresses will continue to be valid. Maybe after some time someone resurrects Freevo. I would love to pass the maintainership over to someone just as I took it over from Krister years ago. Maybe someone takes the kaa-stuff and writes something new and better. I'm happy to assist and I think the same is true for Jason. Maybe I will release something someday based on the current code. It was a great time, I learned a lot and it was much fun. Regards, Dischi CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Jake-- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial
Re: [Freevo-users] Apple Trailers YouTube - analogue output
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[Freevo-users] Apple Trailers YouTube - analogue output
Hello, I'm using Freevo 1.9.2b2 and I've just managed to hook up digital (hw:0.1) output. Movies and CDs play fine via Xine. However AppleTrailers and YouTube videos are still using the analogue (hw:0.0) device. What do I need to tweak to get these via the digital device? Thanks. John Percival. - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast
Chris, Not sure if you got Moscow working - I did, but I used code RSXX0063 (note double zero). Maybe that's the problem with the US ones you tried? This is where I get the maps from: http://weather.msn.com/localmaps.aspx?setunit=Cwealocations=wc:UKXX0037 My patch simply reads this page then parses the html to derive the url of the map itself, which is then downloaded. Actually, for the mistyped RUXX case, the original code also crashes, albeit in a different place. Using my newly acquired Python 'skills' I had changed the displayed date from the back-to-front US style (sorry) to the format we use in the UK - that's where my code crashes but the original also crashes in the same routine. Looks like error handling needs to be smartened up a bit. I'm not sure that I'm quite ready to properly maintain code. My Python programming is quite inelegant still. But maybe one day. Happy to share my findings with the experts, though. I also take your point about not refreshing all locations at once. But more worrying for me at the moment is the fact that although I've now added a second location, I don't seem to get a sub menu at all. John. From: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com Sent: Mon Aug 03 04:02:39 CEST 2009 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: 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 - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- 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
From: John Percival john.perci...@mail.be Sent: Mon Aug 03 21:35:00 CEST 2009 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast Chris, Not sure if you got Moscow working - I did, but I used code RSXX0063 (note double zero). Maybe that's the problem with the US ones you tried? This is where I get the maps from: http://weather.msn.com/localmaps.aspx?setunit=Cwealocations=wc:UKXX0037 My patch simply reads this page then parses the html to derive the url of the map itself, which is then downloaded. Actually, for the mistyped RUXX case, the original code also crashes, albeit in a different place. Using my newly acquired Python 'skills' I had changed the displayed date from the back-to-front US style (sorry) to the format we use in the UK - that's where my code crashes but the original also crashes in the same routine. Looks like error handling needs to be smartened up a bit. I'm not sure that I'm quite ready to properly maintain code. My Python programming is quite inelegant still. But maybe one day. Happy to share my findings with the experts, though. I also take your point about not refreshing all locations at once. But more worrying for me at the moment is the fact that although I've now added a second location, I don't seem to get a sub menu at all. John. [Just sorted out the sub-menu - helps to get the config right] From: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com Sent: Mon Aug 03 04:02:39 CEST 2009 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: 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 - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- 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 - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- 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
From: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com Sent: Sun Aug 02 01:04:25 CEST 2009 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [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 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. - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be oneclick.py Description: File Attachment: oneclick.py -- 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] ICECAST_GENRE_MAP
Thanks for the reply.
I'm sure there is a clue if you're a Python expert, which I'm slowly becoming!
It seems to be something to do with re-mapping genres, e.g renaming
'classiscal' to be 'crap'.
The problem is that without something sensible in that config item, the plugin
crashed with a 'has_key' error.
I've commented out this:
## genre remapping
if self.genremap.has_key(g):
g = self.genremap[g]
and it's working fine. Except I can't re-map genres, but I can live with that.
From: John Molohan john.molo...@gcd.ie
Sent: Wed Jul 29 20:32:11 CEST 2009
To: John Percival john.perci...@mail.be,
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Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] ICECAST_GENRE_MAP
John Percival wrote:
Quick question:
can somebody tell me the format of ICECAST_GENRE_MAP for icecast.py, please?
Thanks.
John.
Never come across it before. Is there no clue in the code in icecast.py
itself?
John
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I contacted the author of icecast.py and he kindly provided the following
example:
ICECAST_GENRE_MAP = {
'':'--unknown--',
'':'and',
'alterbative':'alternative',
'alternatif':'alternative',
'alternativa':'alternative',
'alt':'alternative',
'alternativ':'alternative',
'ambien':'ambient',
'alsacian':'alaska',
'animation':'anime',
'animes':'anime',
'bootlegs':'bootleg',
'40':'40s',
'50':'50s',
'70':'70s',
'70er':'70s',
'annees70':'70s',
'80':'80s',
'80er':'80s',
'80s.':'80s',
}
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Re: [Freevo-users] ICECAST_GENRE_MAP
Thanks for the reply. I'm sure there is a clue if you're a Python expert, which I'm slowly becoming! It seems to be something to do with re-mapping genres, e.g renaming 'classiscal' to be 'crap'. The problem is that without something sensible in that config item, the plugin crashed with a 'has_key' error. I've commented out this: ## genre remapping if self.genremap.has_key(g): g = self.genremap[g] and it's working fine. Except I can't re-map genres, but I can live with that. From: John Molohan john.molo...@gcd.ie Sent: Wed Jul 29 20:32:11 CEST 2009 To: John Percival john.perci...@mail.be, freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] ICECAST_GENRE_MAP John Percival wrote: Quick question: can somebody tell me the format of ICECAST_GENRE_MAP for icecast.py, please? Thanks. John. Never come across it before. Is there no clue in the code in icecast.py itself? John - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- 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] webradio.fxd and
On further examination, that's what I concluded. Really useful feature! From: John Molohan john.molo...@gcd.ie Sent: Wed Jul 29 19:22:26 CEST 2009 To: John Percival john.perci...@mail.be, freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] webradio.fxd and John Percival wrote: I've noticed a link tag in webradio.fxd which I assume is supposed to show a web page when playing internet radio. Is this supported in v1.8.1? I've managed to use the cover-img tag to display a graphic, though. John. Freevo doesn't have a browser built in so I'd imagine this tag is just for skins to display the link to the user. John - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- 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] ICECAST_GENRE_MAP
Quick question: can somebody tell me the format of ICECAST_GENRE_MAP for icecast.py, please? Thanks. John. - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] webradio.fxd and link
I've noticed a link tag in webradio.fxd which I assume is supposed to show a web page when playing internet radio. Is this supported in v1.8.1? I've managed to use the cover-img tag to display a graphic, though. John. - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- 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] vlc and remote control
Hello, I'm using Freevo 1.8.1, Ubuntu 9.04 and vlc 0.9.9a. I' ve set 'VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER = 'vlc', the video plays fine and I can control it via the keyboard. However, I cannot get the remote control to work (it works perfectly with mplayer and xine). If I press the OK button I get: no event mapping for key 'SELECT' in context 'video'. I cannot find a vlc equivalent for e.g. Event(VIDEO_SEND_XINE_CMD). Is there some other configuration file I should be aware of to get remote control commands through to vlc? Thanks. John. - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- 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] vlc lirc???
Hello, I'd like to use vlc as preferred video player. Can anybody tell me whether it is possible to control it via a remote control on Freevo - and, better still, how to configure it! Thanks. John. - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] lcd
On closer examination, it seems that my display is not quite 18 characters wide! My solution was to change this line: width = self.lcd.d_width to: width = self.lcd.d_width-2 It's a bit of a hack, I know, but by effectively limiting the screen to 16 columns it keeps the display nicely centered. Thanks for the prompt replies and for pointing me in the right direction. John. From: Andreas Dick and...@gmx.ch Sent: Wed Jul 01 23:24:36 CEST 2009 To: dun...@freevo.org, freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] lcd hei John I hope you find out how to change the lcd2 plugin for your needs. if you dig the code, you will find how the display size is coded. the clock and status informations are placed on the right end of the top line, probably you will have to change this position (+2). in the code you will find as well, how to controll the lcd with python commands... its allways helpfull to test the features of the lcd in the python shell... I wrote the plugin just for my needs, but maybe it is possible to merge your version with mine...? unfortuneately I have freevo not startet at the moment, but I will check the code the next time I get time for it. Andreas Am Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009 19.51:45 schrieb Duncan Webb: John Percival wrote: I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo E which has, I think, a Futaba dm140 VFD. When I try to acitvate the lcd plugin, it complains that it cannot find a screen for a 2x18 display (5x8 matrix). Activating the lcd2 (2x16) plugin works a lot better but with one slight irritation. The last character of the first line is incomplete: the right-most one or two columns of the matrix are missing but appear at the start of the second line. Is there any way of defining a 2x18 screen ? Hopefully the code is clear enough for you to workout how to add to it to create a 2x18 display. 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 - Mail.be, WebMail and Virtual Office http://www.mail.be -- ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
