Re: [Freevo-users] FREEVO not quoting or escaping whitespaces in file names in mplayer command
Duncan Webb wrote: Lucian Muresan wrote: [...] Same problem here, with freevo-1.7.3 and fbxine as the player. I'm basically no longer able to use freevo for the main purpose I installed it, listening to music in the living room as on a normal player (don't have any other in the house) via remote control, with or without the TV on (as I have a LCDproc display) Hi Lucian, Can you provide an example, as it works for me with or without spaces in the file names. But I tend to use mplayer for audio playing. Maybe you should include the relevant sections of your local_conf.py and freevo.conf It could be a problem with the xine audio player plug-in, so I need to test it running it the same way as you do. Hi Duncan, you know what? I re-emerged Freevo-1.7.3 and now part of this problem has gone. I can't explain how, but it must have been a mixup of messed up settings in my local_conf.py (btw, it's really hard to keep that file consistent). Since I did not use Freevo for some time and now I'm trying to get the most of it again, I stumbled across other problems I'll report in new threads. Regards, Lucian - 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] fbxine AC3 passthrough
Hello again, I noticed that I can no longer get fbxine to play DVDs or AVI's containing DD audio (which I obviously want passed through to my surround receiver) when launched from Freevo. When trying this, I can see the video on my TV for some seconds (I guess less than 10), but there is no audio. When trying to launch the particular AVI with the *exact same* command line reported in */var/log/freevo/main-0.log*, outside Freevo, in a SSH console, the movie plays audio decoded in my external DD-receiver, and doesn't stop by itself. The command is: fbxine --stdctl -V DirectFB -A alsa --no-lirc --post='pp:quality=10;expand' 'file:///mnt/other/MediaPool/Media/Video/Movies/Anger Management (2003) - Divx5.05 - DD5.1 - CD1.avi' When playing other AVI's, without DD or dts tracks, which have to be decoded by fbxine and then passed as PCM to the S/P-DIF, they also play fine even launched from Freevo. Unfortunately, I can't find any relevant logging. Anyone can confirm? Regards, Lucian - 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] fbxine AC3 passthrough
Duncan Webb wrote:
Lucian Muresan wrote:
Hello again,
I noticed that I can no longer get fbxine to play DVDs or AVI's
containing DD audio (which I obviously want passed through to my
surround receiver) when launched from Freevo.
When trying this, I can see the video on my TV for some seconds (I guess
less than 10), but there is no audio.
When trying to launch the particular AVI with the *exact same* command
line reported in */var/log/freevo/main-0.log*, outside Freevo, in a SSH
console, the movie plays audio decoded in my external DD-receiver, and
doesn't stop by itself. The command is:
fbxine --stdctl -V DirectFB -A alsa --no-lirc
--post='pp:quality=10;expand'
'file:///mnt/other/MediaPool/Media/Video/Movies/Anger Management (2003)
- Divx5.05 - DD5.1 - CD1.avi'
When playing other AVI's, without DD or dts tracks, which have to be
decoded by fbxine and then passed as PCM to the S/P-DIF, they also play
fine even launched from Freevo.
Unfortunately, I can't find any relevant logging. Anyone can confirm?
In local_conf.py make sure that these are set:
DEBUG = 1
CHILDAPP_DEBUG = 1
LOGGING = logging.DEBUG
then the output should be logged in main-0.log.
Thanks, I'm using those all the time, but in this case, the log is
looking the same, for media containing DD or just PCM/MPEG audio.
I don't know what the correct fbxine argument for audio pass-through is
may be someone can enlighten me :) so I can check.
Alright, there isn't a switch, but config file settings. If otherwise
your S/P-DIF output routes at least PCM to your external amp, then make
sure your ~/.xine/config file contains the following settings for pass
through mode:
# device used for 5.1-channel output
# string, default: iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2
audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:iec958:AES0=0x2,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2
# speaker arrangement
# { Mono 1.0 Stereo 2.0 Headphones 2.0 Stereo 2.1 Surround 3.0
# Surround 4.0 Surround 4.1 Surround 5.0 Surround 5.1 Surround 6.0
# Surround 6.1 Surround 7.1 Pass Through }, default: 1
audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through
I think I had to adapt the device setting for my card (don't remember
how long I did that and where to get the information from, but the
default is said to work for most cards.
Lucian
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Re: [Freevo-users] FREEVO not quoting or escaping whitespaces in file names in mplayer command
Hi, Faser wrote: Hi Duncan, thanks for the help. Actually it seems only to happen if I start freevo -trace. If I just start freevo everything plays fine, but using freevo -trace he is jumping through my MP3's. But nothing realy major. Cheers Fred Duncan Webb wrote: Faser wrote: Hi All, somehow I have a problem that freevo is not quoting the filenames in the mplayer command and therefore I can not play my MP3 files. It seems problem exists since I upgraded to 1.71. childapp.py (139): ChildApp.__init__(), pid=4528, app=/usr/bin/mplayer-bin -slave -autosync 100 -nolirc -nojoystick -autoq 100 -screenw 1024 -screenh 768 -fs -vo null -ao alsa -demuxer 17 /data/media/audio/Artists/A/A-ha/A-ha - Take On Me.mp3, poll=256 May be ChildApp has not printed the arguments because they should be passed as a list of argument strings and not a single string. This means that mplayer is run directly and not through the shell. Maybe someone else has the same problem, but a quick test on file names with spaces works just fine. Duncan Same problem here, with freevo-1.7.3 and fbxine as the player. I'm basically no longer able to use freevo for the main purpose I installed it, listening to music in the living room as on a normal player (don't have any other in the house) via remote control, with or without the TV on (as I have a LCDproc display) Lucian - 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] FREEVO not quoting or escaping whitespaces in file names in mplayer command
Hi, Faser wrote: Hi Duncan, thanks for the help. Actually it seems only to happen if I start freevo -trace. If I just start freevo everything plays fine, but using freevo -trace he is jumping through my MP3's. But nothing realy major. Cheers Fred Duncan Webb wrote: Faser wrote: Hi All, somehow I have a problem that freevo is not quoting the filenames in the mplayer command and therefore I can not play my MP3 files. It seems problem exists since I upgraded to 1.71. childapp.py (139): ChildApp.__init__(), pid=4528, app=/usr/bin/mplayer-bin -slave -autosync 100 -nolirc -nojoystick -autoq 100 -screenw 1024 -screenh 768 -fs -vo null -ao alsa -demuxer 17 /data/media/audio/Artists/A/A-ha/A-ha - Take On Me.mp3, poll=256 May be ChildApp has not printed the arguments because they should be passed as a list of argument strings and not a single string. This means that mplayer is run directly and not through the shell. Maybe someone else has the same problem, but a quick test on file names with spaces works just fine. Duncan Same problem here, with freevo-1.7.3 and fbxine as the player... Lucian - 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] vdr plugin
Rob Shortt wrote: [...] Do you remember the VDR python libray and how we hooked it into the Freevo TV guide, leeching EPG data from VDR and sticking it into Freevo's EPG? Well, then I was calling xine using the vdr-xine plugin to view the stream. Someone on the list or IRC channel requested something a bit different a while back, when you hit TV in the main menu, go right into vdr-xine for live TV, forget about recording or EPG in Freevo. I whipped up a plugin, vdrmain.py, and replaced the TV menu with it. Worked fine. Yes, that was exactly how I used to use the old vdr plugin, until I noticed at some Freevo version that it always ended up with freevo (python) hogging the whole CPU when df_xine was running. Well, after a while, neither df_xine or fbxine had a VDR OSD anymore when used with vdr-xine, so I gave up. VDR-xine was a bit sketchy, and somone make xinelibout for VDR. Xinelibout is great, adding another input method to xine, xvdr:// so you could watch TV from client - server. All I had to do to start using this in vdrmain.py was to modify the args in my Freevo config. :) Until Freevo 2 TV is stable I'm using this on both of my Freevo boxes in the house and it's great. Yes, and right now xineliboutput is also for me the only working video output method for VDR in my living room's htpc, where I only have DirectFB due to the Matrox G400 DH. And it's really working almost great (well, there is an issue with OSD scaling, but I can live with it for now. So I'm too very intersted in running both Freevo2 and VDR in a similar way, so when you get some time, please share ;-) Good luck with the new job! Thanks, I'll send an update soon. :) That's good to hear! Lucian - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] vdr plugin
Hi Rob, Rob Shortt wrote: BTW guys I am still actively using VDR w/ Freevo 2, although I haven't SVN updated that machine since Dischi changed some menu properties (which broke the vdrmain plugin). I am using xinelibout to remotely access the VDR server and it works awesome. I'm *very* interested to know more about this, would you please elaborate? I am about to get a new job so maybe I can justify spending some free time on updating it. Good luck with the new job! Regards, Lucian - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] vdr plugin
mike lewis wrote: On 4/5/07, Juha Pahkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike lewis wrote: [...] Found this thread while fighting to get freevo 1.7 with vdr plugin going. It seems the current vdr plugin isn't working for anyone with 1.7 (below is the traceback from my trial). In the above mail thread Mike indicated that he might have a working version of it. Has anybody got it or another solution? Are you Mike reading this? Hi. How did you go? I have the vdr plugin working locally. I submitted patches but they were never accepted as they need to go through sourceforge and I don't have an account. They should be on the list though if you can find them... I'm interested in this other plugin.. Does vdr still run in the background when the the xinelib-out plugin is no longer being used? Very interesting. This could be massaged directly for freevo 2.0 support. I chose vdr-xine as i wanted vdr to record while I wa not connected to it.. For Freevo 2.0, when the underlying kaa module will finally support xine-lib as a display engine also over DirectFB, this would enable a really smooth VDR integration via the xineliboutput plugin, as displaying the VDR interface would be almost just like rendering some media type supported by xine-lib (in this case, VDR). I imagine that a VDR skin tailored at Freevo's look feel and a proper event handling management when displaying VDR via this route, could integrate VDR in a really transparent way, without having to duplicate and re-invent everything VDR can do sooo well (DVB-* and ivtv, I'm not saying it does good normal analogue TV, that's more a hack), in Python code (sorry Freevo dev folks, it's just my opinion, maybe other users also not centered only on one media project, but wanting to have the best of more than one project might also think similar). That's why there still are users who prefer using both VDR and Freevo, and I'm sorry I did not have time myself to maintain the vdr plugin for freevo, it's not even useful for me right now in any Freevo-1.x, as I'm no longer seeing VDR's OSD in df_xine or fbxine over DFB and did not have time to try to fix that. As I said, vdr-xineliboutput might be another good aproach, but for Freevo 2. I want to check if vdr-xineliboutput's DirectFB experience can reach to that of vdr-softdevice on my G400. If that's the case, and kaa.xine will soon work well under DirectFB, I might try again to get some time for this. Cheers, Lucian - 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] [updated VDR patch] (Was: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-freevo-0.0.2)
Hi folks, here is an updated patch for vdr-1.4.3 needed when using the vdr-freevo plugin. The one shipped in the archive doesnt' seem to apply on vdr-1.4.3 at least on gentoo. http://www.muresan.de/vdr/1.4.3/10_vdr-1.4.3_disable-remotes.diff Lucian - 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] Re: Oh deary me!
Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:52 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/19/philips_enforced_ads_patent/ Can this be avoided if it comes into force in future freevo releases, we could use a slogan like take back your channel hopping This is ludicrous: A viewer may either watch the advertisements or pay a fee in order to be able to change channels or fast forward when the advertisements are being displayed, Philips' potential patent states. What's next? They will require a network connection to your couch they they can automatically strap you in and pry your eyes open while the commercials are playing? Honestly, this is insulting. And they know it: Philips admits this might by greatly resented by the viewers Greatly resented is a crashing understatement. The sad truth is that consumers are stupid. There will be enough of them to buy that shit. If I weren't right, there wouldn't have been already sold things like copy-protected audio-CDs (violating the Red Book once published by Philips Sony), region-protected and CSS-protected DVDs, not to talk about upcoming HD-DVDs, BluRay-discs, TV sets and Monitors with HDCP interface, set-top-boxes with the same shitty interface which will allow *them* to switch off HD content when attempoting to record it, or what else. If these fuckers with pockets always full of money which call themselves freaks and early adopters wouldn't buy all this shit from the entrtainment industry, these tehnologies never would have paid for them, the would have dropped them already. It's like democracy, even if some of us don't like it, just because if others do, these evil things keep existing... --- 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] Re: graph LCD 128x64
Marc Leesch wrote: Hi, does anybody use a graphical LCD with a size of 128x64? Mine has a *ks0108*-controler and works good with lcdproc. Lucian Muresan wrote that freevo does not support graph. LCDs yet, but there would be a possibility to make freevo believe it is a text-LCD. I guess the problem is, that I can´t find any suiting fonts for the display. Does anybody know wich fonts work with the LCD? Marc I'm using a 128x64 graphical display with LCDproc (CVS). In my /etc/LCDd.conf, under the [[glcdlib] section, I have: UseFT2=yes TextResolution=21x5 FontFile=/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/courbd.ttf CharEncoding=iso8859-2 MinFontFaceSize=6x12 Whith these wish values I'm getting actually a 18x4 display and the characters look good. I've said it before, you've got to play with the values configured in LCDd.conf and see what size you get, and after that, adopt that size in the lcd.py source of Freevo-1.5.4. Good luck! Lucian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Left/Right Audio Switching
Ow Mun Heng wrote: [...] It's really frustrating that Linux, with all it's multimedia greatness, can't even do Left/Right Audio Switching like what can be done on a standalone USD20 DVD/VCD player. This should have changed with recent xine-lib (I'm using CVS, which advertises itself as 1.1.2), in which Reinhard Nissl, the vdr-xine plugin developer got quite some useful patches merged upstream. You might want to try the audio post-processing plugin upmix_mono. It should be configurable on which from channel to be upmixed (duplicated) as two identical Left/Right channels. He developed this for VDR as there are lots of DVB broadcasts which either use different languages on the same track as left/right channels, or just broadcast plain mono (which can't be sent directly to SPDIF, as most external amps only understand stereo PCM, DD or dts). I haven't tested the plugin directly myself, as the vdr-plugin hooks into this automatically, but I've seen in the xine-ui menu that the upmix_mono plugin has an integer parameter ranging from -1 to 5, which may actually designate the possible channels from a 5.1 setup, plus some automatism, maybe. So just try it out. Lucian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Left/Right Audio Switching
Ow Mun Heng wrote: [..] Hey.. That works out great. Now, what I need is to figure out if I can put a keyboard shortcut key for that. upmix_mono plugin has an integer parameter ranging from -1 to 5, [..] I'm glad it did. In My file. Left = English = Channel 0 Right = Chinese = Channel 1 Stereo = Eng+Chinese = Channel -1 which may actually designate the possible channels from a 5.1 setup, plus some automatism, maybe. So just try it out. Yep.. need to find a shortcut key for that. Thanks again. You're welcome. For that, you might ask right on the xine-devel list, I think if there is not yet such a shortcut, it would be useful if the xine team provides an accepted one. Just remember them of Reinhard Nissl who is also active on that list, and the upmix_mono audio pp-plugin. Sorting this thing out, I mean having the ability to switch left/right language channels on the fly would be of use in Freevo too, I guess. But maybe there is already anothere triggering mechanism available for that, if Freevo2 links against the xine library... Lucian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: graph. LCD
Marc Leesch wrote: Hi, I want my 128x64 LCD running under freevo. The driver is glcdlib. With LCDd and lcdproc it is working fine. But when I start freevo So it's actually LCDproc you've got running so far, I'm glad you succeeded, what was your libraries problem in the end, I'd like to know because I might have to improve something with GLCDprocDriver, or with the documentation. Please note that there is no graphical display plugin for Freevo yet, there is only the LCDproc plugin, and it's only working with Freevo-1.5.x for now. There is some ongoing work to make Freevo2 work with graphical displays supported by graphlcd-base which you already know by getting LCDproc work with your display. So don't mix things up, for now, you only get *text*-based output via LCDproc at this time, graphical mode is not yet supported, and it will only be supported in Freevo2. containing the LCD plugin, it tells me that I need pylcd. How do I get freevo refering on glcdlib? Yes, you need pyLCD which is unmaintained at the moment, abandonware as the previous maintainer calls it. This has been asked at least twice on this list, Justin Wetherell placed a copy of pyLCD on his freevohelp site, you'll find the link here: http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10973.html Any Ideas? There are few catches with your setup, so let me give you instructions: 1. Install pyLCD, then Freevo's lcdproc plugin should be able to talk to the LCDproc server (which has to be on the same machine, it's hardcoded in pyLCD, you could change the address if you want), but this *may* not be enough: 2. As you're using a graphical display with LCDproc, you've got the CVS version, LCDproc-0.5, so you most likely have to patch Freevo's lcd.py plugin with http://www.muresan.de/freevo/freevo-1.5.4_lcdproc.diff Beware that this patch is also tailored to my LCDproc screensize in characters, which is 18x4. I simply changed the columns value of the 20x4 layout in Freevo's lcdproc plugin and made 18x4 out of it, so you either should change the line containing 18 : # 20 chars per line back to 20 : # 20 chars per line in this diff file before applying, or adjust another layout to your needs, see next step.. 3. After starting freevo you may see some error that no screen (or layout) has been defined for your LCDproc screen size. Please analyze the layouts part in the lcd.py plugin source in freevo (after applying the patch) and adjust some layout (most likely the one for 20x4 due to your 128x64 pixels display like mine) to your actual values, or just play a bit more with glcdlib font settings in LCDproc.conf to get a different effective characters size to match what Freevo's plugin supports, what suits you best. Good luck, Lucian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: User Interface Suggestion
Dirk Meyer wrote: Justin Wetherell wrote: I don't know if any of you have seen this but the Moxi user interface is great, it would be nice addition for 2.0. http://www.moxi.com/prodserv/index.jsp http://www.moxi.com/prodserv/moxi_demo.jsp First we need Tack back, than move to kaa.canvas and after that all that nice stuff is possible. Jason seems to be almost the most wanted dev these days, shall we hire a bounty hunter to bring him back ;-) ? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] freevo-vdr-0.5 for Freevo-1.5.4
Hi,
after succeeding to make VDR happily work under df_xine starting from
the plugin version Mike Lewis sent some weeks ago to the users ML, I did
some hacking around and the result is a packaged freevo-vdr add-on (I
think originally called vdr-xine by Ove Risberg).
From HISTORY, what I've done since Mike's modifications:
- migrated to use http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdrpylib and therefore
renamed internally to vdrtv.py;
- added new VDR keys mapped to spare or new (which you can add in your
freevo freevo lircrc) LIRC events, see README for the complete list;
- added detection if the freevo VDR plugin is loaded in VDR, allowing
to switch off VDR's remotes via SVDRP (thus making compiling VDR without
LIRC or KBD support for proper operation whithin Freevo unnecessary) and
then VDR's remotes will only be enabled during key-presses from Freevo.
If the VDR plugin freevo which provides this functionality is not
detected at initialization, a warning is printed.
- re-added Ove's original setup.py and MANIFEST.in with little
odifications, added separate HISTORY, README and PKG-INFO files
From README:
REQUIREMENTS:
- vdrpylib from http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdrpylib installed
normally by python setup.py install
- a running vdr installation (of course :)
- when using tvtime/SVDRP: (Full featured DVB cards)
- set SVDRP Timeout in vdrs OSD to 0
- make sure to setup svdrphosts.conf correctly
- add the color buttons (YELLOW,GREEN,RED,BLUE) to freevo's lirc file
- optional, but yet very useful, add the buttons which are missing
from the right column below to freevo's lirc file:
VDR key: | Freevo LIRC event
==
'RECORDINGS' : Event('RECORDINGS'),
'CHANNELS' : Event('CHANNELS'),
'AUDIO' : Event('LANG'),
'SCHEDULE' : Event('GUIDE'),
'TIMERS' : Event('TIMERS'),
'SETUP' : Event('SETUP'),
'COMMANDS' : Event('EJECT'),
- when using SVDRP, to avoid keystroke conflicts and not having to
bother with building VDR without LIRC and KBD support, use the new
vdr-freevo VDR plugin and load it with -P'freevo'. The plugin will be
detected by freevo's VDR plugin and then VDR's remotes will only be
enabled during key-presses from Freevo. If the VDR plugin freevo which
provides this functionality is not detected at initialization, a warning
is printed.
- for XINE (Budget DVB cards, streaming client)
- when using xine as a VDR decoder, the xine plugin for vdr. Start
vdr with -P'xine -r'
INSTALL:
- Unpack and run python setup.py install in the main source directory;
- Activatee the plugin in local_conf.py with
plugin.activate('vdr_interface')
plugin.activate('vdrtv', level=5)
- Configure the plugin by these variables in local_conf.py:
VDR_VIEWER_PLUGIN='xine'
VDR_USE_SVDRP=1
VDR_SVDRP_HOST='localhost'
VDR_SVDRP_PORT=2001
VDR_SVDRP_ALWAYSCLOSE=0
VDR_XINE_PIPE_PATH='vdr://var/vdr/xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes'
You can download the Freevo plugin from
http://www.muresan.de/freevo/freevo-vdr-0.5.tgz
And the highly recommended VDR freevo plugin
http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdr-freevo-0.0.1.tgz
This one does no more than providing the remotes deactivation/activation
in VDR for now, and has an yet unnecessary menu entry on VDR's main
menu, I will clean that up. In a later version, this plugin will
hopefully supress VDR's native OSD and we'll render it nicely on Freevo
side, directly in kaa.xine ;-). You might need to patch your VDR (for
sure up to vdr-1.3.36) before compiling this plugin, patch included in
the archive.
For Gentoo users:
Instead of getting the archives, you could just put the following
ebuilds somewhere in your portage overlay:
http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdrpylib-.ebuild under
../dev-python/vdrpylib
http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdrpylib.diff under
../dev-python/vdrpylib/files; unmask with -* as this will checkout
from CVS;
http://www.muresan.de/freevo/freevo-vdr-0.5.ebuild under
../media-plugins/freevo-vdr; unmask with ~x86 and set the USE flag
vdr_remotes_off for making it dependent of the companion plugin on VDR
side and get rid of keystroke conflicts:
http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdr-freevo-0.0.1.ebuild under
../media-plugins/vdr-freevo; unmask with ~x86 and don't forget to
patch your VDR first.
Have fun, feedback appreciated, thanks to all who helped me so far!
Lucian
P.S. Mike Lewis, you might want to detail your enhancments in the
HISTORY and maybe also in the README :-)
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[Freevo-users] Re: [ANNOUNCE] freevo-vdr-0.5 for Freevo-1.5.4
Rob Shortt wrote: Lucian Muresan wrote: - migrated to use http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdrpylib and therefore I hope you're using the CVS version of this. :) If you're using a recent VDR then it is required to work properly. Sure, it's the CVS version :-). When you have some time for it you might want to add those http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdrpylib.diff if you think the're needed. Otherwise I didn't touch anything, it's all in the plugin code as you suggested on IRC yesterday. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: lcd plugin
gislain wautriche wrote: What ? if I understand good, you are actually binding freevo's lcdproc's output onto your graphical LCD display using this library ? Well, now that is really cool ! Seriously, I'm about to buy an LCD display, and if you're able to explain how to do this, I think I'll get some graphical one instead. Please have a look at http://www.muresan.de/graphlcd/lcdproc/ Regards, Lucian --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: lcd plugin
Jaap Struyk wrote: Op za 29-10-2005, om 22:07 schreef Karl Lattimer: How about clock on the first line, on the second line do things like scroll headlines, weather, sysinfo etc... I adapted the lcd.py to show the clock and date when idle (it wasn't, it only shows clock on 4x20/16 on startup) but the clock on one line isn't really usefull when sitting in a chair 5 meter away. Is there a way to show 2 lines as one big one? AFAIK LCDproc supports so-called bignums which are drawn on 4 characters (2x2), the lcdproc client for example can display the clock this way. You might have to add support for it to pylcd first, don't know, but if so and if you're able to do it, please do and talk to the author of pylcd who declared it abandonware, he says he will still apply patches. http://www.schwarzvogel.de/software-pylcd.shtml Lucian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: lcd plugin
gislain wautriche wrote: Anyone thought about adapting the wonderfull VDR's graphic LCD plugin to Freevo ? http://home.arcor.de/andreas.regel/vdr_graphlcd.htm Sure, but not adapting the VDR plugin itself, instead using the graphlcd-base library for a native freevo plugin. BTW, the new homepage is http://graphlcd.berlios.de/. I'm only waiting for Freevo2 to get into a relative stable/usable state (also from architectural point of view, as there have been deep changes lately, as far as I understood). At the moment, that library is actually driving Freevo's LCDproc menu on my graphical VFD ;-) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] DirectFB xine (was: Re: Pre Freevo 2.0 Dependancies)
Scott Serr wrote: mike lewis wrote: On 10/20/05, Shawn Dowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005/10/20, Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The only thing about xine I don't like is the massive use of threads. When I have some time and your canvas code is more developed, I guess I should try xine only in freevo. BTW, is the sws code in xine working already? The other problem with xine, at least personally is that df_xine will only output video properly for me when it is an NTSC DVD or equivalent MPEG2 stream. I usr a Matrox G450 and DirectFB. Maybe for 2.0 there will be a different way of addressing this so that xine could be used for everything, but for me it just wouldn't work. What about the new patches for including directfb in fbxine? For 1.5.3, I've compiled df_xine. Unfortunately Freevo decided that it was not the right version number of xine so it refused to use it. It would be nice to know how to override that in a clean way. You may want to try the patch I posted few days ago to the dev-list: [PATCH] freevo-1.5.4 with DirectFB, if df_xine is detected, use it for DVDs http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8667184forum_id=9200 Even better, it'd be nice to have fbxine working with directfb. Do you know where those patches are? Claudio Ciccani, the DirectFB developer who wrote df_xine also submitted a patch for xine-lib on the xine-dev ML, it eventually already got merged to CVS. With that patch, fbxine is able to work on DirectFB, nevertheless, I haven't any success with it so far. Lucian --- 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] Re: freevo and vdr help
mike lewis wrote: Anyone had had any luck with these instructions? Think they are worthy of wiki-dom? Hi Mike, so far I just have the main menu entry in Freevo-1.5.4 but entering it crashes (not the whole app though). I managed to get df_xine working for DVDs last night, and VDR + vdr-xine viewed in df_xine also works, but my problem is LIRC I think, because both VDR and Freevo are configured for LIRC, I don't know, will freevo ignore LIRC events as long as the VDR plugin is active, or does it have to send commands to VDR via xine keys? How would I setup those with df_xine, provided I launch the vdr-xine plugin with the -r parameter and compiled xine-lib with all necessary patches? I't a X-less machine, and even on another desktop machine where I compiled the same xine-lib version, and on that machine, xine-ui too, but even there I cn't setup those key bindings in the xine-ui setup dialog, I don't see anything related to VDR keys there... So, any further hints are welcome :-) Lucian --- 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] Re: freevo and vdr help
mike lewis wrote: On 9/26/05, Gary Ogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be able to use a dvb-s budget card, and also combine it with vdr. I see there is a vdr plugin, but will it work with the latest version of vdr? Is there a guide on how to set up vdr in freevo? What if I didn't want to use the pvr portion, and just wanted to tune into the dvb channels in freevo? Err, I'm using freevo 1.5.3 with vdr 1.3.30(ish). It works great. I've have to customise the keys a little. From memory, you want the vdr plugin that uses python telnet (pysvdrp) service. There is also one which will talk to xine to on send the commands to vdr. I had no luck with this version. Search the lists, thats how I got that particular version. Ask any questions you have on this user list. I'll try to help wher I can. Mick Hello Mick, I'd also want to give it a try. Do you mean Ove Risberg's vdr-xine-0.2 plugin? I have a Matrox G400 DH and Freevo-1.5.3 configured with DirectFB (over SDL) and the only option for me to integrate VDR would be df_xine (I couldn't get the newly patched fbxine to work on my TV-out). Do you happen to use it the same way? Would a recent vdr-1.3.32 or even the last version, 1.3.33, work too? Same with vdr-xine-0.7.6? Regards, Lucian --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: cvs DirectFB with cvs SDL12
Juha Pahkala wrote:
Hello,
I'm in the process of compiling the right libraries to be able to try
out freevo2 cvs (or svn actually :). But I've run into this problem that
pydirectfb (which is something that freevo2 requires I guess) requires
DirectFB cvs, but SDL12 doesn't compile against the cvs version. And I'd
like to keep SDL12 available, since I'd like to be able to keep using my
tried and true freevo 1.5.3 (for which I'll certainly try to set up vdr
support as described in the previous thread, Thanks for that Mike!!!)
So, does anybody know if a patch exists against SDL12 cvs to make it
compile with DFB cvs?
You might try this one (eventually apply it by hand) if the problem
resides in the changed capabilities function. I mad it for myself a
while ago to be able to compile SDL-1.2.8 with CVS directfb after they
changed this capabilities function. If it's something else, sorry, I
tried ;-).
Lucian
diff -Naur SDL-1.2.8/src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c
SDL-1.2.8_dfb-0.9.23/src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c
--- SDL-1.2.8/src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c 2005-04-17
15:26:28.272714448 +0200
+++ SDL-1.2.8_dfb-0.9.23/src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c
2005-04-17 15:35:14.936649360 +0200
@@ -376,7 +376,11 @@
{
int i;
DFBResultret;
+#if (DIRECTFB_MINOR_VERSION == 9) (DIRECTFB_MICRO_VERSION 23)
DFBCardCapabilities caps;
+#else
+ DFBGraphicsDeviceDescription caps;
+#endif
DFBDisplayLayerConfigdlc;
struct DirectFBEnumRect *rect;
IDirectFB *dfb= NULL;
@@ -448,7 +452,11 @@
/* Query card capabilities to get the video memory size */
+#if (DIRECTFB_MINOR_VERSION == 9) (DIRECTFB_MICRO_VERSION 23)
dfb-GetCardCapabilities (dfb, caps);
+#else
+ dfb-GetDeviceDescription (dfb, caps);
+#endif
this-info.wm_available = 1;
this-info.hw_available = 1;
[Freevo-users] Re: using DirectFB instead of mga_vid?
mike lewis wrote: Also, are people holding off on the dfbmga? Are all the G400 users hanging back on mga_vid for mplayer and hence using kernel 2.4? (I had an mga_vid for 2.6 but it was an unofficial hack) I use vdr-xine for tv playback. I havn't found any reports of vdr-xine working on df_xine so thats one reason why I'm having back, although I do run 2.6 with mga_vid, with no stability problems. Yes it works, I also have a G400 DH. I only still have some tearing sometimes (I can't tell now if it's because of deinterlacing where on TV-out video shouldn't actually be deinterlaced, fiesl-parity, sync or pixel format), and also, for some strange reason, SPDIF passtrhough of AC3 broadcasts crash df_xine (but not VDR, like in the case of softdevice for example). Also, zoom. does df_xine have zoom capabilities? I don't think it Haven't tried that, I'd be very happy if I hadn't that tearing and the AC3 passhrough issue (which wasn't before, and now also affects softdevice, but not mplayer for example, might be an ALSA-related issue, don't know). does and this is another reason why I hold off. I have a 4:3 tv and i like to zoom a few steps in when wathcing widescreen format content. You could give it a try. Lucian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: using DirectFB instead of mga_vid?
Scott Serr wrote: ... I think fbxine was giving me DVD menus. Can someone confirm this? And that mplayer does not give them? You could also use df_xine from the DirectFB-extra package (from DirectFB CVS) as a replacement for fbxine (which doesn't work with DirectFB itself) and then you get DVD menus. Cheers, Lucian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: More help with DirectFB
Justin Wetherell wrote: After further examination, I have seen this problem before but I can't remember the solution. I have installed DirectFB 0.9.21, SDL 1.2.8, pygame 1.6, and Freevo 1.5.3. I recompiled DirectFB, SDL, pygame, and Mplayer. I can play movies fine with Mplayer but when I start Freevo I either get a blue screen (when primary-layer=2) or scrambled display (when SDL_DIRECTFB_MGA_CRTC2 is set). When I compiled SDL I did see DirectFB... yes. Any suggestions would be welcomed. ENV export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directfb export AUDIODEV=/dev/dsp1 export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=oss export SDL_PATH_DSP=/dev/dsp1 unset SDL_VIDEO_YUV_DIRECT export SDL_VIDEO_YUV_HWACCEL=1 export SDL_DIRECTFB_MGA_CRTC2=1 export SDL_DIRECTFB_MGA_STRETCH=1 export SDL_DIRECTFB_MGA_OVERSCAN=1 What happens if you unset all of these SDL_ environment variables except SDL_VIDEODRIVER and keep also primary-layer=2 in directfbrc? Then, can you try it with libsdl-1.2.7 ? Cheers, Lucian matrox-crtc2 matrox-tv-standard=ntsc #primary-layer=2 #fbdev=/dev/fb0 #no-vt-switch #graphics-vt #sync --- 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
[Freevo-users] Re: call for working DirectFB configurations survey - please share your success stories!
Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Heres my setup using a G450 which works well for a PAL 16:9 TV setup. /etc/directfbrc matrox-crtc2 matrox-tv-standard=pal primary-layer=02 disable-module=elo disable-module=joystick disable-module=keyboard disable-module=ps2mouse disable-module=serialmouse disable-module=sonypi disable-module=sdlinput disable-module=lirc no-vt-switch graphics-vt depth=32 no-cursor sync hardware ... Interesting. Is Freevo actually displayed in a 16:9 aspect ratio on your TV? I'm asking that because I see no line like mode=720x576 (like I have for PAL 4:3) in your directfbrc. Are you sure your Gentoo actually uses ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86? I thought it's ~x86, at least I had it that way when my libsdl and df_xine brokeon my old partition. But I see you are using the more conservative compiler flag -O2, and I'm using -03 on athlon thuinderbird arhitecture. Who knows, maybe the combination of these broke my old Gentoo. Now I'm happy without ~x86 flag, using it only for specific packages directly related to multimedia stuff. BTW, I should publish my configuration as well when I get home tonight, now that it's working again... ;-) Lucian --- 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
[Freevo-users] Re: call for working DirectFB configurations survey - please share your success stories!
Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Ah no, freevo is not displayed in 16:9 but 4:3. It gets the mode from freevo.conf as 720x576 like yours. Whenever I play 16:9 movies or put the audio visualisation on full screen my TV auto detects its in letterbox format and changes to showing full 16:9 goodness! cool. I forgot to put in my /etc/portage/packages.keywords so here it is: dev-python/pylirc ~x86 dev-python/mmpython ~x86 media-video/lsdvd ~x86 media-tv/freevo ~x86 media-libs/xine-lib ~x86 sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 ~x86 That should make more sense to you now :-) Yes, I'm using some of these too, and am very careful and selective this time :-) Yes, I am using -O2, but whenever I made the box for some reason I chose this. I can't remember the justification but I am going to recompile the whole system with -O3 soon. Question: I'm getting really annoyed that I cannot get rid of xorg-x11 on the system, can you get rid of it? qpkg -I -q xorg-x11 returns that it is not depended on by anything. I can uninstall it but whenever I emerge -uv world it wants to reinstall it every time. I have the -X use flag set and all X like packages removed. Be interested to see your setup files too. I'm still at work right now, but I hope not to forget to check on this tonight. But I can tell you, my htpc is X-less and will stay so as long as I can use my Matrox G400 DH, and an emerge world does not install X here. Maybe I'm not getting any xorg on my htpc as I unset a lot more USE flags than only X, I think that's your problem. I will send you my flags when I get home. Regards, Lucian P.S.: BTW, on my old Gentoo partition, every time I tried to emerge xmltv, it wanted to install Tcl/Tk and therefore xorg, that's why I ran xmltv on another (X-less too) computer, my home server... --- 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
[Freevo-users] Re: call for working DirectFB configurations survey - please share your success stories!
Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Ok cool, After re-looking at my packages.keywords, I realise it only needs to be: dev-python/mmpython ~x86 media-tv/freevo ~x86 media-libs/xine-lib ~x86 as pylirc, lsdvd are now stable and libstdc++-v3 is not installed/needed. I'm going through the system now removing any packages that I think are not needed looking through qpkg -I. I don't have xmltv or a TV input card installed so I'm still not sure where to look. I await your use flags with interest :-) Hi Nick, here are my USE flags, and I have a X-less Gentoo, which of course doens't mean the're all required like that :-) : USE=userlocales vdr bootsplash dts lzo -sdl -esd faad faac pp_libavcodec nptlonly -fortran lzw-tiff tiff cdparanoia dvdread live rtc theora speex ipv6 divx4linux v4l v4l2 libcaca jack lcd -xmms -opengl -svga -xv -spell nptl zlib xml xml2 acpi -arts avi encode -mozilla usb -X -gtk -gnome -kde alsa mmx ffmpeg xvid samba matroska -xosd -savage -mysql -qt -java -matrox directfb fbcon 3dnow lirc aalib dvd dvb -gtk2 ldap fusion -gphoto2 dvdr flac -cups sasl Cheers, Lucian --- 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
[Freevo-users] call for working DirectFB configurations survey - please share your success stories!
Hi folks, as setting up DirectFB is sometimes tricky or can even get annoying, even if someone thinks he managed it, it's enough to _have_ to re-install a distro from scratch for instance, and voilà - you're getting different versions of development tools, kernel, even DirectFB itself maybe, and you think you messed up everything. I just asked something about setting up df_xine for DirectFB on the freevo IRC channel this evening (I intend to use it in the end from CVS Freevo with pyvdr), and Dischi came up with the idea we should collect working DirectFB setups, I think and hope the results will end up in the Wiki. So what do you think? It would be of great use if all of you having managed such a setup would reply to this original posting (to avoid endless quoting, except when really related to some already published configs) and include following information: - graphics card; - kernel version; - kernel boot parameters if relevant for your framebuffer setup (for VGA/DVI and/or TV-out with various cable types); - framebuffer-relevant kernel configuration lines from .config (even if things are compiled-in monolythic, or as modules, and then preferably the order of module loading, do not think this is unimportant :-) ) - DirectFB: - version (even if CVS); - configuration file /etc/directfbrc (for VGA/DVI and/or TV-out with various cable types); - output of dfbinfo(for VGA/DVI and/or TV-out with various cable types); - working (and if they really work as expected, or just how good/incomplete they work) multimedia applications like mplayer, Freevo+SDL+pygame, Freevo2+pydfb, maybe even Freevo2+bmovl2, VDR+softdevice, df_xine (especially if someone managed to make it work with vdr-xine), and their versions (even if CVS) + DFB-specific configurations, command line args and even environment variables (SDL comes to my mind). Did I forget something? Anyway, please share your experience, we should make our lives easier and put then everything in the Freevo2 Wiki. Regards, Lucian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: what is the current method for xine output on directfb
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
[Freevo-users] Re: Freevo Survey
Hi, I'd suggest to add for the quetion How is your physical television set connected, the possibility to answer Connected to HTPC by SCART-RGB, as SCART it is commonly used in Europe. Just my 0.02, 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
[Freevo-users] Re: Freevo Survey
Fons van der Beek wrote: Tnx i've changed it into: -Connected to HTPC by SVHS or RGB (cinch or scart) allthough the output on your videcard is cinch (also in Europe) Ok, thank you. Actually, the output on my videocard (Matrox G400 DH) in that case is: - either the original Matrox TV-out adapter which has a weird mini DIN 7 female connector (weird just because one cannot find any matching 7-pins male connector, those 7-pins that are available do not fit, only the standard S-Video connector which also matches, but leaves some of the pins unconnected), or - a custom-made VGA to SCART cable carrying the RGB signal (which I actually use now). To be noted, this is the 2nd VGA connector of the Matrox DH, and the diversification even goes further, as a custom VGA2SCART RGB cable for the first head can also be built, but that one is slightly different as you have to compose vertical and horizontal syncs into one composite sync for the SCART. But, anyway, I agree if someone argues that tampering with the soldering iron and transistors, resistors and maybe ICs is not stuff that anyone is willing to do ;-) ... 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
