Re: [Freevo-users] New site - any final thoughts before

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 14:40 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
 On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
   I'd like to see forums on the site.
   I think they are more convenient and simpler to use than mailing
   lists.
   Sorry if this has been covered before.
 
  I prefer mail lists. (personal preference)
 
 I'd add that I have 14 mailing list memberships and a few more forum ones. I 
 Mailing lists do get things done, not as fast as irc, but faster than forum 
 exchanges.

I have a multitude of maillist memberships. 

 Finding old stuff means you need a good search engine and good search 
 strategies - and then mailing list or forum gives no advantage.

Mailist provides the means of searching through archives much easier and
simpler since it's all in the user's desktop/laptop and it's all
threaded and you can use it when one does not have an I-net connection
available. (like me)

 I'd expect more newer users wanting a forum and less older users, and
 that 
 with time there will be enough interest to maintain a forum - someone
 has to 
 read and answer the posts, remove spam, and maintain some order when 
 arguments develop.

Hey.. who're you calling old?? :-)


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Re: [Freevo-users] For the site: What hardware (tv/graphics/sound) card do you use?

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:25 +0100, John Molohan wrote:
 * TV card - analogue, dvb-t/s/c, atsc

NONE

 * Sound card - with output used

Internal Motherboard Sound (analog) output to Amp

 * Graphics card - with output used

Nvidia Geforce 5200 w/ S-Video to RCA output.

 * Motherboard
Cheap asus Motherboard. Celeron 2G, 512MB Ram

1x 750G (SATA via 2port silicon_image PCI-SATA Card)
3x 320G
1x 200G
1x 80G

 * Case
Whitebox
USB Wireless Keyboard.


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[Freevo-users] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

[Ow Mun Heng]

I was feeling a bit un-appreciated as a Developer and I thought of all
the other developers of Open Source (Free) Software who relentlessly
contribute to/make Open Source (free) software.

I just wanted to take some time to officially say *Thank You* for all
the good things which you guys/gals have made to my(/our) benefit, of
which has either saved my skin or improved my work efficiency.

To All of you, I say a Big Thank You for it.

Let no one tell you that you are Un-appreciated for all the hard work
you have poured into your relevant projects.

Seriously, Thank you.



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Re: [Freevo-users] Running Freevo on second video card

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On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:45 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote:
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 Brian McKee wrote:
  On 03/07/07, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  On an [OT] note - It's looking like it would be helpful to know a
  little python to use freevo better - does anybody have a favourite
  Python for Beginning Idiots to get me started?   Off list probably
  better I suppose.
I'm doing the same thing. LEarning Python so that I can start hacking on
Freevo. (and perhaps contribute :-)

I'm reading Beginning Python (Wrox)

 
 It is rather easy, at least I hope it is. The attached patch should
 allow you to pass any server arguments that you wish to freevo when run
 with -fs. eg: (see man startx)
 
 freevo -fs -layout Multihead

Nice patch. Thanks. (BTW, will this make it into the next revision/svn?)

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Re: [Freevo-users] Running Freevo on second video card

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On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 21:39 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
 Hi All
   First post here - please let me know if I'm missing anything etc...
   I'm trying to get Freevo 1.7.2 running on my Ubuntu 6.06.1 box on the
 second video card and monitor.
   Wuth gdm running normally if I do 'freevo -fs' from a console it starts
 a second X session which is exactly what I want - i just want that
 second session to use a different xconf.org or to be able to pass a
 different ServerLayout' to it.   Anybody know how to accomplish this?


I've asked this question before but came to no conclusion..

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Re: [Freevo-users] Frevo 1.7.x-SVN - Autogen.sh nodocs

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 09:32 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote:
  1. Kaa - For X reasons, I cant get this thing to be installed into the
  specified prefix. (Freevo setup will not be able to locate kaa.) Ended
  up have to install it as system wide then freevo will be able to find
  it.
 
 Did you set PYTHONPATH to point to the location of kaa?
 It's fine installing kaa into the site-packages as it is a library of
 modules and is not used by anything else so there is no conflict.


I'm not sure but I don't think I did. I was following the instructions
on the wiki.

 
  2. Freevo, during the install stage, where it's checking for needed
  dependencies, it will complain that the html docs/howto are not
  installable/found and exit. This is after doing ./autogen.sh nodocs.
  I found out that it's because of a missing docbook2html binary, which I
  didn't want to install because it pulls in a lot of other unneeded
  dependencies.
 
  In the end, I commented out
 
  os.path.walk('./Docs/installation', docbook_finder, data_files)
  os.path.walk('./Docs/plugin_writing', docbook_finder, data_files)
 
  the above 2 lines which then proceeded normally.
 
 It is actually saying that these files do not exist, the correct solution
 is to copy the html docs from 1.6.3 to your svn Docs directory.

Oh.. I thought that nodocs will omit the need for these files to be
generated anyway
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[Freevo-users] Frevo 1.7.x-SVN - Autogen.sh nodocs

[Ow Mun Heng]

I tried installing the latest svn release of freevo on my home media
server (currently on 1.6.2) and checked out the wiki page on getting it
installed for testing purposes..

Few items.

1. Kaa - For X reasons, I cant get this thing to be installed into the
specified prefix. (Freevo setup will not be able to locate kaa.) Ended
up have to install it as system wide then freevo will be able to find
it.

2. Freevo, during the install stage, where it's checking for needed
dependencies, it will complain that the html docs/howto are not
installable/found and exit. This is after doing ./autogen.sh nodocs.
I found out that it's because of a missing docbook2html binary, which I
didn't want to install because it pulls in a lot of other unneeded
dependencies.

In the end, I commented out 

os.path.walk('./Docs/installation', docbook_finder, data_files)
os.path.walk('./Docs/plugin_writing', docbook_finder, data_files)

the above 2 lines which then proceeded normally.

Note : For Y reasons, it X won't come back up when I do a freevo -fs on
the test directory. Have not troubleshoot it much yet..

Just thought I'll let you guys know.

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[Freevo-users] Freevo Gentoo Portage in SVN

[Ow Mun Heng]

I guess this is directed directly at whoever maintains a gentoo overlay
in svn (I just noticed that!!)

Anyway, I just want to find out more about this overlay before I dive
headlong into it (actually already did :-0)

Gentoo bugzilla has a freevol ebuild in
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156497 which I'm using right now,
but due to the bug in kaa which was not in the release package (the
thumbnailing bug which was highlighted in the mail list in May 7th)

I'm pondering if/how I can go about getting it back.

Do I.. use the SVN Overlay (and thus is always on 'bleeding' ) or is
there another path which I can choose??




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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo Gentoo Portage in SVN

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:17 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
 Ow Mun Heng wrote:
  I guess this is directed directly at whoever maintains a gentoo overlay
  in svn (I just noticed that!!)
 
 That would be me.

Yeah.. I figured that.. but IRC has taught me NOT to be specific cos
it's rude.

 
  Gentoo bugzilla has a freevol ebuild in
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156497 which I'm using right now,
  but due to the bug in kaa which was not in the release package (the
  thumbnailing bug which was highlighted in the mail list in May 7th)
 
  I'm pondering if/how I can go about getting it back.
 
 What do you mean? What do you want back?
 
I want the thumbnails feature back for the videos.

  Do I.. use the SVN Overlay (and thus is always on 'bleeding' ) or is
  there another path which I can choose??
 
 The overlay was created by me for making 2.0 svn test ebuilds. But
 since gentoo has no 1.7.x I could also add an ebuild for that. If you
 have a working ebuild for 1.7.1 please send it to me and I will
 include it to the overlay.

The ebuild I have seems to be working, it's in the link above. Except
for the fact that I have 

1. Thumbnailing issues (which is the question I'm asking as to how do I
get it back, I know from the mail list, it's said to be fixed in kaa in
svn (But which Kaa? there's imlib2/base/metadata/db) What do I need to
update to get the thumbnailing feature back?

2. A/V Sync. Seems like for X reasons, the Video is slower than the
audio for xine/mplayer but is OK when I play it from the CLI so the
video clip is not an issue.

(posted separate mail on this)

Thanks.

BTW, the Panorama skin looks great! I like it..

 
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Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] 1.7.2 - audio faster than video when playing movie

[Ow Mun Heng]

Sorry.. Wrong List..
Resend to correct list.



On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:36 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Just installed 1.7.2 from a gentoo ebuild (link posted in separate
 email) and found out that the audio is for X reasons having a couple of
 seconds faster than the video.
 
 It's the same issue with mplayer and xine.
 
 The video is fine when playing directly from the terminal/app.
 
 I've even put the option MPLAYER_SET_AUDIO_DELAY
 
 
 --MPLAYER COMPILE OPTIONS--
 Configuration: --cc=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
 --host-cc=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer
 --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-largefiles
 --enable-menu --ena
 ble-network --disable-tv-bsdbt848 --disable-faad-external
 --disable-libcdio --disable-fribidi --disable-cddb --disable-cdparanoia
 --disable-enca --disable-ftp --disable-vstream --disable-dvdnav --d
 isable-libdv --charset=UTF-8 --disable-joystick --disable-inet6
 --disable-unrarlib --disable-rtc --disable-tv --disable-tv-v4l1
 --disable-tv-v4l2 --disable-radio --disable-radio-v4l2 --disable-radi
 o-bsdbt848 --disable-dvb --disable-dvbhead --disable-pvr
 --disable-musepack --disable-pnm --disable-tga --disable-xanim
 --disable-libdts --disable-liblzo --disable-twolame --disable-toolame
 --realc
 odecsdir=/opt/RealPlayer/codecs --disable-directfb --disable-ivtv
 --disable-ggi --disable-md5sum --disable-aa --disable-caca --disable-mga
 --disable-xmga --disable-zr --enable-gui --disable-xvmc --
 disable-3dfx --disable-tdfxvid --disable-tdfxfb --disable-arts
 --disable-jack --disable-nas --disable-openal --disable-3dnow
 --disable-3dnowext --disable-mmxext --disable-altivec
 
 
  Mplayer Command line 
 CommandLine: '-slave' '-fs' '-stop-xscreensaver' '-ao' 'esd' '-v' '-vo'
 'xv,sdl,x11,' '-cache' '5000' '-idx' '//Video Clips/Loser.avi'
 '-vf' 'pp=de'
 
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo Gentoo Portage in SVN

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:17 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
  If you
 have a working ebuild for 1.7.1 please send it to me and I will
 include it to the overlay.

See if this works..
(hope it goes through the maillist)




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Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] 1.7.2 - audio faster than video when playing movie

[Ow Mun Heng]

seems like neither mplayer nor xine likes my usage of esd. falling back
to using oss, it seems fine for now..

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:43 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
 Sorry.. Wrong List..
 Resend to correct list.
 
 
 
 On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:36 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
  Hi,
  
  Just installed 1.7.2 from a gentoo ebuild (link posted in separate
  email) and found out that the audio is for X reasons having a couple of
  seconds faster than the video.
  
  It's the same issue with mplayer and xine.
  
  The video is fine when playing directly from the terminal/app.
  
  I've even put the option MPLAYER_SET_AUDIO_DELAY
  
  
  --MPLAYER COMPILE OPTIONS--
  Configuration: --cc=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
  --host-cc=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer
  --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-largefiles
  --enable-menu --ena
  ble-network --disable-tv-bsdbt848 --disable-faad-external
  --disable-libcdio --disable-fribidi --disable-cddb --disable-cdparanoia
  --disable-enca --disable-ftp --disable-vstream --disable-dvdnav --d
  isable-libdv --charset=UTF-8 --disable-joystick --disable-inet6
  --disable-unrarlib --disable-rtc --disable-tv --disable-tv-v4l1
  --disable-tv-v4l2 --disable-radio --disable-radio-v4l2 --disable-radi
  o-bsdbt848 --disable-dvb --disable-dvbhead --disable-pvr
  --disable-musepack --disable-pnm --disable-tga --disable-xanim
  --disable-libdts --disable-liblzo --disable-twolame --disable-toolame
  --realc
  odecsdir=/opt/RealPlayer/codecs --disable-directfb --disable-ivtv
  --disable-ggi --disable-md5sum --disable-aa --disable-caca --disable-mga
  --disable-xmga --disable-zr --enable-gui --disable-xvmc --
  disable-3dfx --disable-tdfxvid --disable-tdfxfb --disable-arts
  --disable-jack --disable-nas --disable-openal --disable-3dnow
  --disable-3dnowext --disable-mmxext --disable-altivec
  
  
   Mplayer Command line 
  CommandLine: '-slave' '-fs' '-stop-xscreensaver' '-ao' 'esd' '-v' '-vo'
  'xv,sdl,x11,' '-cache' '5000' '-idx' '//Video Clips/Loser.avi'
  '-vf' 'pp=de'
  
  
  
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Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] 1.7.2 - audio faster than video when playing movie

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On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:42 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote:
 Ow Mun Heng wrote:
  seems like neither mplayer nor xine likes my usage of esd. falling back
  to using oss, it seems fine for now..
 
 These days you man be better of using alsa as oss has been deprecated
 for quite a while.

Yeah.. I know and even in my own kernel configs, it's only still there
for legacy reasons.


 
  On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:43 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
  Sorry.. Wrong List..
 
 Actually users is the best place, may be someone has experience with esd.

Actually, initial email was sent to the wrong list(devel), diverted to
users


 If mplayer's audio is out of sync with the video when playing something
 from the command line then you should ask on the mplayer users list. The
 reason is that freevo is really a wrapper around other tools, when
 something doesn't work from the command line then you need to find the
 correct set of arguments and the best place is the list of the tools.
 

Actually, I found out that when I do 

-ao oss:/dev/dsp - A/V OK
-ao esd - A/V out of sync
no -ao option, AV OK
-ao alsa - AV OK  as well

I'm used to using esd as it can do sound mixing, (never did figure out
how to get alsa_dmix to work as of yet since esd was working fine till
now for X reasons.

BTW, the above are tested on the command line as well.

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Re: [Freevo-users] vlc plugin - how to use?

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On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:39 +0200, Pascal Schirrmann wrote:
 Ow Mun Heng a écrit :
  I'm wondering on the new VLC plugin and how it can be used.
 
  Is it only useful for RTSP streams or can it also be used for normal
  video? I would suppose that normal video is doable also, however, I
  can't get it configured.

 Hi,
 
 The vlc plugin is very, very poor at the moment. It only support rstp 
 streams (and is configured to refuse any other kind of medias), and even 
 in that case, is poorly implemented in freevo.

Any clues on how it can be hacked?

  
  failed to load plugin video.vlc
  start 'freevo plugins -l' to get a list of plugins
  Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/plugin.py, line 558, in
  __load_plugin__
  p = eval(object)()
File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/video/plugins/vlc.py,
  line 24, in __init__
  plugin.register(Vlc(), plugin.VIDEO_PLAYER, True)
File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/video/plugins/vlc.py,
  line 42, in __init__
  self.cmd= config.VLC_CMD
  AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'VLC_CMD'

 Yes, this is a 'normal' bug, just corrected in freevo 1.7.2 : you have 
 to rerun freevo setup to automagically add vlc in your freevo.conf file, 
 or alternatively, you can do this add manually.

I am already on 1.7.2 and I've already ran freevo setup and I already
have
 vlc = /usr/bin/vlc

in freevo.conf and still if barfs.

clues appreciated

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Re: [Freevo-users] vlc plugin - how to use?

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On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 22:14 +0200, Geert Decorte wrote:
 For rtsp streams, you could use mplayer as well.
 
 This is what I'm doing  with Freevo  in my TV menu.  I have server
 with  vlc  providing  live  streams.
 
 I've tried the plugin, but it created a extra menu. My aim was to
 stream live tv

Actually, I would like to use vlc because it has capability to select
the audios on the fly which as I (think I've mentioned before) is
crucial for those asian karaoke discs which have audio only on left and
audio+vocal on the right for it to be able to downmix/upmix mono to
stereo etc etc etc..

Mplayer and xine is not able to do on-the-fly downmixing and have to
revert to complicated channels selecting/swapping.



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Re: [Freevo-users] LinuxMCE - anyone tried this?

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On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:47 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote:
 Last time looked LinuxMCE was based on MythTV. That particular setup
 in the video was using some really oddball but cool hardware using the
 x10 protocol stuff for home automation. Nice piece of advertising and
 Linux propaganda though.

I tried to create 2 separate instances/times of the install and both
times, it ended up bad, either something went missing during the install
or it was't working in the end.

(I  had the same luck coincidentally with Pluto too)

So.. Bad experience thus far and results certainly doesn't come out much
like the AVI file from the site.




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Re: [Freevo-users] Appletrailers in 1.7.0

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On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:00 +0100, Michel Hoogervorst wrote:
 Maybe a stupid question but...
 
 In the changelog I see:
 New apple trailers plugin (disabled by default)
 
 So, I thought lets try it... but I can't find it in the Freevo
 package?
 How do I enable this?

If not mistaken, this is an addon which is available at freevo's website


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Re: [Freevo-users] Weekly 2.0 SVN Update

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On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 11:24 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
 It should work now as expected, I will prepare new ebuilds today.

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[Freevo-users] Bluetooth Remote Control (using a SE T630)

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Hi,

I struggled with making my own IR receiver to use with LIRC but it's
been  1 year with no progress. (yeah.. Lazy :-) )

Anyway, i stumbled across Bluemote (can't remember the URL right now)
but it connects a Bluetooth enabled phone (I have a Sony Ericssion T630
and according to the site, the author makes it work on his T610)

Got it up and running in  30 min, right now, fine tuning it with some
scripts etc to do volume muting/volume up/dn etc..

The SE's joystick can be used as a mouse(if needed)

Limitation is only towards the # of keypad the phone has. 

I've tried it with Freevo and it works great. (under X11, but not yet as
standalone so I can't confirm if it will work standalone)

Additional benefit is it can even transmit simple commands to the host
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Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.6.0 Released.

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On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 19:14 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
 Dirk Meyer wrote:
 distro. I wonder who wins this time. The record holds Gentoo with
 official ebuild less than one hour after I announced a release on
 irc. Please do not forget to also update mmpython.

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Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.6.0 Released.

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On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 19:57 +0200, Jaap Struyk wrote:
 Thanks for including my rain theme ;-)

Hmm.. I just installed 1.60 and didn't realise there were a few new
themes..

Looking Good!!

BTW, did anyone of you guys notice that there's an OSS project for Mac
called itheatre? http://www.itheaterproject.com/
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Re: [Freevo-users] Adding a new Video Player

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On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:01 +0200, Gorka Olaizola wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 06:13:28PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
 
  I want to ask, if someone here can tell me how to add a new Video
  player into Freevo. 
 
 I've done some plugins for Freevo 1.5.4 that maybe you can hack or at least
 take a look for inspiration.
 
 The plugins are in this URL but right now the server is down afer a crash. I
 hope that in the afternoon the server will be up.
 
   http://helvete.escomposlinux.org/~gorka/files/misoft/freevo/

It's still down?
 
 If you are interested and cannot connect I can send them to you by email.
 

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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Adding a new Video Player

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On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:21 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
 Ow Mun Heng wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I want to ask, if someone here can tell me how to add a new Video
  player into Freevo. 
 
  Currently, There is xine and mplayer. I would like to add another into
  the mix. (actually, just another copy of xine with a few changes in the
  way it's called to enable upmix_mono)
 
  I've tried just copying the xine.py/mplayer.py file into eg:
  xine1.py/mplayer1.py but when I try to get the video to be played, I
  only see 2 options.
 
  1. PLay
  2. Play with Alternate player
 
  How can I add another option to it?
 
 You can't with 1.5 because 1.5 only expects 2 players. Freevo SVN can
 do that. Or if you prefer 1.5 you can hack videoitem.py

I'm trying to back port some of the items in pre 2.0 into 1.5. Progress
is very slow. (getting distracted with other things)

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[Freevo-users] Adding a new Video Player

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Hi,

I want to ask, if someone here can tell me how to add a new Video
player into Freevo. 

Currently, There is xine and mplayer. I would like to add another into
the mix. (actually, just another copy of xine with a few changes in the
way it's called to enable upmix_mono)

I've tried just copying the xine.py/mplayer.py file into eg:
xine1.py/mplayer1.py but when I try to get the video to be played, I
only see 2 options.

1. PLay
2. Play with Alternate player

How can I add another option to it?
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[Freevo-users] Video-Plugin Submenu

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Hi,

This is along the lines of the left/right audio switching. Since there
isn't a way to do on-the-fly changes for both mplayer and xine, I want
to add another 2 options to the freevo submenu.

Watch Movie
-Filename.avi E
- Play
- Play with Alternate Player
-

I would like to extend that to

Watch Movie
-Filename.avi E
- Play
- Play with Alternate Player
- Play with Xine-Left
- Play with Xine-Right
- ...

Basically, the difference between Xine-Left/Right and normal xine would
be the option.

--post upmix_mono:channel=0
--post upmix_mono:channel=1

Which would be placed into the xine.py plugin file.

I have created a copy of the plugin, but I cannot get the submenu to
show this option. It will only have

Play (w/ default player)
Play with alternate Player

Which file should I be hacking?? videoitem.py?

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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Left/Right Audio Switching

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On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 07:35 +0200, Lucian Muresan wrote: 
 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.
  
  Yep.. need to find a shortcut key for that.
  
 For that, you might ask right on the xine-devel list, I
 think if there is not yet such a shortcut,

Nope There isn't one.

what _can_ be done right now is just to have a config file which enables
the post-processing. I've looked at the config file as well as the
source, doesn't seem to have the option
(xine-lib/src/xine-engine/config-file.c)
 
 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...

It would definitely be useful.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Left/Right Audio Switching

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On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 12:46 +0200, Lucian Muresan wrote:
 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.
 
 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.

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,

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.

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[Freevo-users] Left/Right Audio Switching

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I know this isn't entirely a Freevo Question but I've not been getting
much result/responses elsewhere.

The thing here is, I have some avi files which are dual-language. eg:
Left = English
Right = Chinese

When I play them using freevo (or xine or mplayer) it will output in
Stereo and I will get left+right = English+Chinese = Garbage.

I found out that I can do audio switching using mplayer using :

1. mplayer -af channels=2:2:0:1:0:0
(map left channel to right and output)
2. mplayer -af pan=2:1:1:0:0

However, what I've not been able to find is a way to map a shortcut key
to either of the 2 actions.

a mplayer -input cmdlist doesn't list either of the 2 options as a
map-able command.

Do any of you guys here know how that can be done or if it's possible??

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.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Left/Right Audio Switching

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On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:15 +0200, Alberto Hernando wrote:
 El Sábado, 1 de Abril de 2006 17:50, Ow Mun Heng escribió:
  The thing here is, I have some avi files which are dual-language. eg:
  Left = English
  Right = Chinese
 
 Freevo allows to choose the audio track in dual files. Just press E or the 
 equivalent in your remote control to see the options.

E will only give me a menu such as 

Play with ALternate player
Search IMDB
Create Thumbnail
etc

 Even so, I think there is something wrong with your files. My dual avi files 
 have 2 tracks, one for each language, and each track has 2 channels, ie, it's 
 stereo. 

Mine is more like Karaoke files. I'm not really sure if it's stereo, but
it sure doesn't present itself as that.

 In your case, you have only one track with both languages. 

Nope. It's One Language per channel/track.
LEft = English
Right = Chinese

or in Karaoke
Left = Music Only
Right = Music + Vocal
Stereo = Music + Vocal

The above setup enables users/singers to sing either the Karaoke by
him/herself and switch to the one with Vocal if they don't know how to
sing that particular verse.

 fix your files, so that freevo and 
 mplayer can see them as dual files, not stereo. 

Frankly, I've never seen dual files before.

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[OT] There's Freevo 1.5.6?? [Was Re: [Freevo-users] Combo TV-Cards in Freevo 1.5.6]

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nothing to do with the org topic, but there exists Freevo 1.5.6???

Where?

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[Freevo-users] Shortcut for Play Random Music

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Hi,

I want to know how to create a shortcut key much like the HOME key
which takes you straight into the Main Menu.

I would like to have a shortcut key for going straight into the Play
Music Menu and automatically start a random playlist. How can this be
achieved?

Also, the Power/Sleep functions, doesn't seem to do anything for me. How
can I make it Work better?

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[Freevo-users] Slow Access to RMVB (Real media) files

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Hi,

I have a number of RMVB files (Real Media/Read Video) which I find to
be of great quality and yet small size.

The problem I have is that when freevo access folders which contains
these rmvb files, it' will slow to a crawl. It will show Scanning
directory, be patient and then depending on the # of files I have
there, take between 5 min to 1 hour to process them. (it's even worst
when these files are not local, but on a SMB network share)

I know it is processing these files because from the Wife's windows box,
I can see it accessing the files incrementally.

I'm not sure what freevo is doing. Is it going through Mplayer to _look_
at the file? Or is it going through mminfo? 

I tried doing 

$ mminfo -d /path/to/some/rmvb file
mmpython media info
application/pcm registered
[SNIP]
...
No Type found by Extension. Trying all
...
Trying video/real

And then it hangs there for a while.

Then This 


filename : Motel.ch01.rmvb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/bin/mminfo, line 87, in ?
print unicode(medium).encode('latin-1', 'replace')
  File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mmpython/mediainfo.py, line
350, in __unicode__
result += MediaInfo.__unicode__(self)
  File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mmpython/mediainfo.py, line
156, in __unicode__
(a, unicode(b), unicode(self[b])) or a, keys, u'' )
  File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mmpython/mediainfo.py, line
155, in lambda
result += reduce( lambda a,b: self[b] and b != u'url' and u'%s\n
%s: %s' % \
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xca in position 8:
ordinal not in range(128)


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[Freevo-users] Video Volume Control

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Hi All,

I found only one reference to this issue in a Feb 23 2005 post titled
Unable to adjust volume.

Basically the problem here is that once mplayer is spawned, volume
control normally done using the M/N key will not work and will have to
resort to using 0/9 which is mplayer's mapping.

That's OK, unfortunately, mplayer's volume is already MAX and still
Freevo volume is still at 40% (that's the default volume)

This doesn't happen when playing audio files because I believe focus is
still on freevo and not on mplayer.

Anyone has any comment on this?

BTW, how do I re-map freevo's shortcut keys? (perhaps map 0/9 to
increase volume instead)

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[Freevo-users] Audio.Detach Plugin - Audio still playing when playing Video

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I just tried out this plugin and it's really a great complement when
doing picture browsing, unfortunately, I find that there's something
wrong as I will not stop when I start playing a video.

The wiki says that it's supposed to you can watch tv and videos while
playing detached audio but you won't hear their audio.

Well, something's wrong, I can hear the audio. Is there anything which I
should be doing or am I doing something wrong?

Freevo-1.5.4

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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Bad default config - Xine (messes up widescreen videos on regular TVs)

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On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 11:57 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
 Adam Williamson wrote:
  The default xine config in 1.5.4 appears to be
  duff. /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py contains these two settings:
 
  XINE_COMMAND = '%s --hide-gui -pq -g -B --geometry %sx%s+0+0
  --no-splash' % \
   (CONF.xine, CONF.width, CONF.height)
 
  XINE_ARGS_DEF = '--no-lirc --post=pp:quality=10;expand'
 
  Combined, these settings cause Freevo to play any widescreen videos -
  e.g. several 1024x576 .avi files I have - in 4:3, when you're running it
  at 4:3 resolution (e.g. 800x600) and using Xine as the default video
  player. The video is stretched to the 4:3 resolution and consequently
  looks completely wrong. I think the culprit is the 'expand' option in
  the XINE_ARGS_DEF. 

I was having this issue as well last night. I knew what the problem was
(btw, how come the 'expand' option is not documented in xine's manual
page?) but was unable to locate the command line. I was searching
in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/freevo instead of
in /usr/share/freevo


 Sorry, I have a 4:3 tv and so I never saw the problem. I guess the
 best way to fix this is to use a 16:9 resolution in Freevo,
 too. Someone needs to create a nice 16:9 skin to make it all working. 

The problem here is that xine will expand it no matter what the res of
the TV is. (I use a laptop monitor and it expands/stretches the video to
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo And integration of VLC

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On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:20 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote:
 To be honest, with the current value of USD I wouldn't really bother
 myself for that, I doubt that many others would too. 

So the question is.. how much would it take? What's a ball park figure?
At least you have to let me chew on it.

 then you've gotta have local clients connect
 to that, as well as remote clients.

Not too sure what the above means though. It'll just initiate the Video
Player based on some Pre-Set FXD files. (so, it will only be a client
connecting to a remote server. Why is there a remote client in that
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[Freevo-users] Freevo And integration of VLC

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Hi All,
Has anyone on this list been able to get VLC intergrated into Freevo? I
am currently running Freevo as a set-top box and set-up a separate
server box running VLC and acting as a VoD server.

Right now, VLC is using RTSP protocol (Live.com media streaming
implementation protocol) and xine does not support it. Even though
Mplayer is said to support it, but according to the Mplayer and
live.com's devel, it's support is broken. (Hence I can't use neither
mplayer nor xine to play the VLC VoD Streams)

Per freevo-archive, Dirk Meyer had this to say

[quote]
So why not vlc? First of all, I couldn't get it running. Second: every
new player (vlc, gstreamer, whatever) takes time to integrate into
Freevo. I don't have that time. So _I_ will only integrate two
programs: mplayer and xine. But this two will be integrated with
freevo having _full_ control over the stream and freevo drawing on top
of the video. So this is more important to me than supporting every
player. But if someone whats to help, I would accept vlc patches. 
[/quote]

So, since this is a feature which I would like to have, I'm willing to
put up a bounty for it. If there are interest, please email me offline
to work out the details.

Thanks for the great work thus far on freevo.


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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo And integration of VLC

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On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:48 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote:
 how much is the bounty?

Depends on the complexity of the work. I'm not sure what price to put on
it. USD100-200??

Would that suffice?
 
 On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:58 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
  Hi All,
  Has anyone on this list been able to get VLC intergrated into Freevo? I
  am currently running Freevo as a set-top box and set-up a separate
  server box running VLC and acting as a VoD server.
  
  Right now, VLC is using RTSP protocol (Live.com media streaming
  implementation protocol) and xine does not support it. Even though
  Mplayer is said to support it, but according to the Mplayer and
  live.com's devel, it's support is broken. (Hence I can't use neither
  mplayer nor xine to play the VLC VoD Streams)
  
  Per freevo-archive, Dirk Meyer had this to say
  
  [quote]
  So why not vlc? First of all, I couldn't get it running. Second: every
  new player (vlc, gstreamer, whatever) takes time to integrate into
  Freevo. I don't have that time. So _I_ will only integrate two
  programs: mplayer and xine. But this two will be integrated with
  freevo having _full_ control over the stream and freevo drawing on top
  of the video. So this is more important to me than supporting every
  player. But if someone whats to help, I would accept vlc patches. 
  [/quote]
  
  So, since this is a feature which I would like to have, I'm willing to
  put up a bounty for it. If there are interest, please email me offline
  to work out the details.
  
  Thanks for the great work thus far on freevo.
  
  
 
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer has the hiccups...

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On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:14 -0700, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I'm running into this strange problem that I'm not able to solve.
 Whenever I watch a certain real video stream via freevo/mplayer the
 video stutters and it looks like it's skipping frames every 2 seconds
 or so. Audio is fine and CPU usage is around 75%.

Are you using those Mini-itx boxes? and are you using the unichrome
graphics with xxmc?

if yes, perhaps you want to try

[snip from unichrome mail list ]
video.device.xvmc_more_frames:1

in your ~/.xine/config file.

Which should make the xxmc module buffer 15 frames instead of 8, just
like
the Xv module. Should even make mpeg2 playback smoother, but it then
consumes more frame-buffer memory.

[snip from unichrome mail list ]



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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: vlc timeshifting

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On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:49 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
 Karl Lattimer wrote:
  2) WOW, if I'm streaming network video I can pause/rewind it just like
  web radio
 
 That is more a client feature. If you use xine you can also do that,
 with mplayer you can't.

Are we talking about live broadcast video or something like VoD? (video
on demand)

I'm currently experimenting on doing VOD(RTSP Streams using live.com)
using VLC and it works great. Although it needs to use VLC to actually
playback the stream. Mplayer is _supposed_ to support playing rtsp
streams, (and a Poster - Andreas Lorensen) mentioned that he can do it
under freevo using mplayer.), but for my case, playing the streams under
mplayer, it will start to jerk after 5-10 seconds and then it complains
about dropped frames. (I've tried -dropframe and -harddropframe and both
doesn't work).


I don't believe xine can play rtsp streams. (I've googled)

  3) OMFGG, if freevo had a TV player interface to a vlc streaming server
  running then I could pause/rewind TV in freevo
 
 Yes, and we already have a patch for mplayer to support chunk file
 playing and we will put that in xine, too. 

Please explain what this is and where I can find this chunk file. (I
searched through mplayer's manual page and it only gave me refs to audio
density and verbosity)

 
  I think the there are the following requirements,
* A VLC (running as a client) plugin for TV input
* A remote interface so the play/pause/rewind/fast forward buttons   
  work on tv
 
 Arg. The client is only used for watching and you send play/pause over
 the network. I hope they are using RTSP. Or is it your idea. If so:
 don't! Timeshifting should be handled in the client, not the streaming
 server.

VLC server running VOD is the current setup. I've not tried embedding /
asking freevo to open up vlc. I'll give it a shot.

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[Fwd: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and rtsp (live.com) - Mplayer jerks

[Ow Mun Heng]

 Forwarded Message 
From: Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Andreas Lorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and rtsp (live.com) - How I did it.
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:54:35 +0800

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 19:08 +0200, Andreas Lorensen wrote:
 Fredag den 16. september 2005 08:35 skrev du:
  Meaning you compiled mplayer with RTSP support? Is that what you mean?
 
 Yes

Will you be willing to show me some rtsp links which works for mplayer?
I've searched but I can't find any rtsp videos.

I've tried creating my own using VLC, but for some reason, mplayer will
play fine for ~5 secs (I assume this is from the cache) and then start
to jerk afterwards.

I've tried -framedrop and -hardframedrop (which crashes mplayer).

Do you have experience with this?

 
  But it's working well for current 1.5 version of Freevo?
 
 Yes
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and rtsp (live.com) - How I did it.

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On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 17:41 +0200, Andreas Lorensen wrote:
 I have made a hack so I can watch and record TV whit mplayer / mencoder using 
  
 the rtsp patch from live.com (www.live.com)

Meaning you compiled mplayer with RTSP support? Is that what you mean?

 
 It is working pritty well. I also tryed to get it working in the Freevo 2.0, 
 but could not find a easy way, and gave up for now. 

But it's working well for current 1.5 version of Freevo?

 In local_conf.py I put the following
 
 VIDEO_GROUPS = [
VideoGroup(desc='rtsp',
   group_type='rtsp',
   recordable=True) ]
 
 TV_CHANNELS = [
 ( '003.tv.tv2.dk', 'DR 1', 'user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/video/dr1'),
 ( '004.tv.tv2.dk', 'DR 2', 'user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/video/dr2'),
 ..
 
 MPLAYER_ARGS = { 
  'rtsp'   : '-rtsp-stream-over-tcp -zoom -X 800 -fps 25 -nobps',
 ..
 
 VCR_CMD = (CONF.mencoder + ' ' +
 'rtsp://%(channel)s ' +   
 '-ovc lavc -oac lavc -of mpeg  ' +
   '-vf pp=scale=800 -noskip -fps 25 -nobps ' +
 '-endpos %(seconds)s ' +
 '-o %(filename)s') 
 
 TV_RECORDFILE_SUFFIX = '.mpeg'
 
 Then I added the following in freevo/tv/plugins/mplayer.py 
 
 elif vg.group_type == 'rtsp':
self.fc.chanSet(tuner_channel, app='mplayer')
tvcmd = ''
args += ('rtsp://%s %s' % (tuner_channel, / 
   config.MPLAYER_ARGS['rtsp']),)
 
 
 /Andreas
 

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Re: [Freevo-users] framebuffer: working but dvd doesnt start/play

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On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:36 +0200, Stefano Guglia wrote:
 hello!
 I tried to install freevo/xine on a LFS linuxbox without X, framebuffer mode. 
 Photo, video files and music are working fine now, but DVD menu does not, 
 showing no disc on DVD-x or something like that.
 If I try to play from fbxine directly ( fbxine dvd://dev/hdb), I can just 
 hear the soundtrack (no video).
 
 my HW: Matrox g400-dh, dvd-rom (hdb), dvd-burner (hdc), 2 hd (hda, hdd)

Can you get full screen on framebuffer? Previously when I tried, it
didn't want to go fullscreen when playing under freevo. Worked OK when
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Re: Solution: [Freevo-users] PVR350 / Fedora Core 1 / Framebuffer

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On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 14:32 +, Louis King wrote:
 All,
  
 I was fiddling around with my setup and managed to solve this problem.
 Not sure if you can recreate it, but heres what I have/did...
  
 Freevo 1.5.3 on Fedora Core 1
 Hauppauge PVR-350 via IVTV Drivers
  
 Basically, videos were playing (i.e. hear sound and Freevo appeared
 after movie had finished), except no video. If I used the IVTVFBCTL
 command to change the Alpha settings manually in Bash, I could see the
 video, but I couldn't get Freevo to do this automatically.
  
 Heres how I solved it...
  
 1) Switched from MPlayer to Xine as the quality was better
 2) Set Xines VO_DEV options to xfb (XFrameBuffer)
  
 and then it all works perfectly... not even any sound delays!

But can you get fullsreen on Framebuffer alone?? When I was playing
around, I couldn't get Framebuffer to work fullscreen on Freevo. 
 

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[Freevo-users] Running Freevo automatically as NON-Root

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Hi All,

currently this machine (EPIA-M10K) is being used as a standalone box
running Freevo on Gentoo.

I've made it such that /etc/init.d/local will start freevo during
bootup, as in the settings below.

Now, I noticed that it's running as root and I don't quite like that. I
need some pointers on how to get Freevo to auto-downgrade itself to a
normal user. 

Can it be done? I most certainly think it could, only question is, can
someone teach me how?


# no: don't start Freevo
# yes:start Freevo on startup. You should only use this when the
# computer is for Freevo only or you use Freevo with a DXR3
# daemon: start Freevo in daemon mode. The daemon will wait for you to
# press QUIT or POWER on your remote and will than start
# Freevo. After Freevo shut down, the daemon will wait again.
#
# You don't need a X server running to start Freevo from init. If
# needed, Freevo will start a X server on its own. Make sure your X
# server can handle the resolution defined in /etc/freevo/freevo.conf

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[Freevo-users] Setting Video Player Preference

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Hi All,

I have another issue. Finally xxmc is working for Xine and I can get to
play DVDs with ~20% CPU w/ interlace and it's nice and all.


However, when I revert to playing AVI (DivX), I get the stutter and
jerkiness. If I revert to using XV, it works fine.

In /etc/freevo/local_conf.py
XINE_VIDEO_DEV = xxmc

I also tried 
XINE_VIDEO_DEV = xxmc xv

XINE_VIDEO_DEV = xxmc,xv

XINE_VIDEO_DEV =  
 
# XINE_VIDEO_DEV =  

and I tried hacking the xine.py code to 

elif item.mode == 'dvd' and hasattr(item.media, 'devicename'):
  # dvd:///dev/dvd/2
[0]  command.append('dvd://%s/%s' % (item.media.devicename,
item.url[6:]))
[1]  command.append('-V xxmc')
[2]  command.append('-V xxmc' 'dvd://%s/%s' % (item.media.devicename,
item.url[6:]))

[0] = Org
[1] = Putting this before the org invocation
[2] = putting the xxmc part inside the org invocation.

Neither [1] nor [2] worked.

self.command = [ '--prio=%s' % config.MPLAYER_NICE ] + \
   config.XINE_COMMAND.split(' ') + \
[3]   [ '--stdctl', '-V', config.XINE_VO_DEV,
 '-A', config.XINE_AO_DEV ] + 


I also tried changing [3] to only read [ '--stdctl', 
but this didn't work either.

After all this, noticing that I could specify which media player were to
be used to play which type of files, I tried

XINE_VIDEO_SUFFIX = [ 'vob' ]

Didn't work either.

There must be a way to specify which player should be used to play which
type of media. Either that or someway to specify that if the media to be
played is to be DVD, then I should be using XINE and using the xxmc
video driver instead of XV.

PS : reading the xxmc readme, noticed that it says it will try the xxmc
and if it fails, it will fall back to using XV. I guess it's not really
failing (since it's able to locate the driver). It's just that it's
choppy.
in README_xxmc.html.gz, there's the option 
video.device.xvmc_more_frames:1

How do I turn this on and will it help??


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[Freevo-users] Setting Video Player Preference

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Hi All,

I have another issue. Finally xxmc is working for Xine and I can get to
play DVDs with ~20% CPU w/ interlace and it's nice and all.


However, when I revert to playing AVI (DivX), I get the stutter and
jerkiness. If I revert to using XV, it works fine.

In /etc/freevo/local_conf.py
XINE_VIDEO_DEV = xxmc

I also tried 
XINE_VIDEO_DEV = xxmc xv

XINE_VIDEO_DEV = xxmc,xv

XINE_VIDEO_DEV =  
 
# XINE_VIDEO_DEV =  

and I tried hacking the xine.py code to 

elif item.mode == 'dvd' and hasattr(item.media, 'devicename'):
  # dvd:///dev/dvd/2
[0]  command.append('dvd://%s/%s' % (item.media.devicename,
item.url[6:]))
[1]  command.append('-V xxmc')
[2]  command.append('-V xxmc' 'dvd://%s/%s' % (item.media.devicename,
item.url[6:]))

[0] = Org
[1] = Putting this before the org invocation
[2] = putting the xxmc part inside the org invocation.

Neither [1] nor [2] worked.

self.command = [ '--prio=%s' % config.MPLAYER_NICE ] + \
   config.XINE_COMMAND.split(' ') + \
[3]   [ '--stdctl', '-V', config.XINE_VO_DEV,
 '-A', config.XINE_AO_DEV ] + 


I also tried changing [3] to only read [ '--stdctl', 
but this didn't work either.

After all this, noticing that I could specify which media player were to
be used to play which type of files, I tried

XINE_VIDEO_SUFFIX = [ 'vob' ]

Didn't work either.

There must be a way to specify which player should be used to play which
type of media. Either that or someway to specify that if the media to be
played is to be DVD, then I should be using XINE and using the xxmc
video driver instead of XV.

PS : reading the xxmc readme, noticed that it says it will try the xxmc
and if it fails, it will fall back to using XV. I guess it's not really
failing (since it's able to locate the driver). It's just that it's
choppy.
in README_xxmc.html.gz, there's the option 
video.device.xvmc_more_frames:1

How do I turn this on and will it help??


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[Freevo-users] Mplayer stutters under Freevo

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Hi All,

I'm curious if Freevo places additional overhead on Mplayer.

This is a EPIA M10k running Freevo 1.5.2 on Gentoo. Xine and Mplayer is
compiled with Xvmc and I have libxvmc-0.13 and xorg-x11-6.8.2
w/unichrome R30.

Mplayer and xine is running the lastest version.

xine-ui-0.99.3
xine-lib-1.0
mplayer-1.0_pre6

In addition to that, I have issue playing DVDs under Freevo. Running it
under X, I can play DVDs fine (even with deinterlace enabled) and I get
CPU usage of ~50-60% and no dropped frames. (AFAICT)

Running it under Freevo, I see like 85-90% CPU usage. 


Can anyone share experiences with running Freevo on a EPIA M10K?? I
would like to get more info on how best to optimese/get it to work! :-(


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[Freevo-users] EPIA M10K + DVD playing on Freevo High CPU Usage

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Hi all,

WOnder if you can clue me in on this. I have a Gentoo system on
xorg-x11-6.8.2 + unichrome and drm/dri enabled + xvmc enabled mplayer
and xine.

Playing DIvx files has cpu usage in the range of 70% which is fine since
it _suppsed_ not to use the HW Mpeg decoding.

I recently got myself a DVD-ROM and trying to play DVDs, CPU usage is
still 70-85% which is high. (and this is w/o interlace enabled!!)

Can anyone tell me what's happening and how you guys are solving this??
Im sure a lot of you ppl here has the EPIA.

Also, for some reason, does using Freevo to open up a DVD/movie actually
uses more Juice then under X?? (I tried playing the same DVD under X
(fluxbox) and it was like 40-60% CPU Usage. )

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[Freevo-users] Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams

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From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED].net
Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams   
2005-03-07 17:37  
 On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
  Hi All,
  
  Whats the best way to actually be able to play Internet Radio?
  
  eg: Shotcast/Icecast Streams.
  
  I noticed the plugin shoutcast grabber.pl but am unsure how to use it.
  
  Can anyone help me out with this? 
  
  ps: I dont want to run a icecast server.
  
 
 I added the following line to my AUDIO_ITEMS section ;
 
 (WebRadio, /home/freevo/fxd/webradio.fxd),
 
 Location of the fxd file is wherever you want, but the fxd file contains
 the info for each radiostation. Like so;
 
 ...
 
[SNIP]
 .
 
 The only problem I appear to have with this system is forcing the
 webradio audio to use my digital out hwplug from my soundcard, whereas
 all my other movies and music use digital flawlessly. (*shrug*)
 



Thanks Justin, It worked perfectly. The only thing which is not working
perfectly is unfortunately the Audio Stream played by either Mplayer or
fbxine. There seems to be cracks and hisses in the stream when played
from xine. Is there another alternative for this?? (trying it out from
my laptop using xine cracks and hisses, xmms is fine.)




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[Freevo-users] Freevo + Internet Audio Streams

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Hi All,

Can anyone tell me how to to integrate a Shoutcast/Icecast stream into
Freevo??

Maybe something like Internet Radio.

I know about the add-on named shoutcast but it provides only .fxd
files and I'm unsure how to use it to play Internet Streams.

Can anyone Help??

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[Freevo-users] Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams

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Hi All,

What's the best way to actually be able to play Internet Radio?

eg: Shotcast/Icecast Streams.

I noticed the plugin shoutcast grabber.pl but am unsure how to use it.

Can anyone help me out with this? 

ps: I don't want to run a icecast server.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: DirectFB

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On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 02:43, Dirk Meyer wrote:
 Justin Wetherell wrote:
  I tried installing the new DirectFB 0.9.21 and SDL 1.2.8 and it failed
  miserably (I got everything working except the TV was scrambled), so I
  tried falling back onto DirectFB 0.9.20 and SDL 1.2.7 which has been
  working for a couple years now. When I go to start Freevo, I get:
 
  Can't find all Python dependencies:
  libfusion-0.9.so.21: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
  directory
 
 IIRC is libfusion something from directfb

Under Gentoo, it's a Use flag called fusion

But AFAIK, Freevo has no use for it.
 
 
 Dischi

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[Freevo-users] Fbdev + fullscreen + video

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Hi All,

I have some serious issues.

gentoo + EPIA M10K

Xorg-x11 - 6.8.0
X works, Can get fullscreen freevo, plays audio/thumbnails great
Once I run Mplayer to play video, everything crashes. can't see anything
and I think the box crashes.

Xorg-x11-unichrome - (epia-kalf.org)
X works. FUll screen. mplayer does not crash, audio is heard, can see
the player GUI. but no Video

Fbdev
Freevo works. Not fullscreen. (if I lower Res to 6480x480 via vga=788, I
can get virtual fullscreen on tvout.) Playing video will result in
native resolution. Fullscreen is not achieveable. (but depending on the
vga=xxx mode, the video gets bigger :-) )

directfb.
Freevo Works. No Fullscreen. Video plays but color is all off.

Here's the catch.
mplayer will work fullscreen when used from the command line. Just 
code
mplayer /home/media/codemonkey.mpg
/code

I've tried hacking the mplayer.py source to not include screenh/screenw
but it seems it does not honour it at all.

I've also tried to erase all options MPLAYER_ARGS_DEF in
/usr/share/freevo-config.py to no success.

Xine will play fullscreen when used as the alternate plaver. (xine
-Vfb /home/media/codemonkey.mpg works fullscreen) but audio will go off
after 10-30 secs into the film. Either that or it will not sync with the
video.

What are my choices?
I'm compiling Xorg-6.8.2 as I write this to see if it helps.

Does anyone has any better experiences to share or anything like that??

Please Help



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[Freevo-users] Freevo + fullscreen on FBdev

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Question:

How can I enable fullscreen of freevo or mplayer/xine while running in
fbdev?

I can get fullscreen just using xine -Vfb or mplayer

But I can't get it to fullscreen when freevo is started.

This is EPIA M10K on Gentoo

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