[Freevo-users] some dvb questions: How to config TV channels with no epg data (TV.xml), How to configure two record tv cards (dvb,pvr250) ?

2004-10-21 Thread Thomas Kranz
Hi freevo users,

I bought a cheap dvb card (twinhan) and it works fine so far.
I fetch the xml epg data every night and replace the old TV.xml automatically.

I want to configure the TV module with more channels than in the TV.xml is included 
(some channels don't have epg entries).
Is there a simple solution or have I to insert the channels in the TV.xml everyday and 
local_config
manually ?

second question:
I own now the pvr250 for analog tv and the dvb-s for digital recordings.
I want to record with both cards and configure the recordserver, webserver and
freevo record scheduler with both cards. Each time I select a recording I want to 
choose the specific card or
the card should be automatically recognized if the channel is only configured for one 
card.
Is this already possibly with freevo (and video groups) or possible in future time ?

third question:
I noticed that mplayer has a great osd menu (has to be configured in menu.conf).
With a dvb-mplayer config I can watch dvb-s live and also switch the channels
with lirc or the keyboard (h,k) and ofcourse I have a dvb channel menu with the osd 
menu.

last Question:
If I watch TV and the recording starts, will freevo automatically close the TV live 
program and start 
recording ? BTW live watching and recording on the same transponder and different 
polarisation
is possible and would be nice.

thanx for answers,
Thomas

PS: I noticed that vdr will be the better one for dvb, but I have a budget card
and want to use it for recordings and sometimes watching tv. Freevo is now nice 
at my box and well configured - I don't want to change to vdr or use the plugin 
(and the softmpeg output plugin is in development status).

myconfig:
XP1700, 384MB Ram (DDR266), KT266 Board (matx)
Matrox G400 framebuffer tvout
twinhan dvb-s VisionDTV Plus
Hauppauge PVR250
SB Live with digital I/O extension for optical digital output to my yamaha amp
2 samsung harddisk (120 GB,160 GB)
1 seagate system harddisk (80 GB)
Kernel 2.4.27 (v4l2, i2c patched) with latest stable dvb modules



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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Passing mplayer-options through an fxd-file

2004-04-10 Thread Thomas Kranz
Ok, just looking for help in the list and didn't find any I created a mplayer option 
for my movie on my own. 
I get it to work with a movie file, maybe this helps also for streams. I'm also 
interested in importing some internet live video
streams. So I used the variants option in the fxd file as described on the wiki 
website.

?xml version=1.0 ? 
freevo 
  movie title=Test 
video 
  file id=f1test.mpg/file 
/video 
  variants 
 variant name=Cropped test mplayer-options=-vf crop=358:332:62:122 
part ref=f1/part 
 /variant 
  /variants 
  /movie 
/freevo

Don't use special characters directly in the fxd files and read the freevo main log 
files for errors.
I noticed that it doesn't work with german umlauts.

On Thursday 01 April 2004 12:02, Berni wrote:
 Noone having an idea on this one? Not even those who developed freevo?

 ===8=== Original text ===
 I want to include a webstream into freevo and this one needs special
 options to be passed to freevo. In an older release of freevo, I

 already had this working using this script:
  ?xml version=1.0 ?
  freevo
 movie title=XXX
  video
file mplayer-options=-delay 3.1 -cache 1000
  id=f1mms://XXX/file info
genreLive-Stream/genre
  /info
/movie
  /freevo

 The new format of the fxd-files would make it look like this:
  ?xml version=1.0 ?
  freevo
 movie title=XXX
video
  url id=f1
 mms://XXX
playermplayer/player
  /url
/video
info
  descriptionRecording of the last Tagesschau/description
/info
  /movie
  /freevo

 But I don't know how and where to include the mplayer-options? I found
 the freevo_XML_data.dtd file in freevo, but it didn't really help as
 my XML Editor (named XMLWriter) hangs up when I try to load the
 file...
 Could anyone post a sample how to pass on the options please?
 Thanks a lot in advance!




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[Freevo-users] tvtime,soundblaster,mapping to the wanted line out (digital to my amp)

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Kranz
Hi folks,

simple question (not only topic of freevo) but I didn't find an answer yet:

My problem is, that my stereo amp is plugged to the digital out of my soundblaster 
live.
I'm using tvtime (bttv,hauppauge) and the line-in of the sb live. Now I want the tv 
audio output
to both outputs of my sb live. But I don't know how to set this up.
The only solution was a special sox command with a fifo to remap and upsample the sound
but this sounds very ugly and is high cpu loaded.

thanks,
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[Freevo-users] hwac3 (sb live pass through) option auto detection or switch/falling back during playback possible ?

2003-11-26 Thread Thomas Kranz
Hello freevo fans,

my problem:
I've spent my sb live an Hoontech  I/O III extension with optical digital out. 
Passing through with mplayer to my ac3 receiver 
and the -ac hwac3 options works fine, if the audio stream of the movie is an ac3 track.
But if I enable the options permanently in local_conf.py, I get no sound 
from avi movies with non ac3 tracks (eg. lame mp3 encoded ones).
So I'm wondering if there is a solution for my problem.

My Ideas:
Some options should be configurable in the freevo frontend.
Maybe a lirc command could change the option with my remote.
Switching this during playback would be nice or maybe an auto detection by mplayer 
but this wouldn't be safe (I guess) - or fallback to non hwac3, when audio codec 
detection fails.

Any ideas or solutions around ? 

thanks,
Thomas

my system:
1.7GHZ Athlon XP, Gigabyte matx board, 384MB
dxr3,sb live with digital IO extension, Hauppauge WinTV
Realmagic Remote (great one, I love this remote because it's 
flawless, great range and very handy)

freevo 1.4, mplayer 0.92, using the dxr3 for tv out (selfcompiled sdl lib).
Base System: SuSE 8.0, Kernel 2.4.22 with acpi patches







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Re: [Freevo-users] has anybody a clean modules.conf for btaudio,tvmixer,alsa (e.g. ens1371),em8300 with correct dsp mappings ?

2003-10-02 Thread Thomas Kranz
Thanks so far,
so I've to clean up my modules.conf and keep attention of the module install order.
No other chance to map the audio devices to /dev/dspx ?
last questions: loading btaudio results at my computer in dsp1 for digital and dsp3 
for analog
I don't know what dsp2 is used for, any chance to get the mapped device using dsp2 ?
Last but not least I've to link the em8300-ma-0 to a free dsp device (for eg working 
xine audio out to the H+. Is this correct ?
I need a simple command to see the used devices mapped to dsp. btaudio mappings are 
listed in the kernel message log when
loading the module, but what is with the rest. I'm not very firm with alsa/oss 
development but there must be a simple command.
I had to know which hardware device occupied my dsp2. What's the difference between 
btaudio and tvaudio ?

Here are some of my loaded modules:

tvaudio12640   0  (autoclean) (unused)
bttv   95552   0 
msp340015632   1  (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi3520   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event  3264   0  [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq38124   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
btaudio10272   0 
snd-pcm-oss37220   0 
snd-mixer-oss  11392   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-ens137111556   0 
snd-pcm56192   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371]
snd-timer  14208   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi12480   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device  3956   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 35232   0  [snd-ens1371]
snd28384   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss 
snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi s
nd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
ide-scsi9088   0 
sr_mod 14008   0  (autoclean)
em8300 42660   0  (autoclean)
adv717x 2944   0  (autoclean) (unused)
cdrom  28800   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod]
rtc 6044   0 
ppdev   7748   0  (autoclean)
tvmixer 3360   1  (autoclean)
tuner   9476   1  (autoclean)
i2c-algo-bit8492   3  (autoclean) [bttv em8300]
videodev5536   3  (autoclean) [bttv]
i2c-isa 1284   0  (autoclean) (unused)
i2c-viapro  4040   0  (autoclean) (unused)
i2c-proc6688   0  [it87]
i2c-core   15016   0  [tvaudio bttv msp3400 adv717x tvmixer tuner 
i2c-algo-bit it87 i2c-isa i2c-viapro i2c-proc]
grip4056   0  (autoclean) (unused)
gameport1468   0  [snd-ens1371 grip]
snd-page-alloc  5572   0  [snd-pcm]
joydev  7104   0 
evdev   4160   0  (unused)


  I've tried to force btaudio to specific dsp-devices with the modules
  options, but it doesn't work. So loading without snd-pcm-oss module leads
  btaudio to dsp0 (digital) and dsp1 (analog). If snd-pcm-oss is loaded it
  results into dsp1 and dsp3. What's the role of tvmixer-module ? (system
  message: tvmixer can't find mixer device if loading after btaudio). In my
  opion there is no clear dsp mapping and documentation.
  Is there a command to list all used dsp devices ?

 I'm not aware of any; but the dsp devices are based on when the module
 are loaded. What I used to do was make sure snd-pcm-oss was loaded
 BEFORE I loaded btaudio, and then the devices always showed up as:

 /dev/dsp0 - ALSA OSS
 /dev/dsp1 - BTAudio device
 /dev/dsp2 - BTaudio device

 Then, it was just a matter of using the digital device and specifying
 32000 as the frequency for mp1e.

 (dmesg will tell you which is which)

 Aubin

  I want a clear definition of the dsp devices because the record server
  needs an dsp device (mencoder option) and this must be the digital dsp of
  btaudio when recording with the internal bttv dsp. (remember to all:do
  not forget to record only with 32000Hz - dsp limitation and using the
  digital dsp).
 
  It seems that the options given by modinfo btaudio are not working.
  Maybe this is the wrong discussion list (a alsa/bttv problem) but freevo
  needs a clean configuration and so many devices are common in an
  homevideo pc. The module em8300 doesn't need a dsp mapping but it would
  be fine. Hopefully I didn't run into a mess up with my pre/post install
  modules. So an working example posted would me help with options due to
  alsa,tvmixer,btaudio and alsa-oss.
 
  Thanks,
  Thomas
 
  Here is my extract of modules.conf (sorry a little bit messed up):
 
  # --- ALSACONF verion 0.9.6 ---
  alias char-major-116 snd
  alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
  options snd-ens1371 index=0
  # joystick=0x200
  post-install snd-ens1371 modprobe -k gameport
  pre-remove snd-ens1371 modprobe -r gameport
 
  # OSS
  alias char-major-14 soundcore
  alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
 
  # CARD #1 PCI64
  alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
  alias sound-service-0-1 

Re: [Freevo-users] dxr3 video problems (problem found) - Don't use www-server and dxr3 together

2003-09-30 Thread Thomas Kranz
So that's the problem: it seems that the dxr3 output and the www-server plugin
of freevo 1.3.4 doesn't work together. All video playback with mplayer 
starts with an error message and crash of freevo:
  VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300_mv for writing as well!
  Bailing.
  VO: [dxr3] Uninitializing.
deactivating the www-server solves the problem (no real solution, 
but the cause is found - fast post by me so no time to get the reason).
My suspicion is the osd or the idle mode - maybe this should be solved 
because the www-server will become an essential feature to remote program
the recording.

Thomas



 Hello,

 Is this problem solved ? I was running into this trouble yesterday.
 I'm sure it's not a misconfiguration problem, because mplayer works
 fine without freevo and my last working backup (1.3.4) restored has
 the same problem. So what's the reason ? I can't backtrace the reason for
 this trouble.

 Any hint could be helpful,
 Thomas

 Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2003 09:10 schrieb Adam Stephens:
  Hmm...it was working, until a couple days ago. I don't think I broke
  it...
 
  http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-view_pvrent.php?systemid=Malco
 
  I am no longer able to play movies. When I start a movie, the screen
  goes black and nothing happens. Music plays fine. Mplayer output from
  movie playing is below. Below that you will find an output of the main
  freevo log. This shows freevo is unable to open the dxr3 after mplayer
  has just failed. I am led to believe that something isn't releasing the
  dxr3 correctly, so it can't be opened. I am unable to access the dxr3
  again until I manually kill the running python processes. Suggestions?
 
  thanks,
  -atom
 
 
 
  =
 = Forced audio codec: mad
  Opening audio decoder: [msadpcm] MS ADPCM audio decoder
  dec_audio: Allocating 1024 bytes for input buffer
  dec_audio: Allocating 4096 + 65536 = 69632 bytes for output buffer
  AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 22179-88200 (177.4 kbit)
  Selected audio codec: [msadpcm] afm:msadpcm (MS ADPCM)
  =
 = VO: [dxr3] Will set TV norm to: NTSC.
  VO: [dxr3] Opened /dev/em8300-0.
  VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300_mv-0 for writing, trying
  /dev/em8300_mv instead.
  VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300_mv for writing as well!
  Bailing.
  VO: [dxr3] Uninitializing.
 
  uninit audio: msadpcm
  DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x84485a0
 
  Exiting... (End of file)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  mplayer.py (197): MPlayer.play(): mode=file,
  filename=/mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi
  mplayer.py (300): MPlayer.play(): Starting thread, cmd=--prio=-20
  /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 720
  -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -cache 5000  -v -vo
  dxr3:norm=5  /mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi
  --prio=-20 /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100
  -screenw 720 -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -cache
  5000  -v -vo dxr3:norm=5
  /mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi
  rom_drives.py (694): MEDIA: Status=4
  rom_drives.py (694): MEDIA: Status=4
  mplayer.py (552): MPlayer_Thread.run(): Started, cmd=--prio=-20
  /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 720
  -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -cache 5000  -v -vo
  dxr3:norm=5  /mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi
  MPlayer logging to /var/log/freevo/mplayer_stdout.log and
  /var/log/freevo/mplayer_stderr.log
  main.py (313): no eventhandler for event PLAY_START
  self.t1.isAlive()=1, self.t2.isAlive()=1
  ChildApp.__init__(), pid=21771, app= /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync
  100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 720 -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao
  oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -cache 5000  -v -vo dxr3:norm=5
  /mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi , poll=-1
  stdout: No data, stopping (pid 21772)!
  stderr: No data, stopping (pid 21773)!
  childapp: killing pid 21771 signal 2
  childapp: Before wait(21771)
  childapp: After wait()
  mplayer.py (478): Killing mplayer
  Exception in thread Thread-2:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib/python2.2/threading.py, line 414, in __bootstrap
  self.run()
File /root/work/freevo/src/video/plugins/mplayer.py, line 572, in
  run
  osd.restartdisplay()
File /root/work/freevo/src/util.py, line 676, in __call__
  return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
File ./src/osd.py, line 491, in restartdisplay
  self.depth)
  error: Couldn't open video part of dxr3.
 
 
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] dxr3 video problems

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Kranz
Hello,

Is this problem solved ? I was running into this trouble yesterday.
I'm sure it's not a misconfiguration problem, because mplayer works
fine without freevo and my last working backup (1.3.4) restored has
the same problem. So what's the reason ? I can't backtrace the reason for
this trouble.

Any hint could be helpful,
Thomas


Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2003 09:10 schrieb Adam Stephens:
 Hmm...it was working, until a couple days ago. I don't think I broke
 it...

 http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-view_pvrent.php?systemid=Malco

 I am no longer able to play movies. When I start a movie, the screen
 goes black and nothing happens. Music plays fine. Mplayer output from
 movie playing is below. Below that you will find an output of the main
 freevo log. This shows freevo is unable to open the dxr3 after mplayer
 has just failed. I am led to believe that something isn't releasing the
 dxr3 correctly, so it can't be opened. I am unable to access the dxr3
 again until I manually kill the running python processes. Suggestions?

 thanks,
 -atom



 ==
 Forced audio codec: mad
 Opening audio decoder: [msadpcm] MS ADPCM audio decoder
 dec_audio: Allocating 1024 bytes for input buffer
 dec_audio: Allocating 4096 + 65536 = 69632 bytes for output buffer
 AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 22179-88200 (177.4 kbit)
 Selected audio codec: [msadpcm] afm:msadpcm (MS ADPCM)
 ==
 VO: [dxr3] Will set TV norm to: NTSC.
 VO: [dxr3] Opened /dev/em8300-0.
 VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300_mv-0 for writing, trying
 /dev/em8300_mv instead.
 VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300_mv for writing as well!
 Bailing.
 VO: [dxr3] Uninitializing.

 uninit audio: msadpcm
 DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x84485a0

 Exiting... (End of file)







 mplayer.py (197): MPlayer.play(): mode=file,
 filename=/mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi
 mplayer.py (300): MPlayer.play(): Starting thread, cmd=--prio=-20
 /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 720
 -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -cache 5000  -v -vo
 dxr3:norm=5  /mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi
 --prio=-20 /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100
 -screenw 720 -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -cache
 5000  -v -vo dxr3:norm=5
 /mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi
 rom_drives.py (694): MEDIA: Status=4
 rom_drives.py (694): MEDIA: Status=4
 mplayer.py (552): MPlayer_Thread.run(): Started, cmd=--prio=-20
 /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 720
 -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -cache 5000  -v -vo
 dxr3:norm=5  /mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi
 MPlayer logging to /var/log/freevo/mplayer_stdout.log and
 /var/log/freevo/mplayer_stderr.log
 main.py (313): no eventhandler for event PLAY_START
 self.t1.isAlive()=1, self.t2.isAlive()=1
 ChildApp.__init__(), pid=21771, app= /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync
 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 720 -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao
 oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -cache 5000  -v -vo dxr3:norm=5
 /mnt/zeroone/movies/cars/2002_RallyWrecks.avi , poll=-1
 stdout: No data, stopping (pid 21772)!
 stderr: No data, stopping (pid 21773)!
 childapp: killing pid 21771 signal 2
 childapp: Before wait(21771)
 childapp: After wait()
 mplayer.py (478): Killing mplayer
 Exception in thread Thread-2:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File /usr/lib/python2.2/threading.py, line 414, in __bootstrap
 self.run()
   File /root/work/freevo/src/video/plugins/mplayer.py, line 572, in
 run
 osd.restartdisplay()
   File /root/work/freevo/src/util.py, line 676, in __call__
 return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
   File ./src/osd.py, line 491, in restartdisplay
 self.depth)
 error: Couldn't open video part of dxr3.




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Re: [Freevo-users] DXR3 problem more

2003-08-28 Thread Thomas Kranz
Hi Jerry and all HW+/DXR3 owners,

yes, it's not simple to get the HW+ to work but with freevo 1.3.4
I succeeded after some pitfalls. I'm remembering the python game error and
it frustated me. The key is a correct working patch version of the sdl lib 
(1.2.5).

I downloaded the tarball freevo-1.3.4.tgz and compiled the sdl-library with
the dxr3 patch as described. Python Game Module doesn't work 
with so far. BTW - have you configured the dxr3 correctly and works mplayer 
with tvout properly ?

Step 2 after compiling was configuring these files (trivial)

freevo.conf
freevo_config.py
local_config.py (instead of freevo_config)

Don't forget to put the compiled sdl library in the runtime dll dir:
libSDL. 

so my freevo.conf for europe pal (not complete):
(the geometry param must be edited by hand)

cdparanoia = ./runtime/apps/cdparanoia
chanlist = europe-west
display = dxr3
fbxine = /usr/local/bin/fbxine
geometry = 720x576
jpegtran = ./runtime/apps/jpegtran
lame = ./runtime/apps/lame
mplayer = ./runtime/apps/mplayer
oggenc = ./runtime/apps/oggenc
tv = pal
version = 2.1
xine = /usr/local/bin/xine


local_config.py:
maybe getting audio out from the HW+:
AUDIO_DEVICE = '/dev/em8300_ma-0'

I guess it's a not working sdl-library ! 

That's why I had some difficulties to
get it to work but now I'm satisfied 
so far but pygame and mame/snes still not working!
BTW I'm using SuSE 8.0 and I can mail you my working SDL or patched source 
tree. My hint get a proper compiled patched sdl lib and put it to the runtime 
dll dir and don't forget to set eg a symbolic link to it and rename/delete 
the distributed one. 

maybe your libavcodec.so lib isn't correct or too old because 
libSDL depends on it:
runtime/dll:
 ./libSDL-1.2.so.0
  libavcodec.so = /usr/lib/libavcodec.so (0x40089000)

mplayer compiles that one or get it from the ffmpeg-site.
My working one is the old libavcodec-0.4.6.so - 
(that's a hint to your error (afaik)): SDL dxr3 video driver w/ fame (0.1) 
or it could be the famelib http://sourceforge.net/projects/fame

so I did it my way:

compiled libfame / fame
compiled ffmpeg
compiled mplayer
built the working sdl lib and putting it to the runtime/dll deleting the old 
one

edited the config's in freevo roots and now I'm enjoying it but without the
game module (it has not to be deactivated to get freevo run)

Thomas

BTW: oh there's a new one on the site ffmpeg.sourceforge.net (0.4.7) - 
I just have no time to test it.




Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 23:41 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Hi everybody!

 I've tried to get freevo working with my Hollywood+ card for several
 days now but I haven't succeeded so far. I learned from a posting
 that the binary releases do not support the dxr3 anymore. Neverthe-
 less I replaced the libSDL with the one supporting dxr3 hardware.
 As you can see below the 'osd.py' seems to make troubles. Although
 mplayer does play videos via the dxr3 card the freevo menu is always
 displayed on the monitor only.
 Is the error because of the rpm package? If yes, what's wrong with
 the compiling process?

 Apart from this problem there are some more which I want to list here:
 1. playing audio cd's in freevo doesn't work, audio cd is not found
 (mplayer cdda://1 does play the first track with stuttering and
 xmms even flawlessly!)
 no problem with data cd's, those are mounted successfully
 2. menu browsing with a remote control is a bit tricky because of high
 sensibility (if I press the 'down' button it often happens that it
 scrolls to fast, so another menu entry is selected - maybe due to
 caching?)
 3. Does freevo support a local cddb/freedb database for lookup?

 BTW: I use Suse Linux 8.2, just in case something's works differently
   with that distro.

 Thanks for your help in advance!
 Jerry

 freevo-1.3.2 rpm release:
 =

 Logging info in /var/log/freevo/internal-main-0.log
 ---
 Starting src/main.py:stdin at Wed Aug 27 10:18:54 2003
 Logging info in /var/log/freevo/internal-main-0.log
 ---
 Starting src/main.py:stderr at Wed Aug 27 10:18:54 2003
 Loading configure settings: /etc/freevo/freevo.conf
 Reading config file /etc/freevo/freevo.conf
 Cfg file data: chanlist = us-cable
 Cfg file data: display = dxr3
 Cfg file data: geometry = 720x576
 Cfg file data: jpegtran = ./runtime/apps/jpegtran
 Cfg file data: mplayer = ./runtime/apps/mplayer/mplayer
 Cfg file data: tv = pal
 Cfg file data: tvtime = ./runtime/apps/tvtime/tvtime
 Cfg file data: version = 2.0
 Loading cfg: ./freevo_config.py
 Using MPlayer: ./runtime/apps/mplayer/mplayer
 Loading cfg overrides: /etc/freevo/local_conf.py
 ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/media/cdrom', '/dev/cdrom',
 'CD-1')

 WARNING: DVD protection override disabled! You will not be able to play
 protected DVDs!

 WARNING: You are