Re: [Freevo-users] vlc and remote control

[Mark Nyqvist Hjarding]

Jonathan Isom jei...@gmail.com writes:

 2009/7/10 Bernard Mentink bment...@gmail.com:
snip
 Hi
   I have attached an attempt at using vlc's python bindings. The main
 problem is that the
 bindings are only in the repo.  They aren't distributed in the release.
 Also some files (applies to the others interfaces as well) don't seek.
 (mpeg-ts for instance)
 Also I had naming problems( the python binding was named vlc,as was
 plugins in freevo)
 so it wouldn't load load the binding without removing vlc.py plugin
 from the video player.
 I would suggest rc, though the mediacontrolapi is a better approach long term.


 Documented here:
 http://wiki.videolan.org/MediaControlAPI

 Repository here:
 https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/bindings/python

 Later

 Jonathan

I made a fairly simple attempt at getting the remote to work with vlc
using a unix socket. I got some of the simple commands working but I
didn't have time to make it into a proper patch.

If you want to look at a simple way of doing it I think the --rc-unix
parameter is a good option. Then you can send simple commands like play
pause and others using that socket.

I will try over the weekend to see if I can find some of the code I made
back then.

/Mark

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[Freevo-users] A problem with imdb and the movie 300

[Mark Bloch]

I can't seem to get imdb info about 300.
I have the most recent version of fxdimdb.py.
in order to see what happens try:
freevo imdb -s 300

btw; if you try:

freevo imdb -s 300 (2006)

every thing seems to be fine.

any thoughts about the subject?
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo on Hauppauge Media MVP

[Mark Benson]

For anyone interested in getting freevo working on the MVP check this link

http://www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp/protocol.txt

This doc contains details of the boot procedure and protocols sent to/from
the MVP

Here http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/ is a project to replace the dongle.bin
file with a version that allows users to play mythtv files and such
(replacing/modifying the OS)

The controller chip details here (IBM STB02500)
http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/C915A9928B49DAA487256BC2003813EF/$file/STBx25xxFINAL.PDF

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo on Hauppauge Media MVP

[Mark Benson]

A more organised version of the info... http://www.dforsyth.net/mvp/ details
on getting a modified dongle.bin file to work.

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Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo on Hauppauge Media MVP


 For anyone interested in getting freevo working on the MVP check this link

 http://www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp/protocol.txt

 This doc contains details of the boot procedure and protocols sent to/from
 the MVP

 Here http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/ is a project to replace the dongle.bin
 file with a version that allows users to play mythtv files and such
 (replacing/modifying the OS)

 The controller chip details here (IBM STB02500)

http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/C915A9928B49DAA487256BC2003813EF/$file/STBx25xxFINAL.PDF

 Mark




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[Freevo-users] Freevo on Hauppauge Media MVP

[Mark Benson]

Has anyone thought of supporting the MVP with freevo?

I'm not sure exactly what it would entail as its a fairly limited little
box. It is based on a PPC with hardware mpeg1/2 chip that reads streams from
the network.

I was just curious if it was possible as I was using freevo with a dxr3 and
from what I understand freevo transcoded everything for the dxr3 (which I
guess means mpeg streams - including the menus). If that is the case it
wouldn't be a hugh step to stream that stream over the network to the MVP.

What I know about the MVP: Apart from the PPC, hardware mpeg1/2 chip. It is
running linux, it has a bit of firmware that enables it to search for the
MVP on the network (At this point it appears to be searching for an TFTP
server, which then uploads the rest of the OS (a file called dongle.bin
(screaming out for someone to hack it)) which then loads menus from the MVP
server (these are just html - but I think they are sent using some sort of
VNC like process (as you can view the menu on the PC). As for the remote
return commands, I don't know much about that.

There is a project (www.gbpvr.com ) that has implemented this, but its media
support for the MVP is limited.

The original MVP software from Hauppauge leaves a lot to be desired even
with the beta software that adds wma/wmv and divx support. The transcoding
is inefficient as when I try to play a divx movie thru the MVP from my dual
1G PIII it says it isn't fast enough... with freevo playing divx thru the
dxr3 (transcoding to mpeg?) on a dual celeron 400MHz it could just about
cope.

The cost of the MVP is low with many vendors carrying it @ GBP £50 and its
small (smaller than a video cassette) and its quiet (no noise at all). And
to top it all off the video output is great, as good as the dxr3 on TV.

Anyway - what do people think?

Mark

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo on Hauppauge Media MVP

[Mark Benson]

 Mark Benson wrote:
  Has anyone thought of supporting the MVP with freevo?

 Sure have.  The only problem is that I don't have one... yet.  They're
 not in local stores here yet but I could order one online within Canada
 for $133.

  I'm not sure exactly what it would entail as its a fairly limited little
  box. It is based on a PPC with hardware mpeg1/2 chip that reads streams
from
  the network.

 At first thought it would involve network booting or embedded kernel,
 mount everything using NFS, SDL support for Freevo menus, a video output
 driver for mplayer or xine, or just DirectFB support.  Most of that work
 is probably already done by another project.  I know people already
 running VDR on the MVP.


I assume you mean booting the MVP with a new OS via the dongle.bin file?
Would that really be necessary? I was just looking at the re-skin-ability
of the MVP
and while it would be easy to create a skin for the MVP that looks like (the
default)
freevo skin, the remote codes are still an issue - I have found out a little
more about this
and it just appears to be server side calls... will try to find out some
more useful info on this...

  I was just curious if it was possible as I was using freevo with a dxr3
and
  from what I understand freevo transcoded everything for the dxr3 (which
I
  guess means mpeg streams - including the menus). If that is the case it
  wouldn't be a hugh step to stream that stream over the network to the
MVP.

 I would say this is definately doable.


Thats good news, any more info I find - i'll pass on.

  The cost of the MVP is low with many vendors carrying it @ GBP £50 and
its
  small (smaller than a video cassette) and its quiet (no noise at all).
And
  to top it all off the video output is great, as good as the dxr3 on TV.

 Yes, the price is right and this is the kind of frontend people need on
 their televisions.  I have a vision of cat5 going to every TV and NOT
 coax.  Impliment access and parental controls on the backend, etc, etc...


The price is so right! I have cat 5 in every room in my house (usually near
a TV) and have just bought
two MVPs but the hauppague interface sucks... the gbpvr interface is nicer
but lacks the feature I would like.
Freevo and the MVP would be the 'killer app'.

What I would like to see is the MVP playing ripped DVDs and even movies
straight off the DVD.
A Basic web browser might be nice too - sometimes I just don't wanna go to
the PC to find something out quickly...
Back to Mozilla and some sort of on screen keyboard... maybe a project for
the future...

 Anyhow, I certainly want to pick up one of those and will be willing to
 put some work into getting Freevo running on it.


I am happy to help anyway I can - I'm not a great programmer, more a systems
integrator - but I have worked with many different STBs (Set top boxes)
before.

Mark

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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: [Freevo-users] Re: tv-out issues.

[Mark Benson]

In windows there are widescreen modes on the NVidia cards, using one of
these in conjunction with TV out and a widescreen TV should correct your
aspect ratio (doesn't look too good on a monitor but if you are running it
dedicated#. I guess it is just a case of recreating one of these resolution
settings in your x configs. I don't know about FB.

I was using a Dxr3 which has hardware support for 16:9 and 4:3 so it was
just a mode setting.

Mark
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Subject: [Freevo-users] Re: [Freevo-users] Re: tv-out issues.


 I got at home and thomson 16:9 100mhz and I wonder how can I put the
tv-out in 16:9, so the 16:9 movies will fit the screen, just like it was
when playing a dvdfrom a dvd player??
 Any body got some working ideas??
 THX
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo website documentation 1/2 deleted

[Mark Nysen]

Not that this is a fix to the half missing documentation page, but I was
setting up my dxr3 card the other day and found the dxr3 page at:

http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Dxr3Page


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 10:25, Gray, Tim wrote:
 Is anyone going to restore the documentation on the freevo website or is it
 left to die in it's 1/2 deleted state?
 
 I recently tried pointing another friend there and he said there was nothing
 about the dxr3.. and he is right, the main page for documentation is still
 1/2 deleted as it was back in december.
 
 does anyone have a full copy of the docs from the wiki I can share with
 others? or will someone with admin right please roll bac kthe changes that
 someone made to the documentation section?
 
 I though it was fixed when I notified everyone on the list back in december.
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] dxr3 and libSDL

[Mark Benson]

That was a handy explanation, I have various companys internal dev guides
but nothing I can freely release so I wondered if the BBC would have
anything like this publicly available...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/branding/picturesize.shtml

This has various guide pictures (which comes with the classic test card) for
all prospective aspect ratios.

I have both native overscan and no overscan tv output cards (dxr3 and old
nvidia/ati) and 4:3 and 16:9 tvs.

There seems to be some confusion as to the resolutions used by the tv.
This is more or less a constant being either PAL or NTSC (forgetting the
other variations PAL-i, secam etc) irrespective of what the PC is using
800x600, 640x480 it is all scaled to fit the TV standard being used. You can
in theory display any resolution you want on a TV 1600x1200 for example, if
you have the hardware to scale that far, the problem being the TV is
incapable of showing that level of detail. Unless you are showing a low res
picture at high res scaled down again for the TV.

- Original Message - 
From: Barnowl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] dxr3 and libSDL


 Looks like I have a project to play with this weekend.

 Evan


 n Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:17:09 -0400
 Rob Shortt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  For everyone, this is an important read:  http://scanline.ca/overscan/
 
  Mark Benson wrote:
   If you are going to use overscan, then the interface should be
designed to
   take into account the TV Safe area.
 
  Freevo does take into account the safe action area and overscan area
  (referring to the area outside of the safe action area).  That's what
  OSD_OVERSCAN_X and OSD_OVERSCAN_Y are for.  If your tv encoder is
  overscanning ~20 pixels we must make sure not to draw that close to the
  'edge' of the tv signal.
 
   - Original Message - 
   From: Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  snip
 
  yes I have, and I also need to make the GUI image smaller somehow.
 
  So, you want to make the safe action area smaller - that is what
  Freevo's overscan settings do.
 
  overscan settings will not take negative numbers so those are useless
(I
  want a -20 setting!)
 
  That is like saying you want Freevo to draw outside of the tv signal
  which doesn't make sense.
 
  Your dxr3 (or any tv output method / encoder / xserver / drivers) is
  responsible for actually overscanning the picture.  Many xservers that
  support tv-out also have an overscan setting for this, the same is true
  for some framebuffer drivers, and some just overscan a certain amount
  automatically.
 
  So, if your tv-out is overscanning 30 pixels horizontally and in Freevo
  your OSD_OVERSCAN_X is only set to 20 then freevo will draw things
  outside of your visible tv border, outside of the safe action area.  You
  would need at least a value of 30 (probably a bit more) for
  OSD_OVERSCAN_X to make it look right.  Our overscan settings really
  determine what Freevo thinks is the safe action area.
 
  so yes it works, except that the freevo GUI is overscanning too far.
 
  It sounds like your dxr3 is overscanning too far and you need to tell
  Freevo just how much.
 
  HTH,
  -Rob
 
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] dxr3 and libSDL

[Mark Benson]

If you are going to use overscan, then the interface should be designed to
take into account the TV Safe area.

I think there needs to be overscan specific version.

- Original Message - 
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] dxr3 and libSDL


 yes I have, and I also need to make the GUI image smaller somehow.

 overscan settings will not take negative numbers so those are useless (I
 want a -20 setting!)

 I am using the runtime + 1.4 (1.4.1 has a bug that will not let it run
 outside the home directory) on a slackware 9.1 install.

 so yes it works, except that the freevo GUI is overscanning too far.




 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barnowl
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:54 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] dxr3 and libSDL


 Tim-
   Have you got Xine working freevo on your dxr3? Mine keeps quitely
failing
 in freevo though it works if I run it in X, fbxine fails on the console
with
 dxr3. Also did you figure out how to adjust the scan setting on the dxr3?
I
 need to make the image smaller to fit on the screen.

 Evan


 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:58:12 -0500
 Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I sure can, the freevo machine I have that on is at home so I'll email
you
  with that info ASAP.
 
 
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  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Shortt
  Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:56 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] dxr3 and libSDL
 
 
  Gray, Tim wrote:
   yup.  I simply set the dxr3 driver for NTSC and ignore everything in
the
   patch.
  
   it works fine even with the PAL stuff in the patch.
 
  That's good to hear.  Last night I did some work porting the patch to
  SDL12 cvs and last ffmpeg release (0.4.8).  I had to change a few things
  to get it to build but haven't had a chance to test it.
 
  Tim, in order to save me some time can you tell me how your dxr3 modules
  are configured?  Modprobe options and such.
 
  Thanks!
  -Rob
 
  
   -Original Message-
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   Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:46 AM
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   Subject: [Freevo-users] dxr3 and libSDL
  
  
  
   Hi all,
  
   I have a dxr3 card that I am using in a Freevo box for a friend and
have

   been working on the dxr3 patch for SDL.  It looks like there are some
   PAL things hardcoded in the patch so I was wondering if there is
anyone
   out there that is using NTSC and a dxr3 for Freevo.
  
   Thanks,
   Rob
  
  
  
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Re: [Freevo-users] Firebird.py update.

[Mark Benson]

Isn't the opera iTV browser a comercial product?

- Original Message - 
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:56 AM
Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Firebird.py update.


 This may be a bit off-thread but Opera browser has a kiosk mode that
runs without any window decoration (and uses spatial nagivation i.e.
shift+cursorKey movement jumps to the nearest hyperlink in that chosen
direction). Could Opera be launched from freevo and do what you want ?

 Opera seem quite keen on the TV/browser combination (see their iTV link)


 Robert

  -Original Message-
  From: Mark Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: 12 January 2004 09:37
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Firebird.py update.
 
 
  I am looking at using firebird too. I have worked on various
  'TV' based systems and the most common solution I have seen
  to this problem is (and this is what I am attempting when I
  have the time) is to run the browser (firebird in our case)
  without borders or any menu bars and simply have it load up a
  HTML interface that is TV Safe and that allows you to
  navigate (i.e. provides a URL bar at the very least and can
  include anything else you need or want for fast browsing).
 
  Mark
  - Original Message - 
  From: Paul Sijben [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 9:14 AM
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Firebird.py update.
 
 
   David,
  
   I am playing around with this plugin. I have fixed the
  window size by
   making mozilla-firebird a script that executes the real binary with
   the -with and -height parameters.
  
   now I have just two isses that I hope you or someone else
  on the list
   can help me with.
  
   1) I start freevo from inittab with freevo --fs, and now I
  can not get
   the keystrokes into firbird
   2) My screen is on overscan so the edges of the fullscreen
  window are
   actually outside my TV viewing area. I am looking to center the
   firbird window so I can see all the edges (like the menu and scroll
   bars)
  
   do you have any ideas about how to solve these?
  
   hope you can help me
  
   Paul
  
   David Irvine wrote:
Hello,
   
I've put an update to firebird.py at
  www.irvined.co.uk/freevo.shtml
   
This fixes the mouse, so you can actually type into
  firebird. It has
2 problems still remaining:
   
1. When firebird exits, the display isnt updated.
2. I need to add some paramaters to start firebird at the right
size. You can do this manually with some hacking about, but its
easier to do it on the command line.
   
Cheers
   
David
   
   
   
   
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: overscan settings and dxr3

[Mark Benson]

As far as TV based interfaces are concerned, you develop your interface to
take account of overscan.

I suspect freevo would need a skin that is designed with the tv safe area in
mind. Don't know if the skin can determine the placement of the plugin
items?

Take any STB interface or tv advert with text/graphics and if they are
designed with the TV in mind, then the functional/informational elements are
well within the bounds of the TV safe area, with backgrounds etc running off
screen.

A problem freevo faces is that the average PC video card with TV out is
pretty poor quality (in my experience anyhoo - ATIs and Nvidias vs Dxr3)

- Original Message - 
From: Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Re: overscan settings and dxr3


 I did and it give me MORE overscan..

 running freevo without overscan settings (I.E. commented out)

 I get a full screen on the TV with the idlebar kind of cut off, and the
 clock cut off on the right.

 i set the overscan_x and overscan_y settings and the idlebar is now
 completely missing and the menu text is starting to spill over the edge to
 be cut off.

 I want Underscan in essence...  I want the idlebar to be completely on
 screen and to be able to see the clock.

 I tried to set the overscan_x and overscan_y to negative numbers and they
do
 nothing.




 -Original Message-
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 Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:48 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [Freevo-users] Re: overscan settings and dxr3


 Gray, Tim wrote:
  I was wondering how can I set freevo to create MORE overscan?
 
  when I mess withthe overscanX and y settings it zooms in on the center
of
  the display cutting off the idlebar.  I want to do the reverse, create
 more
  overscan I.E. add more deadspace around the outside edge of all screens.

 I don't undertand. Just set OVERSCAN_X and OVERSCAN_Y in
 local_conf.py.


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Re: [Freevo-users] I'm about to build myself a Freevo - do you think I'm buying the right card?

[mark]

Maybe I misunderstood.  I thought it was about getting rf from the cable box to the tv 
and freevo.  This would allow all channels to be viewed or watched without switching 
rf leads.  I had assumed he was using composite/rgb/component etc from freevom my 
mistake :).

Mark

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:01:40 +
Chris Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 mark wrote:
  On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:01:01 +0100
  Nick Flowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
 Hi,
 
 I've 100GB free, and feel more at home in Linux than programming a useless old
 eighties technology VCR - my mouse pointer hovers over an order page for a WinTV
 PVR 350 PCI.
 
 However - Hauppauge's tech-sales bunch say its not RF-loop through - which is a
 bit annoying, as I'd like to chain the 350 card into my coax loop (Cable box-
 VCR - (new 350 card) - TV) and be able to record off all possible
 channels/watch another channel live and playback without messing with cables.
 But it looks like I'll have to do that with the 350.
 
 Anyone got any advice to help me sort my dream setup? 
  
  
  I dont have a PVR board, but I would think you could just put a splitter (either 
  passive or an rf amplifier) in the cable rf lead.  That way you could send one 
  cable to the tv and one to freevo.  
  
  Mark
 
 I think what Nick was wanting (and what I want to do with Freevo) is to 
 have a radio-frequency output from Freevo that carries all the usual 
 channels (from the aerial) plus a Freevo-playback-channel.
 
 In other words, how to you get Freevo to act like a VCR's RF-out socket?
 I know there may be some loss of picture quality in converting the MPEG 
 back to RF rather than using plain composite video (or RGB, or S-video), 
 but it would be more convenient when plumbing the Freevo into my house's 
 existing co-ax wiring.
 
 I thought initially that the PVR 350 had an RF output, but the specs 
 seem to say otherwise.  Maybe it's possible to buy or make a separate 
 gadget that adds a video signal back into an RF feed on a suitable 
 channel.  Any ideas?
 
 regards
 
 Chris
 
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[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.4rc1 crashes on mixer plugin?

[Mark Hurenkamp]

Hi,


I've been using freevo (on Gentoo) for quite a while, the 1.3.4 
worked quite well for me, but now I'm  trying to get 1.4rc1 to run, 
and I seem to have quite a lot of errors.

I followed this scenario:
1) start freevo
2) select 'Watch a Movie'
3) select any directory
4) freevo crashes!

I have set-up the 'movies' directory to point correctly to my
divx movies dir.

Here's the trace:
---
nine root # freevo

Error: DIR_AUDIO not set, set it to Home directory


Error: DIR_IMAGES not set, set it to Home directory


Error: DIR_GAMES not set, set it to Home directory


Error: DIR_RECORD not set
Please set DIR_RECORD to the directory, where recordings should be stored or
remove the tv plugin. Autoset variable to /extra/music/clips.

Error: TV_SHOW_DATA_DIR not found
COVER_DIR not found
MOVIE_DATA_DIR not found
ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/media/cdrom', '/dev/sr0', 'CD-1')
ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/media/dvd', '/dev/dvd', 'DVD-2')

Error: can't find /tmp/TV.xml
Use xmltv to create this file or when you don't want to use the tv
module at all, add TV_CHANNELS = [] and plugin.remove('tv') to your
local_conf.py. TVguide is deactivated now.


WARNING: no pre-cached data
Freevo will cache each directory when you first enter it. This can
be slow. Start ./freevo cache to pre-cache all directories to speed
up usage of freevo

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/plugins/rom_drives.py, line 
363, in move_tray
s = ioctl(fd, CDROMCLOSETRAY)
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/threading.py, line 414, in __bootstrap
self.run()
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/plugins/rom_drives.py, line 
754, in run
self.check_all()
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/plugins/rom_drives.py, line 
719, in check_all
self.identify(media)
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/plugins/rom_drives.py, line 
458, in identify
data = mmpython.parse(media.devicename)
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/__init__.py, line 147, in 
parse
return object_cache.find(filename)
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/cache.py, line 366, in find
return self.__find_disc__(file)
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/cache.py, line 306, in 
__find_disc__
f.seek(0x832d)
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

failed to load plugin mixer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/plugin.py, line 415, in 
__load_plugin__
p = eval(object)()
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/plugins/mixer.py, line 98, in 
__init__
self.setMainVolume(config.DEFAULT_VOLUME)
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/plugins/mixer.py, line 172, 
in setMainVolume
self._setVolume(self.SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_VOLUME, self.mainVolume)
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/plugins/mixer.py, line 157, 
in _setVolume
fcntl.ioctl(self.mixfd.fileno(), device, data)
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Crash!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/main.py, line 408, in ?
main_func()
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/main.py, line 329, in 
main_func
app.eventhandler(event)
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/menu.py, line 552, in 
eventhandler
action( arg=arg, menuw=self )
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/directory.py, line 410, in 
cwd
self.do_cwd(arg, menuw)
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/freevo/directory.py, line 735, in 
do_cwd
if hasattr(self.menu,'skin_force_text_view'):
TypeError: cache_dir() got an unexpected keyword argument 'callback'


The crash seems related to the mixer plugin, but I've run it as root, and
so the mixer should be quite accessible. (and even if not, then a warning
might be a better idea than crashing :-).


Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

Mark.



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Re: [Freevo-users] Mighty confused...

[mark]

The marvel driver is for MJPEG hw compression on the matrox marvel G400tv it is not 
used for tv out.

Since you can view your desktop on the tv it sounds as if the basic setup is okay.  

what do you have in your freevo conf?  Is freevo showing on your monitor?

Mark

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:29:38 -0400
Mike Heanssgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hey all,
 
   The more I scour the net the more I am getting confused.  I have a
 G400/TV-Out card that I am trying to get working in Freevo.  I've got both
 heads working (I can see my desktop on my tv) based on the G400 mini how-to
 on the freevo site, and I've recompiled my kernel for v4l and i2c but I'm
 confused as to what else I need... do I need the mgavideo driver from
 marvel.sourceforge.net?
 
 All I am getting is a black screen in freevo...
 
 
 
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[Freevo-users] MPlayer 1.0pre2 filters tv logos

[mark]

From the mplayer website

Filters:

new delogo filter (for removing TV channel logos)

Looks like Mplayer is getting interesting

For Nvidia users theres also this

again from the site

NVidia users are going to be pleased with our (rather Sascha Sommer's) newest 
breakthrough: the nvidia_vid VIDIX driver. It is still in beta stage, but it is known 
to work on at least TNT2 and Geforce2.
 
 You may or may not need to first initialize your card with the closed-source binary 
(?) XFree86 NVidia drivers.
 
 If aye can give ye a hint: assuming you have an NVidia card, try playing a DIV3 (DivX 
3.11) file with the following commandline:
 
 
$ mplayer filename.avi -vc divxds -vo cvidix -vf format=uyvy
 
 !!SPOILER!!: Yes, you'll experience REAL graphics video playing, on a REAL text 
console. Kinda neat, eh?

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html

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Re: [Freevo-users] Any UK users here?

[mark]

Yes I'm in the UK, but I should probably mention that I dont use freevo for tv.  
Strange, I know :)

Mark

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:28:15 +0100
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Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie, is Freevo what I need/want?

[Mark Benson]

I'm using RH9 and its pretty easy to use, I suggest you install apt-get

This along with up2date will allow you to quickly install any missing deps.

Thats said, actually working out what deps you need and what they are
actually called to apt-get them is a different story, only experience/time
and a decent support group (like this one) will make that task easier. That
and apt-get!

The only problems I've run into in RH9/freevo are related to the Dxr3 HW
Mpeg decoder (used for tv output), but it was well worth the effort as the
video out quality is second to none.

I never did manage to get 1.3.4 working properly with the dxr3.. so kinda
waiting for 1.4 - I've kinda been put off using CVS as in the past using CVS
has often caused more problems than its solved (for me at least - especially
when compliing multiple dependencies - if one changes slightly in a way that
the others are not expecting, you can forget it) - But don't let me put you
off trying.

Tip: if you use RH8/9 (IMHO RH8 sucked ass 7.3 was better 8 just looked
nicer 9 has the best of both and more) make sure that when you use up2date
that you get the source as well - this can help when you are trying to
complie stuff with specific hw support (if you ever need to) - for example,
I disabled src from day one to save disk space and got about 5 kernel
upgrades via RHN and when I tried to complie kernel modules/drivers it
wouldn't/couldn't without the current kernel src, and it was fun finding the
right src package and installing it and following the kernel howto to set up
the src tree to allow me to complie stuff against it.

Anyhoo, the people on this list are very helpful, freevo is a great way to
learn linux - I didn't consider myself a newbie, but I aint no linux guru
either - I have learnt a lot from using freevo, and I personally think its a
good place to start.

Mark

- Original Message - 
From: Tim Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie, is Freevo what I need/want?


 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Davin Desborough
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
 I can't speak to the TV quality, as I don't use that portion of Freevo.
 Hi-res movies look fabulous on the tv when played through Freevo.
 
 As for RH8 vs. RH9, I went with 9 and have had no problems related to the
 OS.

 Thanks for the reply, I need a push to start me going, so you might just
 be that push!
 
 I was in your shoes when I started my Freevo experience. It was a great
way
 to learn!
 
 Some one who understands, often I hear people say learn from the
 beginning, which is great, but I know I am not made that way...

 Any particular guides / howto's that worked particularly for you,
 Extremetech has a good guide but there are big chunks missing for people
 just setting out.
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Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie, is Freevo what I need/want?

[Mark Benson]

- Original Message - 
From: Tim Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie, is Freevo what I need/want?


 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Benson
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
 I'm using RH9 and its pretty easy to use, I suggest you install apt-get

 I tired apt-get on a previous foray into Linux, and couldn't get it to
 work (wouldn't find the required urls across network to cable modem,
 will try again but is there a way of getting it to use a proxy???)

I would've thought that if your linux box can see the net, then apt-get
should too...

If you can browse or if wget
http://some.url.com/some/file/to/download.tar.gz works (obviously this isn't
a real url :-) and can download a file then apt-get should be fine.


 
 This along with up2date will allow you to quickly install any missing
deps.
 
 Thats said, actually working out what deps you need and what they are
 actually called to apt-get them is a different story, only
experience/time
 and a decent support group (like this one) will make that task easier.
That
 and apt-get!

 Sounds like the circular argument I have experienced, but the mailing
 list may be a way out of the loop!


Yeah it can be frustrating, I often find that I get so bogged down in trying
to sort out all the dependencies for stuff that just taking a break and
starting fresh sometimes the answer is so obvious!


 
 The only problems I've run into in RH9/freevo are related to the Dxr3 HW
 Mpeg decoder (used for tv output), but it was well worth the effort as
the
 video out quality is second to none.

 Not read about that yet, is it essential/optional/details somewhere???

The dxr3 is totally optional - I just happened to have one lying around and
it seemed a waste of such a good card (creative stopped supporting it - the
win2k beta drivers never worked for me) that I thought I would try and get
it working with freevo.

There are various options for using freevo, either on your monitor via X or
framebuffer or via various video cards with TV out.



 
 I never did manage to get 1.3.4 working properly with the dxr3.. so kinda
 waiting for 1.4 - I've kinda been put off using CVS as in the past using
CVS
 has often caused more problems than its solved (for me at least -
especially
 when compliing multiple dependencies - if one changes slightly in a way
that
 the others are not expecting, you can forget it) - But don't let me put
you
 off trying.

 I assume 1.3.4 the one to go with for the time being? Unless someone
 tells me otherwise...


1.3.4 is the current binary release. Although (and someone please correct me
if the situation has changed) this states that there are no deps, it doesn't
include mplayer (for playing avi's etc) so you will likey need to download
this and compile it...

As I said before feel free to try CVS, don't take my word for it! I might
try it myself this weekend and so how it goes...


 
 Tip: if you use RH8/9 (IMHO RH8 sucked ass 7.3 was better 8 just looked
 nicer 9 has the best of both and more)

 RH9 it is, not sure where I read the problem...

 
 Anyhoo, the people on this list are very helpful, freevo is a great way
to
 learn linux - I didn't consider myself a newbie, but I aint no linux guru
 either - I have learnt a lot from using freevo, and I personally think
its a
 good place to start.

 Thanks Mark, there goes the weekend!
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Re: [Freevo-users] What hardware to buy?

[mark]

I have an media box featuring a xp1800 (or 1900 I dont remember) which I have actually 
underclocked.  I will not be doing any transcoding on this box.  It sports 512 mb ram 
and a compact flash 32mb card used via an ide adaptor.  This contains the kernel and 
boot loader, everything else is pulled from a file server.  I use a Matrox Marvel G400 
for tvout usinf DirectFB.  My sound card is an RME DIGI 96/8 PAD.  For IR I'm using an 
IRMAN.  I have successfully used this box to play audio and video files.  I have 
ripped audio but only outside of freevo as yet.  I am not currently looking at video 
recording, but have ripped dvd s without transcoding (again outside of freevo)  

I have a file server for all media which uses NFS rather than SAAMBA.  It contains an 
1TB Raid5 array and uses a 1.3ghz celleron to provide software raid5.  I wanted a lot 
of space as I'm looking for very high quality media.  I will not be using lossy audio 
compression and at the moment am storing dvd as mpeg2 rather than Divx.

This is a pretty long answer to your question, but the thing is everyone does it 
differently.  It depends on your budget, aims and the comproises you are prepared to 
make.  I strongly suggest you make your choices carefully.  Think about noise, price, 
heat and long term goals.  If you will have a file server I suggest you think about 
net booting.  I think one of my best decisions was to make the media box diskless.

Mark

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:00:21 -0400
Shane Crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I've been wanting to build a freevo for a while, and I've finally secured a 
 machine to dedicate to it.
 
 So far it has:
 
 Pentium 4 2GHz
 256MB RAM
 
 That's it.  So this machine is essentially an empty canvas for me to work 
 with.  What I would like to do is build the best possible freevo for the 
 lowest possible price.
 
 The machine will be outfitted with a 160GB drive.
 
 What are your suggestions for TV Card, Video Out card, DVD Drive, RS232 
 remote, and anything else I'll need?
 
 Also, will 256MB be enough memory?
 
 My ideal setup will be a machine with remote control, DVD playback support 
 and a huge Mp3 collection mounted over samba.
 
 Thanks in advance!  I'm looking forward to building this as soon as I can 
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Re: [Freevo-users] wireless media player

[Mark Benson]

Its has some (windoze)software that serves 
and steams the media to the box... it streams it in the same manner as real 
player or windows media player does over the net except with a bit more 
bandwidth and better QOS...


  - Original Message - 
  From: 
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  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:56 
  AM
  Subject: [Freevo-users] wireless media 
  player
  
  I was looking at this thing by Gateway and am 
  trying to figure out how it works http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-6473_7-30468925.html. 
  If someone plays video, through it does that mean that video has to be playing 
  on your PC fullscreen to get fullscreen video in living room 
tv?

[Freevo-users] Proposed patent changes?

[Mark Benson]

Is this for real?

I was aware of patents being granted for software, but this looks like open
season on all but the largest companies with teams of patent lawers... they
would have a field day enforcing their intelectual property.

It would be near impossible for free development if as is mentioned on the
new home page, patents are granted for the simplest of software processes.

On the other hand, a pragmatic view would be that software development would
stagnate for the next 25 or so years (can't remember the exact time a patent
protects an idea), but after that its a free for all... not a nice prospect,
having to put off all your projects till the stupid patents run out.

However, I suspect that it will be difficult to gain patents on all but the
newest processes (I use processes to refer to both software
methods/algorithms and business processes) after all, you can only apply for
a patent if the idea is not already in the public domain, thats not to say
that many large companies have or are in the process or obtaining patents.

Expect to see test cases if the proposals become law.





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Re: [Freevo-users] DXR3 can be successful

[Mark Benson]

Where can I find docs relating to compiling freevo from src?


- Original Message - 
From: Adam Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 6:34 PM
Subject: [Freevo-users] DXR3 can be successful


 Hi all,
 
 I am writing to tell you my experiences with the DXR3 and freevo. My
 first attempt at using this combination was successful on a Pentium-233.
 I was using Gentoo, but i had hand compiled a couple things including
 freevo. When I upgraded the box to an Athlon-700, I decided to start
 from scratch with Gentoo. I had discovered the gentoo freevo ebuild, and
 wanted to build off of that. Since most of the packages required are
 included with gentoo's packaging system, with mmpython and pylirc being
 included in the freevo ebuilds. All that was left to do was get libsdl
 compiled with dxr3 support. According to the Wiki, you need to use the
 cvs of libsdl. Sorry to say, but that is not true. I was able to use
 libsdl 1.2.5 and I am still using it successfully. In fact, when you use
 1.2.5, you don't have any problems with the patch not working. Needless
 to say, I modified the libsdl ebuild in portage to add some dxr3
 support. While dxr3 is not an official USE flag, this ebuild looks for
 it and will compile libsdl accordingly. I've been meaning to add the TTF
 patch as well, just haven't had the chance.
 
 What I'm getting at here, is installing freevo was easy. And most things
 just work. I was using 1.3.4 successfully for a while, but have recently
 upgraded to a later snapshot to get xine support working. Let me say
 with a snapshot and a xine-ui cvs build, I am able to use fbxine for
 dvds, and it works perfectly.
 
 If you really want dxr3 support, I suggest you really look into
 compiling many of the dependencies yourself. (freevo source, mplayer,
 libsdl) When it was all said and done, I never had to link libraries to
 the freevo directory, even when using the non-ebuild snapshot I have
 now. (BTW Dischi, I dont think the freevo-snapshot ebuild works anymore.
 :)
 
 Alas, everything works smoothly for me. Let me suggest you migrate away
 from an RPM-based system if this is a standalone machine, or if you have
 the ability. I have attached a my libsdl ebuild. (Dischi, feel free to
 add it to the freevo ebuilds.)
 
 enjoy,
 -atom
 
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Proposed patent changes?

[Mark Benson]

 Footnotes:
 [1]  Yes, if you want to work 35 hours a week (German: 35 Stunden
  Woche), you may need to pay for this in the future


How in the hell did someone manage to get a patent on working 35 hours a
week?

That is truly insane... *Starts work on patenting inhaling air...*

As for patents here in the uk...

Anything in the public domain prior to patent application is considered fair
game and more or less unpatentable. With the notable exception of companies
with plenty of resources.

Do not disclose the details of your invention to anyone, including the
promoter, without a prior confidentiality agreement - failure to do so could
prevent you from obtaining intellectual property rights in the future. -
www.patent.gov.uk


- Original Message - 
From: Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: [Freevo-users] Re: Proposed patent changes?


 Mark Benson wrote:
  Is this for real?

 Yes

  However, I suspect that it will be difficult to gain patents on all but
the
  newest processes (I use processes to refer to both software
  methods/algorithms and business processes) after all, you can only apply
for
  a patent if the idea is not already in the public domain, thats not to
say
  that many large companies have or are in the process or obtaining
patents.

 Let's see:

 USA:

 You can patent everything you like. Maybe we should patent 'build a
 setop box with linux and a scripting language' or 'a program to
 control xine and mplayer'. It doesn't matter, you can patent
 everything.

 Examples : Amazon One-Click-Patent, Someone has a patent for embedding
 stuff in a website (Microsoft just lost on this) and maybe all in the
 Europe section, too


 Europe:

 Right now can't patent ideas in the same way as in the USA. But some
 patents are already granted, but the current law is against these
 patents so they are of no use.

 Examples: Amazon has a patent for 'sending gifts over a webshop',
 Adobe on 'windows with tabs', some company on 'a progress bar', in
 France someone patented 'working 35 hours a week' [1].

  Expect to see test cases if the proposals become law.

 It looks like the vote will be postponed. The German Linux Association
 (LIVE) send some realy good docs to some German politicians (same for
 some other countries) to show that the new law will be bad for Open
 Source the German government is supporting and for small companies.



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Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

[Mark Benson]

So if I have all the files in the right place...

libavcodec.so and libSDL-1.2.o.0

And dxr3 output works fine in 1.3.2pre4 and in mplayer

Is this a problem in 1.3.4?

Is there anything I'm missing? What else can I try?





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Re: [Freevo-users] DXR3 problem more

[Mark Benson]

You've got a lot further than me then!

1.3.2-pre4 works fine (apart from the audio synch in divx) but can't even
start 1.3.4...

(Redhat 9 - kernel 2.4.20-19.9smp Dual PII 400)

- Original Message - 
From: Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] DXR3 problem  more


 First off your remote problem is wither because of a miscalibration of
your
 remote or the remote you chose to use is causing the problem.  I have no
 problems with my IR control at all.

 I also cannot get the dxr3 to completely work.   I have mplayer working
and
 playing to the dxr3 from the command line, and freevo showing it's OSD on
 the dxr3 output perfectly...

 but when I launch anything that starts mplayer inside freevo it crashes
 mplayer and freevo with video device not available as freevo is not
 letting go of the dxr3 for mplayer and when it comes back freevo freaks
out
 also.

 Downgrade to an earlier freevo will probably fix it but from what I can
tell
 dxr3 is broken in 1.3.4.

 I have a geforce2 with tv out coming in the mail ($5.00 from ebay!) as the
 dxr3 is becoming more and more of a kludge/hack... I think I need to get
 away from it so I can reproduce the box for friends

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:41 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [Freevo-users] DXR3 problem  more


 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 using the SDL dxr3 video driver w/ fame (0.1)!
 Pygame Parachute Traceback:
File /src/osd.py, line 329, in __init__
 Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
 /usr/local/freevo/freevo: line 135:  1262 Aborted
 ./runapp python src/main.py $@

 freevo-1.3.4 rpm release:
 =

 No overrides loaded
 WARNING: You are using the SDL dxr3 video driver w/ fame (0.1)!
 Pygame Parachute Traceback:
File /src/osd.py, line 340, in __init__
 Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
 /usr/local/freevo/freevo: line 150:  1305 Aborted
 ./runapp python -OO src/main.py $@

 freevo-1.3.4 tar release (make install doesn't work!):
 ==

 ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/media/cdrom', '/dev/cdrom',
'CD-1')
 WARNING: You are using the SDL dxr3 video driver w/ fame (0.1)!
 Pygame Parachute Traceback:
File src/osd.py, line 340, in __init__
 Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
 ./freevo: line 150:  1317 Aborted ./runapp python 

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users][OT] radio frequency receivers

[Mark Benson]

I've got an ATI remote wonder - this is a wireless remote (USB receiver).

I'm still undecided on this as at present as the range is somewhat limited.
When I tired it at work it had a useable range of about 10meters, but at
home that range is seriously reduced to only 1 to 3 meters depending on the
positioning of the receiver and orinentation of the xmitter. I found this
was a problem with wireless alarm systems at home too - the specified range
of 150meters was drastically reduced in my house to little more than 5 - 10
meters depending on the placement of xmitters/receivers. Tech support (for
the alarm system) suggested high mineral/iron content in the brick work of
the house or stray radio interference... could be the vast amount of cat5
and coax running throughout my house!

I've also only used this thing on windows, but I found details of a linux
implementation for this remote that seemed to use the X10 protocol - not
sure exactly what it would entail to set this thing up under linux though...

You can now get these in the uk via www.mini-itx.com (your one stop shop for
all things mini-itx)
(They also ship worldwide - there is another supplier in the uk (where I got
mine) but I can't remember off hand the URL)

As for x10/physical connection - have they not heard of opto isolation?

What is this one-wire stuff? Got a link handy? Will google it later...
sounds interesting...

- Original Message - 
From: Roh . [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users][OT] radio frequency receivers


 ...sorry if this is too off subject for some

 or better yet abandon the RF thing completely and simply buy the right
X10
 modules and a cheaper Ceiling fan.  home automation with linux is old
hat.
 and has been done very well with a program package called misterhouse.
 
 X10, um, what can i say, it opens up the old argument of using mains for
 data.
 as an experienced electronics engineer, i can say that personaly id never,
 ever use anything that modulates my mains supply (240v 10/15A max here,
 thats a potiential 2400/3600W load with a physical connection to my
 computer/sensitive electronics - no thanks!!), be it X10 or those crazy
 pest-repellant devices, or a number of other devices that do similar
things.

 X10 is old now, it was old 5 years ago, although its popular still in
homes,
 almost all of the big electronics firms have been developing
 newer/smarter/faster/safer methods for automation. and for the last 2
years
 or so it looks likes Dallas's 1-wire technology has come out in front, and
 has already been used in fridges and ovens etc, works on the JINI/TINI
 technology, and has a HUGE potiential.

 It's great, when the temperature in the room exceeds settings I have
 declared the celing fans there come on.  I also have it based on time,
and
 if the IR motion detectors have sensed that someone is in the room within
 the past hour (occupancy detector)
 
 yeh misterhouse can do some cool things. but it will still do all the same
 cool things, and more, once 1-Wire has more user-end programs, drivers,
etc
 (there are a few atm, Dallas have a linux API available) and someone makes
a
 1-wire version of misterhouse (yeh i know a long way off). Dallas already
 have all-in-one chips that can switch/dim lights (bulb and fluro), measure
 temp/light levels, sense motion, general I/O and adc/dac's, they even have
 chips(microcontrollers) that run native java, provide web servers(tcp/ip)
 etc, some really cool stuff. most chips have on-board ram to store data
 instead or constant polling, they can count and store in ram and just
 collect data once an hour (data can contain data logs from every minute of
 that hour, which may be the 20 or so temp sensors on that branch on the
 1-wire network that u want to log). as well as bluetooth/wifi interfaces,
 and things like the java-ring for authentication, the future is really
crazy
 when u think what this 1-wire could do for home automation.


 doing such a thing is outside the scope of freevo... (it's like asking
your
 VCR to take the trash out.) get misterhouse instead for home automation.
 
 yeh, we werent actually talking home automation with freevo to begin with,
 someone was curious about using a RF remote with freevo (lirc), i gave my
 two cents worth, a couple of others also did, and here we are talking
about
 trashing the RF remote completely and using X10.

 ...although, down the road, there is nothing stopping freevo from having a
 front-end for home-automation - why not? i think it would be cool (after
all
 u just control misterhouse via apache, why not freevo?)


 regards,

 rohbags.
 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



 -Original Message-
 From: Roh . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 4:56 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] radio frequency receivers
 
 
 
  I don't know if lirc supports it, but there are RF recievers for
  Linux; that's 

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

[Mark Benson]

Its there already - copied it over anyway (tried it from both /usr/lib and
from the working freevo-1.3.2-pre4/runtime/dll)

But I still get the same error...

- Original Message - 
From: Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device


 I don't know the runtime too well, but try copying libavcodec.so.*
 into freevo-1.3.4/runtime/dll as well.

 On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:30:03AM +0100, Mark Benson wrote:
  When I copy the libSDL to freevo-1.3.4/runtime/dll I get the following
error
  message...
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo
  ./runtime/apps/freevo_python: error while loading shared libraries:
  libavcodec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]#
 
  I've even tried copying the libSDL from the working
  freevo-1.3.2-pre4/runtime/dll but I still get the same error -
premissions
  all seem to be the same... any ideas?
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:44 PM
  Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
 
 
   Copy the SDL-Library to the runtime/dll directory
  
   cp /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0  runtime/dll
  
   be sure to rename whatever your libSDL is to the above... I.E.
   libSDL-1.2.so.0 that is the missing part in the Wiki instructions.
  
  
  
  
-Original Message-From: Mark Benson
   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:04
PMTo:
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and
  1.3.4
   No available video device
   All right I've read the wiki to death over the past weeks and am still
not
   convinced...
  
   I've already complied SDL with dxr3 support - how do I let 1.3.4 make
use
  of
   this?
  
  
   - Original Message - 
   From: Johan Cel?n
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:54 PM
   Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
  
  
   yeah
   read the wiki ;)
   - Original Message - 
   From: Mark Benson
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:55 AM
   Subject: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
  
  
   I've downloaded the binary relase 1.3.4 and when I run it with dxr3 as
the
   output I get the following error
  
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo
   ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom', '/dev/cdrom',
'CD-1')
   Traceback (most recent call last):
 File src/main.py, line 134, in ?
   skin= skin.get_singleton()
 File src/skin.py, line 78, in get_singleton
   exec('import ' + modname  + ' as skinimpl')
 File string, line 1, in ?
 File skins/main1/skin_main1.py, line 120, in ?
   import xml_skin
 File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 80, in ?
   osd = osd.get_singleton()
 File src/osd.py, line 209, in get_singleton
   _singleton = util.SynchronizedObject(OSD())
 File src/osd.py, line 330, in __init__
   pygame.display.init()
   pygame.error: No available video device
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]#
  
   I have 1.3.2 binary running fine with the dxr3, but 1.3.4 does not
want to
   play.
  
   Any ideas?
  
  
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Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

[Mark Benson]

I over-wrote the file...

The names were the same...

Copied libavcodec.so from various places... still the same error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo
./runtime/apps/freevo_python: error while loading shared libraries:
libavcodec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]#


- Original Message - 
From: Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device


 did you copy it as it was, or did you rename it so it overwrites the old
 libSDL?

 you need to overwrite the old libSDL

 -Original Message-
 From: Mark Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:30 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device


 When I copy the libSDL to freevo-1.3.4/runtime/dll I get the following
error
 message...

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo
 ./runtime/apps/freevo_python: error while loading shared libraries:
 libavcodec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]#

 I've even tried copying the libSDL from the working
 freevo-1.3.2-pre4/runtime/dll but I still get the same error - premissions
 all seem to be the same... any ideas?

 - Original Message - 
 From: Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:44 PM
 Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device


  Copy the SDL-Library to the runtime/dll directory
 
  cp /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0  runtime/dll
 
  be sure to rename whatever your libSDL is to the above... I.E.
  libSDL-1.2.so.0 that is the missing part in the Wiki instructions.
 
 
 
 
   -Original Message-From: Mark Benson
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:04
PMTo:
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and
 1.3.4
  No available video device
  All right I've read the wiki to death over the past weeks and am still
not
  convinced...
 
  I've already complied SDL with dxr3 support - how do I let 1.3.4 make
use
 of
  this?
 
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Johan Celén
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
 
 
  yeah
  read the wiki ;)
  - Original Message - 
  From: Mark Benson
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:55 AM
  Subject: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
 
 
  I've downloaded the binary relase 1.3.4 and when I run it with dxr3 as
the
  output I get the following error
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo
  ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom', '/dev/cdrom',
'CD-1')
  Traceback (most recent call last):
File src/main.py, line 134, in ?
  skin= skin.get_singleton()
File src/skin.py, line 78, in get_singleton
  exec('import ' + modname  + ' as skinimpl')
File string, line 1, in ?
File skins/main1/skin_main1.py, line 120, in ?
  import xml_skin
File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 80, in ?
  osd = osd.get_singleton()
File src/osd.py, line 209, in get_singleton
  _singleton = util.SynchronizedObject(OSD())
File src/osd.py, line 330, in __init__
  pygame.display.init()
  pygame.error: No available video device
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]#
 
  I have 1.3.2 binary running fine with the dxr3, but 1.3.4 does not want
to
  play.
 
  Any ideas?
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

[Mark Benson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dll]# ldd libavcodec.so
libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x4011d000)
libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4013f000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4014d000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x4200)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dll]# ls
freevo_loader  libgmodule-1.2.so.0   libpthread.so.0
libao.so.2 libgphoto2_port.so.0  libreadline.so.4
libasound.so.2 libgphoto2.so.2   libresolv.so.2
libavcodec.so  libgthread-1.2.so.0   libSDL-1.2.so.0
libblas.so.2   libgtk-1.2.so.0   libSDL_image-1.2.so.0
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 libjpeg.so.62 libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
libcrypt.so.1  liblapack.so.2libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0
libc.so.6  liblirc_client.so.0   libsmpeg-0.4.so.0
libdb-4.1.so   libm.so.6 libssl.so.0.9.7
libdirectfb-0.9.so.19  libncurses.so.5   libstdc++.so.5
libdl.so.2 libnsl.so.1   libutil.so.1
libdvdread.so.2libnss_compat.so.2libvorbisenc.so.2
libexif.so.8   libnss_dns.so.2   libvorbisfile.so.3
libexpat.so.1  libnss_files.so.2 libvorbis.so.0
libfreetype.so.6   libnss_nisplus.so.2   libX11.so.6
libg2c.so.0libnss_nis.so.2   libXext.so.6
libgcc_s.so.1  libogg.so.0   libXi.so.6
libgdk-1.2.so.0libpanel.so.5 libxmms.so.1
libglib-1.2.so.0   libpng.so.3   libz.so.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dll]#

These all seem to be where the listing shows...

I went thru the output of ldd and located all the files.

- Original Message - 
From: Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device


 Type ldd libavcodec.so and make sure that all the listed libraries are
 available in the runtime/dll directory.

 On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:57:10PM +0100, Mark Benson wrote:
  I over-wrote the file...
 
  The names were the same...
 
  Copied libavcodec.so from various places... still the same error
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo
  ./runtime/apps/freevo_python: error while loading shared libraries:
  libavcodec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]#
 
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:01 PM
  Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
 
 
   did you copy it as it was, or did you rename it so it overwrites the
old
   libSDL?
  
   you need to overwrite the old libSDL
  
   -Original Message-
   From: Mark Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:30 AM
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
  
  
   When I copy the libSDL to freevo-1.3.4/runtime/dll I get the following
  error
   message...
  
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo
   ./runtime/apps/freevo_python: error while loading shared libraries:
   libavcodec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]#
  
   I've even tried copying the libSDL from the working
   freevo-1.3.2-pre4/runtime/dll but I still get the same error -
premissions
   all seem to be the same... any ideas?
  
   - Original Message - 
   From: Gray, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:44 PM
   Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
  
  
Copy the SDL-Library to the runtime/dll directory
   
cp /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0  runtime/dll
   
be sure to rename whatever your libSDL is to the above... I.E.
libSDL-1.2.so.0 that is the missing part in the Wiki instructions.
   
   
   
   
 -Original Message-From: Mark Benson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:04
  PMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3
and
   1.3.4
No available video device
All right I've read the wiki to death over the past weeks and am
still
  not
convinced...
   
I've already complied SDL with dxr3 support - how do I let 1.3.4
make
  use
   of
this?
   
   
- Original Message - 
From: Johan Cel?n
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
   
   
yeah
read the wiki ;)
- Original Message - 
From: Mark Benson
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:55 AM
Subject: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device
   
   
I've downloaded the binary relase 1.3.4 and when I run it with dxr3
as
  the
output I get the following error
   
[EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo
ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom', '/dev

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

[Mark Benson]

Sorry - forgot I had to do that for each new 
release...

Spent so much time trying to get the dxr3 card 
actually working I forgot the steps I went thru...


  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Johan 
  Celén 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:54 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 
  1.3.4 No available video device
  
  yeah
  read the wiki ;)
  
- Original Message - 
From: 
Mark 
Benson 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:55 
AM
Subject: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 
No available video device

I've downloaded the binary relase 1.3.4 and 
when I run it with dxr3 as the output I get the following error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# 
./freevoROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added "('/mnt/cdrom', 
'/dev/cdrom', 'CD-1')"Traceback (most recent call last): File 
"src/main.py", line 134, in ? skin = 
skin.get_singleton() File "src/skin.py", line 78, in 
get_singleton exec('import ' + modname + ' as 
skinimpl') File "string", line 1, in ? File 
"skins/main1/skin_main1.py", line 120, in ? import 
xml_skin File "skins/main1/xml_skin.py", line 80, in 
? osd = osd.get_singleton() File 
"src/osd.py", line 209, in get_singleton _singleton = 
util.SynchronizedObject(OSD()) File "src/osd.py", line 330, in 
__init__ pygame.display.init()pygame.error: No 
available video device[EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]#
I have 1.3.2 binary running fine with the dxr3, 
but 1.3.4 does not want to play.

Any 
ideas?

Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream not system stream...

[Mark Benson]

Sucess! I managed to get the dxr3 working in slow degrees last night...

Started by trying cat test.mpg  /dev/em8300_mv

Expecting to see nothing, I got a few garbled images (This was definatley
progress! I didn't expect it to play properly as its an mpeg not an mv
stream)

Tried a few more files, got more or less the same results (Still better than
nothing)

Spent ages working with mplayer - only to discover that the dxr3 support is
broken... tried to fix it by getting a newer version of mplayer and
compiling that, but it complained about missing header files for the dxr3
(very strange - where have they gone since the last compile of mplayer? Or
maybe I had copied them into the mplayer source dir instead - can't remember
off hand - anyhoo I can sort that).

Tried an older release of freevo 1.3.2-pre4 binary - and hay presto, TVout
via the dxr3... sweet!

(Major problem with audio synch on divx movies - but hey, one thing at a
time)

Now to try and get everything in the latest release working...

- Original Message - 
From: Johan Celén [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream
not system stream...


 hmm.. have you followed the instructions of dxr3 setup (not the one in
 freevo)?
 do you have the devices for the dxr3 card?
 cd em8300;cd modules;make devices
 or something like that..



 - Original Message - 
 From: Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:38 PM
 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream
 not system stream...


  Ok not 100% sure about this but I've just tried playing an mpeg 1 file
 thru
  mplayer on a remote shell (not sure if doing it this way will work but I
  can't see why not - even though I can't physically see the output :-).
 
  tried mplayer -vo dxr3 -ao oss://em8300_ma-0 test.mpg
 
  and mplayer -vo dxr3 test.mpg
 
  But mplayer complains that it can't open the device...
  ==
  Playing test.mpg
  MPEG-ES file format detected.
  VIDEO:  MPEG1  160x120  (aspect 1)  25.00 fps  409.6 kbps (51.2 kbyte/s)
  Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
 
 
  Exiting... (End of file)
  ==
  This is the a version of mplayer that I compliled for dxr3 support -
  followed the docs and it all seemed ok, dxr3 support was listed.
 
  I'm stumped...
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Johan Celén [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video
stream
  not system stream...
 
 
   Hopefully your card will work when you try it with mplayer :)
   Seems like you have setup everything right. You might want to run
   em8300setup -d btw,
   then you'll be able to get both ac3 and pcm sound. I get the flicker
on
  the
   tv everytime I reboot /
   reinitialize the card, so that's normal.
   You should be able to play almost everything with your dxr3 card. All
   mpeg1/2 streams should work fine.
   You can also play xvid/divx. etc with mplayer, it renders the movie to
  mpeg
   on the fly. :)).
  
  
  
   - Original Message - 
   From: Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:37 PM
   Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video
 stream
   not system stream...
  
  
Thanks Johan,
   
I haven't tried running it with mplayer as yet, as I was trying to
 work
   thru
everything systematically. I will try mplayer when I'm actually
 infront
  of
the box next. I was wondering if the mpeg should be a specific
format
  for
the dxr3, maybe it can only scale divisions of PAL resolutions?
   
I'm currently loading the modules by hand and then uploading the
microcode... rebooting doesn't have any affect for me.
   
If I run ./em8300setup -q first it complains that I need to upload
the
microcode first, so I run ./em8300setup and it returns...
   
[EMAIL PROTECTED] em8300setup]# ./em8300setup
Video   Aspect  Audio   Spu
PAL 4:3 ANALOG  OFF
   
Running ./em8300setup -q returns the same info:
   
[EMAIL PROTECTED] em8300setup]# ./em8300setup -q
Video   Aspect  Audio   Spu
PAL 4:3 ANALOG  OFF
   
Which sounds ok to me - I'm in the uk so pal should be fine...
   
So far the closest I've got the getting any output from the dxr3 is
  screen
flicker when loading the modules and microcode.
   
I'm running RH9 with 2.4.20-19.9
I'm running on a dual celeron box (an old abit BP6)
   
   
   
- Original Message - 
From: Johan Celén [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video
  stream
not system stream

Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream not system stream...

[Mark Benson]

Thanks Johan,

I haven't tried running it with mplayer as yet, as I was trying to work thru
everything systematically. I will try mplayer when I'm actually infront of
the box next. I was wondering if the mpeg should be a specific format for
the dxr3, maybe it can only scale divisions of PAL resolutions?

I'm currently loading the modules by hand and then uploading the
microcode... rebooting doesn't have any affect for me.

If I run ./em8300setup -q first it complains that I need to upload the
microcode first, so I run ./em8300setup and it returns...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] em8300setup]# ./em8300setup
Video   Aspect  Audio   Spu
PAL 4:3 ANALOG  OFF

Running ./em8300setup -q returns the same info:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] em8300setup]# ./em8300setup -q
Video   Aspect  Audio   Spu
PAL 4:3 ANALOG  OFF

Which sounds ok to me - I'm in the uk so pal should be fine...

So far the closest I've got the getting any output from the dxr3 is screen
flicker when loading the modules and microcode.

I'm running RH9 with 2.4.20-19.9
I'm running on a dual celeron box (an old abit BP6)



- Original Message - 
From: Johan Celén [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream
not system stream...


 Yeah.. I have a working dxr3 (hollywood+) in my freevo box..
 I've got the same error that you have.. but all I had to do is to reboot,
 and then it worked.
 what do you get if you run em8300setup -q ? Does everything looks ok?
 have you tried to run the card with mplayer (without freevo)
 mplayer -vo dxr3 -ao oss://dev/em8300_ma-0 test.mpg
 (or something like that)
 This is my ldm:

 modprobe i2c-algo-bit
 insmod /apps/em8300-0.13.0/modules/adv717x.o pixelport_16bit=0
 pixelport_other_pal=0
 insmod /apps/em8300-0.13.0/modules/bt865.o
 insmod /apps/em8300-0.13.0/modules/em8300.o dicom_other_pal=0 dicom_fix=0
 dicom_control=1

 and in my rc.local i've got
 em8300setup -d
 you might have to set the pal/pal60/ntsc too.. think i changed the
defaults
 on my modules to that..

 Wich kernel are you using btw? I'm running 2.4.21, works perfectly. But
with
 2.4.22rc2 em8300 wont even compile :/
 had to patch it to support i2c 2.8.0.. but the patch made em8300 to fail
 compilation :/
 Anyone running dxr3 with 2.4.22rc2 (or atleast i2c 2.8.0 ? )

 Regards
 Johan



 - Original Message - 
 From: Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:27 AM
 Subject: Fw: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream
 not system stream...


  Hi all,
 
  I'm still having problems getting my dxr3 working with freevo,
 
  The old post is what happens when I try to output an mpeg to the card...
 
  When I run freevo with dxr3 set as the output, freevo complains that
there
  is no output device...
 
  Anyone with a working dxr3 have any ideas?
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 2:09 PM
  Subject: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 video stream not system stream...
 
 
  
  
  
I've been trying to get my dxr3 working - got so far...
   
Currently able to load modules (tv screen flickers - occasionally
goes
green), upload microcode (tv screen flickers - if green goes black).
   
When I try
   
extract_mpeg2 test.mpg  /dev/em8300_mv
   
I get the message video stream not system stream repeated for the
 approx
duration of the test clip
   
The thing that is confusing me is that I have colour bars enabled
but
  have
not as yet seen them! Any ideas?
   
complied the modules (using the radhat-patched version)
   
load the modules using:  ./ldm
   
ldm options currently (tried various combinations):
   
#!/bin/sh
   
modprobe i2c-algo-bit
   
insmod adv717x.o
# pixelport_16bit=0 pixelport_other_pal=0 swap_redblue_pal=0
  color_bars=1
insmod bt865.o
# color_bars=1
insmod em8300.o
# use_bt865=0 bt865_ucode_timeout=1 dicom_fix=0 dicom_control=0
dicom_other_pal=0 activate_loopback=0
   
load the microcode using:  ./em8300setup
   
try to test video output using:  extract_mpeg2 test.mpg 
 /dev/em8300_mv
   
where test.mpg is a test video clip...
   
Thats when I get the video stream not system stream messages...
  
  
  
  
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Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream not system stream...

[Mark Benson]

Ok not 100% sure about this but I've just tried playing an mpeg 1 file thru
mplayer on a remote shell (not sure if doing it this way will work but I
can't see why not - even though I can't physically see the output :-).

tried mplayer -vo dxr3 -ao oss://em8300_ma-0 test.mpg

and mplayer -vo dxr3 test.mpg

But mplayer complains that it can't open the device...
==
Playing test.mpg
MPEG-ES file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG1  160x120  (aspect 1)  25.00 fps  409.6 kbps (51.2 kbyte/s)
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.


Exiting... (End of file)
==
This is the a version of mplayer that I compliled for dxr3 support -
followed the docs and it all seemed ok, dxr3 support was listed.

I'm stumped...

- Original Message - 
From: Johan Celén [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream
not system stream...


 Hopefully your card will work when you try it with mplayer :)
 Seems like you have setup everything right. You might want to run
 em8300setup -d btw,
 then you'll be able to get both ac3 and pcm sound. I get the flicker on
the
 tv everytime I reboot /
 reinitialize the card, so that's normal.
 You should be able to play almost everything with your dxr3 card. All
 mpeg1/2 streams should work fine.
 You can also play xvid/divx. etc with mplayer, it renders the movie to
mpeg
 on the fly. :)).



 - Original Message - 
 From: Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:37 PM
 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream
 not system stream...


  Thanks Johan,
 
  I haven't tried running it with mplayer as yet, as I was trying to work
 thru
  everything systematically. I will try mplayer when I'm actually infront
of
  the box next. I was wondering if the mpeg should be a specific format
for
  the dxr3, maybe it can only scale divisions of PAL resolutions?
 
  I'm currently loading the modules by hand and then uploading the
  microcode... rebooting doesn't have any affect for me.
 
  If I run ./em8300setup -q first it complains that I need to upload the
  microcode first, so I run ./em8300setup and it returns...
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] em8300setup]# ./em8300setup
  Video   Aspect  Audio   Spu
  PAL 4:3 ANALOG  OFF
 
  Running ./em8300setup -q returns the same info:
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] em8300setup]# ./em8300setup -q
  Video   Aspect  Audio   Spu
  PAL 4:3 ANALOG  OFF
 
  Which sounds ok to me - I'm in the uk so pal should be fine...
 
  So far the closest I've got the getting any output from the dxr3 is
screen
  flicker when loading the modules and microcode.
 
  I'm running RH9 with 2.4.20-19.9
  I'm running on a dual celeron box (an old abit BP6)
 
 
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Johan Celén [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video
stream
  not system stream...
 
 
   Yeah.. I have a working dxr3 (hollywood+) in my freevo box..
   I've got the same error that you have.. but all I had to do is to
 reboot,
   and then it worked.
   what do you get if you run em8300setup -q ? Does everything looks ok?
   have you tried to run the card with mplayer (without freevo)
   mplayer -vo dxr3 -ao oss://dev/em8300_ma-0 test.mpg
   (or something like that)
   This is my ldm:
  
   modprobe i2c-algo-bit
   insmod /apps/em8300-0.13.0/modules/adv717x.o pixelport_16bit=0
   pixelport_other_pal=0
   insmod /apps/em8300-0.13.0/modules/bt865.o
   insmod /apps/em8300-0.13.0/modules/em8300.o dicom_other_pal=0
 dicom_fix=0
   dicom_control=1
  
   and in my rc.local i've got
   em8300setup -d
   you might have to set the pal/pal60/ntsc too.. think i changed the
  defaults
   on my modules to that..
  
   Wich kernel are you using btw? I'm running 2.4.21, works perfectly.
But
  with
   2.4.22rc2 em8300 wont even compile :/
   had to patch it to support i2c 2.8.0.. but the patch made em8300 to
fail
   compilation :/
   Anyone running dxr3 with 2.4.22rc2 (or atleast i2c 2.8.0 ? )
  
   Regards
   Johan
  
  
  
   - Original Message - 
   From: Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:27 AM
   Subject: Fw: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video
 stream
   not system stream...
  
  
Hi all,
   
I'm still having problems getting my dxr3 working with freevo,
   
The old post is what happens when I try to output an mpeg to the
 card...
   
When I run freevo with dxr3 set as the output, freevo complains that
  there
is no output device...
   
Anyone with a working dxr3 have any ideas?
   
- Original Message - 
From: Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 15

Re: Fw: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video stream not system stream...

[Mark Benson]

I've been following the docs and have patched SDL, but still no joy - I've
posted a couple of replys already but they don't seem to be getting thru.

- Original Message - 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [Freevo-users] No display device in freevo? Dxr3 video
stream not system stream...



 Another note, theres instructions somewhere on the freevo website, you
need to
 manually patch SDL to get freevo to output on a DXR3. When I get some time
I
 plan to make a similiar patch for a DXR2 :)

 Ben.

 Quoting Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

  Hi all,
 
  I'm still having problems getting my dxr3 working with freevo,
 
  The old post is what happens when I try to output an mpeg to the card...
 
  When I run freevo with dxr3 set as the output, freevo complains that
there
  is no output device...
 
  Anyone with a working dxr3 have any ideas?
 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 2:09 PM
  Subject: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 video stream not system stream...
 
 
  
  
  
I've been trying to get my dxr3 working - got so far...
   
Currently able to load modules (tv screen flickers - occasionally
goes
green), upload microcode (tv screen flickers - if green goes black).
   
When I try
   
extract_mpeg2 test.mpg  /dev/em8300_mv
   
I get the message video stream not system stream repeated for the
approx
duration of the test clip
   
The thing that is confusing me is that I have colour bars enabled
but
  have
not as yet seen them! Any ideas?
   
complied the modules (using the radhat-patched version)
   
load the modules using:  ./ldm
   
ldm options currently (tried various combinations):
   
#!/bin/sh
   
modprobe i2c-algo-bit
   
insmod adv717x.o
# pixelport_16bit=0 pixelport_other_pal=0 swap_redblue_pal=0
  color_bars=1
insmod bt865.o
# color_bars=1
insmod em8300.o
# use_bt865=0 bt865_ucode_timeout=1 dicom_fix=0 dicom_control=0
dicom_other_pal=0 activate_loopback=0
   
load the microcode using:  ./em8300setup
   
try to test video output using:  extract_mpeg2 test.mpg 
/dev/em8300_mv
   
where test.mpg is a test video clip...
   
Thats when I get the video stream not system stream messages...
  
  
  
  
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[Freevo-users] Fw: Dxr3 video stream not system stream...

[Mark Benson]

  I've been trying to get my dxr3 working - got so far...
 
  Currently able to load modules (tv screen flickers - occasionally goes
  green), upload microcode (tv screen flickers - if green goes black).
 
  When I try
 
  extract_mpeg2 test.mpg  /dev/em8300_mv
 
  I get the message video stream not system stream repeated for the approx
  duration of the test clip
 
  The thing that is confusing me is that I have colour bars enabled but
have
  not as yet seen them! Any ideas?
 
  complied the modules (using the radhat-patched version)
 
  load the modules using:  ./ldm
 
  ldm options currently (tried various combinations):
 
  #!/bin/sh
 
  modprobe i2c-algo-bit
 
  insmod adv717x.o
  # pixelport_16bit=0 pixelport_other_pal=0 swap_redblue_pal=0
color_bars=1
  insmod bt865.o
  # color_bars=1
  insmod em8300.o
  # use_bt865=0 bt865_ucode_timeout=1 dicom_fix=0 dicom_control=0
  dicom_other_pal=0 activate_loopback=0
 
  load the microcode using:  ./em8300setup
 
  try to test video output using:  extract_mpeg2 test.m*g  /dev/em8300_mv
 
  where test.mpg is a test video clip...
 
  Thats when I get the video stream not system stream messages...





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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

[mark]

Thanks Aubin, I've now got it working.  As per 
David Amiel's post I needed to use libsdl cvs.

One more thing, I have modified my MPlayer Args in local_config.py to use 
dfbmga:buffermode=triple.  Can I easilly modify freevo to use this at startup.  This 
may be of benefit to others as it doesnt need the vsync kernel patch to get best 
results.  Not that I suppose it makes much difference to the menu's.  

Mark
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:31:14 -0400
Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 If you put directfb in your freevo.conf, it's an error since Freevo
 doesn't know about directfb, just about dfbmga, hence the
 message you're getting. 
 
 
 
 On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 05:57:31PM +, mark wrote:
  
  
  Thanks Aubin, that checks out fine. 
  
  ldd /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
  libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 =/usr/lib/libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 (0x40088000)
  
  So, sum up, mplayer works stand alone and DirectFB is buuilt against sdl 
  correctly.  At the same time Freevo is not even calling DirectFB hence no DirectFB 
  output messages during startup.  
  
  Its interesting that if I substitute directfb for dfbmga in freevo.conf and run 
  freevo I get this on the console but still no directfb output messages.
  
  ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom', '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0', 'CD-1')
  ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected that /dev/hda is the same device as /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, 
  skipping
  freevo: bad file format, line 21
  WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found!
  Couldn't open mixer /dev/mixer
  
  Mark
  
  libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 = /usr/lib/libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 (0x40088000)
  
  
  On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 20:36:45 -0400
  Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Easiest way to check if DirectFB is working with SDL is to do:
   ldd /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
   
   Among the output should be reference to libdirectfb, if SDL was built
   properly.
   
   On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:21:16AM +, mark wrote:

Okay, after 2 hours wasted trying to get mplayer dfbmga working again I find 
that a reboot fixed it.  Still no luck with freevo though.

I have removed my local_config.py (just in case).  If I now run freevo with 
just directfb I get this

ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom', '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0', 
'CD-1')
ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected that /dev/hda is the same device as 
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0, skipping
freevo: bad file format, line 21
WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found!
Couldn't open mixer /dev/mixer

but it doesnt say line 21 of which file.  If I run with dfbmga I get the 
message already posted.  /dev/mixer warnings are irrelavant I dont have a 
mixer on my sound card.

Okay, if sdl is not using DirectFB, is there any way I could test sdl in 
isolation?  I understand if I have Directfb 0.19 and sdl 1.25 then I shouldnt 
need the patch?  I'm not sure how to debug my sdl installation.

Its kind of late in the UK so I'll catch you tomorrow.

Thanks for the help.

Mark






On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:27:47 -0400
Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:50:25PM +, mark wrote:
  I think I have seen some directfb messages when starting freevo but only 
  when setting directfb instead of dfbmga in freevo.conf.
  Since I have no monitor on the media box, I dont know if directfb was 
  actually displaying anything.
 
 The messages should show up in the freevo logs; they look like he ones
 you put below (the lines starting with (*))
 
 If you're not seeing messages from DirectFB when you load Freevo, then
 SDL is probably not using it.
 
 Aubin
 
  The really frustrating thing is that I've now somehow broken directfb 
  under mplayer too :(.  It worked fine this morning, it now freezes as 
  follows.  
  
  
  mplayer -dvd 1 -vo dfbmga:nospic,triple -x 768 -y 576
  
  
  (*) parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'.
  
 -- DirectFB v0.9.19 -
   (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH
   (c) 2002   convergence GmbH
  ---
  
  (*) Single Application Core. (with MMX support) (2003-08-17 22:45)
  (*) DirectFB/misc/memcpy: using MMXEXT optimized memcpy()
  
  There it hangs
  
  I'll come back the list when I've got mplayer dfbmga working again :(.
  
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

[mark]

Thanks Aubin, that checks out fine. 

ldd /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 =/usr/lib/libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 (0x40088000)

So, sum up, mplayer works stand alone and DirectFB is buuilt against sdl correctly.  
At the same time Freevo is not even calling DirectFB hence no DirectFB output messages 
during startup.  

Its interesting that if I substitute directfb for dfbmga in freevo.conf and run freevo 
I get this on the console but still no directfb output messages.

ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom', '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0', 'CD-1')
ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected that /dev/hda is the same device as /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, 
skipping
freevo: bad file format, line 21
WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found!
Couldn't open mixer /dev/mixer

Mark

libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 = /usr/lib/libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 (0x40088000)


On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 20:36:45 -0400
Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Easiest way to check if DirectFB is working with SDL is to do:
 ldd /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
 
 Among the output should be reference to libdirectfb, if SDL was built
 properly.
 
 On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:21:16AM +, mark wrote:
  
  Okay, after 2 hours wasted trying to get mplayer dfbmga working again I find that 
  a reboot fixed it.  Still no luck with freevo though.
  
  I have removed my local_config.py (just in case).  If I now run freevo with just 
  directfb I get this
  
  ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom', '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0', 'CD-1')
  ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected that /dev/hda is the same device as /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, 
  skipping
  freevo: bad file format, line 21
  WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found!
  Couldn't open mixer /dev/mixer
  
  but it doesnt say line 21 of which file.  If I run with dfbmga I get the message 
  already posted.  /dev/mixer warnings are irrelavant I dont have a mixer on my 
  sound card.
  
  Okay, if sdl is not using DirectFB, is there any way I could test sdl in 
  isolation?  I understand if I have Directfb 0.19 and sdl 1.25 then I shouldnt need 
  the patch?  I'm not sure how to debug my sdl installation.
  
  Its kind of late in the UK so I'll catch you tomorrow.
  
  Thanks for the help.
  
  Mark
  
  
  
  
  
  
  On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:27:47 -0400
  Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:50:25PM +, mark wrote:
I think I have seen some directfb messages when starting freevo but only when 
setting directfb instead of dfbmga in freevo.conf.
Since I have no monitor on the media box, I dont know if directfb was actually 
displaying anything.
   
   The messages should show up in the freevo logs; they look like he ones
   you put below (the lines starting with (*))
   
   If you're not seeing messages from DirectFB when you load Freevo, then
   SDL is probably not using it.
   
   Aubin
   
The really frustrating thing is that I've now somehow broken directfb under 
mplayer too :(.  It worked fine this morning, it now freezes as follows.  


mplayer -dvd 1 -vo dfbmga:nospic,triple -x 768 -y 576


(*) parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'.

   -- DirectFB v0.9.19 -
 (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH
 (c) 2002   convergence GmbH
---

(*) Single Application Core. (with MMX support) (2003-08-17 22:45)
(*) DirectFB/misc/memcpy: using MMXEXT optimized memcpy()

There it hangs

I'll come back the list when I've got mplayer dfbmga working again :(.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

[mark]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:23:33 +0200
Markus Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello Mark,
 

Hi, 

 I experienced similar problems. I migrated from SuSE to Gentoo this week.
 
nice to know I'm not the only one :).

To get it working you applied the following patch, didn't you?
 
 http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/directfb/vo_dfbmga_update.patch
 
 Without it, the mplayer only works using '-vo dfbmga:nospic' (at least 
 for me).

Yes I did apply that patch, I too had the nospic problem previously.

 It depends on the DirectFB-version whether the patch is needed (or not). 
  =0.9.19 should be fine.

Yes thats what I thought, I'm running 0.9.19

 I found out that the ebuild for libsdl is the problem; at the moment it 
 disables the DirectFB-support to avoid circular dependencies 
 (SDL-DirectFB-SDL). I changed the ebuild by hand to get 
 DirectFB-support. It's just commented out. Remove the comment marks and 
 do a 'emerge libsdl'.
 
 I think, that fixed it for me...
 
Yes I had seen that too,and removed the comments.  As per Aubin's post I have checked 
that sdl was built correctly as follows.
ldd /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 = /usr/lib/libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 (0x40088000)

I'll post back if I figure it out.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

[mark]

Thanks David, I've amended the gentoo ebuild to install the cvs snapshot and its now 
worknig.

I have some configuring to do but I now have a picture.

Mark

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:12:48 +0200
David Amiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The sdl patch is no longer needeed.
 Use the cvs version of sdl (http://www.libsdl.org/cvs/SDL-1.2.tar.gz) and
 things should go better
 
 David
 
 - Original Message -
 From: mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:14 PM
 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)
 
 
  On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:23:33 +0200
  Markus Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Hello Mark,
  
 
  Hi,
 
   I experienced similar problems. I migrated from SuSE to Gentoo this
 week.
  
  nice to know I'm not the only one :).
 
  To get it working you applied the following patch, didn't you?
  
   http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/directfb/vo_dfbmga_update.patch
  
   Without it, the mplayer only works using '-vo dfbmga:nospic' (at least
   for me).
 
  Yes I did apply that patch, I too had the nospic problem previously.
 
   It depends on the DirectFB-version whether the patch is needed (or not).
=0.9.19 should be fine.
 
  Yes thats what I thought, I'm running 0.9.19
 
   I found out that the ebuild for libsdl is the problem; at the moment it
   disables the DirectFB-support to avoid circular dependencies
   (SDL-DirectFB-SDL). I changed the ebuild by hand to get
   DirectFB-support. It's just commented out. Remove the comment marks and
   do a 'emerge libsdl'.
  
   I think, that fixed it for me...
  
  Yes I had seen that too,and removed the comments.  As per Aubin's post I
 have checked that sdl was built correctly as follows.
  ldd /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
  libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 = /usr/lib/libdirectfb-0.9.so.19
 (0x40088000)
 
  I'll post back if I figure it out.
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 15:21:36 +
mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I'm using sdl 1.25 which I believe no longer needs the patch.  ( did try the patch,  
 but I was getting Fuzz 1)  
 
I should add I'm using Directfb-0.9.19 and that libsdl shows

checking for DirectFB support... yes

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:07:20 -0400
Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 03:21:36PM +, mark wrote:
  my frewevo.conf contains 
  
  display = dfbmga
  geometry = 720x480
  tv = pal
   I've also used 720x576 with no luck
 
 If you're using PAL you have to use x576
 
Okay, now set to 576, but I had tried both.

  /etc/directfbrc
  
  atrox-crtc2
  matrox-tv-standard=pal
  primary-layer=2
 
 I'm guessing this is a cut-and-paste error? It's supposed to be
 matrox-crtc2
 
OOPS, yes I have it correct.

 Are you running as root? You should be getting messages from directfb;
 and if you use the 'freevo' boot script, (boot/freevo) you need to
 edit it because it has SDL_VIDEODRIVEr in it already.
 

Yes, I am running as root, I am not using the boot script.  

I think I have seen some directfb messages when starting freevo but only when setting 
directfb instead of dfbmga in freevo.conf.
Since I have no monitor on the media box, I dont know if directfb was actually 
displaying anything.

The really frustrating thing is that I've now somehow broken directfb under mplayer 
too :(.  It worked fine this morning, it now freezes as follows.  


mplayer -dvd 1 -vo dfbmga:nospic,triple -x 768 -y 576


(*) parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'.

   -- DirectFB v0.9.19 -
 (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH
 (c) 2002   convergence GmbH
---

(*) Single Application Core. (with MMX support) (2003-08-17 22:45)
(*) DirectFB/misc/memcpy: using MMXEXT optimized memcpy()

There it hangs

I'll come back the list when I've got mplayer dfbmga working again :(.

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[Freevo-users] Dxr3 video stream not system stream...

[Mark Benson]

I've been trying to get my dxr3 working - got so far...

Currently able to load modules (tv screen flickers - occasionally goes
green), upload microcode (tv screen flickers - if green goes black).

When I try

extract_mpeg2 test.mpg  /dev/em8300_mv

I get the message video stream not system stream repeated for the approx
duration of the test clip

The thing that is confusing me is that I have colour bars enabled but have
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Re: [Freevo-users] HD with Freevo?

[Mark Benson]

http://www.linuxtv.org/dvb/ may still be worth a look - not sure how
applicable this is to the US market...

Otherwise try http://www.linuxdvb.tv/

I haven't yet got a DVB card as I'm still struggling with my dxr3 card...

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 I have been lurking the last week or so on the list looking to see if
anyone
 has Freevo working with an HD card. I am looking at building at least a SD
 version and wondered if anyone had used the WinTV-HD or the MyHD cards.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 SDL?

[Mark Benson]

I'll try that in a bit and let you know - I think I 
got the CVS version cause the link in the wiki wasn't responding...

Anhoo I'm sure I can get round that one way or 
another.

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Johan 
  Celén 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:41 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3  
  SDL?
  
  ah.. ffmpeg is your problem then, you cant run 
  the cvs version. You have to download the one that i wrote in the 
  wiki.
  wget http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.4.6.tar.gz 
  tar xzfv ffmpeg-0.4.6.tar.gz cd ffmpeg-0.4.6 ./configure 
  --enable-shared make make install 
  think that will solve your problem. 
  Dont know about rh, I hate it myself, so if it's 
  rh related I cant help ya ;)
  
- Original Message - 
From: 
Mark 
Benson 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:34 
PM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3  
SDL?

I've been following the various dxr3 docs for a 
couple of weeks now,

The dxr3 card is in, but the modules weren't 
loaded at the time I ran make (would this affect it?)

I downloaded the latest CVS from ffmpeg and it 
compiled ok...

I got the version of dsl that the wiki mentions 
(wanted to reduce the chance of a bug being introduced from a newer version 
- means less for me to have to think about), and patched it as per the wiki 
and yours and Pauls posts...

patch -p1  
path-to-your-freevo/runtime/src/SDL-1.2.5-nokeyboardpatch patch 
-p1  path-to-your-freevo/runtime/patches/libsdl1.2-dxr3-ffmpeg.diff 


So yeah I deff patched it for 
nokeyboard

Could it be the redhat 9 kernel back port 
causing problem? I had a few problems with the dxr3 source not compiling 
under RH9 latest kernel - but they have a RH specific patched driver src 
now... so that seems ok, as far as I can tell everything else compilied 
correctly.

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Johan 
  Celén 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:07 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 
   SDL?
  
  hmmm.. it sounds like you're doing it right. 
  I have never seen that error msg's before :/
  you have installed your dxr3 card and 
  ffmpeg?
  have you patched sdl with the nokeyboard 
  patch?
  
  
- Original Message - 
From: 
Mark Benson 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 
11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 
 SDL?

Ok - thanks for the pointers... I did all 
thatand ran autogen and configure, thencopied the 
headerfiles from ffmpeg to src/video/dxr3

Then I ran make

make chucks up some errors so haven't gone 
any further yet...

Heres the complie output: (After the last 
item to compile correctly)

SDL_dxr3video.h:46: parse error before 
"UINT8"SDL_dxr3video.h:46: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or 
unionSDL_dxr3video.h:51: parse error before '*' 
tokenSDL_dxr3video.h:51: warning: type defaults to `int' in 
declaration of `picture_yuv'SDL_dxr3video.h:51: warning: data 
definition has no type or storage classSDL_dxr3video.h:52: parse 
error before '*' tokenSDL_dxr3video.h:52: warning: type defaults to 
`int' in declaration of `outbuf'SDL_dxr3video.h:52: warning: data 
definition has no type or storage classSDL_dxr3video.h:59: parse 
error before '}' tokenSDL_dxr3events.c: In function 
`DXR3_OpenKeyboard':SDL_dxr3events.c:50: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:52: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c: In function 
`DXR3_CloseKeyboard':SDL_dxr3events.c:68: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:70: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:74: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c: In function 
`handle_keyboard':SDL_dxr3events.c:137: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:170: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:171: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:188: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:189: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c: In function 
`DXR3_PumpEvents':SDL_dxr3events.c:207: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:211: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:212: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:212: dereferencing pointer to 

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 SDL?

[Mark Benson]

Ok - thanks for the pointers... I did all 
thatand ran autogen and configure, thencopied the headerfiles from 
ffmpeg to src/video/dxr3

Then I ran make

make chucks up some errors so haven't gone any 
further yet...

Heres the complie output: (After the last item to 
compile correctly)

SDL_dxr3video.h:46: parse error before 
"UINT8"SDL_dxr3video.h:46: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or 
unionSDL_dxr3video.h:51: parse error before '*' tokenSDL_dxr3video.h:51: 
warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of 
`picture_yuv'SDL_dxr3video.h:51: warning: data definition has no type or 
storage classSDL_dxr3video.h:52: parse error before '*' 
tokenSDL_dxr3video.h:52: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of 
`outbuf'SDL_dxr3video.h:52: warning: data definition has no type or storage 
classSDL_dxr3video.h:59: parse error before '}' tokenSDL_dxr3events.c: 
In function `DXR3_OpenKeyboard':SDL_dxr3events.c:50: dereferencing pointer 
to incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:52: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c: In function 
`DXR3_CloseKeyboard':SDL_dxr3events.c:68: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete typeSDL_dxr3events.c:70: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:74: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c: In function 
`handle_keyboard':SDL_dxr3events.c:137: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:170: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:171: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:188: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:189: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c: In function 
`DXR3_PumpEvents':SDL_dxr3events.c:207: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:211: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:212: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:212: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:213: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:214: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:218: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:219: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:219: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typeSDL_dxr3events.c:224: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
typemake[3]: *** [SDL_dxr3events.lo] Error 1make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mark/downloads/freevo/SDL12/src/video/dxr3'make[2]: *** 
[all-recursive] Error 1make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mark/downloads/freevo/SDL12/src/video'make[1]: *** [all-recursive] 
Error 1make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mark/downloads/freevo/SDL12/src'make: *** [all-recursive] Error 
1
What have I done wrong?

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Johan 
  Celén 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:09 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3  
  SDL?
  
  As I wrote in the wiki, it's just the makefile 
  that fails atm (might change in the future). 
  You se a + char on one line, that's the line that 
  failed.
  so just open up your configure.in in your 
  favourite editor and add that line somewhere among
  the other src/video/blah/Makefiles (around line 
  2669 it seems ;)
  then compile your sdl and you're good to go 
  :)
  
  // Johan
  
  
  
- Original Message - 
From: 
Mark 
Benson 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:46 
AM
Subject: [Freevo-users] Dxr3  
SDL?

Hi,

After much head scratching and compiling I 
finally have dxr3 drivers...

I'm now working thru the dxr3 page in the wiki 
and have gotten to the SDL section...

I've downloaded the CVS and patched the SDL SRC 
as directed... got some hunk#1 messages

However, I'm now stuck at the point where it 
says look at configure.in.rej

I'm looking at the file but it means very 
little to me...

Here is the file:

** 2649,2654  
src/video/photon/Makefile src/video/epoc/Makefile 
src/video/dummy/Makefile src/video/ataricommon/Makefile 
src/video/xbios/Makefile src/video/gem/Makefile--- 2669,2675 
 src/video/photon/Makefile 
src/video/epoc/Makefile src/video/dummy/Makefile+ 
src/video/dxr3/Makefile src/video/ataricommon/Makefile 
src/video/xbios/Makefile src/video/gem/Makefile
So what changes does this mean I have to make 
manually and to what? Now I feel like a newbie again 
:-)

[Freevo-users] What I find funny about the virus is..

[Mark Casey]

That it's for windows and was posted to a list where the project in question
is for linux.
Mind you, I bet most people on this list use Windows..  I use linux for
server stuff but Windows still kicks the crap out of linux on the desktop.

Mark




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RE: [Freevo-users] What I find funny about the virus is..

[Mark Casey]

Mac OS X looks nice, as long as it isn't such a piece of crap that =9.x
is...

Before any Mac zealots jump to it saying Mac OS 9 etc is great, I work as an
IT Manager in a mixed Linux, Windows  Mac environment..  The machines that
always give the most hassle are not the Windows machines but the Mac's...
Take from that what you will.
Not used OS X, we're planning on getting the Mac's onto it once the
specialist software we use has been ported to OS X and is decently stable.

Mark

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aubin Paul
Sent: 01 August 2003 22:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] What I find funny about the virus is..


I digress, but what you probably meant to say was that Mac OS X kicks
the crap out of Linux. Windows just has games going for it. :)

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:40:33PM +0100, Mark Casey wrote:
 That it's for windows and was posted to a list where the project in
question
 is for linux.
 Mind you, I bet most people on this list use Windows..  I use linux for
 server stuff but Windows still kicks the crap out of linux on the desktop.
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re Flash IDE drives for persistant Freevo OS

[Mark Benson]

Check out www.linitx.com or more specifically
http://linitx.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=22src=adwords1
for compact flash IDE adaptor. I've used one of these with a 128MB compact
flash card to boot smoothwall (no additional hard drives) and it works
fine... you may run into arguments about the expected life cycle of
read/write to CF but hey at £30 a pop and falling, and with 100,000 MTBF
write operations you could expect it to last at least a few years... one
thing to note is that older systems have a real hard time with these things,
the old 486 box that my smootheall was on refused to work correctly with
linux, it would get as far as uncompressing the kernel and then fail, but on
a newer(ish) k6 233, it worked fine... and is pretty quick to boot...
(faster than HDD)

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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:11 PM
Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Re Flash IDE drives for persistant Freevo OS


 Here's another link, this one for a compact flash to IDE adapter for the
 Mini-ITX.The same exist on a generic basis as well.  You might also
 check out peeweelinux.com.

 http://peeweelinux.com/
 http://shop.store.yahoo.com/ituner/micoflidead.html



 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Q
 Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:42 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [Freevo-users] Re Flash IDE drives for persistant Freevo OS


 Mmm... I'm having trouble finding any of these drives... can anyone point
me
 in the right direction? Or maybe someone has one for sale?

 Another neat thing would be flash memory on a PCI card, as this would give
 potentially very good data rates too. Again though, I'm not sure if
anything
 like that exists.

 Q
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 Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 3:07 PM
 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re Freevo as a persistant OS.


  Q wrote:
 
   Can you possibly release a version Freevo specifically designed and
 built
   for use with damn small Linux? I am desperate to see a HTPC system
that
 will
   fit on a small Linux distro that can be installed on a
 
  you could try freevix - www.freevix.org
 
  It meets _some_ of your criteria. It boots straight to freevo, is small,
  and supports Booting via USB/PXE/cf/HD however it does take a few
  minutes to boot and shows you the boot messages (although i presume
  there's a way to toggle this?)
 
  regards
 
  James
 
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[Freevo-users] DXR3 again...

[Mark Benson]

Hi all,

I've been subscribed to the freevo list for a while 
in an attempt to avoid having to ask stupid questions about setting up 
freevo...

But... 

I have freevo 1.3.2pre4 running... although with 
out tuner or tv out... which is my problem... (forget the tv tuner for now I 
think I can sort that one myself) the tv out with the DXR3 is giving me a real 
headache... I've been using linux for years now but not really done anything in 
the way or kernel/driver stuff (compling the odd app or util I can do). The docs 
at http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/howto.html#compilinggo 
on about changing KERNEL_LOCATION to wherever you current kernel source tree 
is... (REDHAT 9 by the way) but the problem is i've installed newer kernels via 
redhat network and the src option was turned off (Plus my system is an old BP6 
dual processor so I have both SMP and single pro kernels) and I really don't 
know where to start looking for a 2.4.20-19.8 or .9 smp kernel source in either 
my own distro (lib would be my guess) or on the net... and I have been looking 
on and off for the past few days...

Can I not get a precompled driver as a 
module?

Did I read in the mailing list that it is supported 
in the run time now? So does that mean I don't need to mess about with all this 
driver compliation?

Cheers,

Mark

[Freevo-users] Kernel patches?

[Mark Casey]

Currently finishing off installing my gentoo system, compiling the kernel at
the moment (I have a feeling it won't be the last time I do it for this
system).
The hardware I have is a Radeon 7000 (for tv output), a wintv 878 based card
with a remote control and a a cheapo cmi8738 soundcard.
The machine will be used for watching tv, playing dvd's and divx's
primarilly.

What kernel options/patches should I be using?
I've made sure to enable stuff for the most blatantly obvious but there is
always something you miss.
Are there any required kernel patches for the above hardware so they can be
used under freevo?
BTW, not wanting to use X, I don't want to wait forever and a day for the
thing to compile and if it can be done with the framebuffer then I see no
reason to have X on my system.

Thanks

Mark




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[Freevo-users] Failing on gentoo

[Mark Casey]

After grabbing the rsync-freevo file using wget to my /root dir, I do a
bash rsync-freevo at the end of the file it comes up with rm: cannot
remove '/var/cache/edb/dep/media-video/freevo-*' : No such file or
directory.
When I try doing emerge freevo I get...

!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed: /usr/local/portage
Calculating dependancies
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy freevo.

!!! Error calculating dependancies. Please Correct.

Help please?

Thanks

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RE: [Freevo-users] Failing on gentoo

[Mark Casey]

Okay, just created the /usr/local/portage dir and emerge seems to work.. But
it wants to emerge kde-base/kde-env-3-r2, x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2 etc
I've got X11, kde etc set as -X, -kde etc in make.conf USE settings... Does
freevo absolutely require them?
Ie. If I run ' # USE=-X emerge freevo ' will freevo then not work etc?

Thanks

Mark


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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Freevo-users] Failing on gentoo


After grabbing the rsync-freevo file using wget to my /root dir, I do a
bash rsync-freevo at the end of the file it comes up with rm: cannot
remove '/var/cache/edb/dep/media-video/freevo-*' : No such file or
directory. When I try doing emerge freevo I get...

!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed: /usr/local/portage Calculating
dependancies
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy freevo.

!!! Error calculating dependancies. Please Correct.

Help please?

Thanks

Mark




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RE: [Freevo-users] Failing on gentoo

[Mark Casey]

Thanks, but now I need to find a way to stop freevo from wanting qt etc.
Even though I do...

USE=-X -kde -qt -gnome -gtk emerge -p freevo

It still shows X, qt etc in there...  I've heard of the time it takes to
compile qt and no way in hell do I want to compile that...  What does freevo
want with qt?
This is on a P3 500 btw.

Mark



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Sent: 21 July 2003 22:09
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Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Failing on gentoo


Hi,

1/ You have to create the directories /var/.../freevo* by hand

2/ add PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage in your /etc/make.conf

I didn't reach to make freevo install with emerge, someone (Dirk to not sell
him :) say me to wait the next release of freevo, which must be released
quite soon.

Regards,

David

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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:45 PM
Subject: [Freevo-users] Failing on gentoo


 After grabbing the rsync-freevo file using wget to my /root dir, I do 
 a bash rsync-freevo at the end of the file it comes up with rm: 
 cannot remove '/var/cache/edb/dep/media-video/freevo-*' : No such file 
 or directory. When I try doing emerge freevo I get...

 !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed: /usr/local/portage 
 Calculating dependancies
 emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy freevo.

 !!! Error calculating dependancies. Please Correct.

 Help please?

 Thanks

 Mark




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[Freevo-users] Does Freevo require X?

[Mark Casey]

Just curious since I've currently got a gentoo system compiling, its only
going to be used for freevo to output to a tv.
From what I've read on the freevo website it seems to require it, mostly I'd
prefer it not to cos I expect X will take ages to compile.

Thanks

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Re: [Freevo-users] WinTV cards

[Mark Nysen]

I just installed a PVR250 last night as well and didn't have to patch or
recompile my kernel either.  I also had to set the tuner input to 4
instead of the stated 0.  I actually found the mythtv docs had some
helpful information on setting the card up as well.  These are the docs
I found helpful:

http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-19.html#pvr250


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On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:06, Aubin Paul wrote:
 If this is the PVR250, I didn't need to patch my kernel at all; just
 extract the firmware, build the modules, and modprobe them. The only
 weirdness was that the documentation claims that the tuner input is
 input 0, but in my card, it was 4.
 
 On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:13:41AM -0700, Ralph Buchanan wrote:
  Cool Simon,
I just bought a WinTV 250 to replace my old ADS Channel Surfer bttv
  card. I tried installing the WinTV card last night but I'm having driver
  issues. Did you have to recompile your kernel with the ivtv drivers as
  modules? Any pointers on setting this WinTV card up would be
  appreciated. What did you have to do to get your WinTV card to function?
  
  Ralph
  
  
  
  On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 08:45, Simon Kenyon wrote:
   Paul Onley wrote:
   
   Has anyone set up Freevo with a WinTV PVR 350 card? I need to get a capture 
   card and would like to get the 350 as it has the onboard mpeg decoder and tv 
   out. I think in the long run I would be happier with this card if it is 
   supported. Does anyone have any experience with it? Good OR bad!
 
   
   i have a 350 and it is working
   i don't have it working with tv-out - but then again i haven't tried
   i have a epia-m9000 motherboard
   i have got the hauppauge supplied remote to work
   i have playing CDs working
   i have playing DVDs working
   i got SP/DIF output working last night
   
   i will answer questions that people might have
   for what it is worth - i also got mythtv working last night
   and i have been playing with freevix
   
   the picture quality with freevo is much better that i get with mythtv
   but as i said i only got it working last night
   
   so to answer your question
   it seems like a good card
   it gets quite hot
   the remote is good
   the cpu load (with freevo) is low - with mythtv is is 85%
   
   only issue is that it is bleeding edge - so stuff is moving very rapidly
   but then again - that is a good thing
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: pygame 1.5.6 and freevo dont seem to mix

[mark]

Hi, I dont have this font.  But since its not part of the runtime and the binary 
runtime works where the gentoo specific one does not I had discounted this.

I found a font cld arielbd.ttf renamed it and dropped it in.  I dont know if this 
should work, but it didnt.  Other than that, if someone can send me it off list or 
tell me where to get it I'll give it a try.

Although I'd think it should work without as Dischi says.  Dischi, do you run Gentoo 
with KEYWORDS='x86' ie unstable.  If not, and you tell me wich packages maybe related, 
perhaps I could downgrade a few packages and try to see where our systems differ.

Mark



On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:21:36 +0200
Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Aubin Paul wrote:
  Maybe this is a dumb question, but do you have a file called
  skins/fonts/Arial_Bold.TTF
  under your Freevo root directory?
 
 That shouldn't matter. There is a try except around this and we have a
 fallback font for Arial_Bold.
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: pygame 1.5.6 and freevo dont seem to mix

[mark]

I have the microsoft wenfonts, I have also asked a friend to look on his windows 
system, the closest I can come is arialbd.ttf.  I dont know if this is the same font 
or not.

I could just use the binary runtime.  I can live with that.  Unless it is beneficial 
to others to look for this font so as to prove where the Gentoo problem is.

Mark

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:46:11 -0400
Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Mark,
 
 I'm afraid you're at a point where I'm not longer sure how to help;
 I'm not at all familiar with Gentoo... maybe it might be worthwhile to
 just install the microsoft corefonts and copy the file
 Arial_Bold.TTF into your skins/fonts/ directory. 
 
 Aubin
 
 On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:24:31AM +, mark wrote:
  
  I think the Gentoo build applies this patch SDL_ttf2-2.0.6-patch2 
  During the build I see this
  
  patching file SDL_ttf.c
  Hunk #1 succeeded at 822 (offset -8 lines).
  Hunk #2 succeeded at 835 (offset -8 lines).
  Hunk #3 succeeded at 866 (offset -8 lines).
  Hunk #4 succeeded at 923 (offset -8 lines).
  Hunk #5 succeeded at 1008 (offset -8 lines).
  Hunk #6 succeeded at 1240 (offset -8 lines).
  Hunk #7 succeeded at 1472 (offset -8 lines).
  
  a little later I see this, but am unsure what it relates to.
  
  creating showfont
  creating glfont
  /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 69: building: command not found
  
  Mark
  
  
  On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:15:26 -0400
  Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Did you apply the SDL_ttf patch from CVS? The crashing over fonts issues
   was apparently fixed by that? I never needed it myself, but it should
   work.
   
   Aubin
   
   On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:02:29PM +, mark wrote:


Hi, I dont have this font.  But since its not part of the runtime and the 
binary runtime works where the gentoo specific one does not I had discounted 
this.

I found a font cld arielbd.ttf renamed it and dropped it in.  I dont know if 
this should work, but it didnt.  Other than that, if someone can send me it 
off list or tell me where to get it I'll give it a try.

Although I'd think it should work without as Dischi says.  Dischi, do you run 
Gentoo with KEYWORDS='x86' ie unstable.  If not, and you tell me wich packages 
maybe related, perhaps I could downgrade a few packages and try to see where 
our systems differ.

Mark



On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:21:36 +0200
Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Aubin Paul wrote:
  Maybe this is a dumb question, but do you have a file called
  skins/fonts/Arial_Bold.TTF
  under your Freevo root directory?
 
 That shouldn't matter. There is a try except around this and we have a
 fallback font for Arial_Bold.
 
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: pygame 1.5.6 and freevo dont seem to mix

[mark]

Agreed copying the binary runtime over the gentoo one enables freevo to run but doesnt 
solve the basic problem.

It does put the box back in action though :).

Mark

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:30:04 +0200
Bart Heremans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I tried to install freevo also on gentoo / xbox with pygame 1.5.6 and had
 the same error.
 After downgrading pygame to 1.5.5 I have the following error :
 
 Pygame Parachute Traceback:
   File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
 Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
 ./freevo: line 86: 22253 Aborted ./runapp python src/main.py
 
 after that I downloaded and installed the runtime :-) problem solved :-)
 
 Bart
 
 - Original Message -
 From: mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 4:18 AM
 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: pygame 1.5.6 and freevo dont seem to mix
 
 
 
  Hi,
 
  I'm still getting this.
  Skin: Loading XML file blue_round1
  ERROR: XML file corrupt
  Traceback (most recent call last):
File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 779, in load
  font[f].prepare(self._color)
File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 558, in prepare
  self.h = osd.stringsize('Ajg', self.name, self.size)[1]
File src/util.py, line 492, in __call__
  return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
File src/osd.py, line 1166, in stringsize
  size_w_tmp, size_h_tmp = self.charsize(string[i], font, ptsize)
File src/osd.py, line 1153, in charsize
  self.stringsize_cache[font][ptsize][char] =
 self._stringsize(char,font,ptsize)
File src/osd.py, line 1185, in _stringsize
  f = self._getfont(font, ptsize)
File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
  font = pygame.font.Font(filename, ptsize)
  IOError: unable to read font filename
  skin not found, using fallback skin
  ERROR: XML file corrupt
  Traceback (most recent call last):
File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 779, in load
  font[f].prepare(self._color)
File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 558, in prepare
  self.h = osd.stringsize('Ajg', self.name, self.size)[1]
File src/util.py, line 492, in __call__
  return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
File src/osd.py, line 1166, in stringsize
  size_w_tmp, size_h_tmp = self.charsize(string[i], font, ptsize)
File src/osd.py, line 1149, in charsize
  self.stringsize_cache[font][ptsize][char] =
 self._stringsize(char,font,ptsize)
File src/osd.py, line 1185, in _stringsize
  f = self._getfont(font, ptsize)
File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
  font = pygame.font.Font(filename, ptsize)
  IOError: unable to read font filename
  Traceback (most recent call last):
File src/main.py, line 101, in ?
  menuwidget = menu.get_singleton()
File src/menu.py, line 91, in get_singleton
  _singleton = MenuWidget()
File src/menu.py, line 199, in __init__
  GUIObject.__init__(self)
File src/gui/GUIObject.py, line 116, in __init__
  self.skin_info = self.skin.GetPopupBoxStyle(self)
File skins/main1/skin_main1.py, line 365, in GetPopupBoxStyle
  layout = settings.popup
  AttributeError: XMLSkin instance has no attribute 'popup'
 
  I dont really have the skill to debug it. I should probably say that I'm
 running the unstable build of Gentoo ie arch=x86.  I'm not seeing pygame
 specific error just the one above.
 
  It would be good to know if any other Gentoo users have tested this and
 the results.
 
  Mark
 
  On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:27:30 +0200
  Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Hi,
  
   what's the current status, does it work?
  
  
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: pygame 1.5.6 and freevo dont seem to mix

[mark]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 10:54:09 -0400
Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It looks like a font related crash. The Freevo runtime and recent
 versions of SDL (CVS) have patches to fix this, but they're probably
 not in Gentoo.
 
 To figure out what the problem is, go to the top of the src/osd.py
 file, and change this line:
 
 DEBUG = config.DEBUG
 
 to
 
 DEBUG = 4
 
 and then watch the logs. There will be a lot of information, but the
 thing you're looking for is stuff like this:
 
 OSD: Loading font 
 
 and then the lines that follow could be sent to the list.
 
 Aubin
 
 
Okay, thanks Aubin.  I changed debug to 4 as suggested.  I assume I dont need to 
rebuild since python is interpreted.  Here is the output.
Logging info in /var/log/freevo/internal-main-0.log
---
Starting src/main.py:stdin at Sun Jun 29 23:10:43 2003
Logging info in /var/log/freevo/internal-main-0.log
---
Starting src/main.py:stderr at Sun Jun 29 23:10:43 2003
Loading configure settings: /root/freevo.conf
Reading config file /root/freevo.conf
Cfg file data: chanlist = us-cable
Cfg file data: display = mga
Cfg file data: geometry = 768x576
Cfg file data: jpegtran = /usr/bin/jpegtran
Cfg file data: mplayer = /usr/bin/mplayer
Cfg file data: tv = pal
Cfg file data: version = 1.0
Cfg file data: 
Error parsing config file data 
Loading cfg: ./freevo_config.py
Using MPlayer: /usr/bin/mplayer
Loading cfg overrides: /root/local_conf.py
ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added ('/mnt/cdrom', '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0', 'CD-1')
ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected that /dev/hda is the same device as /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, 
skipping
Imported skin skins/main1/skin_main1.py
Skin: Loading XML file blue_round1
OSD: Loading font skins/fonts/Arial_Bold.TTF
ERROR: XML file corrupt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 779, in load
font[f].prepare(self._color)
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 558, in prepare
self.h = osd.stringsize('Ajg', self.name, self.size)[1]
  File src/util.py, line 492, in __call__
return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File src/osd.py, line 1166, in stringsize
size_w_tmp, size_h_tmp = self.charsize(string[i], font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1153, in charsize
self.stringsize_cache[font][ptsize][char] = self._stringsize(char,font,ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1185, in _stringsize
f = self._getfont(font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
font = pygame.font.Font(filename, ptsize)
IOError: unable to read font filename
skin not found, using fallback skin
OSD: Loading font skins/fonts/Arial_Bold.TTF
ERROR: XML file corrupt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 779, in load
font[f].prepare(self._color)
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 558, in prepare
self.h = osd.stringsize('Ajg', self.name, self.size)[1]
  File src/util.py, line 492, in __call__
return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File src/osd.py, line 1166, in stringsize
size_w_tmp, size_h_tmp = self.charsize(string[i], font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1149, in charsize
self.stringsize_cache[font][ptsize][char] = self._stringsize(char,font,ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1185, in _stringsize
f = self._getfont(font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
font = pygame.font.Font(filename, ptsize)
IOError: unable to read font filename
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File src/main.py, line 101, in ?
menuwidget = menu.get_singleton()
  File src/menu.py, line 91, in get_singleton
_singleton = MenuWidget()
  File src/menu.py, line 199, in __init__
GUIObject.__init__(self)
  File src/gui/GUIObject.py, line 116, in __init__
self.skin_info = self.skin.GetPopupBoxStyle(self)
  File skins/main1/skin_main1.py, line 365, in GetPopupBoxStyle
layout = settings.popup
AttributeError: XMLSkin instance has no attribute 'popup'



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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: pygame 1.5.6 and freevo dont seem to mix

[mark]

Hi,

I'm still getting this.  
Skin: Loading XML file blue_round1
ERROR: XML file corrupt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 779, in load
font[f].prepare(self._color)
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 558, in prepare
self.h = osd.stringsize('Ajg', self.name, self.size)[1]
  File src/util.py, line 492, in __call__
return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File src/osd.py, line 1166, in stringsize
size_w_tmp, size_h_tmp = self.charsize(string[i], font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1153, in charsize
self.stringsize_cache[font][ptsize][char] = self._stringsize(char,font,ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1185, in _stringsize
f = self._getfont(font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
font = pygame.font.Font(filename, ptsize)
IOError: unable to read font filename
skin not found, using fallback skin
ERROR: XML file corrupt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 779, in load
font[f].prepare(self._color)
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 558, in prepare
self.h = osd.stringsize('Ajg', self.name, self.size)[1]
  File src/util.py, line 492, in __call__
return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File src/osd.py, line 1166, in stringsize
size_w_tmp, size_h_tmp = self.charsize(string[i], font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1149, in charsize
self.stringsize_cache[font][ptsize][char] = self._stringsize(char,font,ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1185, in _stringsize
f = self._getfont(font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
font = pygame.font.Font(filename, ptsize)
IOError: unable to read font filename
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File src/main.py, line 101, in ?
menuwidget = menu.get_singleton()
  File src/menu.py, line 91, in get_singleton
_singleton = MenuWidget()
  File src/menu.py, line 199, in __init__
GUIObject.__init__(self)
  File src/gui/GUIObject.py, line 116, in __init__
self.skin_info = self.skin.GetPopupBoxStyle(self)
  File skins/main1/skin_main1.py, line 365, in GetPopupBoxStyle
layout = settings.popup
AttributeError: XMLSkin instance has no attribute 'popup'

I dont really have the skill to debug it. I should probably say that I'm running the 
unstable build of Gentoo ie arch=x86.  I'm not seeing pygame specific error just the 
one above.

It would be good to know if any other Gentoo users have tested this and the results.

Mark 

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[Freevo-users] Does anyone use the dxr3 or hollywood plus?

[Mark Casey]

I've had this hollywood plus decoder card for ages and on the Freevo site it
mentions you can use one for tv output.
Does that mean it can display the freevo ui etc or does it just display
decoded mpeg's etc.
Kinda curious since it would be nice to use that for tv output instead of
buying a graphics card capable of tv output.
I have a spare voodoo 3 sitting around but that's vga out only.
By my knowledge doesn't it display only the decoded mpeg video only?

I wouldn't know since I've never used it with a tv, just ordered a s-video
to scart connector for my tv though.  :)

Thanks

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RE: [Freevo-users] Does anyone use the dxr3 or hollywood plus?

[Mark Casey]

Very clever.

Some divx's don't play well?  Surely encoding it as a mpeg stream in
realtime would take up most of the cpu time, even on a p3 800?
Gotta hand it to whoever thought of encoding it as a mpeg stream then
sending it to the card, very ingenuis.

Thanks for the info

Mark

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan
Strandberg
Sent: 25 June 2003 22:04
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Does anyone use the dxr3 or hollywood plus?


I am using one in my setup right now.  It displays teh menus and 
everything through the dxr3 (in my case, Hollywood RealMagic+).
It is nice, because it fills up the entire TV screen as supposed to 
leaving black bars which I got with my TNT2 Ultra...
The drawback to it is that everything must be converted to mpg to go out 
to the card, so some stuff doesn't play well on slower CPUs...I have a 
celery 500 at the moment, and TV was impossible, and some divxs don't 
play well.  I have a pentium 3 800 that I haven't gotten around to 
putting into the machine yet that will hopefully solve the issues.

The other problem is you lose keyboard input while mplayer is 
running...you need to get a remote control, which is kinda a pain.  I 
don't think there is any way to code around that at all.  All you can do 
with the keyboard is hit Ctrl-C to stop the movie, but it also kills 
freevo, so in my case I need to blindly hit up, enter to restart it. 
You could probably get around it by having a bash script that would 
restart freevo whenever it sensed that it died...You still won't be able 
to pause/fast forward/anything though...

-stefan


Mark Casey wrote:
 I've had this hollywood plus decoder card for ages and on the Freevo site
it
 mentions you can use one for tv output.
 Does that mean it can display the freevo ui etc or does it just display
 decoded mpeg's etc.
 Kinda curious since it would be nice to use that for tv output instead of
 buying a graphics card capable of tv output.
 I have a spare voodoo 3 sitting around but that's vga out only.
 By my knowledge doesn't it display only the decoded mpeg video only?
 
 I wouldn't know since I've never used it with a tv, just ordered a s-video
 to scart connector for my tv though.  :)
 
 Thanks
 
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[Freevo-users] ATI Rage All In Wonder Pro 8MB?

[Mark Casey]

Currently got my eyes on the above graphics card on ebay, been reading a bit
of http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ and from what I can gather support for the
card is quite good.
However, is there anyone here who uses the card with freevo?
How easy is it to get up and running, are there any particular problems with
the card?
Or should I go for a different card?

I want to make sure I don't end up buying it and regretting it.


Thanks

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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: pygame 1.5.6 and freevo dont seem to mix

[mark]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:55:21 +0200
Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I made a new freevo_runtime. Since sdl-ttf 2.0.6 and pygame 1.5.6 are
 masked right now, this new runtime is also masked. It also requires
 the newest freetype (yes, we don't need the old one anymore, if my
 tests were correctly, they fixed the bugs). Since this is a Freevo
 requirement, you must emerge it manually until pre5 is out.
 
 Just update your ebuilds and emerge freevo_runtime-1.3.2_pre2-r1.
 Please let me know if it works. Right now I'm using this runtime and
 it works with the last release of Freevo and the current CVS. I could
 also make a test release of the current Freevo if you want.
 
 
 Dischi

media-libs/freetype
  Latest version available: 2.1.4
  Latest version installed: 2.1.4

 dev-python/pygame
  Latest version available: 1.5.6
  Latest version installed: 1.5.6

 media-libs/sdl-ttf
  Latest version available: 2.0.6
  Latest version installed: 2.0.6 media-libs/sdl-ttf
  Latest version available: 2.0.6
  Latest version installed: 2.0.6


 media-video/freevo
  Latest version available: 1.3.2_pre4
  Latest version installed: 1.3.2_pre4
*  media-video/freevo_runtime
  Latest version available: 1.3.2_pre2-r1
  Latest version installed: 1.3.2_pre2-r1

When I run Freevo I get 

Skin: Loading XML file blue_round1
ERROR: XML file corrupt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 779, in load
font[f].prepare(self._color)
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 558, in prepare
self.h = osd.stringsize('Ajg', self.name, self.size)[1]
  File src/util.py, line 492, in __call__
return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File src/osd.py, line 1166, in stringsize
size_w_tmp, size_h_tmp = self.charsize(string[i], font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1153, in charsize
self.stringsize_cache[font][ptsize][char] = self._stringsize(char,font,ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1185, in _stringsize
f = self._getfont(font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
font = pygame.font.Font(filename, ptsize)
IOError: unable to read font filename
skin not found, using fallback skin
ERROR: XML file corrupt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 779, in load
font[f].prepare(self._color)
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 558, in prepare
self.h = osd.stringsize('Ajg', self.name, self.size)[1]
  File src/util.py, line 492, in __call__
return self.__method(self.__obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File src/osd.py, line 1166, in stringsize
size_w_tmp, size_h_tmp = self.charsize(string[i], font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1149, in charsize
self.stringsize_cache[font][ptsize][char] = self._stringsize(char,font,ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1185, in _stringsize
f = self._getfont(font, ptsize)
  File src/osd.py, line 1334, in _getfont
font = pygame.font.Font(filename, ptsize)
IOError: unable to read font filename
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File src/main.py, line 101, in ?
menuwidget = menu.get_singleton()
  File src/menu.py, line 91, in get_singleton
_singleton = MenuWidget()
  File src/menu.py, line 199, in __init__
GUIObject.__init__(self)
  File src/gui/GUIObject.py, line 116, in __init__
self.skin_info = self.skin.GetPopupBoxStyle(self)
  File skins/main1/skin_main1.py, line 365, in GetPopupBoxStyle
layout = settings.popup
AttributeError: XMLSkin instance has no attribute 'popup'

I have tried deleting the skins directory and re emerging no luck.  Also tried 
selecting round2 in freevo-config-py again no joy.

Any thoughts ?

Mark


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[Freevo-users] RE: Radeon 7000 TV-Out will not sync video

[Mason, Mark]

Looks like my problem is that the card is
coming up in PAL mode, and I live in NTSC land. Anyone know a good way to
change the mode from Linux? 



I tried atitvout. It says the mode
is changed, but still no sync.



The card works fine in Windoze (with the
Win2000 driver set to NTSC).



It looks like I can read, edit, and flash
the bios, but that does not look like much fun.



Any other ideas?



Thanks,
Mark





-Original Message-
From: Mason, Mark 
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:10
AM
To:
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Radeon 7000 TV-Out will
not sync video



Hello;



Just got my Freevo box up, and like
so many before me I am struggling with the ding-dang radeon 7000 card TV out.



My problem seems to be a little
different. In my case, the video will not sync (looks like a horizontal
hold problem). This happens during boot (text mode) and after X
starts. It's like it has the wrong sync rate or something.



I have tried the instructions in the
Install Wiki - that got X started - but I can't get the
flicker to go away.



Any suggestions (besides replace the
video card with a 400)?



Thanks,
Mark

[Freevo-users] pygame 1.5.6 and freevo dont seem to mix

[mark]

Hi 

Anote for Gentoo users emerging pygame-1.5.6 breakes freevo I get the following.

ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected that /dev/hda is the same device as /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, 
skipping
src/osd.py:268: RuntimeWarning: use font: 
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pygame/font.so: undefined symbol: TTF_OpenFontIndexRW
  pygame.font.init()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File src/main.py, line 77, in ?
import menu# The menu widget class
  File src/menu.py, line 70, in ?
import skin
  File src/skin.py, line 66, in ?
exec('import ' + modname  + ' as skinimpl')
  File string, line 1, in ?
  File skins/main1/skin_main1.py, line 79, in ?
import xml_skin
  File skins/main1/xml_skin.py, line 57, in ?
osd = osd.get_singleton()
  File src/osd.py, line 199, in get_singleton
_singleton = util.SynchronizedObject(OSD())
  File src/osd.py, line 268, in __init__
pygame.font.init()
  File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py, line 60, in __getattr__
raise NotImplementedError, MissingPygameModule
NotImplementedError: font module not available

Pygame 1.5.5 is fine

Mark  





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Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

[mark]

Great, thanks

Mark

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:24:39 -0700 (PDT)
Rich C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello, my work in progress contains ripping to .wav
 format for those who don't like lossy compression 
 (and i just got .mp3 rips working as well for those
 who do).
 
 -Rich
 
 --- Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I'm interested; though I'd like to see what happens
  with Xiph before
  going further. I'm sure that whatever happens with
  encoding, it'll
  involve either pipes or some other way of specifying
  how to encode.
  
  The big problem is tagging; we have Python libraries
  for writing Ogg
  and ID3v2.4 tags, but I haven't seen anything for
  FLAC.
  
  Aubin
  
  On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:05:49AM +, mark
  wrote:
   
   Okay, I'm late to this thread, but is anyone else
  interested in flac lossless compression?  At the
  moment I've been ripping manually and storing as
  .wavs.  I'd like to use flac at some point, but I'm
  not sure how to play them on the framebuffer.  I
  understand Mplayer can use xmms plugins and that
  xmms has a flac plugin but I havent tried this.
   
   I dont have the skill to implement this into
  Freevo, and understand that most people will want
  lossy compression.  In that case, if its not too
  much trouble I would appreciate it if there could be
  an local_config.py option just to rip to wav's so
  that they could be compressed from an ssh connection
  using flac or left as wavs which freevo already
  handles.  
   
   Mark
   
   
   On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
   Rich C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
Hello Gents,

I've spent the last week or so doing just that. 
  I
have a plugin that can rip a CD to the hard
  drive as a
.wav at the moment (next step, tonight probably,
  will
be converting it to .mp3). It is capable of
  pulling
the CDDB info for the CD and using this info to
  write
the .wav files to your audio directory. 


-Rich


--- Brian Lalor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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  Yes, it's definitely something I'd like to
  see
 (and may have to do
  myself :) but I currently don't have a
  Freevo
 machine with a ROM
  drive. I just ordered one, so after that
  comes in,
 it'll probably be
  one of my priorities.
  
  Short answer: wait a little while :)
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] Partition type for Freevo?

[Mark Benson]

Its a standard feature on all the UPS I've ever used... usually a serial
port or more recently USB...

You can get all sorts of info from the UPS... run time, voltage, load etc
(depending on the type of UPS)...

Surely the partion type is a result of  what the distro you are running
supports?


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From: mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Partition type for Freevo?


 On this note, does anyone know anything about UPS?  Can they be
 configured to send signals to the PC saying, 'hey, i'm not recieving
 power anymore, you need to shut down now..'.

 I can't see how UPS could be any good if this isn't a standard feature..
 If your not around when the power goes out, how can you hsut the PC
 down?

 Mick
 On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:25, Mike Payson wrote:
  What is the recommended partition type for Freevo? I've been using
ReiserFS,
  but after a accidentally tripped circiut breaker, my system won't
reboot. I'm
  working to recover it, but since the electrical is flaky in my current
house,
  I want to move to something a bit more robust (I know, I should just buy
a
  UPS...). What partition type provides the best mix of performance for
Freevo
  use, balanced with robust crash recovery?
 
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Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

[mark]

Okay, I'm late to this thread, but is anyone else interested in flac lossless 
compression?  At the moment I've been ripping manually and storing as .wavs.  I'd like 
to use flac at some point, but I'm not sure how to play them on the framebuffer.  I 
understand Mplayer can use xmms plugins and that xmms has a flac plugin but I havent 
tried this.

I dont have the skill to implement this into Freevo, and understand that most people 
will want lossy compression.  In that case, if its not too much trouble I would 
appreciate it if there could be an local_config.py option just to rip to wav's so that 
they could be compressed from an ssh connection using flac or left as wavs which 
freevo already handles.  

Mark


On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
Rich C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello Gents,
 
 I've spent the last week or so doing just that.  I
 have a plugin that can rip a CD to the hard drive as a
 .wav at the moment (next step, tonight probably, will
 be converting it to .mp3). It is capable of pulling
 the CDDB info for the CD and using this info to write
 the .wav files to your audio directory. 
 
 
 -Rich
 
 
 --- Brian Lalor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Aubin Paul wrote:
   Yes, it's definitely something I'd like to see
  (and may have to do
   myself :) but I currently don't have a Freevo
  machine with a ROM
   drive. I just ordered one, so after that comes in,
  it'll probably be
   one of my priorities.
   
   Short answer: wait a little while :)
  
  Cool!  :-)
  
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