[Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!
Some may remember my recent posting about problems with getting MPlayer working. For info eventually tracked it down to an old ISA Soundblaster card I was using. Replacing that with a PCI version did the trick and sound is now OK, and MPlayer plays... I now have Freevo playing TV, and DVDs too pretty reliably to date, thanks (MPlayer .92 and freevo 1.3.4) However I am struggling now with recording... I have mencoder installed and think I need to run a cron job to trigger every minute in case of a scheduled recording coming up. I have put this line in /etc/crontab file */usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py as per the Documentation page but when I look in the log files there is no activity showing. Can anyone confirm I am doing this right (and any suggestions as it seems to be right according to the crontab docs that I have seen. Thanks Finally I have a Radeon 9200 TV out card (from Gigabyte) AFAICT I have a choice Stick with the generic driver, though not sure if this does TV out Use ati.2 but this AFAICT doesn't explicitly support the 9200 and when I tried installing it before (previous installation of RH9) it didn't seem to recognise update etc driver (or do anything for that matter!) Use ATI provided linux driver. This seemed to work though not sure if this is right way to go. Any guidance before I jump? Cheers -- Tim http://yingtong.co.uk AMD Athlon 1000, 400Mb Ram, 40GB HD Hauppauge PCI TV card, PAL Radeon 9200 VO, RH9, Freevo1.3.4 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!
first did you perform these steps found on... http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrequentlyAskedQuestions as in specifically 30 Why is that my scheduled recordings never actually record? One error that prevents scheduled recordings from actually recording is as follows, check for this in the logfiles in /var/log/freevo/ - NOTE: dont bother, add the fix anyways if it doesn't record. the errors sometimes never show up. sh: relocation error: ./runtime/dll/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_debug_files, version GLIBC_2.2 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference The fix for this error is adding the following inside of src/tv/record_daemon.py. Add the following line after import os. import os os.environ['LD_PRELOAD'] = '' # Add this line to stop GLIBC_2.X preload errors -Original Message- From: Tim Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions! Some may remember my recent posting about problems with getting MPlayer working. For info eventually tracked it down to an old ISA Soundblaster card I was using. Replacing that with a PCI version did the trick and sound is now OK, and MPlayer plays... I now have Freevo playing TV, and DVDs too pretty reliably to date, thanks (MPlayer .92 and freevo 1.3.4) However I am struggling now with recording... I have mencoder installed and think I need to run a cron job to trigger every minute in case of a scheduled recording coming up. I have put this line in /etc/crontab file */usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py as per the Documentation page but when I look in the log files there is no activity showing. Can anyone confirm I am doing this right (and any suggestions as it seems to be right according to the crontab docs that I have seen. Thanks Finally I have a Radeon 9200 TV out card (from Gigabyte) AFAICT I have a choice Stick with the generic driver, though not sure if this does TV out Use ati.2 but this AFAICT doesn't explicitly support the 9200 and when I tried installing it before (previous installation of RH9) it didn't seem to recognise update etc driver (or do anything for that matter!) Use ATI provided linux driver. This seemed to work though not sure if this is right way to go. Any guidance before I jump? Cheers -- Tim http://yingtong.co.uk AMD Athlon 1000, 400Mb Ram, 40GB HD Hauppauge PCI TV card, PAL Radeon 9200 VO, RH9, Freevo1.3.4 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!
Uhm, maybe I'm reading this email wrong, but shouldn't there be spaces between the asterixes in the cron job? * * * * * /usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py Also, it's odd that the cron editor didn't pick that up. Aubin On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:37:26AM -0400, Gray, Tim wrote: first did you perform these steps found on... http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrequentlyAskedQuestions as in specifically 30 Why is that my scheduled recordings never actually record? One error that prevents scheduled recordings from actually recording is as follows, check for this in the logfiles in /var/log/freevo/ - NOTE: dont bother, add the fix anyways if it doesn't record. the errors sometimes never show up. sh: relocation error: ./runtime/dll/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_debug_files, version GLIBC_2.2 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference The fix for this error is adding the following inside of src/tv/record_daemon.py. Add the following line after import os. import os os.environ['LD_PRELOAD'] = '' # Add this line to stop GLIBC_2.X preload errors -Original Message- From: Tim Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions! Some may remember my recent posting about problems with getting MPlayer working. For info eventually tracked it down to an old ISA Soundblaster card I was using. Replacing that with a PCI version did the trick and sound is now OK, and MPlayer plays... I now have Freevo playing TV, and DVDs too pretty reliably to date, thanks (MPlayer .92 and freevo 1.3.4) However I am struggling now with recording... I have mencoder installed and think I need to run a cron job to trigger every minute in case of a scheduled recording coming up. I have put this line in /etc/crontab file */usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py as per the Documentation page but when I look in the log files there is no activity showing. Can anyone confirm I am doing this right (and any suggestions as it seems to be right according to the crontab docs that I have seen. Thanks Finally I have a Radeon 9200 TV out card (from Gigabyte) AFAICT I have a choice Stick with the generic driver, though not sure if this does TV out Use ati.2 but this AFAICT doesn't explicitly support the 9200 and when I tried installing it before (previous installation of RH9) it didn't seem to recognise update etc driver (or do anything for that matter!) Use ATI provided linux driver. This seemed to work though not sure if this is right way to go. Any guidance before I jump? Cheers -- Tim http://yingtong.co.uk AMD Athlon 1000, 400Mb Ram, 40GB HD Hauppauge PCI TV card, PAL Radeon 9200 VO, RH9, Freevo1.3.4 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Uhm, maybe I'm reading this email wrong, but shouldn't there be spaces between the asterixes in the cron job? * * * * * /usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py Also, it's odd that the cron editor didn't pick that up. Aubin Hi, Sorry that was probably a transcription typo there is/was a space I seem to have fixed it (I'm not sure if it is correctly!) by altering the line thus * * * * * root /usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py I don't think I have altered anything else is this appropriate/safe etc? Crontab now works now to see in record_daemon works. If not will apply other fix suggested by Tim, but since it wasn't calling that file didn't yet seem appropriate Thanks -- Tim http://yingtong.co.uk AMD Athlon 1000, 400Mb Ram, 40GB HD Hauppauge PCI TV card, PAL Radeon 9200 VO, RH9, Freevo1.3.4 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
