Re: [gentoo-user] KMail
On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 07:47:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the upgrade and migration to work, I gave up and pinned KMail to version 4.4.11.1. With the recent upgrade to KDE, I'm curious if anyone knows whether the bugs have been worked out and the KMail upgrade will go smoother now? I switched a long time ago, so I can't say anything about 'smoother' but it does work, as long as you remove all mail ressources and add them back one after another. Unfortunately, it does not work here on my test x86 stable box. I have removed and added each resource more than a dozen times. POP3 seems to broadly work (but it creates duplicate messages which once deleted are recreated) and IMAP4 does not show any messages in the Inbox. The kaddressbook does not show the addresses. I've tried deleting akonadi databases, adding the resources or importing them and starting again many, many times to come to the conclusion that in my set up it just won't work. I hope that code progress eventually restores functionality which I consider absolutely basic - i.e. to be able to read my messages and use my addresses. Having wasted far too much time for no positive result I'm now in hope that trinity desktop will come up with a solution that I was sorry to see left behind - KDE 3.5. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On 02/10/2012 10:22:42 AM, Carlos Hendson wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:31 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Many thanks, the workaround mentioned in this link fixes the segment fault. Still, audio doesn't work, yet. It seems mplayer doesn't have the codec required for the WMV format. You should check mplayer has the win32codecs use flag enabled. You can do this with equery or eix (or other equivalent tools). Sorry, but now I'm completely confused. I've emerge mplayer2 and it DOES play video and SOUND ! But smplayer2 doesn't play sound - no idea why since it invokes mplayer2, doesn't it? Here the output of mplayer2 (which is working fine) MPlayer2 2.0-435-g637d6b7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Playing Spion_120131.wmv. Detected file format: ASF format (libavformat) [wmv3 @ 0x7f4c48d4ec00]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0 [lavf] stream 0: audio (wmav2), -aid 0 [lavf] stream 1: video (wmv3), -vid 0 VIDEO: [WMV3] 688x384 24bpp 25.000 fps 1400.0 kbps (170.9 kbyte/s) Clip info: WMFSDKVersion: 12.0.7601.17514 WMFSDKNeeded: 0.0.0. IsVBR: 0 artist: ZDF copyright: (c) 2012 ZDF Load subtitles in . Xlib: extension NV-GLX missing on display :0. [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 Xlib: extension XVideo missing on display :0. [VO_XV] Sorry, Xv not supported by this X11 version/driver [VO_XV] Try with -vo x11 or -vo sdl * [gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails. == Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Asking decoder to use 4 threads if supported. [wmv3 @ 0x7f4c48d4ec00]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0 Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9) == == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/13.61% (ratio: 24002-176400) Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg)) == AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [gl_nosw] 688x384 = 688x384 Planar YV12 And here the output of mplayer for the same video on the same machine : MPlayer SVN-r34625 (Gentoo)-4.6.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Playing Spion_120131.wmv. Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) libavformat version 53.31.100 (external) ASF file format detected. [asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1 [asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2 VIDEO: [WMV3] 688x384 24bpp 1000.000 fps 1400.0 kbps (170.9 kbyte/ s) Clip info: title: author: ZDF copyright: (c) 2012 ZDF comments: Load subtitles in ./ Xlib: extension NV-GLX missing on display :0. [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 Xlib: extension XVideo missing on display :0. [VO_XV] Sorry, Xv not supported by this X11 version/driver [VO_XV] Try with -vo x11 or -vo sdl * [gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails. == Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family libavcodec version 53.60.100 (external) Unsupported PixelFormat 61 Unsupported PixelFormat 53 Unsupported PixelFormat 81 [wmv3 @ 0x7fbdcde4ac00]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0 Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9) == == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders [NULL @ 0x7fbdcde4ac00]Value 165600.00 for parameter 'drc_scale' out of range [NULL @ 0x7fbdcde4ac00]Error setting option drc_scale to value 165600. Could not open codec. ADecoder init failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Requested audio codec family [wmadmo] (afm=dmo) not available. Enable it at compilation. Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=acm) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec for audio format 0x161. Audio: no sound Starting playback... Unsupported PixelFormat 61 Unsupported PixelFormat 53 Unsupported PixelFormat 81 Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [gl_nosw] 688x384 = 688x384 Planar YV12 Many thanks, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
Helmut Jarausch writes: Sorry, but now I'm completely confused. I've emerge mplayer2 and it DOES play video and SOUND ! But smplayer2 doesn't play sound - no idea why since it invokes mplayer2, doesn't it? Not as default. You have to define the player in the settings dialog. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems
On 02/11/2012 11:12:38 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Helmut Jarausch writes: Sorry, but now I'm completely confused. I've emerge mplayer2 and it DOES play video and SOUND ! But smplayer2 doesn't play sound - no idea why since it invokes mplayer2, doesn't it? Not as default. You have to define the player in the settings dialog. Thanks Alex, I've set the preferences in smplayer (not smplayer2) to invoke mplayer2 and that works just fine. Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:09:04 -0800, Grant wrote: I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but there is a checksum failure with that file: You need to recreate the manifest for the ebuild, it contains checksums for all files. -- Neil Bothwick I laugh in the face of danger, then I hide until it goes away signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but there is a checksum failure with that file: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html Does anyone have advice for navigating this? - Grant What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here. I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime members) in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me. Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else? How is it broken? - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but there is a checksum failure with that file: You need to recreate the manifest for the ebuild, it contains checksums for all files. Thanks Dale and Neil. I will try that before tonight. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but there is a checksum failure with that file: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html Does anyone have advice for navigating this? - Grant What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here. I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime members) in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me. Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else? How is it broken? My wife and I are plowing through The Wonder Years which is also free for Prime members. We're in the middle of season 6 and if we try to watch an episode we haven't watched yet, an Updating Player message appears, the update downloads, an error message appears, and we can not watch the episode. Episodes we have already watched still work fine. The same problem is described here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but there is a checksum failure with that file: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html Does anyone have advice for navigating this? - Grant What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here. I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime members) in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me. Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else? How is it broken? My wife and I are plowing through The Wonder Years which is also free for Prime members. We're in the middle of season 6 and if we try to watch an episode we haven't watched yet, an Updating Player message appears, the update downloads, an error message appears, and we can not watch the episode. Episodes we have already watched still work fine. The same problem is described here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM - Grant I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't receive any messages about Updating Player and they all played just fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as described. Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does fail. - Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: KMail
Mick wrote: On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 07:47:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the upgrade and migration to work, I gave up and pinned KMail to version 4.4.11.1. With the recent upgrade to KDE, I'm curious if anyone knows whether the bugs have been worked out and the KMail upgrade will go smoother now? I switched a long time ago, so I can't say anything about 'smoother' but it does work, as long as you remove all mail ressources and add them back one after another. Unfortunately, it does not work here on my test x86 stable box. I have removed and added each resource more than a dozen times. POP3 seems to broadly work (but it creates duplicate messages which once deleted are recreated) and IMAP4 does not show any messages in the Inbox. The kaddressbook does not show the addresses. I've tried deleting akonadi databases, adding the resources or importing them and starting again many, many times to come to the conclusion that in my set up it just won't work. I hope that code progress eventually restores functionality which I consider absolutely basic - i.e. to be able to read my messages and use my addresses. I successfully imported two installations with IMAP accounts. On both system the automated migration failed. At one installation IMAP server was Courier and the mails were kept all on the server, here I had to delete and recreate the accounts. The other installation used IMAP to access MS Exchange server and my account has typically no mail on the server, but all locally. After recreating my account, none of my local mail was available anymore. However I simply had to move (well, with backup) the contents of the old maildir folders to the new one and all I had to do in KMail was to refresh the folders manually. That was really fast - especially compared to that lengthly and unsuccessful migration attempt. Local addresses resources had to be recreated, an LDAP resource worked after migration. Nevertheless, it often feels like a 1.0 version, the old 4.4.x line had less bugs. Having wasted far too much time for no positive result I'm now in hope that trinity desktop will come up with a solution that I was sorry to see left behind - KDE 3.5. Yes, some apps in KDE4 are still not at the same level, however, a lot are better. Unfortunately it seems those not-yet-at-same level are the more essential ones. Cheers, Jörg
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
On 02/11/2012 01:09 AM, Grant wrote: Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but there is a checksum failure with that file: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html Does anyone have advice for navigating this? - Grant http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/929/cpsid_92948.html confirms that Flash player uses HAL to play DRM content. Trying the DRM test on that page results in no video playing for me (with no HAL to be found on my system). So it's not an Amazon problem directly, but an Adobe Flash problem in general, probably. I couldn't find any open bugs in Gentoo Bugzilla about it. FWIW trying to play those Amazon videos on my Firefox 10 and 64-bit Flash crashes the flash player plugin. I never even see the bit about the update...
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
On 02/11/2012 01:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but there is a checksum failure with that file: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html Does anyone have advice for navigating this? - Grant What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here. I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime members) in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me. Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else? How is it broken? My wife and I are plowing through The Wonder Years which is also free for Prime members. We're in the middle of season 6 and if we try to watch an episode we haven't watched yet, an Updating Player message appears, the update downloads, an error message appears, and we can not watch the episode. Episodes we have already watched still work fine. The same problem is described here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM - Grant I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't receive any messages about Updating Player and they all played just fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as described. Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does fail. - Mark My guess is...you still have hal installed.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox conard...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't receive any messages about Updating Player and they all played just fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as described. Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does fail. - Mark My guess is...you still have hal installed. No, hal isn't installed and hasn't been for quite a long time. mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic hal [I] kde-base/kephal (4.7.4(4)@01/21/2012): Allows handling of multihead systems via the XRandR extension mark@c2stable ~ $ I think the more likely scenario is that for newer videos Amazon is required by the owners of the video content to use newer versions of DRM and it's really these newer versions of DRM that's causing the problems. Older content that's been on their site for a while is likely using older versions of DRM that still work because Amazon isn't goign to change what's already there. I could play any Lost episode whether I've played it before or not. As best I can tell anything that's been added more recently is failing under Linux. I'm having no problems playing Grant's 'The Wonder Years' episodes from Amazon inside an NT VM on my Gentoo box, but it fails in Linux proper. There's nothing inherently wrong about that. If Windows has the DRM stuff and Linux doesn't, primarily because Open Source DRM is inherently _NOT_ DRM, then that's the way it is. I don't see this as an Amazon problem, or a Flash problem, but rather a problem with the owners of the source material. I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be more militant... - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 19:59:14 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox conard...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't receive any messages about Updating Player and they all played just fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as described. Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does fail. - Mark My guess is...you still have hal installed. No, hal isn't installed and hasn't been for quite a long time. mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic hal [I] kde-base/kephal (4.7.4(4)@01/21/2012): Allows handling of multihead systems via the XRandR extension mark@c2stable ~ $ I think the more likely scenario is that for newer videos Amazon is required by the owners of the video content to use newer versions of DRM and it's really these newer versions of DRM that's causing the problems. Older content that's been on their site for a while is likely using older versions of DRM that still work because Amazon isn't goign to change what's already there. I could play any Lost episode whether I've played it before or not. As best I can tell anything that's been added more recently is failing under Linux. I'm having no problems playing Grant's 'The Wonder Years' episodes from Amazon inside an NT VM on my Gentoo box, but it fails in Linux proper. There's nothing inherently wrong about that. If Windows has the DRM stuff and Linux doesn't, primarily because Open Source DRM is inherently _NOT_ DRM, then that's the way it is. I don't see this as an Amazon problem, or a Flash problem, but rather a problem with the owners of the source material. I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be more militant... Nah! No need to apologise. Respecting the wishes of the content creators when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in reverse! Ha, ha, ha! :-)) Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream address and then download it directly to your machine? I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account with them. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 19:59:14 Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be more militant... Nah! No need to apologise. Respecting the wishes of the content creators when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in reverse! Ha, ha, ha! :-)) Thanks for your willingness to allow me to continue attending... :-))) Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream address and then download it directly to your machine? I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account with them. Never heard of it actually, and frankly I'm so enamored of just streaming what I want when I want it that I don't really want to save anything. Just the good stuff at NetFlix+Hulu Plus+Amazon Prime == more than I can watch in the next few years. I just keep on VMWare VM for watching all this stuff and haven't had any problems that I couldn't overcome pretty easily. Cheers, Mark -- Regards, Mick
[gentoo-user] HTPC and Gentoo
So I've got Inara in position to be my HTPC box. Tried installing MythTV, but I can't make heads or tails of how to have it do the things I'd like it to do: * Play DVDs inserted into the DVD drive * Hit streaming websites like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Youtube, etc. * Play video and audio files I already have. * Launch games like StepMania and/or Frets on Fire. ( Note, I don't have a video capture card installed. I haven't yet picked one up that will do ATSC. Once I do, I'll be attaching it to an antenna. ) I've looked at both the official Gentoo wiki page and the page on the unofficial Gentoo wiki, but neither gets me any farther than I already am. I'm not even committed to using MythTV; any fullscreen HTPC interface that operates at 720p is fine. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] HTPC and Gentoo
On Feb 11, 2012 6:54 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: So I've got Inara in position to be my HTPC box. Tried installing MythTV, but I can't make heads or tails of how to have it do the things I'd like it to do: * Play DVDs inserted into the DVD drive * Hit streaming websites like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Youtube, etc. * Play video and audio files I already have. * Launch games like StepMania and/or Frets on Fire. ( Note, I don't have a video capture card installed. I haven't yet picked one up that will do ATSC. Once I do, I'll be attaching it to an antenna. ) I've looked at both the official Gentoo wiki page and the page on the unofficial Gentoo wiki, but neither gets me any farther than I already am. I'm not even committed to using MythTV; any fullscreen HTPC interface that operates at 720p is fine. -- :wq XBMC should do everything you're looking for, with a few plugins (launcher, youtube, bluecop?). I don't know the state of Hulu or Netflix (last I checked Netflix doesn't work due to Mono (Moonlight) DRM issues), but the xbmc forums should have that info. It's a very lovely program, and is just about to come out with a new release too.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
SNIP I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be more militant... Nah! No need to apologise. Respecting the wishes of the content creators when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in reverse! Ha, ha, ha! :-)) Thanks for your willingness to allow me to continue attending... :-))) Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream address and then download it directly to your machine? I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account with them. Never heard of it actually, and frankly I'm so enamored of just streaming what I want when I want it that I don't really want to save anything. Just the good stuff at NetFlix+Hulu Plus+Amazon Prime == more than I can watch in the next few years. I just keep on VMWare VM for watching all this stuff and haven't had any problems that I couldn't overcome pretty easily. Since I don't want to run VMWare, mine goes (Netflix+makemkv)+Hulu Plus+Amazon Prime. Loving it, although this new Amazon problem is a thorn in my side. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a
few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
there is a checksum failure with that file:
You need to recreate the manifest for the ebuild, it contains checksums
for all files.
I think I got everything set up, but I get:
# ebuild hal-0.5.14-r4.ebuild manifest
* ERROR: sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4 failed (depend phase):
* multilib-native.eclass could not be found by inherit()
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 521: Called source
'/usr/local/portage/sys-apps/hal/hal-0.5.14-r4.ebuild'
* hal-0.5.14-r4.ebuild, line 7: Called inherit 'eutils'
'linux-info' 'autotools' 'flag-o-matic' 'multilib' 'multilib-native'
* ebuild.sh, line 255: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* [ ! -e $location ] die ${1}.eclass could not be found by
inherit()
*
* If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
=sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4',
* the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
=sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4'.
* This ebuild is from an overlay named 'x-portage': '/usr/local/portage/'
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4/temp/die.env'.
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4/work/hal-0.5.14'
Can this be fixed?
- Grant
