Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black is not booting up

2014-04-21 Thread Scott Force
Do any of the LED's flash or turn on when you try to power up the board? On 5 April 2014 03:18, madhuka...@gmail.com wrote: I was booting my BBB using eMMC. After that i powered down BBB and inserted a blank 2GB uSD card. It stopped to boot. I removed the 2GB uSD card but it is still not

Re: [beagleboard] Running BeagleBone without MicroSD: Need quick reply

2014-04-14 Thread Scott Force
You can run the Angstrom distribution that came with your BBB via the eMMC. But there is no way to update it or run another OS without a microSD. If you have a smartphone or other device with a microSD card then you could always temporarily borrow it. Just backup you stuff first. :) On 14

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI to VGA, on boot the board displays its logo, but then ceases to display anything. Please Help

2014-04-14 Thread Scott Force
I don't know about the VGA adapters but ... I am currently powering my BBB via a USB hub with a charging port. Just use a USB to DC adapter cable. It has to be a charging port though to get the extra juice than a regular USB port. Here is what I am currently using;

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI to VGA, on boot the board displays its logo, but then ceases to display anything. Please Help

2014-04-05 Thread Scott Force
I had issues getting my HDMI output to work as well. My issue was definitely different than yours but this is the best resource that I found: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_HDMI What is happening is that the uEnv.txt file on your BBB, specifies a resolution which seems to be

[beagleboard] Re: BBB No video over HDMI

2014-03-21 Thread Scott Force
I was having a similar issue which I finally figured out last night. For me the TV Angstrom were both indicating that there was no connection what so ever. This didn't make sense, as I had made sure to purchase one of the known good HDMI cables from the WIKI page

Re: [beagleboard] Re: CPU speed and kernel builds

2014-03-21 Thread Scott Force
How are you powering your BBB? I've heard that if you power it via USB instead of the 5V DC connector, that the CPU speed will be reduced due to the lower power. On 21 March 2014 10:38, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Friday, March 21, 2014 8:24:50 AM UTC-6, cwrse...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [beagleboard] Not Impressed - Network Issues

2014-02-12 Thread Scott Force
+issue No luck with this. On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Scott Force scooby...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Lets try this again -- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user/27473/match=beaglebone+rev+a4+ethernet+issue On 7 February 2014 17:05, Scott Macri scott

Re: [beagleboard] Not Impressed - Network Issues

2014-02-07 Thread Scott Force
This sounds like an issue that some other people are having. Take a look at the postings with a subject of BeagleBone Rev. A4 ethernet

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-12-03 Thread Scott Force
WARNING message shown. Summary: There was 1 ERROR message shown, returning a non-zero exit code. On Saturday, November 23, 2013 11:34:49 PM UTC-5, Scott Force wrote: VLC does have a console interface via ncurses. I have used it on my desktop system before under Arch Linux and it works quite well

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-12-03 Thread Scott Force
posted by Compn ... MPlayer now has the ability to use FFmpeg's network code to access streams. Use mplayer ffmpeg://rtsp://example.invalid/stream.mov syntax to try it. ... On 3 December 2013 15:49, Scott Force scooby.fo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Robert, that helps a lot. Brent, the VLC

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-12-03 Thread Scott Force
As far as the alternative live555 option, I found this informative webpage: http://www.live555.com/mplayer/ On 3 December 2013 16:58, Scott Force scooby.fo...@gmail.com wrote: This seemed to help someone else with a log output similar to yours from mplayer: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com

[beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Force
If VLC doesn't work or you don't want to try it then it would help if you could post the log\output from one of the video players. On Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:34:49 UTC-5, Scott Force wrote: VLC does have a console interface via ncurses. I have used it on my desktop system before under

[beagleboard] Re: Playing .avi, .mpg, or .mp4 files

2013-11-23 Thread Scott Force
I am in the process of ordering my very first BeagleBone Black so I can't attest to how it plays videos. Maybe try a different video player such as VLC and see if it makes a difference. On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 15:15:06 UTC-5, Brent wrote: This should be straightforward, but I'm