Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-09-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:24:24AM EDT, Stefan Monnier wrote: I installed freevo from the lenny repository about two months ago. Thanks. That sounds like a good candidate as well, Yes.. sorry for being a bit verbose, but one thing I was not too crazy about was the doc.. :-( What I like

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-09-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
I installed freevo from the lenny repository about two months ago. Thanks. That sounds like a good candidate as well, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, perhaps mythtv will apply to your suggestion. I dont know were in Canada to find. It is part of the debian-multimedia-project. Best regards and a nice day. klaus Am Samstag, den 29.08.2009, 18:06 -0400 schrieb Stefan Monnier: As the subject says, I'm looking for a media center application

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
As the subject says, I'm looking for a media center application. I've tried Elisa (aka Moovida) but couldn't believe how sluggish it is (without hardware 3D is absolutely unusable, and even with hardware 3D on a Macbook Pro, it feels sluggish). So, I'm looking for something much more down

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Chris Jones
[..] If it's the latter, check out XBMC. I'll take a look, thanks. Seems like hell to install, tho :-( I appear to have deleted the original message. I installed freevo from the lenny repository about two months ago. Takes about an hour to configure - just copy the sample config file to

RE: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Ross
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Monnier Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:18 PM If it's the latter, check out XBMC. I'll take a look, thanks. Seems like hell to install, tho :-( Installing is pretty easy. You can actually add their PPA repository to your

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:47:07PM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: [snip] That's it. It's installed. Play around with it. Change the video settings to start fullscreen, and to Sync to Vblank. Add your movie directory, and let it download movie posters and descriptions from TheMovieDB.org.

RE: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Alex Samad [mailto:a...@samad.com.au] Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:45 PM quick question, I have been using plexxapp - fork of xbmcosx the one key feature I love it the tv series view, it keeps track of the show you have watched and the one you haven't - same with videos as well.

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 05:53:11PM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: From: Alex Samad [mailto:a...@samad.com.au] Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:45 PM quick question, I have been using plexxapp - fork of xbmcosx the one key feature I love it the tv series view, it keeps track of the show you

RE: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Alex Samad [mailto:a...@samad.com.au] Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:58 PM so the next question, does it support a shared DB - ie multiple media centres using the same db I've never tried it. But some Googling suggests that it is possible. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Looking for a media center application

2009-08-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
As the subject says, I'm looking for a media center application. I've tried Elisa (aka Moovida) but couldn't believe how sluggish it is (without hardware 3D is absolutely unusable, and even with hardware 3D on a Macbook Pro, it feels sluggish). So, I'm looking for something much more down

RE: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Monnier Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:07 PM As the subject says, I'm looking for a media center application. I've tried Elisa (aka Moovida) but couldn't believe how sluggish it is (without hardware 3D is absolutely unusable