Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 16:57 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > > It works for mplayer with black bars for me, at least when using the > > software scaler. > > Hmm, indeed, will have to figure out why that is. So the reason it worked with scale before expand is that in this case slices aren't used,

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 12/30/06, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Flegg wrote: > > > Isn't that conflict, rather than multiple copies of the same programme > > being recorded, though? Both are pretty important. > > Oh talk about getting the wrong end of the stick, it's late and I've > been freevo'ing al

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 00:36 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > Duplicates, are not that important, I tend to let them record in case > the first one is corrupt, quite often happens with the PVR-350, loss of > audio about twice a week. Ouch. Thankfully not here; but I don't use the tuner. -

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Flegg wrote: > On 12/30/06, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Justin Wetherell wrote: >>> Actually, try this patch instead. >> Have you ever done any game programming? The algorithm is the same as >> when a sprite is touching or over an object, except in this case >> everything is a

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 12/30/06, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Wetherell wrote: > > Actually, try this patch instead. > > Have you ever done any game programming? The algorithm is the same as > when a sprite is touching or over an object, except in this case > everything is a line and there are only

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Duncan Webb
Justin Wetherell wrote: > Actually, try this patch instead. Have you ever done any game programming? The algorithm is the same as when a sprite is touching or over an object, except in this case everything is a line and there are only two points to check. All that is needed is a sorted list of pr

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 12/30/06, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Flegg wrote: > > > I've got a 16:9 CRT TV in the UK, connected over S-Video. X is running > > at 800x600 (with overscan). Since the TV stretches the image > > horizontally, this means non-square pixels. The current themes look > > rather

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Flegg wrote: > Hi, > > With the announcement of v1.7, I'm moving back to Freevo after a brief > try of MythTV when I got my DVB card. Mainly due to Myth's bloat, > speed (or lack of) and the abysmal quality of the audio output and UI > of MythMusic. > > However, there are a couple of thing

Re: [Freevo-devel] 1.7.0-rc1 problem

2006-12-30 Thread Duncan Webb
Dirk Meyer wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote: >> "Justin Wetherell" wrote: >>> I solved the problem by installing mmpython-0.4.10 (I was under the >>> assumption that 0.4.0 was the newest for some reason). >> Freev 1.7.0-rc1 needs the kaa.metadata pacakge released with >> it. Freevo 1.x SVN needs the kaa.m

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 22:53 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > So the user needs to provide a resolution he wants to use with freevo > that matches his aspect. We could provide a list of possible 4:3 > resolutions and possible 16:9 resolutions in setup. After that freevo > asks the display for the size, cr

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 22:48 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > No problem. So for popcorn I skip the pixel-aspect idea and go back to > the user to provide the monitor aspect in a config file. And I try to > get the real fullscreen resolution from the display. Agreed. > What happens if we play in a small

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> Or can I create a monitor_aspect canvas and but it on a fullscreen x >> window and evas does the scaling? > > ... yes, ideally you make the evas viewport monitor_aspect, and set the > output size to fullscreen size. Evas will do the scaling if they're > different. So th

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 22:31 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> Can we use -fs in our own window? What happens? Does it go fs? > > Well yes, fair enough, -fs is a no-op since we're using our own window. > So nevermind, we'd need to use dsize with the actual resolution. No problem

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 22:44 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Now I understand what dsize does. So we do > mplayer -vf expand=:monitor_aspect,dsize=fullscreen_values Right. > And we need to create on osd with monitor_aspect, no matter what the > size is? Right. > So an osd canvas has a different

Re: [Freevo-devel] beacon logfile question

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 21:17 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> 4. Create a special logger for the helper that does not rotate itself >>but checks if the main proc has rotated and adjust the file. I >>don't know if that is possible. > > 5. Log everything through the main p

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 21:12 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> So what happens if you use the expand filter with 4/3 but you don't >> have square pixels? Example: we have freevo running fullscreen at >> 800x600, but the tv is 16:9. Everything needs to be scaled so that it >> loo

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 22:31 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Can we use -fs in our own window? What happens? Does it go fs? Well yes, fair enough, -fs is a no-op since we're using our own window. So nevermind, we'd need to use dsize with the actual resolution. Unfortunately I just discovered that xine'

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 16:01 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> Alternatively, we don't need to know that it's 800x600, only that the >> screen aspect is 4:3, and the display aspect is 16:9: -vf >> expand=:16/9,dsize=4/3 > > I should add that in this case, we must use -f

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 16:01 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Alternatively, we don't need to know that it's 800x600, only that the > screen aspect is 4:3, and the display aspect is 16:9: -vf > expand=:16/9,dsize=4/3 I should add that in this case, we must use -fs. --

Re: [Freevo-devel] beacon logfile question

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 21:17 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > 4. Create a special logger for the helper that does not rotate itself >but checks if the main proc has rotated and adjust the file. I >don't know if that is possible. 5. Log everything through the main process, and have the child use r

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 21:12 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > So what happens if you use the expand filter with 4/3 but you don't > have square pixels? Example: we have freevo running fullscreen at > 800x600, but the tv is 16:9. Everything needs to be scaled so that it > looks ok on the tv again. What sh

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 12/30/06, Justin Wetherell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/30/06, Justin Wetherell < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've done a quick hack for duplicate detection, if you want ro run with > > the idea. > > > > Attached is the diff. Thanks, looks like a good starting point. One thing I'd consi

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Justin Wetherell
Now that I think of it, we really need a new flag on the program class to allow duplicates. I know some shows (like soap operas) have the same title, sub_title, and description and we would need to over-ride my new code. On 12/30/06, Justin Wetherell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, try thi

Re: [Freevo-devel] 1.7.0-rc1 problem

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Dirk Meyer wrote: > "Justin Wetherell" wrote: >> I solved the problem by installing mmpython-0.4.10 (I was under the >> assumption that 0.4.0 was the newest for some reason). > > Freev 1.7.0-rc1 needs the kaa.metadata pacakge released with > it. Freevo 1.x SVN needs the kaa.metadata SVN. One sec:

Re: [Freevo-devel] 1.7.0-rc1 problem

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
"Justin Wetherell" wrote: > I solved the problem by installing mmpython-0.4.10 (I was under the > assumption that 0.4.0 was the newest for some reason). Freev 1.7.0-rc1 needs the kaa.metadata pacakge released with it. Freevo 1.x SVN needs the kaa.metadata SVN. Dischi -- Imagination is more imp

[Freevo-devel] beacon logfile question

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hi, right now we use an endless logfile in freevo. Well, that is bad. Beacon uses a rotating file logger that rotates the file after 1 MB with 3 Backup files. So you have up to 4 MB of logging data. So far so good. But beacon has two processes running using the same logfile. On wrap, strange thing

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Justin Wetherell
Actually, try this patch instead. On 12/30/06, Justin Wetherell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've done a quick hack for duplicate detection, if you want ro run with the idea. Attached is the diff. On 12/30/06, Dirk Meyer < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > "Andrew Flegg" wrote: > > Anamorph

Re: [Freevo-devel] 1.7.0-rc1 problem

2006-12-30 Thread Justin Wetherell
I solved the problem by installing mmpython-0.4.10 (I was under the assumption that 0.4.0 was the newest for some reason). On 12/30/06, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin Wetherell wrote: > I'm not sure what I am missing, I installed kaa-base, kaa-metadata, and > mmpython-0.4 but I k

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > In our example, we have a 720x480 DVD frame, and -vf expand makes that > frame 720x641, which then gets hw-scaled to 854x641 which is our desired > 4:3 aspect ratio. The OSD canvas is 640x480 -- that's what we as the > canvas API user see -- which gets scaled by vf_overla

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Justin Wetherell
I've done a quick hack for duplicate detection, if you want ro run with the idea. Attached is the diff. On 12/30/06, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, "Andrew Flegg" wrote: > Anamorphic skin > ~~~ > I've got a 16:9 CRT TV in the UK, connected over S-Video. X is running > a

Re: [Freevo-devel] 1.7.0-rc1 problem

2006-12-30 Thread Duncan Webb
Justin Wetherell wrote: > I'm not sure what I am missing, I installed kaa-base, kaa-metadata, and > mmpython-0.4 but I keep running into this error. I had the 1.7 svn > working not too long ago and something got fudged. > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/src/freevo-1.7.0-r

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 20:15 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Let us make an example. I have Freevo running at 1360x768. Do I create > a Buffercanvas in that size and let the popcorn/candy deal with how to > put that n a hardware scaled video? If you're talking about OSD, you create a PlayerOSDCanvas, no

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > In any case, the bottom line is that for OSD, we see it as a canvas that > has 1:1 pixels, and the canvas size is the post-scaled resolution > (854x480 in the case of NTSC DVD), and any aspect correction to > compensate for non-square pixels happens at a layer beneath that

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 17:55 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Well, for fb Display == Window. But I guess it should be possible. Not > sure about other displays. What happens if you play a movie on a > buffercanvas. Is it possible to get the real display size? For BufferCanvas, it should assume 1:1, beca

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hi, "Andrew Flegg" wrote: > Anamorphic skin > ~~~ > I've got a 16:9 CRT TV in the UK, connected over S-Video. X is running > at 800x600 (with overscan). Since the TV stretches the image > horizontally, this means non-square pixels. The current themes look > rather "fat" like this, so I

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2309 - in trunk/popcorn/src: .

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 21:23 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> +# For all other cases this needs to be calculated. Because >> +# kaa.popcorn may not know the real fullscreen resolution >> +# for same displays, simple settings for an aspect like

[Freevo-devel] Smart grouping disable

2006-12-30 Thread Ryan Roth
I made a small patch that disables this feature if a variable is set in the local_conf http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1602952&group_id=46652&atid=446898 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Futu

[Freevo-devel] 1.7.0-rc1 problem

2006-12-30 Thread Justin Wetherell
I'm not sure what I am missing, I installed kaa-base, kaa-metadata, and mmpython-0.4 but I keep running into this error. I had the 1.7 svn working not too long ago and something got fudged. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/src/freevo-1.7.0-rc1/src/helpers/recordserver.py", lin

[Freevo-devel] [ freevo-Bugs-1624959 ] Recordserver broken in freevo-1.7.0-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1624959, was opened at 2006-12-30 11:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by phishman3579 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=446895&aid=1624959&group_id=46652 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comme

[Freevo-devel] [ freevo-Bugs-1624959 ] Recordserver broken in freevo-1.7.0-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1624959, was opened at 2006-12-30 11:26 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=446895&aid=1624959&group_id=46652 Please note that this message will contain a full copy o

Re: [Freevo-devel] [ freevo-Bugs-1604844 ] 1.7RC1 - Webserver issue

2006-12-30 Thread Ryan Roth
WWW_IMAGE_THRESHOLD Chandan Pitta wrote: > Can you think up of a variable name for threshold_size as well? That > way we can decide on which images to scale. > > Although I like the flexibility of configuration variables, they have > some limitations as well. For example in this case we are only >

Re: [Freevo-devel] [ freevo-Bugs-1604844 ] 1.7RC1 - Webserver issue

2006-12-30 Thread Chandan Pitta
Can you think up of a variable name for threshold_size as well? That way we can decide on which images to scale. Although I like the flexibility of configuration variables, they have some limitations as well. For example in this case we are only checking if the scaled image is in cache, and if it

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2311 - trunk/base/src/distribution

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 09:56 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Or do we close when we loose the reference? Correct. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance

Re: [Freevo-devel] [ freevo-Bugs-1604844 ] 1.7RC1 - Webserver issue

2006-12-30 Thread Ryan Roth
Could we make the images size a variable that could be also set from the local_conf? I would personally like the image to be 100x100. You could use 'if hasattr(conf, 'WWW_IMAGE_SIZE'):' then fall back to 200x200 if its not set Chandan Pitta wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > I think these patches must

Re: [Freevo-devel] [ freevo-Bugs-1604844 ] 1.7RC1 - Webserver issue

2006-12-30 Thread Chandan Pitta
Hi Duncan, I think these patches must have got lost in the noise. I sent the patches on 28, but to save you some trouble I am reattaching the files again and pasting the message for reference. Hello Duncan and Wout, I fixed the issue where you can have ITEMS which may not be a tuple (like in th

Re: [Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Justin Wetherell
I'd be very interested in both these features but i'm affraid that I can't really be any help. I also have a feeling that the second part of this (duplicate detection) would need some kind of sql backend (maybe SqlLite, since it's already used for caching reasons?). On 12/30/06, Andrew Flegg <[EM

[Freevo-devel] Anamorphic skins & duplicate recordings

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
Hi, With the announcement of v1.7, I'm moving back to Freevo after a brief try of MythTV when I got my DVB card. Mainly due to Myth's bloat, speed (or lack of) and the abysmal quality of the audio output and UI of MythMusic. However, there are a couple of things which are now beginning to bug me

Re: [Freevo-devel] Kaa r2311 - trunk/base/src/distribution

2006-12-30 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Modified: trunk/base/src/distribution/core.py > == > --- trunk/base/src/distribution/core.py (original) > +++ trunk/base/src/distribution/core.py Sat Dec 30 00:29:03 2006 > @@ -392,16 +

Re: [Freevo-devel] [ freevo-Feature Requests-1624110 ] WebRemote for Freevo's Webserver

2006-12-30 Thread Duncan Webb
wout clymans wrote: > The remote now uses AJAX so it seams if the page isn't refreshed when > you click on a button. What AJAX does this mean? > > There is still a bug: CH+ and VOL+ do not work, please take a look at this! The CH+ and VOL+ work for me with the original version in both Firefox a