Re: [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-25 Thread James Trietsch
Well, this is a bit of a wet blanket. I'd like to add a question to the survey: How many people are running Freevo as part of their ordinary PC (I.E., second display/head while having their X desktop on the primary) and how many are using a stand-alone box, hooked up to the living room TV (or so

[Freevo-devel] Hardware for Freevo 2 (was: [Freevo-users] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement)

2009-01-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 21:54 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: > I was uncertain with the replies, is a GMA950 good enough for Freevo 2? Theoretically yes, provided your CPU is fast enough. (Tentatively, I would recommend at least a Core 2 duo at 2.6GHz, although 3.0GHz might be safer when it comes to

Re: [Freevo-devel] 1.8.2 CDROM traceback

2009-01-25 Thread Andrew Jeffery
Duncan Webb wrote: What does mminfo /dev/dvd say? Is this what's causing freevo not to play the disc? I noticed a ROM_DRIVES_AUTOFS option had been added to the config so I tried setting this to false (as I don't have an automounter, things were working fine that way before), but I still get t

Re: [Freevo-devel] [need help] CW12832 LCD module + Freevo 1.7.3 => how to change the backlight state?

2009-01-25 Thread Pirlouwi
2009/1/25 Duncan Webb > Pirlouwi wrote: > > 2009/1/24 Duncan Webb mailto:dun...@freevo.org>> > > > > Pirlouwi wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > long time ago that I read this list, good news... it means that my > > > freevo 1.7.3 is so rock solid, that I did'nt need support ;-) > >

Re: [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-25 Thread Duncan Webb
Dirk Meyer wrote: > Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:55 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: >>> When comparing the picture quality of TV broadcasts from CRT TVs and TFT >>> TVs the picture quality was simply much better with the CRTs. >> I'm rather tempted to say the reason is, paradoxical

Re: [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:52 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> I guess so. There are four choices: > > Only three. > > >> 2. You have a gfx card that does not support hardware colorspace >>conversion and has no shader support in the GPU. That means we have >>to do the col

Re: [Freevo-devel] [Freevo-users] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:52 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > I guess so. There are four choices: Only three. > 2. You have a gfx card that does not support hardware colorspace >conversion and has no shader support in the GPU. That means we have >to do the colorspace conversion in the CPU. Ha

Re: [Freevo-devel] 1.8.2 CDROM traceback

2009-01-25 Thread Duncan Webb
Evan Hisey wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Andrew Jeffery > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running Freevo 1.8.2 on Gentoo, and recently started having issues with >> watching DVDs. If I put a DVD in the drive Freevo no-longer recognises it >> and ejects the tray if I try to play the disc.

Re: [Freevo-devel] [need help] CW12832 LCD module + Freevo 1.7.3 => how to change the backlight state?

2009-01-25 Thread Duncan Webb
Pirlouwi wrote: > 2009/1/24 Duncan Webb mailto:dun...@freevo.org>> > > Pirlouwi wrote: > > Hello all, > > long time ago that I read this list, good news... it means that my > > freevo 1.7.3 is so rock solid, that I did'nt need support ;-) > > > > Ok. Here is my problem: >

Re: [Freevo-devel] 1.8.2 CDROM traceback

2009-01-25 Thread Evan Hisey
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running Freevo 1.8.2 on Gentoo, and recently started having issues with > watching DVDs. If I put a DVD in the drive Freevo no-longer recognises it > and ejects the tray if I try to play the disc. Looking at the main log I >

Re: [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Stephen Rowles wrote: > I was thinking about one of the new Atom 330 (dual core) motherboards as > these are supposed to be able to handle 720p and some 1080p content with > the latest playback drivers, but the graphics card is a very old GMA > 950, would you expect that sort of system to cope w

Re: [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:00 +, Andrew Flegg wrote: >> A $40 PCI card, which'll fit a low (CPU-)power Mini-ITX machine in a >> small case with room for only one or two PCI cards? > > PCI? No. If you have no free PCI-express slot, then clearly you can't > upgrade easil