Re: [Freevo-devel] [Freevo-users] Hardware for Freevo 2

2009-01-27 Thread Evan Hisey
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 13:23 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> I have problems getting vsync on my external monitor, but the clutter >> test app worked well with 1080p video. > > And, I forget, did you have GMA 900 or 950? > > Jason. > > I have

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 20:15 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > > Probably about 3-4 hours total work. I don't mind doing it. > > Ok I've HTMLified the questions (with suggested amendments). It's still a bit rough around the edges aesthetically; there's no validation yet (to check for missing answers) a

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hans Meine wrote: > On Dienstag 27 Januar 2009, Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> #. What best describes the primary display of your HTPC: >> (o) LCD panel geared toward PCs >> ( ) CRT television >> ( ) LCD or Plasma television at 1280x720 or 1365x768 >> ( ) LCD or Plasma t

Re: [Freevo-devel] [Freevo-users] Hardware for Freevo 2

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 13:23 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > I have problems getting vsync on my external monitor, but the clutter > test app worked well with 1080p video. And, I forget, did you have GMA 900 or 950? Jason. --

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:55 +0100, Hans Meine wrote: > I was about to tell you that I heard about this great online survey tool, but > I forgot the name. ;-) Guess how many hits "online survey tool" has.. :-O > Dunno, maybe OpenSurveyPilot? http://sourceforge.net/projects/osp/ Thanks, I'll have

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Hans Meine
Hi Tack! On Dienstag 27 Januar 2009, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > As I mentioned in the other thread, I'd like to work up a web-based > survey to help us get a better idea about our userbase. First of all, I must say good work! The survey looks really good already. I was about to tell you that I h

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:11 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> How much work is that? Maybe someone can help? > > Probably about 3-4 hours total work. I don't mind doing it. Ok >> Would you add "Remote access from outside the home network", please? > > I think what you mean by

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:20 +0100, Tony Ducrocq wrote: > What about 1920x1080 FullHD TV ? That is addressed in the survey. (Read my post, not dischi's in which he removed some portions of the survey in quoting) -- This

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:11 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > How much work is that? Maybe someone can help? Probably about 3-4 hours total work. I don't mind doing it. > Add Windows MCE and XBMC here, too Ok. > Add a special 3.0 check. A future 2.7 may work out-of-the-box, 3.0 does > not. Ok, but

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Tony Ducrocq
What about 1920x1080 FullHD TV ? On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> As I mentioned in the other thread, I'd like to work up a web-based >> survey to help us get a better idea about our userbase. > > How much work is that? Maybe someone can help? > >> #

Re: [Freevo-devel] Python-2.6.1 adventures

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:36 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > The CPU is running at 80% which is way to much. Wow. When the UI is otherwise idle, anything over 2% is too much. > The poll time is set to 200 ms, which is much higher than I would > normally use (50 ms). If nothing else is going on (e.g

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > As I mentioned in the other thread, I'd like to work up a web-based > survey to help us get a better idea about our userbase. How much work is that? Maybe someone can help? > #. Are you currently running HTPC software? > (o) Not yet, but I plan to > ( ) Y

[Freevo-devel] Freevo survey questions

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
As I mentioned in the other thread, I'd like to work up a web-based survey to help us get a better idea about our userbase. Here are some ideas for questions. They are not numbered because the numbering is up for debate too. Please provide suggestions for other questions, removals, rewordings,

Re: [Freevo-devel] Python-2.6.1 adventures

2009-01-27 Thread Duncan Webb
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 19:50 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: >> The first stop-stopper is that the CPU usage is very high when freevo is >> idle. >> >> Wonder if anyone knows how to find out what the problem could be? >> Profiling the code also crashes, so that didn't help much.

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

2009-01-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > I'll start a separate thread with some ideas for questions. Separate thread sounds good :) This one is still called "Making Python 2.5 a requirement" and that is not the problem here. Dischi -- File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N) -

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

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 13:38 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Good question. Can someone start a survey on that? I would guess that > there are two setups in most cases: A survey is actually a pretty good idea. We currently do quite a bit of speculation about our userbase. It'd be nice to have a better

Re: [Freevo-devel] Hardware for Freevo 2

2009-01-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > dischi I think owns a GMA 950 (or, perhaps older). He can comment on > how, aside from the fragment program issue, that chipset otherwise > performs with clutter. I have problems getting vsync on my external monitor, but the clutter test app worked well with 1080p video.

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

2009-01-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
James Trietsch wrote: > 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 t