Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: Future ideas post 1.5.0

2004-07-17 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:25:41 +0200, Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Right now I named it mmnet (media metadata net, based on mmpython). If someone has a better idea, say so now before I check it in. 'Web Services' is/was the phrase being thrown at that kind of thing - Chris

Re: [Freevo-devel] [PATCH] Automatic image slideshows

2004-07-16 Thread Chris Griffiths
Attached patch rather than inlining I've hacked playlist.py to allow for automatic slideshows - when I play all files (randomly or not) in a directory freevo will show them as a slideshow. This requires a SLIDESHOW_DURATION setting in /etc/freevo/local_conf.py - but will not crash without it.

[Freevo-devel] DIRECTORY_ADD_RANDOM_PLAYLIST fix

2004-02-28 Thread Chris Griffiths
I wanted to disable the automatic random playlists, so I checked directory.py and added DIRECTORY_ADD_RANDOM_PLAYLIST = 0 to my /etc/freevo/local.conf This caused freevo to crash - to fix this, and get the toggle working correctly change line 711: if self.display_type and

Re: [Freevo-devel] thoughts.

2004-02-04 Thread Chris Griffiths
Bold? using color alone might cause problems for people who are color-blind. On the tivo you get an arrow next to it if theres a sub-menu to that option, but this only works as all navigation can be done via up/down/left/right (while rules by the way, you just keep your thumb on the joypad-like

Re: [Freevo-devel] thoughts.

2004-02-04 Thread Chris Griffiths
. The Tivo idea could work, we could just make a plugin to send ENTER instead of RIGHT since right just jumps to the bottom of the menu right now. Chris Griffiths wrote: Bold? using color alone might cause problems for people who are color-blind. On the tivo you get an arrow next

Re: [Freevo-devel] thoughts.

2004-02-04 Thread Chris Griffiths
. Chris Griffiths wrote: Bold? using color alone might cause problems for people who are color-blind. On the tivo you get an arrow next to it if theres a sub-menu to that option, but this only works as all navigation can be done via up/down/left/right (while rules by the way, you

Re: [Freevo-devel] Announcing Freevo Enhanced Weather Plugin

2004-01-21 Thread Chris Griffiths
I started work on something similar before xmas - but got dragged into 16 hr shifts. I'm at work so I can't give it a spin - but its excellent news, I really like the mythweather format. If it helps here's the weather retrieving part of what I had - it looks like the radar map part has changed so

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: plugin help

2003-12-04 Thread Chris Griffiths
Thanks that was quick! I've just found out I'm working 16 hour days and weekends for the next 3 weeks, so it may take me a while - but I definately want to squeeze this in somewhere. - Chris On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:02:00 +0100, Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Chris Griffiths wrote: I had

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: plugin help

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:05:10 +0100, Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Chris Griffiths wrote: I was able to draw directly to the screen with a blank screen as the canvas but I thought it'd be cool for it to be customizable - and I wasn't sure how resizing/scaling would work if I created

Re: [Freevo-devel] Buffering

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Griffiths
have a look via google for the apple quicktime movie trailer freevo plugin, this shows (albeit in text) the buffering status. On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:52:05 -0400, Rob Shortt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Aleksey Sudakov wrote: Hello, Hi, Is there any way to get an event (or otherwise find out

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: plugin help

2003-12-02 Thread Chris Griffiths
Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Chris Griffiths wrote: I quite like the weather function on mythtv, where it will show you the current weather details, the forecast and the doppler map. nice I've had some success with having the plugin write to the screen itself, but would like to make

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: plugin help

2003-12-01 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:46:26 -0500, Chris Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:54:43 -0500, Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:23:31PM +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: Chris Griffiths wrote: I quite like the weather function on mythtv, where

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: plugin help

2003-12-01 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:54:43 -0500, Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:23:31PM +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: Chris Griffiths wrote: I quite like the weather function on mythtv, where it will show you the current weather details, the forecast and the doppler map

[Freevo-devel] plugin help

2003-11-29 Thread Chris Griffiths
I quite like the weather function on mythtv, where it will show you the current weather details, the forecast and the doppler map. I've written a python module which fetches all that, basically just a port of mythweather's main functions to python - but I'm having issues integrating it into

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: fxd files

2003-11-26 Thread Chris Griffiths
PROTECTED] said: Chris Griffiths wrote: Is it possible to use urls as a playlist? Radio1 streams realaudio, but the url for the actual audio changes, what remains constant is the playlist url http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram which when used as a playlist

Re: [Freevo-devel] [ freevo-Bugs-848980 ] International characters bad parsed in html

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Griffiths
As a workaround see below - I posted this to the freevo-users group the other day: I was running into problems with the web view of the TV guide - it would crash as soon as it encountered accented characters (i.e. in fiance). Here's a code snippet to sanitize the xml file - it will replace any

[Freevo-devel] webradio bug workaround

2003-11-08 Thread Chris Griffiths
I'm running the current debian unstable version of freevo and all the webradio stations weren't working. The problem was that childapp was receiving the command as unicode - as this is how they were being read from the xml radio list file. Changing webradio.cwd if info.name ==

[Freevo-devel] New idlebar mail plugin - pop3 imap and mbox

2003-11-08 Thread Chris Griffiths
# --- # # Author : Chris Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) # Date : Nov 8th 2003 # # --- # Freevo - A Home Theater PC framework # Copyright (C) 2002 Krister Lagerstrom, et al. # Please see the file freevo/Docs/CREDITS