Re: [Freevo-devel] [Freevo-users] Packagers please announce 1.7.3

2007-08-17 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KH KH Wrote: Hi! I'm packaging freevo for Fedora (6 and 7 and beyond) It is available from my own repository for now, but i plan to provide it to official Fedora repository, as everything necessary to build freevo is here. (tvtime will be

[Freevo-devel] ALSA Mixer module Traceback

2007-05-13 Thread TC Wan
Hi, I'm trying to enable the ALSA mixer module in Freevo 1.7.1, which mostly works (Full DMA audio capture for TV Radio at last!), except in the case of handling the MUTE event via the setmute() call. On two of my systems, which uses SiS chipsets, running FC5 with the latest released kernel,

[Freevo-devel] Separate packages for kaa modules

2006-12-01 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Evan, Which distro are you packaging for? I can build them separately, as you describe. It's just a matter of figuring out the individual module dependencies and putting them in different SPEC files. Wish there was an easy way to create a

Re: [Freevo-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.6.1, Freevo-1.7.0rc1 and Kaa Releases

2006-11-28 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan Webb wrote: For the brave and wild at heart there is a release candidate for Freevo-1.7.0, this contains many new features, and most importantly mmpython has been replaced by kaa.base and kaa.metadata. Read on to see how these can be

Re: [Freevo-devel] saa7134-alsa

2006-10-25 Thread TC Wan
On Tue, October 24, 2006 3:55 pm, Duncan Webb wrote: I've decided that this method is too dangerous so I've added a new VideoGroup group_type to implement this, the adev setting still need to be changed. See: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=446895aid=1583303group_id=46652

[Freevo-devel] (no subject)

2006-10-23 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan Webb wrote: TC Wan wrote: Hi, I'm playing with Freevo 1.6 SVN, and finally managed to get DMA sound working with Mencoder for TV recording (using the ALSA configuration information from the V4L2 Wiki on linuxtv.org). However, for all

Re: [Freevo-devel] Getting Live TV Pause to work

2006-10-23 Thread TC Wan
On Mon, October 23, 2006 6:00 pm, TC Wan wrote: Duncan Webb wrote: TC Wan wrote: Hi, I'm playing with Freevo 1.6 SVN, and finally managed to get DMA sound working with Mencoder for TV recording (using the ALSA configuration information from the V4L2 Wiki on linuxtv.org). However, for all

Re: [Freevo-devel] Tracker and why it should be used.

2006-10-21 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dischi wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:49 +0200, Richard van Paasen wrote: So I'd vote for the tracker. Maybe in a reconfigured form. I'd be thrilled to see a bugzilla install for freevo. dischi, can we set this up on the same server

[Freevo-devel] Getting Live TV Pause to work

2006-10-21 Thread TC Wan
Hi, I'm playing with Freevo 1.6 SVN, and finally managed to get DMA sound working with Mencoder for TV recording (using the ALSA configuration information from the V4L2 Wiki on linuxtv.org). However, for all my attempts, mplayer refuses to playback live TV using DMA sound.

Re: [Freevo-devel] [PATCH] Linux event device support

2006-10-21 Thread TC Wan
Duncan wrote: Pierre Ossman wrote: Sorry Pierre, I can't accept this patch as it stands because it parses linux/input.h, which requires that kernel headers are installed. I have reversed the patches from rel-1-6 and rel-1 There must be a better way to do this without this dependency. Duncan

Re: [Freevo-devel] [PATCH] Linux event device support

2006-10-21 Thread TC Wan
Rob Shortt wrote: Lirc drives me nuts and I'd rather not use it at all. :) On my main Freevo box running 2.0 I use DirectFB for input, but used to use the event device plugin before that. On one box here I am forced to use lirc since that is the only thing that supports my serial IR receiver.

[Freevo-devel] ElementTree 1.2.6 RPM uploaded to Freevo Repository on SF

2006-10-17 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Duncan, I noticed that the upcoming 1.6.0 release will have a new dependency, ElementTree. I've built and uploaded the 1.2.6 RPMs to the Freevo Fedora Repository on SourceForge. It may take me a while to try and build 1.6.0 SVN (we have a long

[Freevo-devel] Patch needed for radioplayer in Freevo 1.5.x/1.6

2006-10-11 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm not sure if it's better to post to the SF Bugtracker, or straight to the list, so I'm sending it here first. I've had to update the radioplayer.py code to accomodate alternative radio players other than the one supplied by xawtv, since xawtv

Re: [Freevo-devel] BUG: Freevo/Beacon goes into infinite recursion on, scanning [Root]

2006-08-28 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dischi wrote: Hi, This is with SVN freevo kaa 20060824: I started beacon in foreground, and then run freevo from another terminal. Both processes are running as normal user processes. I didn't make any configuration updates to freevo.conf or

[Freevo-devel] BUG: Freevo/Beacon goes into infinite recursion on scanning [Root]

2006-08-23 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is with SVN freevo kaa 20060824: I started beacon in foreground, and then run freevo from another terminal. Both processes are running as normal user processes. I didn't make any configuration updates to freevo.conf or local_config.py, they

[Freevo-devel] BUG: Mixer plugin error on FC5 x86_64

2006-08-23 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is not a new problem, but I'm wondering if it could be worked around if there were two versions of the plugins, one that somehow massage the values from 64 to 32 bits (I assume that is the cause)? ERROR plugin_loader(351): failed to load

[Freevo-devel] SVN 20060731 kaa build can't find glib library

2006-07-31 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The latest kaa SVN is checking for glib, but unable to locate it. [setup] Entering kaa submodule base glib = 2.4.0 not found; devel package missing maybe? failed to build base error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.81028 (%build) On Fedora

[Freevo-devel] Heads up on Python to C++ Compiler

2006-06-16 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, Not sure if it'll be relevant or usable for Freevo, but there's work on generating native code from Python (with some restrictions). http://mark.dufour.googlepages.com/ T.C. - -- Wan Tat Chee (Senior Lecturer) School of Computer Sciences,

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo 2.0 snapshot mixer problem

2006-06-01 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, June 1, 2006 3:52 pm, Dirk Meyer wrote: TC Wan wrote: ioctl(self.mixfd.fileno(), device, data) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/ui/util/ioctl.py, line 100, in ioctl return fcntl.ioctl(fd, code, *args, **kargs

[Freevo-devel] Building Freevo 2.0 SVN 20060531

2006-05-31 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm in the process of building the SVN snapshot of Freevo 2.0. I found duplicate sets of files (e.g. Docs files, mbus.conf) under core/ and ui/. Not sure which should be the one to use. The setup.py script will build both. T.C. - -- Wan Tat Chee

[Freevo-devel] Status of mplayer as required application in Freevo 2.0

2006-05-31 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When configuring Freevo 2.0, it'll complain if mplayer is not found. I realize this was the behavior for 1.5.x, but is it still a requirement for 2.0? Also, what's the implication if kaa.xine wasn't able to build? I'm still getting the 'recompile

[Freevo-devel] Freevo 2.0 snapshot mixer problem

2006-05-31 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've managed to build freevo 2.0 on my Fedora Core 5 x86_64 distribution. I'm testing it on a Dell Optiplex GX620 Pentium D with Intel 945 chipset. However, I'm getting the following error on startup (local_conf.py is unchanged from the example

[Freevo-devel] Problem building kaa.xine module

2006-05-26 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm having a problem building the kaa.xine module. The build log complains about not compiling with -fPIC. I can't find any Makefiles so I'm not sure where it should be specified. T.C. - -- Wan Tat Chee (Senior Lecturer) School of Computer

[Freevo-devel] Patches for building ifomodule.c

2006-05-25 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to build kaa on FC5 x86_64. After doing the setup and install, I find that the python modules are scattered across /usr/lib64/python2.4 and /usr/lib/python2.4 directories. Is this going to be a problem? In addition, I found some

Re: [Freevo-devel] Call for help again

2006-02-14 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, February 15, 2006 3:43 am, Dirk Meyer wrote: Here is a small list. If you want to help, just drop me a note what you want to do. If you don't find anything in this list, also drop me a note and I will write more stuff: o A small C or

Re: [Freevo-devel] Freevo RPM repository for yum status

2005-10-18 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Karl, I'm (currently) the RPM packager for freevo. On Tue, October 18, 2005 5:57 am, Karl Lattimer wrote: Hi, I've noticed recently that the RPM repository for fedora core and yum hasn't been working properly. Missing the lsdvd and mmpython

Re: [Freevo-devel] Some 'problems' with freevo 2.0 (cvs 20050406)

2005-04-10 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, April 8, 2005 7:31 pm, Rob Shortt said: TC Wan wrote: I rebuilt pyepg, then found out that the epg_schema.sql is not automatically included in the build. I'm putting additional install commands in my SPEC file to add the SQL script. I

Re: [Freevo-devel] Some 'problems' with freevo 2.0 (cvs 20050406)

2005-04-07 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, April 8, 2005 12:03 am, Rob Shortt said: Rob Shortt wrote: TC Wan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, April 6, 2005 7:31 pm, Rob Shortt said: No, that's not the case. When the database doesn't have any

[Freevo-devel] Some 'problems' with freevo 2.0 (cvs 20050406)

2005-04-06 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm finally trying to get freevo 2.0 up and running on Fedora Core 3. The local_config.py is currently not updated to 6.0, so I copied freevo_config.py to local_config.py and hacked it until it runs. I'm seeing the following problems: 0. The

Re: [Freevo-devel] Some 'problems' with freevo 2.0 (cvs 20050406)

2005-04-06 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, April 6, 2005 7:31 pm, Rob Shortt said: [...] Games still needs to be updated. Ok. Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/helpers/cache.py, line 454, in ? create_metadata() File

[Freevo-devel] Remapping IR remote events in Freevo

2005-02-22 Thread TC Wan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I finally managed to get my FlyTV Prime34 IR Remote working with Freevo. It's a rather complicated process, primarily due to the fact that the IR remote events are not recognized directly by lirc but are instead processed at the input layer of the