Re: [Freevo-users] a little directfb success report (g400)

2003-06-07 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:23:27PM +0200, Benjamin Zeiss wrote: > it seems to depend. i would say that this half day was fully worth it for > me. the picture quality is so much better now and these annoying lines are > gone. but if mga_vid works well, there really is no reason to go through > th

[Freevo-users] Freevo downloads on SF

2003-06-07 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
I noticed that all the RPMs are a tad confusing. Perhaps we can put a short discription under each, explaining whats in it and why you need it. whats "Freevo-boot..." rpm for? Thats it for now :) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus,

[Freevo-users] Problem with Freevo Config (should be easy for experienced users)

2003-06-07 Thread borealis3
I was perusing the freevo site and I was delighted to read that I could simply type:   cvs update   in the freevo directory and upgrade painlessly (so it would seem). At any rate, I typed that command, and when I ran freevo again, the only thing that shows is:   TV Shows   (or something like

Re: [Freevo-users] CD1 + CD2 = CD ?

2003-06-07 Thread Shawn Powers
THANK YOU!!! the .fxd file worked PERFECTLY Thank you very much... (I wish I wouldn't have erased all my original 2 part movies that I have reencoded to combine..) -Shawn -- Shawn Powers Technology Director Inland Lakes Schools 231-238-6868 x174 http://techcorner.inland.k12.mi.us -

[Freevo-users] Re: IMPORTANT: new disc checker, please all help testing

2003-06-07 Thread Dirk Meyer
Dirk Meyer wrote: > Please also report how long it takes to get the results if it is > longer than 5 seconds after the drive has read the disc. If it takes > longer, please look into /var/log/messages if there are reading > problems reported from the kernel. I hoped that was a problem with my VCD

Re: [Freevo-users] remote command

2003-06-07 Thread skeeterskip
Marius, That cd is what I needed. Now freevo starts when i hit button on remote. This might be handy too if i have lockup playing movie or music. Startup script will be needed for lircd and irexec so that these commands don't have to be entered manually after bootup. Mandrake 9.1 runs kde in runl

Re: [Freevo-users] CD1 + CD2 = CD ?

2003-06-07 Thread joekewl
If you were to setup an fxd descriptor file, you could do it. All of my movies have fxd files mad for them. example: Goonies.jpg Goonies.cd1.avi Goonies.cd2.avi Just call it goonies.fxd and place it in your movie directory, you can even add movie posters this wa

[Freevo-users] CD1 + CD2 = CD ?

2003-06-07 Thread Shawn Powers
Hello all, Many features I would love to see already exist in freevo and I just didnt' know it, so perhaps this is the same: Is there a naming convention that will force freevo to show 2 files as one file and play them back to back? Here's an example: Goonies CD1.avi Goonies CD2.avi If freev

[Freevo-users] Movie Covers

2003-06-07 Thread Fredrik Hampus
When browsing th music folders the cover inside a folder is displayed just be "marking" the folder but this does not work then selecting a movie folder. When entering the movie folder and a cover exists within that folder the cover is displayed but not when browsing folders... can i make this to

Re: [Freevo-users] remote command

2003-06-07 Thread Marius Schäfer
> /usr/local/freevo; ./freevo is what i should have in > config = area right? /usr/local/freevo/freevo or cd /usr/local/freevo; ./freevo > > --- Marius Schäfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > you have to use the full path to the executable, > > e.g. > > 'config = /path/to/radio' > > To

Re: [Freevo-users] remote command

2003-06-07 Thread skeeterskip
i think i tried that with freevo /usr/local/freevo; ./freevo is what i should have in config = area right? --- Marius Schäfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > you have to use the full path to the executable, > e.g. > 'config = /path/to/radio' > To find out the full path type > 'whereis radi

Re: [Freevo-users] remote command

2003-06-07 Thread Marius Schäfer
Hi, you have to use the full path to the executable, e.g. 'config = /path/to/radio' To find out the full path type 'whereis radio' Marius On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:53, skeeterskip wrote: > y, i looked at that. here is what i have so far. Now > if i hit yellow button radio pragram comes up. R

Re: [Freevo-users] remote command

2003-06-07 Thread skeeterskip
y, i looked at that. here is what i have so far. Now if i hit yellow button radio pragram comes up. Radio progam is located in /usr/bin, so normally i can tyope radio anytime for program to come up. I would like to do this with freevo but don't know how. Also i tried putting in button to tune throu

Re: [Freevo-users] remote command

2003-06-07 Thread Marius Schäfer
Hi, > I want to see if there is way to start freevo with > remote button after freevo is closed. My guess is, > this can be done by puttin .lircrc file in home > directory with command in it or link to command. Has > anyone tried this? This can be done with irexec, which is part of lirc. http://ww

Re: [Freevo-users] OT: case for mini-itx

2003-06-07 Thread joekewl
I used my old NES for my next HTPC :) http://not.hellalame.com/nes/ It will only be for playing movies, definatly MAME, and maybe music. It's in pieces right now for fitting a PCI video card with TV-Out into it. but once I have freevo up on it, I will post again with some screenshots! --Robert -

[Freevo-users] IMPORTANT: new disc checker, please all help testing

2003-06-07 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hi, I want to find out if a disc is a DVD/VCD/SVCD or not _without_ mounting the disc. I wrote a small program to test it. It's attached to the mail. Please test it with some DVD/VCD/SVCD of you. Also try Audio CDs, no CDs and normal CDs, too. Just start the script with the device as parameter, e

Re: [Freevo-users] a little directfb success report (g400)

2003-06-07 Thread Benjamin Zeiss
--On Saturday, June 07, 2003 12:52:06 -0400 Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been writing a HOWTO for this since it's a common request. I'm about half way through, though I should confess that I don't bother with dfbmga because it's a neglible benefit for a lot of headache on my end.

[Freevo-users] remote command

2003-06-07 Thread skeeterskip
I want to see if there is way to start freevo with remote button after freevo is closed. My guess is, this can be done by puttin .lircrc file in home directory with command in it or link to command. Has anyone tried this? skeetere __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar

Re: [Freevo-users] Frame buffer, TV-out and NVidia

2003-06-07 Thread Jortan H
--- Wan Tat Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jortan H wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I really like this project, you've done a great > job! > > > > I'm wondering if it is possible to use an NVidia > > Geforce graphics card in frame buffer mode > (without X) > > with

Re: [Freevo-users] a little directfb success report (g400)

2003-06-07 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 01:53:27PM +0200, Benjamin Zeiss wrote: > i went through the trouble and made the dfbmga mode work in freevo and > mplayer yesterday on my g400 and thought that it might be worth to share my > results with you. > first of all, it really involves a *lot* of work as it invol

Re: [Freevo-users] compiling sdl for freevo

2003-06-07 Thread Aubin Paul
I don't use it myself, but I think the main two are: o SDL-1.2.4-patch1 - Allows SDL to work without a keyboard if the SDL_NOKEYBOARD environment variable is set o SDL_ttf2-patch2 - Fixes crashes for truetype font problems. This is superceded by recent snapshots of pygame which fix the problem th

[Freevo-users] Music crash

2003-06-07 Thread skeeterskip
Hi everyone, great progress on Freevo! I finally got remote working today. I had been mistakenly naming lircrc file as .lircrc instead of without period. I noticed that ut looks like files can be deleted now in freevo. I haven't tried it yet and want to know if files should have special permission

[Freevo-users] VGA->Component cables and Sync-On-Green

2003-06-07 Thread Brian Lalor
Does anyone have any experience playing with these[1] cables for use with TV-out from a VGA port on the graphics card? Looks like the video card needs to support sync-on-green to work. Seems like a cost-effective solution if you can get the timings right... [1] http://www.ramelectronics.net/h

Re: [Freevo-users] Holy Crap! (Freevo Progress) + Remote?]

2003-06-07 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 05:30:47AM -0500, Benjamin P. Keating wrote: > I didn't think you guys were going to use my header for the website then I > refered a friend to the freevo project and I took a look as well (while i was > explaining it to him) and I freaked out. :) Thanks for using my header

[Freevo-users] compiling sdl for freevo

2003-06-07 Thread Benjamin Zeiss
hi again, i wonder which patches have to go into the freevo runtime sdl lib. when i made it run, i fell back to the sdl runtime lib, but i'd like to get independed from the runtime again so i could try again cvs without messing with the runtime stuff. also: i tried to compile sdl with the direc

[Freevo-users] a little directfb success report (g400)

2003-06-07 Thread Benjamin Zeiss
hi, i went through the trouble and made the dfbmga mode work in freevo and mplayer yesterday on my g400 and thought that it might be worth to share my results with you. first of all, it really involves a *lot* of work as it involves compiling a patched kernel and recompiling mplayer with a patc

[Freevo-users] Re: imdb and info

2003-06-07 Thread Dirk Meyer
Dirk Meyer wrote: > "Joakim Berglund" wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> >> Iv been keeping an eye out for mythtv too see what they have been doing >> and I come upon their new mythvideo module and I must say there is a >> feature there that I really really would what in Freevo. (If it doesn't >> exists

[Freevo-users] Holy Crap! (Freevo Progress) + Remote?

2003-06-07 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
I didn't think you guys were going to use my header for the website then I refered a friend to the freevo project and I took a look as well (while i was explaining it to him) and I freaked out. :) Thanks for using my header + gui concepts. I feel all hyper and happy now :) As far as Freevo's progr

RE: [Freevo-users] OT: case for mini-itx

2003-06-07 Thread Bo Rosén
fre 2003-06-06 klockan 00.33 skrev Tommy Killander: Hi, Again, if this is getting too OT please let me know and I'll shut up and go to a more appropriate place. > Just wanted to mention a couple of mods I made to the 2699R make it work for > me. Thanks for this. I'd rather not have to me

[Freevo-users] Lirc problem

2003-06-07 Thread Marius Schäfer
Hi, don't know if it's related to freevo, but when watching a movie after about 1.5h my remote control stops working. I'm using a home-made serial receiver. Has anyone had the same problem? Where to start debugging it? Thx Marius --- This SF

[Freevo-users] help with TV out on Radeon all in wonder 9000 on mandrake 9.1

2003-06-07 Thread Ranger
O.K. I have everything working for my freevo box. It all runs perfectly with my monitor, boots directory in to freevo etc. I am using the insturction for booting in to x with redhat 8.0 in wiki. The problems start happening though when I move my box over to the tv. Every thing goes fine until I