[Freevo-users] Problem with tv_sort and xmltv listings

Configuration: New RH 9 install & Freevo 1.3.1 tv_sort,v 1.21 2003/04/03 07:23:49 When I tv_sort my xml listing per the docs for North America, I get this error: parameterless "use IO" deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XML/Writer.pm line 16 Name "Log::TraceMessages::On" used only once

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Music crash

yep, that is what i have too. Then I have to reboot system to fix it. I hope someone has a better solution than that. --- Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also got the same problem. > Music crashes on exit, that is it will play Ok until > I hit > escape > or exit on my remote. > > > >

Re: [Freevo-users] Management Tools...

I am also a perl person and found python docs on python.org as a good starting point. I was able to write the original library.cgi from examples already in the webserver part of freevo in a couple hours. Dischi and others have talked about web setup as well. There are certain things you need to

[Freevo-users] Management Tools...

I manage a Freevo box for a club, which is perfect for easily screening media and such, but beyond the basic usage, you start dabbling with XML files with text editors. I'd like (for both other users and myself) to have a nicer interface to be able to manage the content of a Freevo box. The sor

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

Two seperate problems you're seeing here. 1. To play video on a DXR3, mplayer has to encode it into mpeg1/mpeg2 2. Video is going through memory, CPU, etc. before it goes out I'm using a Celeron 400 and TV plays fine, but mainly because I have a G400 which does a lot of the word in the video card

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:31:58PM -0500, Brian Lalor wrote: > * how do you deal with CDs that don't have info in CDDB? Rip into 'unnamed' files. > * how can this be implemented so that ripping can be done in the > background? Look at detach.py under audio/plugins > * uh, I'm sure there were

Re: [Freevo-users] Trouble playing .mp3, DVDs and audio CDs

/var/log/freevo or /tmp/log/freevo If you're running as root, it'll be in /var/log/freevo On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:31:54PM -0500, Tom wrote: > Any idea on where I might locate this log file? > > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 11:47, Aubin Paul wrote: > > Look in the error log (internal-main-?.log) and

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:13:33PM -0700, Rich C wrote: > I am currently using the CD title to create a > directory in the specified audio directory > (CONFIG_AUDIO_DIR). Any suggestions on how to > structure the audio directories? I can also make a > subdirectory using the 'Category' of music an

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

A database may be an option, since we use Twisted now for the web stuff and it supports Pgsql nicely. On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:32:18PM -0500, Brian Lalor wrote: > Rich C wrote: > > >I am currently using the CD title to create a > >directory in the specified audio directory > >(CONFIG_AUDIO_DIR)

[Freevo-users] can not play avi in windows

Hi, My mencoder generated avi will not play in windows. I am sure i have installed codec in windows. code:mencoder -mf on:fps=5:type=png -ni -ovc lavc -subfont-encoding UTF-16 -o movie.avi \*.png Anyone help me please. Alison --- This SF.

Re: [Freevo-users] Trouble playing .mp3, DVDs and audio CDs

Any idea on where I might locate this log file? On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 11:47, Aubin Paul wrote: > Look in the error log (internal-main-?.log) and look for a line like > this: > > ChildApp.__init__(), pid=21123, app=./runapp --prio=-19 > /usr/bin/mplayer -nolirc -screenw 768 -screenh 576 -fs -slave

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

ditto with an indentical CPU. TV watching proved to be impossible (audio out of sync/awful quality audio/picture dropping a lot of frames/bad picture to begin with) using a hauppauge wintv go I am happy with the dxr3 however, as it actually fills the screen unlike my tnt2 ultra If anybody act

Re: [Freevo-users] Trouble playing .mp3, DVDs and audio CDs

I am having an identical problem: Celeron 500 256M RAM (or something like that, I forget exactly) als4000 alsa driver some investigation shows that mplayer is segfaulting when loading the mp3s. I tried both with the runtime mplayer, and one I created myself. However, the one I created myself had

[Freevo-users] Ramdom Playback

Is their a way to set up random playback of all your audio files, with out specifying a specific dir. I have my audio files in Artist-folders and album-folders, then the audio files. Currently I have to select down to the album-folder, then I can play random, but only in that dir. I would like to

[Freevo-users] Mplayer TV playback slow, using fast machine

Hello all, I looked in the archives, but couldn't really find any other speed-helping tips. I am using freevo on my box for tv watching. It is using mplayer to play the TV. The problem is, the video is very "slow" or "lagged" (choppy at times too), and about .5-2 seconds behind the audio. I fe

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

Rich C wrote: I am currently using the CD title to create a directory in the specified audio directory (CONFIG_AUDIO_DIR). Any suggestions on how to structure the audio directories? I can also make a subdirectory using the 'Category' of music and or use the Artists/Groups name if CDDB returns th

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

Hello Paul, I am using the following: cddb.py for grabbging the cddb info (a lot was copied from rom_drives.py) cdparanoia is used for the ripping process. The plan was to convert to either ogg or .mp3 and use Lame encoder. Brian, If the CD does not have cddb info, the tracks get called somet

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

This means that you do not need X to run freevo, which is good if you have a stand alone Freevo box. --- skeeterskip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > ohh > --- Wan Tat Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, skeeterskip wrote: > > > > > Everybody has been talking about framebuffer >

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

ohh --- Wan Tat Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, skeeterskip wrote: > > > Everybody has been talking about framebuffer mode > for > > sometime and I still do not know what it is. > > If you're running under framebuffer mode, you get a > nice penguin > on the top left of your

[Freevo-users] problem "updating"

I posted a message a couple days ago, but I think my subject line was misleading. I had freevo up and running on a machine for a couple weeks - I upgraded to a newer version by typing cvs update just like the freevo webpage suggests. When I ran freevo again however, the only option available was

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

Rich C wrote: I've spent the last week or so doing just that. I have a plugin that can rip a CD to the hard drive as a .wav at the moment (next step, tonight probably, will be converting it to .mp3). It is capable of pulling the CDDB info for the CD and using this info to write the .wav files to

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

Can I ask which programs/libraries you're using? I would assume python-cddb for CDDb access and cdparanoia for ripping. Presumably we'd want to support lame for encoding, or oggenc... When you have something workable, send it my way and I'll see what I can do to merge it into CVS after testing. A

Re: [Freevo-users] USB ATI Remote

Hello Alan, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 4:43:00 PM, you wrote: AM> I just wanted to let everyone know that I have just AM> added an entry to the Wiki with regards to using the AM> wonderful 'ATI USB Remote' under Freevo. AM> I hope this helps someone out :-) Many thanks for this.. Helped me out no en

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

Hello Gents, I've spent the last week or so doing just that. I have a plugin that can rip a CD to the hard drive as a .wav at the moment (next step, tonight probably, will be converting it to .mp3). It is capable of pulling the CDDB info for the CD and using this info to write the .wav files to y

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

Aubin Paul wrote: Yes, it's definitely something I'd like to see (and may have to do myself :) but I currently don't have a Freevo machine with a ROM drive. I just ordered one, so after that comes in, it'll probably be one of my priorities. Short answer: wait a little while :) Cool! :-) -- __

Re: [Freevo-users] ripping interface?

Yes, it's definitely something I'd like to see (and may have to do myself :) but I currently don't have a Freevo machine with a ROM drive. I just ordered one, so after that comes in, it'll probably be one of my priorities. Short answer: wait a little while :) Aubin On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:59:

[Freevo-users] ripping interface?

Is there, or are there plans for, an interface for ripping CDs in Freevo? -- __ / / / __/ Brian Lalor / _ \/__ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_.__// http://bravo5.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView,

Re: [Freevo-users] Trouble playing .mp3, DVDs and audio CDs

Look in the error log (internal-main-?.log) and look for a line like this: ChildApp.__init__(), pid=21123, app=./runapp --prio=-19 /usr/bin/mplayer -nolirc -screenw 768 -screenh 576 -fs -slave -ao oss:/dev/dsp -nocache -v -vo mga "/media/Movies/MyMovie.avi" , poll=-1 Cut and paste everything fr

Re: [Freevo-users] Questions about the OSD - possible improvements?

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:03:01AM +0200, Tommy Killander wrote: > 1.OSD for 16:9 TVs: > Is there any easy way of changing the OSD for use with a Widescreen (or > 16:9) TV ? Is there maybe a skin already out there somewhere for this ? > The default skin of Freevo is good for a 4:3 aspect ratio, but

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording time is off by 2 hours???

Actually, both 'clock', KDE and 'xclock' show the same (correct) time. I found this topic http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00444.html Is this code already in 1.3.2pre-4? - Original Message Follows - > List-Archive: >

[Freevo-users] Re: Music crash

I also got the same problem. Music crashes on exit, that is it will play Ok until I hit escape or exit on my remote. * From: skeeterskip * Subject: [Freevo-users] Music crash * Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 09:16:51 -0700 Hi everyone, great progress on Freevo! I finally got remote working

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

> "Rafael Torres" wrote: > > Is there any other way to put freevo and DXR3 together? > > trye freevo-pre4, DXR3 support should work without compiling > anything. > Just one doubt. I still have to set up DXR3 drivers, right!? Rafael ---

[Freevo-users] Re: Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

"Rafael Torres" wrote: > Is there any other way to put freevo and DXR3 together? trye freevo-pre4, DXR3 support should work without compiling anything. Dischi -- "Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." -- (Terry Pratchett

[Freevo-users] Re: Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

Marius Schäfer wrote: > I have freevo with my dxr3 on a celeron 500 with no probs... For mpegs I also have no problems, but avis have lot's of framedrops on my Duron 800. Since mplayer has to convert everything to mpg, it can't be fast (or am I missing something here?) Dischi -- Linux: Because

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording time is off by 2 hours???

I had a similar problem. TV.xml was correct and my KDE clock showed the correct time, but my system clock was wrong. I noticed that the command clock gives me another time than the KDE clock. If you already checked clock command then I can't help. Edward schrieb: I'm trying to configure freevo

[Freevo-users] idea for a music repeat function

since i don't know python i just explain how it could work. first you put all filenames of a directory or which are in a playlist in one string-array. then for playing back those files you use for example a for statement. for normal playback it would just go through the array and play one fi

Re: [Freevo-users] Trouble playing .mp3, DVDs and audio CDs

Nope, and it worked before I upgraded. On Sunday 08 June 2003 2:21 pm, Aubin Paul wrote: > Looks like mplayer is having trouble playing the files... can you play > a file/dvd/etc. manually via mplayer? > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 10:55:37AM -0500, Tom wrote: > > I just downloaded and installed tod

[Freevo-users] Re: Questions about the OSD - possible improvements?

mick wrote: > When playing a movie, then hitting the menu button, you are given a menu > with options for the play-features, like de-interlace on sound channels > etc, when then selecting play from this menu you are taken to the start > of the movie... Is it possible to be taken back to the point

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

Hi, I have freevo with my dxr3 on a celeron 500 with no probs... Marius On Monday 09 June 2003 11:18, Rafael Torres wrote: > Ok, thx > > I'll try just installing -pre4 and see what I can get. > > On my CPU, I'll just try and see. If it doesn't work for me, well, ebay is > always an option :) >

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

Ok, thx I'll try just installing -pre4 and see what I can get. On my CPU, I'll just try and see. If it doesn't work for me, well, ebay is always an option :) Rafael - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: [Fre

[Freevo-users] Re: Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

Version -pre4 works out of the box. Just set dislplay to dxr3 and rock on.. at least worked for me. However, sorry to disappoint you, but your system is way too slow for any practical (movies) use with the dxr3. (Sadly know it because I initially tried with an identical AMD). I currently run on a

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

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, skeeterskip wrote: > Everybody has been talking about framebuffer mode for > sometime and I still do not know what it is. If you're running under framebuffer mode, you get a nice penguin on the top left of your screen during the bootup sequence. (after any vendor splash scree

[Freevo-users] rbg scart and framebuffer console

hi, sorry, with the last message something got wrong with the subject. So here again: i just assembled a vga2scart adapter it works fine. Great picture qualtity. But i still have some questions: 1. I tried several grafik cards and my ati mobility 9000 does only provid a min. pixelclock of 20Mhz :(

[Freevo-users] Freevo+DXR3: ffmpeg problem

Hi there,   I am trying to set up Freevo in my Linux box. Because I have an DXR3 that I want to use as the TV output, I am following the Wiki documentation on how to configure Freevo to use DXR3.   The part on configure DXR3 drivers(?) in the system went fine. But when I try to compile ffmeg

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo downloads on SF

Hmm. I don't think that is possible to put a short description with the filename for the Sourceforge download site. However, I'll add some info in the Release Notes (accessed when clicking on the version number on top) for future releases. If you'd downloaded it, you can also do a 'rpm -qpil freev