Re: [Freevo-users] troubleshooting amazon cover search

2003-08-27 Thread Alec - Freevo
Hello Paul, It's version 1.3.4 The thing is, i don't even know how it's supposed to work:) Does it work only for mp3 or does it work for audio CDs only? Alec Aubin Paul said: > You're going to need to elaborate a whole lot :) > > 1. What version of Freevo > 2. What do you mean by "doesn't work"

[Freevo-users] DXR3 problem & more

2003-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody! I've tried to get freevo working with my Hollywood+ card for several days now but I haven't succeeded so far. I learned from a posting that the binary releases do not support the dxr3 anymore. Neverthe- less I replaced the libSDL with the one supporting dxr3 hardware. As you can see

[Freevo-users] Re: directory scanning

2003-08-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
Dave Smylie wrote: > It works all good, but I've noticed that it can take sometimes 20 or > more seconds to go into each level of a directory. Is this normal? You should get a message 'scanning directory' and the scanning should only be done when you enter a directory the first time. > Looking th

Re: [Freevo-users] troubleshooting amazon cover search

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
You're going to need to elaborate a whole lot :) 1. What version of Freevo 2. What do you mean by "doesn't work" does it show up in the menu when you choose an MP3 file? Aubin On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:34:38PM -0400, Alec - Freevo wrote: > Hello there, > > I enabled the audio cover search plu

[Freevo-users] troubleshooting amazon cover search

2003-08-27 Thread Alec - Freevo
Hello there, I enabled the audio cover search plugin adding this line in local_conf.py plugin.activate( 'audio.coversearch', args=('amazonid',) ) But it doesn't seem to work and there's no error message in the logs (although DEBUG=1 is set). Do you have any hints on how to troubleshoot this? chee

RE: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users][OT] radio frequency receivers

2003-08-27 Thread Roh .
>>yeh misterhouse can do some cool things. but it will still do all the same >>cool things, and more, once 1-Wire has more user-end programs, drivers, >>etc there's the difference I have my home entirely automated now not someday when they decide to release these 1wire based things.(who s

[Freevo-users] directory scanning

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Smylie
I've just got freevo installed on my dual celeron 450mhz machine (380mb ram). It works all good, but I've noticed that it can take sometimes 20 or more seconds to go into each level of a directory. Is this normal? Looking the at the console shows a lot of errors/exceptions (mostly to do with parsi

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:55:18PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > The big question: why does fbxine need ncurses? I don't have the > source here right now, but maybe this dep is nonsense? It's possible; but it looks like keys.[ch] uses it; ncurses.h includes keycodes, so it's used for interpreting KEY

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:07:53PM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > to /etc/freevo/boot_config in order for Freevo to use Xine, but in my case that > didn't work. Without it it works just fine - it even seems like Xine handles > de-interlacing faster on my lowly Celeron 400 :) Definitely; I can't fi

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
> > Now on to problem no 2: actually getting xine to play a dvd on mga_vid :) > > Xine doesn't use mga_vid exactly, it uses vidix, which is similar (in > fact is has a driver called mga_vid in it) but it's a little > different. > > To play a file from the command line: > > sudo fbxine -V vidixfb -a

[Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
"Niklas Brunlid" wrote: >> > A small addendum: I noticed that when I "make" xine-ui, nothing actually > gets >> > compiled! I get "Nothing for be done for 'all'" in every dir... >> > >> > My "./configure --disable-nls --without-x" output follows, sorry if it's too >> > long =) >> >> You definitely

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:31:23PM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > Now on to problem no 2: actually getting xine to play a dvd on mga_vid :) Xine doesn't use mga_vid exactly, it uses vidix, which is similar (in fact is has a driver called mga_vid in it) but it's a little different. To play a file

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
> > A small addendum: I noticed that when I "make" xine-ui, nothing actually gets > > compiled! I get "Nothing for be done for 'all'" in every dir... > > > > My "./configure --disable-nls --without-x" output follows, sorry if it's too > > long =) > > You definitely need ncurses installed. A look at

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
You definitely need ncurses installed. A look at the Makefile.am for fbxine has: if HAVE_NCURSES fb_programs = fbxine endif You don't seem to have the ncurses headers installed. On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:50:20PM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > A small addendum: I noticed that when I "make" xine-

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
Hmm... I didn't have to uncomment anything, but the relevant portion of mine is this: fb_programs = fbxine bin_PROGRAMS = ${fb_programs} I'm assuming you have xine-lib installed as well as the Linux kernel sources somewhere? On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:17:35PM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > >

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
A small addendum: I noticed that when I "make" xine-ui, nothing actually gets compiled! I get "Nothing for be done for 'all'" in every dir... My "./configure --disable-nls --without-x" output follows, sorry if it's too long =) checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system t

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Benson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dll]# ldd libavcodec.so libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x4011d000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4013f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4014d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x4200) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
Type ldd libavcodec.so and make sure that all the listed libraries are available in the runtime/dll directory. On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:57:10PM +0100, Mark Benson wrote: > I over-wrote the file... > > The names were the same... > > Copied libavcodec.so from various places... still the same err

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
> >> > This might be explained somewhere - if so then I've managed to miss it when > >> > going through the xine and freevo mailing list archives. A simple question: > > what > >> > is fbxine and where do I get it? I've got a hunch it's included in xine-ui > > since > >> > xine-lib only contains a

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-Users]PYLCD?

2003-08-27 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
Ok, I coded that and it's attached. Please test it (since I'm not home now, I cannot test). Gustavo --- Berni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I just tried setting the display size in the LCDd.conf to 16x2 and > now freevo runs properly with LCD support :D Nevertheless, the 16x2 is > way too

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Benson
I over-wrote the file... The names were the same... Copied libavcodec.so from various places... still the same error [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo ./runtime/apps/freevo_python: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direct

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo DXR3 help/questions.

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:51:40AM -0400, Gray, Tim wrote: > It seems to be the only option other than a dxr3 as the matrox G400 with tv > out is extremely rare.. and on ebay I have only seen 2 with tv out, they > both went for > $60.00 You can buy the TV out cable seperately, and I've heard of pe

[Freevo-users] Re: fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Dirk Meyer
"Niklas Brunlid" wrote: >> > This might be explained somewhere - if so then I've managed to miss it when >> > going through the xine and freevo mailing list archives. A simple question: > what >> > is fbxine and where do I get it? I've got a hunch it's included in xine-ui > since >> > xine-lib only

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Benson
Its there already - copied it over anyway (tried it from both /usr/lib and from the working freevo-1.3.2-pre4/runtime/dll) But I still get the same error... - Original Message - From: "Aubin Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:44 PM Subje

RE: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

2003-08-27 Thread Gray, Tim
did you copy it as it was, or did you rename it so it overwrites the old libSDL? you need to overwrite the old libSDL -Original Message- From: Mark Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No

RE: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users][OT] radio frequency receivers

2003-08-27 Thread Gray, Tim
>>yeh misterhouse can do some cool things. but it will still do all the same >>cool things, and more, once 1-Wire has more user-end programs, drivers, etc there's the difference I have my home entirely automated now not someday when they decide to release these 1wire based things.(who se

RE: [Freevo-users] 1.3.4 bug?

2003-08-27 Thread Gray, Tim
I do not see this problem. freevo loads, and right away tells me I have a disc in the drive. (I have a single drive and am using the idlebar cd status plugin) -Original Message- From: Mick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [F

Re: [Freevo-users] Hardware deinterlacing?

2003-08-27 Thread Stephan Kanthak
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 02:30, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > Am I wrong, or does the G200/G400 cards support hardware de-interlacing? > If so, how do I use it? I think I've read somewhere that DirectFB has > support for it... Yes, G400 has hardware de-interlacing. I am not fully sure if the G200 als

RE: [Freevo-users] Freevo DXR3 help/questions.

2003-08-27 Thread Gray, Tim
It seems to be the only option other than a dxr3 as the matrox G400 with tv out is extremely rare.. and on ebay I have only seen 2 with tv out, they both went for > $60.00 So a $19.00USD Geforce 2 with tv out is my only option if I cant get mplayer to work with a dxr3 inside freevo. (it works grea

Re: [Freevo-users] DirectFB needs a mouse/G200 and CRTC2?

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
It shouldn't need a mouse; I know SDL sometimes complains, so I export SDL_NOMOUSE=true On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:33:16PM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > In trying to get DirectFB to work on my G200, I encounter this when running > df_video: > > (*) parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'. > --

Re: [Freevo-users] fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:22:57PM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > That's what I figured. Is fbxine an actual program (and if so, is there a > :/configure parameter or something I'm missing) or should I set CONF.fbxine (in > boot_config) to [PATH]/xine? fbxine is a completely seperate program; on m

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
I don't know the runtime too well, but try copying libavcodec.so.* into freevo-1.3.4/runtime/dll as well. On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:30:03AM +0100, Mark Benson wrote: > When I copy the libSDL to freevo-1.3.4/runtime/dll I get the following error > message... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# .

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-Users]PYLCD?

2003-08-27 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
Ok. So, I'll fix that problem. BTW, what do you want to see in your 2 lines? (When in menu, audio playing, ... ). Take a look at: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freevo/freevo/src/plugins/lcd.py?rev=1.6&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup and search for "layouts = {" to see how to

[Freevo-users] Re: Freevo-users digest, Vol 1 #681 - 9 msgs

2003-08-27 Thread Noel Corbett
The GF2 uses an external chip to provide TV out the GF4 has it built into the core.. GF4mx's are very cheap and most provide pretty good tv out quality Mavrick wrote: > Just a note that the GF2 + TV-out isnt that great of a card from my > experience with it. The TV out looks kinda blurry. I ha

[Freevo-users] DirectFB needs a mouse/G200 and CRTC2?

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
In trying to get DirectFB to work on my G200, I encounter this when running df_video: (*) parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'. -- DirectFB v0.9.19 - (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH (c) 2002 convergence GmbH -

Re: [Freevo-users] fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
> > This might be explained somewhere - if so then I've managed to miss it when > > going through the xine and freevo mailing list archives. A simple question: what > > is fbxine and where do I get it? I've got a hunch it's included in xine-ui since > > xine-lib only contains a fb video output driv

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users][OT] radio frequency receivers

2003-08-27 Thread Manuel Borchers
Hi Mark! Am Mi, 2003-08-27 um 10.52 schrieb Mark Benson: > What is this one-wire stuff? Got a link handy? Will google it later... > sounds interesting... One-Wire is a Bus developed by Dallas Semi. It's purpose is communication between different chips/processors/sensors/... in electronic systems.

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users][OT] radio frequency receivers

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Benson
I've got an ATI remote wonder - this is a wireless remote (USB receiver). I'm still undecided on this as at present as the range is somewhat limited. When I tired it at work it had a useable range of about 10meters, but at home that range is seriously reduced to only 1 to 3 meters depending on the

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Benson
When I copy the libSDL to freevo-1.3.4/runtime/dll I get the following error message... [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# ./freevo ./runtime/apps/freevo_python: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.

[Freevo-users] 1.3.4 bug?

2003-08-27 Thread Mick
When loading freevo, if my CD drives are full, the discs are not recognised.. Be they new or old. These disks cease to be recognised until freevo is reloaded without the cd's in the drive. I have not tested with audio cd's yet.. Anyone else seeing this on 1.3.4? It doesn't appear to be slowness

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users][OT] radio frequency receivers

2003-08-27 Thread Roh .
...sorry if this is too off subject for some or better yet abandon the RF thing completely and simply buy the right X10 modules and a cheaper Ceiling fan. home automation with linux is old hat. and has been done very well with a program package called misterhouse. X10, um, what can i say, it open

Re: [Freevo-users] FXD file info..

2003-08-27 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
You need a skin that supports that. For instance, "info" skin does. You can change between different menu display modes (called menusets) pressin "d" or DISPLAY on your RC. Gustavo --- Justin Wetherell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > The reason why I ask is, I wrote a perl script that (in

Re: [Freevo-users] fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
It's built as part of xine-ui; you can build either fbxine or xitk or both. On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:27:11AM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > This might be explained somewhere - if so then I've managed to miss it when > going through the xine and freevo mailing list archives. A simple question: wh

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo DXR3 help/questions.

2003-08-27 Thread Matt McLeod
Mavrick wrote: > Just a note that the GF2 + TV-out isnt that great of a card from my > experience with it. The TV out looks kinda blurry. I had that problem for a while, and switched to a second-hand G400. Then after a while I gave the nvidia card another shot (this was a GF4MX based thing, but

[Freevo-users] Hardware deinterlacing?

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
Am I wrong, or does the G200/G400 cards support hardware de-interlacing? If so, how do I use it? I think I've read somewhere that DirectFB has support for it... --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thi

Re: [Freevo-users] DirectFB + Matrox G450 = dfbmga = very complex!

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
Hey Been following this thread and I was wondering if all this is possible on a Matrox Marvel G200? I've tried to run MPlayer directly, as well as the df-video test program, but all I get is something like "CRTC2 not supported". Has anyone on the list got a working DirectFB on a G200 card? I run

[Freevo-users] fbxine? where?

2003-08-27 Thread Niklas Brunlid
This might be explained somewhere - if so then I've managed to miss it when going through the xine and freevo mailing list archives. A simple question: what is fbxine and where do I get it? I've got a hunch it's included in xine-ui since xine-lib only contains a fb video output driver. -- / Nikla

Re: [Freevo-users] dfbmga and XDirectFB

2003-08-27 Thread Aubin Paul
Tvtime uses mga_vid and SDL, and xmame can use SDL; so they do not require X. On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Kai Fricke wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone tried to use freevo within or beneath XDirectFB? It seems to > me that this is the way to go when i also want to run X applications. i