Re: [Freevo-users] problems

2003-10-13 Thread Wan Tat Chee
Hmm. When Dischi moved the files to its own heading, he must've skipped it. There are some other python wrappers (for ao, ogg, vorbis, etc) that weren't moved either. I'm restoring the files to 'freevo-deps'. However, I'm curious as to why it is placed under freevo-deps core instead of freevo-dep

Re: [Freevo-users] Link to SDL-Patch doesn't work

2003-10-13 Thread Wan Tat Chee
You can browse CVS, it should be under the runtime subdirectory. I've made a copy in contrib/rpm, which should be the same file with a different name. T.C. Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. of Science Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653

Re: [Freevo-users] backup code

2003-10-13 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
At least every developer has a CVS copy. If it goes down, which I doubt, we can move elsewhere, I know a lot of sf-like, like savannah, ... SF users received these days a mail from SF saying that they will fix CVS soon. Gustavo --- skeeterskip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hey, does Free

Re: [Freevo-users] new freevo

2003-10-13 Thread Wan Tat Chee
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, skeeterskip wrote: > No, I'm just running the rpm version of Freevo. What is the log message when that happens? Can you pleae post the contents of your /etc/freevo/freevo.conf? Also, do you see messages regarding version mismatch for your etc/freevo/local_config.py? > > >

Re: [Freevo-users] Installing Freevo on RedHat and SuSE

2003-10-13 Thread skeeterskip
Dirk, How does Debian resolve dependencies? - Original Message - From: "Dirk Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 4:30 AM Subject: [Freevo-users] Installing Freevo on RedHat and SuSE > Hi, > > same problem as always. It's easy to instal

[Freevo-users] problems

2003-10-13 Thread skeeterskip
I am having some problems with Freevo. I'm using the latest version and could not find rpm for python-twisted, but only the source rpm. It doesn't extract properly to regular rpm in Mandrake 9.1 for me. I have extracted it as a folder, but am not sure where to put it. ---

Re: [Freevo-users] Booting into freevo

2003-10-13 Thread Richard van Paasen
arguments "-dpms s off" for X did the trick. Richard van Paasen wrote: Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but how do I disable the screen blanker of X? I boot into X and freevo (without windowmanager). In the xinitrc I have: #!/bin/sh # xset -dpms xset s off sudo -H -u freevo sh -c "cd ~/

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Uhm, maybe I'm reading this email wrong, but shouldn't there be spaces between the asterixes in the cron job? * * * * * /usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py Also, it's odd that the cron editor didn't pick th

[Freevo-users] Link to SDL-Patch doesn't work

2003-10-13 Thread Thilo A. Coblenzer
Hi, I'm just trying to get freevo working with my dxr3. So I followed the instructions on the documentation-site. But here http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DocumentationPage_2fInstallDeps it tells me to download http://freevo.sf.net/SDL-1.2.5-nokeyboardpatch. But this file doesn'

[Freevo-users] Adjusting the Webradio list

2003-10-13 Thread Tom
Is there some way that I can add / remove stations to the Webradio listing? For example I want to add the the KANZ stream (High Plains Public Radio, Garden City, KS, USA), webpage located at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/hppr/ppr/index.shtml. There are 2 links on that page: MP3 .PLS stream: h

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!

2003-10-13 Thread Aubin Paul
Uhm, maybe I'm reading this email wrong, but shouldn't there be spaces between the asterixes in the cron job? * * * * * /usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py Also, it's odd that the cron editor didn't pick that up. Aubin On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:37:26AM -0400, Gray, Tim w

RE: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!

2003-10-13 Thread Gray, Tim
first did you perform these steps found on... http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrequentlyAskedQuestions as in specifically 30 Why is that my scheduled recordings never actually record? One error that prevents scheduled recordings from actually recording is as follows, check for

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Matt McLeod
Has anyone looked at using a Dreambox chassis for Freevo? Those have an MPEG-2 decoder and DVB tuner, look to be about the right shape and size for an STB, and use PowerPC parts -- so presumably they'll run fairly quietly provided you pick the right disk to put in it. They also come with DVR soft

[Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Walter
Some may remember my recent posting about problems with getting MPlayer working. For info eventually tracked it down to an old ISA Soundblaster card I was using. Replacing that with a PCI version did the trick and sound is now OK, and MPlayer plays... I now have Freevo playing TV, and DVDs to

RE: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Gray, Tim
mplayer uses xvideo directly (as well as xine) when in Xfree86. so yes it is 100% automatic to use the mpeg hardware acceleration IF the video drivers can support it... that's the cool part of freevo using mplayer or xine. even a old ATI mach 64 will allow me to play a mpeg2 file with very little

RE: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Gray, Tim
that board uses the VIA PLE133 video chipset. and I cant find native Xfree86 drivers for it that support v4l and Xvideo. Otherwise it would be an awesome solution that is ready to work now with a pvr250. using the pvr350's output is a "sometime in the future" problem, I cant make a working freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: Anyways, a mini-itx setup woth a case that looks like a piece of video equipment would be more in cost. although I'm pretty sure your assessment on not having enough power ot encode video is wrong. I record from a ATI tv wonder VE with mp1e on a 500mhz P-III here and get good res

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: your $630.00 mark ready to go. USD. So now your total is up to ~$630, and that is without a rom drive. OOPS! I typoed... I meant $530. :P --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Bart Heremans
Hi, Just for info, you can't add a cdrom and a pvr-350 card at same time in a via seriniti case. Also they are noisy. Bart - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design Date: 13/10/03 15:28 >

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Bart Heremans wrote: Hi, Just for info, you can't add a cdrom and a pvr-350 card at same time in a via seriniti case. Also they are noisy. You certainly can, I just finished building one last week. I read a few reports about this beforehand but decided to try it and ended up with over a centim

RE: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Gray, Tim
nope as I am not even looking at the mpeg4 hardware decoder. the video chipset has mpeg 1/2 playback acceleration in the tvia_drv.o driver for Xfree86. this allows me to use mplayer and get the hardware acceleration out of the graphics chipset by using the v4l extension and xvideo acceleration wit

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Rob Shortt wrote: 1) V8000A(no tv-out) BTW, for those who don't know, that's a VIA mini-tx 800Mhz. -Rob --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: http://www.gctglobal.com/Products/Set_Top_Box/STB6086N2/stb6086n2.html These are about $350.00 for the 800mhz version... no ram or hard drive installed. I have looked into these as well. I think they are way overpriced, all you get is a STB case and a mainboard with some onboard

Re: [Freevo-users] Other recordserver problems

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Rob Shortt wrote: Peter Howell wrote: File "/usr/local/freevo/src/helpers/recordserver.py", line 598, in xmlrpc_findMatches (status, response) = self.findMatches(find) exceptions.ValueError: unpack list of wrong size Are you doing a search here? That method should always retur

[Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Gray, Tim
http://www.gctglobal.com/Products/Set_Top_Box/STB6086N2/stb6086n2.html These are about $350.00 for the 800mhz version... no ram or hard drive installed. I have one on it's way for playing with. coupled with the right hardware and using mpeg1/2 files for recording to take advantage of the hardware

RE: [Freevo-users] Freevo + mp1e

2003-10-13 Thread Gray, Tim
you DO want v4lctl installed on your freevo box. That way you can adjust color, bright and contrast to get better recordings. (and to reduce file size! I found by bringing up bright by 10% reduced my file sizes by simply washing out some of the minor details in bright areas. Overall I had a more

[Freevo-users] freevo failure mode...

2003-10-13 Thread Gray, Tim
discovered something this weekend... if your hard drive becomes completely full from recording AND your freevo+system lives on that same disk/partition... freevo will crash and die. also I needed to delete the files freevo had in /tmp before scheduling recording would work again. Moral of the s

[Freevo-users] Xmame weirdness

2003-10-13 Thread Peter Svensson
Hi! I use the new game system to great effect. Both Playstation and Game boy advance emulation works great. However, with MAME I experience the following; I get the list of ROMS, and choose one. The sound works fine, and the game (i suppose) plays fine, but the screen is completely black. I am ru

Re: [Freevo-users] Other recordserver problems

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Peter Howell wrote: I recently upgraded to 1.4 and immediately ran into problems. I started record_server.py from the command line, then started freevo, and tried to record a couple test programs, one which was already running, and on that was about to start. This is the results I obtained from m