Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer has the hiccups...

2005-10-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:14 -0700, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running into this strange problem that I'm not able to solve. > Whenever I watch a certain real video stream via freevo/mplayer the > video stutters and it looks like it's skipping frames every 2 seconds > or so. Audio is fine

[Freevo-users] Mplayer has the hiccups...

2005-10-10 Thread Juerg Haefliger
Hi, I'm running into this strange problem that I'm not able to solve. Whenever I watch a certain real video stream via freevo/mplayer the video stutters and it looks like it's skipping frames every 2 seconds or so. Audio is fine and CPU usage is around 75%. Mplayer gets called by Freevo the follo

[Freevo-users] podcasting

2005-10-10 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. Some time ago, I read here about some people trying to write a podcasting plugin. I'd like to know if there is something usable for 1.5.3. I'm starting to discover this new service, and I find it very useful. Freevo has to support it ! :) So what do you say? Any good news? Alberto

Re: [Freevo-users] Prevent mplayer from starting while mencoder is running

2005-10-10 Thread Pete Hillebrand
Thanks for your answers! Well, my CPU is a 700Mhz, so encoding and decoding at once is really a problem (plus azureus is running as well on that machine ;) And my soundcard is branded no-name, so i guess it's not full-duplex at all. But i can really life with that for now. Ill try it later @ home

Re: [Freevo-users] tvtime without xmltv

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Ellis
Hi I cant actually get to my freevo box at the moment, however i did have freevo working with tvtime and NOT XMLTV, TVTime should write out the stationlist.xml file. Then in the local_conf.py i added the chanels i wanted and if i remember correctly the channel name, so lik BBC1 was channel

Re: [Freevo-users] tvtime without xmltv

2005-10-10 Thread Christian Lyra
On Seg 10 Out 2005 12:06, Chris Ellis wrote: > Hi > > just setup tvtimw by running that worked for me > Do you mean, running the tvtime as freevo user and then configure channels, etc? I did that... and it works fine outside freevo only. May you post your local_conf.py?

Re: [Freevo-users] tvtime without xmltv

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Ellis
Hi just setup tvtimw by running that worked for me chris Christian Lyra wrote: Hi, How can I use tvtvime to watch tv withou xmltv or record server? Until someone (or me...) write a grabber to xmltv for brazilian tv stations, xmltv is useless to me. I thought that I just had to configure

[Freevo-users] tvtime without xmltv

2005-10-10 Thread Christian Lyra
Hi, How can I use tvtvime to watch tv withou xmltv or record server? Until someone (or me...) write a grabber to xmltv for brazilian tv stations, xmltv is useless to me. I thought that I just had to configure TV_CHANNELS and I will be done, but it´s not true, and freevo always

Re: [Freevo-users] Prevent mplayer from starting while mencoder is running

2005-10-10 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Lunes, 10 de Octubre de 2005 16:17, Jason Tackaberry escribió: > I was going to suggest this as well, but he said that due to hardware > issues he can't capture and playback at the same time anyway. Well, one of the problems was cpu power. If the main problem is that the sound card isn't full

Re: [Freevo-users] Prevent mplayer from starting while mencoder is running

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 16:12 +0200, Alberto Hernando wrote: > What about using priorities? I assume that the time mencoder takes isn't > important. You could start it with the lowest priority. Perhaps this could > give enough cpu time to mplayer, and you still have mencoder working a bit on > the

Re: [Freevo-users] Prevent mplayer from starting while mencoder is running

2005-10-10 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Lunes, 10 de Octubre de 2005 15:52, Pete Hillebrand escribió: > But how can i prevent mplayer from > beeing started while mencoder is running? I would be happy if i dont have > to hack freevo code... What about using priorities? I assume that the time mencoder takes isn't important. You could

Re: [Freevo-users] Prevent mplayer from starting while mencoder is running

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:52 +0200, Pete Hillebrand wrote: > recording starts, which works fine too. But how can i prevent mplayer from > beeing started while mencoder is running? I would be happy if i dont have > to hack freevo code... You could create a simple wrapper for mplayer that checks to s

[Freevo-users] Prevent mplayer from starting while mencoder is running

2005-10-10 Thread Pete Hillebrand
Hy, because of a lack of cpu ressources and some problems with my soundcard a can only record OR watch/listen something with my freevo box - which is absolutely fine for me atm. (until i get more powerfull hardware). Now i would like to prevent the user from accidentially running mplayer while me