Re: [Freevo-users] which distro for freevo?

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Cool! Someone else mentioning FreevoLive :-D If you wish to try FL, I'd recomment waiting for a small time, since I'm working on a new version, which is no remaster of MCNLive anymore, but build from a clean MDV2007.0 system. Also, I'll try to put the newer harddrake scripts (from MDV cooker

Re: [Freevo-users] dvb-t kernel 2.16 or latest

2007-03-26 Thread Gino
Hi... Of course, have a look also at: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_devices http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_devices http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-C_devices and definetively, http://www.linuxtv.org/ Paolo GDF escribió (Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:41:50 +0200):  Hi,

[Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I have freevo 1.6.3 running in a debian box. I'm quite happy with it, but I'm also a LFS user, so I want to switch to LFS to run freevo. Why? Well, LFS is less bloated and my feeling is that it runs faster. LFS users understand me... The point is that I have a spare partition in my freevo

[Freevo-users] recording an X session

2007-03-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. Recently, I've seen somewhere a software to record an X session. I know about xvidcap, but it eats a lot of cpu. The software I saw used some layer of the X protocol, and it sounded to be quite good. I thought that I had seen it here, but I can't find it. But I've seen the video of

Re: [Freevo-users] recording an X session

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Something like this?: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ Michel 2007/3/26, Alberto Hernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. Recently, I've seen somewhere a software to record an X session. I know about xvidcap, but it eats a lot of cpu. The software I saw used some layer of the X protocol, and

Re: [Freevo-users] recording an X session

2007-03-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Monday 26 March 2007 09:46:42 Michel Hoogervorst escribió: Something like this?: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ Right! This is what I was looking for. Now I just have to test it... thanks Alberto -

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Jaap Struyk
Alberto Hernando schreef: I know that there are some more LFS users here, so I wanted to ask if they have any useful tips for this. For example, any change in the bootscripts to get a faster boot, or anything else. If U use Hlfs make sure you build python stuff without stack smashing

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Jaap Struyk
Sorry, forgot the script... -- Groetjes Japie #! /bin/bash --login source /etc/sysconfig/rc source $rc_functions case $1 in start) echo Starting Freevo system... su - freevo -c LC_ALL=nl_NL LANG=nl_NL

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Buckley Hopper
Alberto Hernando wrote: I have freevo 1.6.3 running in a debian box. I have debian as well. Well, LFS is less bloated and my feeling is that it runs faster. LFS users understand me... Let me know how that turns out. I'm curious to know if there's a noticeable difference in cpu load

[Freevo-users] matrox advice

2007-03-26 Thread Buckley Hopper
Hey, Does anybody have a matrox 450/550 displaying on a tv? I'm just about to switch graphics cards on my freevo box and was wondering what the recommendations are for how to make a matrox work. From what I've read, directfb seems like the way to go. Buckley

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Buckley Hopper
Buckley Hopper wrote: Alberto Hernando wrote: I'm using the ati drivers to get tv-out. I hope I can still use them. If not, perhaps I'll have to use vesa... That's interesting. I have an ati radeon 9700 pro in mine, and with the stock xorg drivers with debian etch, I couldn't get tv out

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Monday 26 March 2007 15:31:44 Buckley Hopper escribió: That's interesting.  I have an ati radeon 9700 pro in mine, and with the stock xorg drivers with debian etch, I couldn't get tv out working (I believe support is not included yet). Oh, just realized you meant the ati proprietary

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Monday 26 March 2007 12:32:17 Jaap Struyk escribió: I created a dedicated user freevo in /srv/freevo with all of it's media inside there and use attached startup script. For fast boot only load what you need for freevo and then start freevo with the script, so

[Freevo-users] CD menu dissappears when I put a CD

2007-03-26 Thread ElChef
Strange things... When I go to Watch Movie the CD (no media) appears, but when I put a CD into the drive and back to Main menu and go again to Watch Movie the CD menu has dissappeared... Obviously when I try to play it directly from CD (no media) with the CD into the drve I get an error

[Freevo-users] Pygame error 'file is not a Windows BMP file'

2007-03-26 Thread Denis Clijsters
Hey, I installed Freevo 1.7 svn on my Suse 10.2 box, after struggling with dependency's I installed it succcesfully. First I had de freevo_conf.py problem, I didn't know you had to place this manual (maybe do it automaticly in next version). After this was done I finally could try freevo (after

Re: [Freevo-users] Pygame error 'file is not a Windows BMP file'

2007-03-26 Thread Buckley Hopper
Fix the first error rather than the last. Also, see the freevo wiki for how to edit the config files. You need to set things up manually in the config files before freevo will run. Buckley Denis Clijsters wrote: Hey, I installed Freevo 1.7 svn on my Suse 10.2 box, after struggling with

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo on CentOS 4 (or Redhat EL4) or Fedora FC6

2007-03-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jason Tackaberry wrote: I'll take one of those, please. This is my test machine and it will ultimately be the file server where the media store lives. The set top machine is going to be a VIA Epia system with 2 flash drives (an 8gig one for important stuff and a sacrificial 2gig one for

Re: [Freevo-users] Pygame error 'file is not a Windows BMP file'

2007-03-26 Thread Buckley Hopper
Sorry for my non-useful and not-terribly-friendly response. I haven't seen that error. Does the file freevo_app.png exist and is it where it should be? Buckley Hopper wrote: Fix the first error rather than the last. Also, see the freevo wiki for how to edit the config files. You need to

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Jaap Struyk wrote: Alberto Hernando schreef: I know that there are some more LFS users here, so I wanted to ask if they have any useful tips for this. For example, any change in the bootscripts to get a faster boot, or anything else. If U use Hlfs make sure you build python stuff

Re: [Freevo-users] matrox advice

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Buckley Hopper wrote: Hey, Does anybody have a matrox 450/550 displaying on a tv? I'm just about to switch graphics cards on my freevo box and was wondering what the recommendations are for how to make a matrox work. From what I've read, directfb seems like the way to go. I've a G400

Re: [Freevo-users] Pygame error 'file is not a Windows BMP file'

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Denis Clijsters wrote: Hey, I installed Freevo 1.7 svn on my Suse 10.2 box, after struggling with dependency's I installed it succcesfully. First I had de freevo_conf.py problem, I didn't know you had to place this manual (maybe do it automaticly in next version). After this was done I

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Michel Hoogervorst wrote: Cool, I tried changing some front.jpg's to cover.jpg's, and that indeed worked! I'll raise a bug report for the front.* files. :-) 2007/3/24, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: Duncan, Can I

Re: [Freevo-users] matrox advice

2007-03-26 Thread John Molohan
Buckley Hopper wrote: Hey, Does anybody have a matrox 450/550 displaying on a tv? I'm just about to switch graphics cards on my freevo box and was wondering what the recommendations are for how to make a matrox work. From what I've read, directfb seems like the way to go. Buckley

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
You've got it! There was indeed a .directory file in my Music folder. Removing that, gave me back all my cd covers!! :-D Strange that this didn't affect Freevo 1.5.x/1.6.x then? (Though I have not tried installing Freevo 1.6.3 back again) Michel 2007/3/26, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Michel Hoogervorst wrote: You've got it! There was indeed a .directory file in my Music folder. Removing that, gave me back all my cd covers!! :-D Strange that this didn't affect Freevo 1.5.x/1.6.x then? (Though I have not tried installing Freevo 1.6.3 back again) Not strange as

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-26 Thread Dirk Meyer
Michel Hoogervorst wrote: You've got it! There was indeed a .directory file in my Music folder. Removing that, gave me back all my cd covers!! :-D Strange that this didn't affect Freevo 1.5.x/1.6.x then? (Though I have not tried installing Freevo 1.6.3 back again) Please post your

Re: [Freevo-users] which distro for freevo?

2007-03-26 Thread Buckley Hopper
Paolo GDF wrote: Hi, I'm new on this group and on linux. I would like to make a media center with freevo. Which distro is good for freevon and which type of installation do I do? If any would help me step to step to install freevo or know a tutorial online for this. Thank. Paolo Hey

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Dirk Meyer wrote: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: You've got it! There was indeed a .directory file in my Music folder. Removing that, gave me back all my cd covers!! :-D Strange that this didn't affect Freevo 1.5.x/1.6.x then? (Though I have not tried installing Freevo 1.6.3 back again)

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I removed the file from my system, but, this .directory file is autogenerated by the Mandriva installer. The .directory file from the music directory of another user on the system look like this: [Desktop Entry] Hidden=true Icon=music-mdk.png This suddenly explains why Freevo was searching for

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Jaap Struyk
Alberto Hernando schreef: Yes, I was already thinking that starting X, freevo et al. as soon as possible should be done. But I don't know if I can just change the order of the boot scripts. I'll have to try. I want to touch as little things as possible, but I don't care doing what I need

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Alberto Hernando schreef: Yes, I was already thinking that starting X, freevo et al. as soon as possible should be done. But I don't know if I can just change the order of the boot scripts. I'll have to try. I want to touch as little things as possible, but I don't care doing what I need

[Freevo-users] Creating plugin for little-LCD

2007-03-26 Thread Boguslaw Juza
Hi! I have got PC with LCD display (F-S Scaleo-C). I wrote some soft (drivers) for it, now I'm trying to force Freevo to play with them. I'm not a python programmer :), so I have lots of trouble :). All what I need is to run a system command when Freevo comes to main menu (ex.