Re: [Freevo-users] freevo cache --thumbnail in Debian?

2008-07-04 Thread Michael Brown
Philip Tuckey free.fr> writes: {SNIP} > Actually I realised the conclusion might not be certain. The problem I > raised occurs when a user who is not "freevo" but who is a member of > the "freevo" group runs freevo (actually the Debian freevo wrapper > script). It will not happen if the user

[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 - why does it need to poll anyway?

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
What exactly is freevo doing that requires constant polling? why does it need to do it while playing a video? - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorit

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
nope, 720p runs smoothly (actually - even without coreavc). Steven Blatchford wrote: > Om, do you have any issues with 720p video in freevo? Neither of my > cores exceed 65% when playing a 720p file using freevo but there is > slight pausing. As I said earlier, when I run the idenitcal command

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Steven Blatchford
Om, do you have any issues with 720p video in freevo? Neither of my cores exceed 65% when playing a 720p file using freevo but there is slight pausing. As I said earlier, when I run the idenitcal command from the cli the video plays smooth. I can try a 1080p video tonight and report back. My gu

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
>> Nope, I was busy looking at the video output looking for freezes. >> I can tell you that generally while I play an 1080p h264, my system is >> at near 100% on both cores, >> and that I see freevo takes what appears to be 1-2% of one core every >> few seconds. >> > > 1920x1080 h264 is rea

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Duncan Webb
Omry Yadan wrote: > > >>> I just tried, and I didn't see any noticeable improvement. >>> the symptoms in my case is that the movie (1920x1080 h264) starts to >>> play smooth, but after a minute or two the coreavc codec starts to get >>> choked and I begin to see many small freezes. >>> >>>

Re: [Freevo-users] starts as root, not as user

2008-07-04 Thread Duncan Webb
John Molohan wrote: > Duncan Webb wrote: > >> Jonathan Isom wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Elizabeth Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> new install, gentoo 2.6.28-r8, stable freevo starts as root but not as user any ideas?

Re: [Freevo-users] Can I print harddisk temperature where free disk status is shown ?

2008-07-04 Thread Duncan Webb
Sandip Devnath wrote: > hddtemp on linux gets these value. I think I want to know my hard disk > temperature too since it is very important for me to keep my HDD > healthy. If it is getting too much heated up then I would like to get > alarm or shut the system down. Recently I have many HDD issu

Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone use Direct TV with Freevo?

2008-07-04 Thread Justin Wetherell
While searching online, I have heard many horror stories about DirecTV. Anyone here have similar stories? (Bad Customer service, bad reception, crappy HD, etc) On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Ryan Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Charrett wrote: >> On Thu, July 3, 2008 10:29 pm, Justin Weth

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo cache --thumbnail in Debian?

2008-07-04 Thread Philip Tuckey
On Friday 4 July 2008 03:53, Michael Brown wrote: > Philip Tuckey free.fr> writes: > > {SNIP} > > > So the conclusion is that it is working correctly in pure Debian, so I > > guess my problem is coming from some difference in Ubuntu which breaks > > the Debian wrapper script. > > > > Thanks very m

[Freevo-users] how to improve image (photograph) display quality?

2008-07-04 Thread Philip Tuckey
Hi I find that freevo (1.8.1) displays my photographs with relatively poor quality. To specify: freevo is configured to 800x600, I open it in a (800x600) window, and navigate to a photo (display within the window, not full screen). The image is rather poor quality, rough edges and so on, and

Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone use Direct TV with Freevo?

2008-07-04 Thread Ryan Roth
Adam Charrett wrote: > On Thu, July 3, 2008 10:29 pm, Justin Wetherell wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am considering switching from Cable to Direct TV and I want to weigh >> my options. Right now, I have my analog cable directly plugged into my >> computer, so I don't need a cable box for my Fre

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin / toggling screens

2008-07-04 Thread Han Hartgers
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Han Hartgers wrote: >> I am also digging around in the pylcd.py file, but for an other reason >>>From LCDd version 0.5 should all the text send to the daemon be in the >> form of "ISO 8859-1" or Latin-1, and I believe that Fr

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Alberto Hernando wrote: > Hi. > > It's very hard for me to believe that azureus+mplayer works well, but > freevo+mplayer doesn't. Perhaps there is some problem about how freevo > calls mplayer. Could you post the full command used by freevo when you run > the videos? You can see

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
>> I just tried, and I didn't see any noticeable improvement. >> the symptoms in my case is that the movie (1920x1080 h264) starts to >> play smooth, but after a minute or two the coreavc codec starts to get >> choked and I begin to see many small freezes. >> >> My setup is Pentium D 3ghz w

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread John Molohan
Omry Yadan wrote: > Steven Blatchford wrote: > > >> On 22:28 Sun 22 Jun, Omry Yadan wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> I recently started to watch full HD H264 videos (1920x1080). >>> It's really heavy on the CPU, and I had to get coreavc for linux, which >>> is an adaptation of coreavc - a w

Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone use Direct TV with Freevo?

2008-07-04 Thread Adam Charrett
On Thu, July 3, 2008 10:29 pm, Justin Wetherell wrote: > Hello all, > > I am considering switching from Cable to Direct TV and I want to weigh > my options. Right now, I have my analog cable directly plugged into my > computer, so I don't need a cable box for my Freevo system. If I > switch to Dire

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
Alberto Hernando wrote: > El Viernes, 4 de Julio de 2008 09:27, Omry Yadan escribió: > >> Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.24. >> I compiled mplayer with the default compilation options (from svn, about >> a month ago), after applying the coreavc patch. >> >> I got a few other things running there, inc

Re: [Freevo-users] Piren install to hard drive

2008-07-04 Thread John Molohan
Michael Brown wrote: > Davide Lucchesi lucchesi.eu.org> writes: > > >> piren-remaster should be already installed within the live distribution: >> this means that you can install it directly from the live environment. >> However, the installation procedure will not produce a running system >>

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread John Molohan
Alberto Hernando wrote: > El Viernes, 4 de Julio de 2008 09:27, Omry Yadan escribió: > >> Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.24. >> I compiled mplayer with the default compilation options (from svn, about >> a month ago), after applying the coreavc patch. >> >> I got a few other things running there, incl

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Viernes, 4 de Julio de 2008 09:27, Omry Yadan escribió: > Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.24. > I compiled mplayer with the default compilation options (from svn, about > a month ago), after applying the coreavc patch. > > I got a few other things running there, including Azureus that could be > blamed

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
Alberto Hernando wrote: > El Viernes, 4 de Julio de 2008 08:57, Omry Yadan escribió: > >> I tried but it didn't seem to make any difference in video freezes while >> playing a full HD movie with freevo. >> > > > Hi. > > Perhaps, rather than optimizing freevo, you could optimize all your sy

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Viernes, 4 de Julio de 2008 08:57, Omry Yadan escribió: > I tried but it didn't seem to make any difference in video freezes while > playing a full HD movie with freevo. Hi. Perhaps, rather than optimizing freevo, you could optimize all your system. What distro are you using? How do you compi

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
Steven Blatchford wrote: > On 22:28 Sun 22 Jun, Omry Yadan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I recently started to watch full HD H264 videos (1920x1080). >> It's really heavy on the CPU, and I had to get coreavc for linux, which >> is an adaptation of coreavc - a windows multi-core decoder for h264 to >