[Freevo-users] Recording issue

2009-01-29 Thread markus frei
Hi, I'm using freevo 1.8.3 on a PC running Linux Mint. When I want to record something from TV, it seems that I first have to watch that channel. If I don't, the recording starts at the given time, but the channel isn't selected, so the recording I get is just snow. If after a successful

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording issue

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
markus frei wrote: Hi, I'm using freevo 1.8.3 on a PC running Linux Mint. When I want to record something from TV, it seems that I first have to watch that channel. If I don't, the recording starts at the given time, but the channel isn't selected, so the recording I get is just snow.

Re: [Freevo-users] $HOME for /usr/bin/freevo start ?

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Jim Duda wrote: I run freevo on different diskless computer machines in my house. I use a modified version of the LTSP scripts for bootstrap from a tftp server. I have to modify the scripts to keep LTSP4.2 compatible with newer versions of fedora. I've tried numerous ways to boot freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Something's swallowing my remote's commands

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Jeffery wrote: Hi all, I've been playing around with dvbstreamer trying to get livepause set up - it all seems to be working fine apart from that once the stream is playing (in either mplayer or xine) my remote doesn't have much effect. I can pause the stream (:D) but that's the only

Re: [Freevo-users] VHS Rips under Freevo

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Michael Brown wrote: Hi Folks! I've got a Freevo backend recordserver with two IVTV cards (PVR-150's). /dev/video0 does all my regular recording through the recordserver, and I just hooked up /dev/video1 to a VHS player to transfer off videos before we get rid of the VHS decks. It works

Re: [Freevo-users] recordserver stop before the normal hour

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
tomloh...@gmail.com wrote: here is my log ... Freevo 1.8.3 r11210 started at Sat Jan 17 20:09:29 2009 2009-01-17 20:09:29,863 INFO config.py (523): LOGDIR: /var/log /var/log/freevo 2009-01-17

Re: [Freevo-users] trouble with a PVR-350 output card

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Pascal Schirrmann wrote: Hi, Not really a freevo trouble, but as I can find here some expert users of a Hauppauge PVR card :-) I use the PVR 350 TV Out to watch freevo on my (plain old CRT) TV. This worked very good since the setup of this system, 4 months ago. Since one month or so,

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording issue

2009-01-29 Thread markus frei
Thanks for the reply. Below is part of the channel relevant part of the file, and the freevo.conf I'll attach. There is another thing I forgot to mention above, I have to set the Capture in my mixer App, and often that is reset to off and the volume is also set to 0, particularly if I was

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 problems

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Debian lenny base install with freevo from experimental big enough computer to cope with the load 1. recordserver not starting on boot. This is *odd* because the previous three efforts didn't have this problem. /etc/default/freevo and /etc/freevo/debconf.sh both have

Re: [Freevo-users] yet another install

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: the Celeron processor just didn't have enough grunt to run the dvb-t stream and recording so i'm back using the quad core with loads of RAM to run the tv Now, after some fiddling, the standard mplayer command does record for me VCR_CMD = CONF.mplayer + ' -dumpstream

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording issue

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
markus frei wrote: Thanks for the reply. Below is part of the channel relevant part of the file, and the freevo.conf I'll attach. There is another thing I forgot to mention above, I have to set the Capture in my mixer App, and often that is reset to off and the volume is also set to 0,

Re: [Freevo-users] yet another install

2009-01-29 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: the Celeron processor just didn't have enough grunt to run the dvb-t stream and recording so i'm back using the quad core with loads of RAM to run the tv Now, after some fiddling, the standard mplayer command does record for

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 problems

2009-01-29 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Debian lenny base install with freevo from experimental big enough computer to cope with the load 1. recordserver not starting on boot. This is *odd* because the previous three efforts didn't have this problem.

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 problems

2009-01-29 Thread Pascal Schirrmann
Elizabeth Dodd a écrit : The recordserver is starting - i don't know why it failed the lock file - well the graphic of the lock file persists permanently instead of changing back to the tv with no lock. i took it out of the idlebar so i didn't have to see it anymore Hi, I have the

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 problems

2009-01-29 Thread John Molohan
Pascal Schirrmann wrote: Elizabeth Dodd a écrit : The recordserver is starting - i don't know why it failed the lock file - well the graphic of the lock file persists permanently instead of changing back to the tv with no lock. i took it out of the idlebar so i didn't have to see it

Re: [Freevo-users] yet another install

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: the Celeron processor just didn't have enough grunt to run the dvb-t stream and recording so i'm back using the quad core with loads of RAM to run the tv Now, after some fiddling, the standard mplayer

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 problems

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Webb
John Molohan wrote: Pascal Schirrmann wrote: Elizabeth Dodd a écrit : The recordserver is starting - i don't know why it failed the lock file - well the graphic of the lock file persists permanently instead of changing back to the tv with no lock. i took it out of the idlebar so i

Re: [Freevo-users] yet another install

2009-01-29 Thread John Molohan
Duncan Webb wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Duncan Webb wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: the Celeron processor just didn't have enough grunt to run the dvb-t stream and recording so i'm back using the quad core with loads of RAM to run the tv Now, after some

Re: [Freevo-users] $HOME for /usr/bin/freevo start ?

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Brown
Jim, On Debian, I can use /etc/rc.local to start programs as root (or as someone else). For example, this starts some stuff to assist a MediaMVP I have that runs mvpmc that's used to play back stuff in my wife's hobby room. #!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of

Re: [Freevo-users] recordserver stop before the normal hour

2009-01-29 Thread tomloh...@gmail.com
Duncan Webb a écrit : tomloh...@gmail.com wrote: here is my log ... Freevo 1.8.3 r11210 started at Sat Jan 17 20:09:29 2009 2009-01-17 20:09:29,863 INFO config.py (523): LOGDIR: /var/log