Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-23 Thread Duncan Webb
Roy Wood wrote: The HTPC I'm setting up is going to run primarily from a compact-flash/IDE drive. The OS (Ubuntu) will be installed to the CF/IDE drive, and all the movie, TV, music files will be on external drives. Given that the CF/IDE drive is limited in its available storage, I'd like

Re: [Freevo-users] Handling usb foreign drives

2009-02-23 Thread Benedikt Bär
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:39 -0600, Evan Hisey wrote: I have solved this the following way: 1) Install the usbmount program 2) In /etc/udev/usbmount.rules (might vary on your distro), insert: -- snip -- # Rules for USBmount KERNEL==sd*, BUS==usb, ACTION==add,RUN

Re: [Freevo-users] Handling usb foreign drives

2009-02-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Benedikt Bär wrote: So, he plugs it in and it shows up under 'external storage', and if he removes it, it disappears. Of course, I made sure the drive was mounted read-only, to insure nothing has to be synced. After all, freevo is for *viewing* the media, they don't even know linux is there

[Freevo-users] Playing Copy protected DVD

2009-02-23 Thread Benjamin Lawetz
Hi all, I've recently purchased the Dark Knight DVD. Upon inserting it into my Freevo system, Freevo crashed. Trying to play it in mplayer, the movie never starts. After googling a bit, I found out these DVDs are protected by some stupid safety. An easy workaround for mplayer is adding -sb

[Freevo-users] Help !!

2009-02-23 Thread rahul G
Hi All, I am using pinnacle 50i tv tuner card which is working fine under linux (FC6 and FC8).Now I want to swtich on some USB cards.Do you know any USB tv tuner card which is working fine under linux...??? And we are using RF input for our card (Analog).So we want to use that