Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:39:29PM EDT, Jake Briggs wrote: > > > Chris Jones wrote: > > >> and we agree that configuring Freevo is not simple. > > > > Try sendmail :-) > Off topic, but I have to agree here! Configuring freevo is cake > compared with sendmail, you could do a lot worse Espe

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 03:27:38PM EDT, Duncan Webb wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > I had not trouble editing the local_conf.py file - or rather the copy I > > made to my home directory - and pretty much everything that I needed now > > works (this is a laptop and I don't have a TV/radio card, for

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer and OSD

2009-07-12 Thread Bernard Mentink
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Jake Briggs wrote: > Oddly enough, I think I was having the same issue last night. You are > missing the symlink ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf to a font, or have not compiled > font-config suppport into mplayer. > > I started to use the svn mplayer about two weeks ago, c

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer and OSD

2009-07-12 Thread Jake Briggs
Oddly enough, I think I was having the same issue last night. You are missing the symlink ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf to a font, or have not compiled font-config suppport into mplayer. I started to use the svn mplayer about two weeks ago, compiled by hand. I was watching an avi which should have had

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Jake Briggs
Chris Jones wrote: >> and we agree that configuring Freevo is not simple. > > Try sendmail :-) Off topic, but I have to agree here! Configuring freevo is cake compared with sendmail, you could do a lot worse -- Jacob Briggs Systems Engineer Core Technology Limited Level 1, NZX Centre

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer and OSD

2009-07-12 Thread Jake Briggs
Oddly enough, I think I was having the same issue last night. You are missing a symlink to a font, or have not compiled font-config suppport into freevo. I started to use the svn mplayer about two weeks ago, compiled by hand. I was watching an avi which should have had subtitles for 2 minutes in

[Freevo-users] Mplayer and OSD

2009-07-12 Thread Bernard Mentink
Hi Guys, Well after much playing with Freevo, I have decided that Mplayer is the most flexible player to use for all media including TV. For TV the picture quality is far superior with the many post-processing filter options that mplayer provides. The only bugbear I have with freevo/mplayer is to

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Duncan Webb
Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:28:11PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > [..] > > I had not trouble editing the local_conf.py file - or rather the copy I > made to my home directory - and pretty much everything that I needed now > works (this is a laptop and I don't have a TV/radio

Re: [Freevo-users] changing the channel via the web or Android

2009-07-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
Daniel Pocock wrote: >> Good points, Can you add these as a feature request for the Title >> change and a bug report on the problems with getting to the web remote >> so duncan can keep track of them. >> >> > > Done: > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2809466&group_id=46

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
Hmm.. I just noticed a slew of: dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to .. port 67 messages in my /var/log/syslog. Seems to have started about the same time I got freevo up and running. -- Enter the BlackBerry Devel

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 03:42:36AM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: [..] > I was thinking of mpd and nmpd as the interface if you wanted ncurses I've had better experiences with moc - but that's only for audio. > and we agree that configuring Freevo is not simple. Try sendmail :-) Thanks for you he

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 02:15:44AM EDT, Evan Hisey wrote: [..] > Start on the Wiki and the read through the local_conf.py. Freevo is > not exactly what you are thinking it is. It is not a frontend for > Mplayer so much as it is a Media Center frontend for Mplayer,Xine,TV > recording, Games Emulat

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: > The irony of it is that I was looking for a curses-based front-end to > mplayer because as I may have mentioned elsewhere I didn't need the > aggravation of a GUI.. and I end up with this really delightful freevo > interface.. let's call it a "post GUI" con

Re: [Freevo-users] Use freevo to play .mp3's and .flv's

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:28:11PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: [..] > no, if you have a system in which your mp3 files / flv files are not > in a SINGLE directory TREE you could just point it at '/' and navigate > anywhere but if you have /home/user/Music you point freevo at > '/home/user/Music'