[Freevo-users] mpv vs. mplayer

2016-02-14 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I don't know if this is still active, but I'm gonna try... I'd like to use mpv with my freevo-1 box. But, while mplayer2 kept compatibility, mpv doesn't, and most of the options don't work, so freevo and mpv don't get along. I've tried to remove things in mplayer.py, but now I'm stuck. And f

[Freevo-users] bookmarks

2014-06-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hello. Is the list still working, at user level? Well, I have wanted to ask something for a long time, and although it might be late, I'm going to. My question is about bookmarks when watching videos. When I started using freevo, if I stopped a video, it resumed about ten seconds earlier that poin

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] The future of Freevo(.org)

2014-02-15 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hello everybody. Although I still receive these mails, I don't read them and I just noticed the news. This might sound as if, in some way, I'm answering to what Dischi tought: less and less users. However, in my case, that's not true. I'm a big fan of freevo. I think it's a great piece of software

Re: [Freevo-users] can't control freevo while watching movies

2013-08-05 Thread Alberto Hernando
if I upgrade to kaa-display-git, I lose the control over freevo again. regards Alberto 2013/7/1 Alberto Hernando > Hi. > > Let's get this clear: squeeze is old-stable, wheezy is the current stable, > and jessie is testing. > Actually, while I was using squeeze, everything

Re: [Freevo-users] can't control freevo while watching movies

2013-07-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
his, there must be something wrong with freevo if it can't control mplayer. regards Alberto 2013/7/1 Liz > On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:16:15 +0200 > Alberto Hernando wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > Do you mean to upgrade mplayer to jessie? Or lirc? I am installing > >

Re: [Freevo-users] can't control freevo while watching movies

2013-07-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. Do you mean to upgrade mplayer to jessie? Or lirc? I am installing freevo from source, mplayer2 too. I should have the latest of everything. If possible, I don't want to install anything from testing. thanks Alberto 2013/7/1 Liz > On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:26:34 +0200 > Alber

Re: [Freevo-users] can't control freevo while watching movies

2013-07-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. It's freevo 1. Is freevo 2 usable? I haven't even tried. regards Alberto 2013/6/29 Dirk Meyer > Hi, > > On 06/29/2013 01:16 PM, Alberto Hernando wrote: > > I recently upgraded my debian box to wheezy, and then I was forced to > > reinstall freevo and mpl

[Freevo-users] can't control freevo while watching movies

2013-06-29 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I recently upgraded my debian box to wheezy, and then I was forced to reinstall freevo and mplayer. I had to go to python-2.7 and freevo-git. Well, everything installed fine, more or less, and I managed to make freevo run again (btw, I had to remove the FULLSCREEN option and I didn't see it do

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer2 & vf:pp

2012-04-07 Thread Alberto Hernando
c it should work, but it doesn't for me. After this, init, make, etc, as before. But remember not to update mplayer2 again. see you Alberto El 6 de abril de 2012 20:27, Alberto Hernando escribió: > Hi. > > I don't know if any of you has mplayer2 instead of mplayer. FYI, it is a

[Freevo-users] mplayer2 & vf:pp

2012-04-06 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I don't know if any of you has mplayer2 instead of mplayer. FYI, it is a fork, website here: http://www.mplayer2.org/ The main difference for me is that matroska support is better. Like mplayer, mplayer2 is under development, and recently, I upgraded. My mistake. At some point, they made a c

Re: [Freevo-users] evdev

2012-03-20 Thread Alberto Hernando
an USB DVB receiver" Supported events: also, I've tried removing the MatchProduct line and the same. Where can I see the events that go to X? thanks 2012/3/18 Jonathan Isom > 2012/3/18 Alberto Hernando : > > Hi. > > > > > > I have remote working with evdev.

[Freevo-users] evdev

2012-03-18 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I have remote working with evdev. The one which comes with Hauppauge Nova. root@tinglao:/etc/X11# lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2040:8400 Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T-500 I've been trying to configure it with lirc, but I can't, it seems that it works as an evdev device. With no configuration, arro

[Freevo-users] crash starting beta-2

2011-04-03 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I'm trying to upgrade to beta-2 (also latest svn) and I get this crash: Exception caught in main loop Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/kaa/base/main.py", line 205, in loop notifier.step() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/kaa/b

[Freevo-users] freevo cache

2011-02-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I've noticed a weird behaviour with the cache. If I run freevo cache, I get a message that it is too old, and it's completely recreated again. I can see it under FREEVO_CACHE_DIR/vfs/... But if I run it again, it still says that it is too old and, again, rebuilds it. I don't think I'm doing an

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer audio/video sync

2011-02-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I don't know what your problem is, but when you run mplayer from freeve, you can see the actual command with ps -ef | grep mplayer other ways can work too. Then, you can compare how you and freevo run mplayer and see what's different. good luck Alberto 2011/2/9 Jim Duda > I've been strugg

Re: [Freevo-users] Videothumb broken in latest SVN (and beta?)

2011-01-11 Thread Alberto Hernando
> > You will need to remove the > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/util/distutils.py[c] files manually. > Hi. It works! After another svn update (for the splashscreen bug) and removing these files, videothumbs work again. thanks Alberto -- duende a rayas

Re: [Freevo-users] Videothumb broken in latest SVN (and beta?)

2011-01-08 Thread Alberto Hernando
> > > > Bah, now this is annoying because I did fix this bug myself, but it > appears I forgot to commit it, doh! > > Both fixes should be on trunk now could you see if thumbnails are > working again. > Hi. In my case (python-2.5) things are as usual. Just for the record, what I get is: Tracebac

Re: [Freevo-users] more about images

2010-11-10 Thread Alberto Hernando
eevo/skins/osd/skin.py", line 244, in __calc_line last_char_size = self.__get_string_width(font, string[:c+1]) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/skins/osd/skin.py", line 182, in __get_string_width w,h,ha,va = font.get_text_size(string) ValueError: need more than 3

Re: [Freevo-users] more about images

2010-11-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
8.2 because it's the last version > that behaves well with images, no matter their size. > > > > 2010/11/9 Alberto Hernando > >> Hi. >> >> Some time ago I started a thread about issues with seeing images. I've >> increased the ram of my machine and I d

[Freevo-users] more about images

2010-11-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. Some time ago I started a thread about issues with seeing images. I've increased the ram of my machine and I don't have crashes anymore. But it still eats lots of memory. I can easily go to 80% of memo usage. It's a pentium-iv, 3 GHz, about 800 Mb of ram (sharing some more memory for video). D

Re: [Freevo-users] FXD command files

2010-08-19 Thread Alberto Hernando
On Thursday 19 August 2010 20:05:43 Paul wrote: > Is it possible to run fxd command files from within the standard menu > structure? I have quite a few running from the main menu now (internet, > karaoke, the cheese photo application) and I wanted to clean it up by > inserting some within the menu

Re: [Freevo-users] size of images?

2010-08-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
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Re: [Freevo-users] size of images?

2010-07-31 Thread Alberto Hernando
> > > But, actually, in cache.log: > > 2010-07-30 00:17:13,373 INFO config.py (523): LOGDIR: /var/log > /var/log/freevo > 2010-07-30 00:17:13,374 INFO config.py (524): STATICDIR: /var/lib > /var/lib/freevo > 2010-07-30 00:17:13,374 INFO config.py (525): CACHEDIR: /tmp /mnt/cache > 2010-

Re: [Freevo-users] Selectable audio output when playing an item?

2010-07-30 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. You don't say much about your problem. Looks like you are talking about something in other thread. Anyway, from what I understood about your problem, have you seen that you can play video from different sources with different options? Maybe you can put you audio options there, and pass no para

Re: [Freevo-users] size of images?

2010-07-29 Thread Alberto Hernando
ugin.py", line 239, in activate print 'WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:' File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/config.py", line 122, in write sys.__stdout__.write(msg) IOError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable Could it be a problem wit

[Freevo-users] size of images?

2010-07-25 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I'm using freevo-1.9.0 and I have a problem seeing photoes. I think it is related to the size of the images. I have folders with lots of files not very big, and I can see all of them. No problem. But I have other folders with bigger files, and freevo crashes when I try to see them. It doesn't

Re: [Freevo-users] What happened to megabox? Any Spanish speakers out there?

2009-03-22 Thread Alberto Hernando
On Saturday 21 March 2009 12:13:08 John Molohan wrote: > If I get no response I might ask you to translate and post to > the Spanish forum if that's okay? Hi. It's ok. Just tell it here when you think that you waited enough. Alberto -

Re: [Freevo-users] What happened to megabox? Any Spanish speakers out there?

2009-03-21 Thread Alberto Hernando
On Thursday 12 March 2009 23:47:14 John Molohan wrote: > Any > Spanish speaker there to take a look and give a translation about what's > happening with it? Hi. The translation in the other post is more or less all the new info available. I can't translate all the web ;) but as you seem to alrea

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer doesn't like dvb

2009-03-11 Thread Alberto Hernando
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 23:35:42 Philip Tuckey wrote: > Here is what I am using for a nova-t 500 (on freevo 1.8.1): > >         #VideoGroup[0] >                 VideoGroup( >                         group_type = 'dvb', >                         desc='DVB viewing', >                         vdev=

Re: [Freevo-users] Playing Copy protected DVD

2009-02-24 Thread Alberto Hernando
2009/2/24 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. Hi. You

[Freevo-users] mplayer doesn't like dvb

2009-02-15 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I'm trying to use mplayer to see tv (dvb-t). I have a nova-t 500 working and now I'm trying to configure freevo 1.8.3 to use it. I have this in my local_conf.py: VIDEO_GROUPS = [ #VideoGroup[0] VideoGroup( vdev='/dev/dvb/adaptor0', #For the benefit of lockfiles adev=None, input_type='dvb', i

[Freevo-users] igp9100 and tv-out

2009-02-11 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I know this is an old subject for many people, but the question will be new ;) I have an pundit-r barebone with an igp9100 video chipset. Some people may know that tv-out is a bit, errr... bad. I have to use an old version of the ati propietary drivers (fglrx). It doesn't support 3d but it

Re: [Freevo-users] nova t-500

2009-02-11 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 3 de Febrero de 2009 21:18, Matthias Reichl escribió: > My freevo box is also running Debian Lenny, but these lines are also > present with Etch's udev, in /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules: > > # video devices > KERNEL=="dvb*",                 PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; > printf

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo, fvtwm and NoTitle

2009-02-05 Thread Alberto Hernando
he Freevo window. > > Once Freevo is started, I can restart FVWM and the style > Style "Freevo*" NoTitle, NoHandles, BorderWidth 0 > works perfectly. Freevo starts with a different 'name'. The question > what is it? > > Anthony > >

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo, fvtwm and NoTitle

2009-02-05 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. Why do you need a window manager at all? I feel that you want to have only freevo running. In this case, you can run freevo with "-fs", that is, as window manager. You won't have windows with titles, borders, etc. Alberto 2009/2/5, Anthony : > I am running Freevo with FVWM as my window manag

Re: [Freevo-users] nova t-500

2009-02-04 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 3 de Febrero de 2009 21:18, Matthias Reichl escribió: > My freevo box is also running Debian Lenny, but these lines are also > present with Etch's udev, in /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules: > > # video devices > KERNEL=="dvb*",                 PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#dvb}; > printf

Re: [Freevo-users] nova t-500

2009-02-03 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 3 de Febrero de 2009 17:53, Francisco Eduardo Álvarez Solano escribió: > You should first try with kaffeine, because it does an automatic scan of > available channels without any need of tweaking. You will know that your > card is working properly, though the file that it generates is n

Re: [Freevo-users] nova t-500

2009-02-02 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. > > Which driver version did you use? The one that shipped with your kernel? > Yes, "of course". If it's in the kernel, what else am I going to look for?... > I'd recommend trying the current hg version from linuxtv.org. > > Here's some more information about your card: > http://www.linuxtv.

[Freevo-users] nova t-500

2009-02-02 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I've got a dvb-t card, a hauppauge nova-t 500, which is the one with two tuners and no hardware encoder/decoder. Well, I've read that it needs some work to make it work, but I still haven't managed. So here's what I've done. BTW, this is a debian stable box. I have these firmwares: -rw-r--r-

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo not responsive

2009-01-05 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Domingo, 4 de Enero de 2009 17:25, Duncan Webb escribió: > How much RAM have you got? you can check with top to see if the system > is swapping. Hi. I have 512 Mb of ram, and the box is a ht pentium-iv. I doubt I'm short... I'll try to switch off the plugins. Before that, I need to get a keybo

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo not responsive

2009-01-04 Thread Alberto Hernando
2008/12/9 Alberto Hernando : > Hi. > > I have freevo1.8.3 running, and I've noticed that sometimes it's extremely > unresponsive. I mean that I may press keys in the remote control or in a > gamepad, and it takes a lot of time to "do something". Looking at th

[Freevo-users] freevo not responsive

2008-12-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I have freevo1.8.3 running, and I've noticed that sometimes it's extremely unresponsive. I mean that I may press keys in the remote control or in a gamepad, and it takes a lot of time to "do something". Looking at the logs, I think that the event is delayed for some reason. But if I do cat

Re: [Freevo-users] An audio question....

2008-12-02 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 2 de Diciembre de 2008 21:17, Joe Hildreth escribió: > When I start a movie, the audio studders and is behind the movie for > several seconds, then it catches up and plays fine. Is there a way to fix > this problem? Hi. What do you use to see the movie? Mplayer or xine? Is it a dvd or

Re: [Freevo-users] 2 process + CPU [Resolved]

2008-11-28 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Jueves, 27 de Noviembre de 2008 23:12, Markus Wittenberg escribió: > I also run freevo cache once a week by cron. But I usually don't have to > restart freevo after caching. I run freevo cache everytime I start freevo. I do it in background and I don't notice anything. It takes just a few sec

Re: [Freevo-users] rss server

2008-11-25 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Lunes, 24 de Noviembre de 2008 20:01, Duncan Webb escribió: > > http://www.cadenaser.com/rssaudio/larguero.html;333 At least this one worked well with the old server, and I have it in netvibes, if that's a good reference. I can't tell much about the others, because they weren't updated very

Re: [Freevo-users] rss server

2008-11-23 Thread Alberto Hernando
2008/10/19 Alberto Hernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > El Domingo, 19 de Octubre de 2008 18:27, Duncan Webb escribió: >> Need the url of a feed that does not work, to see what the problem is. >> There have been quite a few changes since 1.6.3. > > Hi. This is quite an old

Re: [Freevo-users] rss server

2008-10-19 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Domingo, 19 de Octubre de 2008 18:27, Duncan Webb escribió: > Need the url of a feed that does not work, to see what the problem is. > There have been quite a few changes since 1.6.3. Hi. It's not one feed or two what doesn't work, it's the server. I've added the urls in the examples, and no

[Freevo-users] rss server

2008-10-16 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I had the rss server in freevo 1.6.3 working very well. I've updated to 1.8.2, with the same configuration, and the rss server doesn't fetch any feeds. I know that it was "freevo rssServer" and it changed to "freevo rssserver", but nothing. Before, after starting the server, I could see it

[Freevo-users] from 1.6.3 to 1.8.2

2008-10-16 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I have dedicated freevo box. Because I use it everyday, I was reluctant to upgrade but I eventually tried it. That's why the big jump from 1.8.2. Most things work, more or less, but these don't: - Shutdown does't work. Freevo stops but the machine isn't halted. freevo told me to change the

Re: [Freevo-users] lots of CPU used with mplayer in freevo [SOLVED]

2008-10-12 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Sábado, 11 de Octubre de 2008 10:11, Scott Serr escribió: > I'm pretty sure it was this line: > > MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS = ' -nofontconfig ' > > Even though it was put on the command line running, it didn't seem to > recognized when Freevo was running it.  It seems the new version of > MPla

Re: [Freevo-users] lots of CPU used with mplayer in freevo

2008-10-10 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Viernes, 10 de Octubre de 2008 09:25, Scott Serr escribió: > twm -> freevo -> mplayer > only xv = no video / black > only sdl = no video / black > only x11 = no video / black > > Now, I decided to do the same test with freevo -fs from console > only xv = no video / black > only sdl = no video /

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-10-10 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Viernes, 4 de Julio de 2008 09:02, Omry Yadan escribió: > >> I found that if I start mplayer from Freevo (1.8) it doesn't play fast > >> enough, but when if I kill freevo and start it from the command line it > >> plays fast enough (only if I kill freevo!). Hi. This is quite an old thread, I

Re: [Freevo-users] lots of CPU used with mplayer in freevo

2008-10-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Viernes, 10 de Octubre de 2008 08:43, Scott Serr escribió: >  I removed the possibility of xv,sdl,x11 from the > freevo_conf.py, so now it is JUST xv.  No video! Hi. In this case, with just two more tries you can know whether you are actually using sdl or x11. With that cpu usage, I think th

Re: [Freevo-users] lots of CPU used with mplayer in freevo

2008-10-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Viernes, 10 de Octubre de 2008 06:01, Scott Serr escribió: >  In Freevo, playing a > vob with mplayer I get about 50% CPU used.  Great.  (HyperThreading is > turned on, I should turn that off)  When I copy and paste the same > mplayer command from the logs in a minimal twm/X11 session...  It use

Re: [Freevo-users] lirc : irw say nothing .

2008-09-02 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 2 de Septiembre de 2008 01:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] patrick]# ircat --config=/etc/freevo/lircrc freevo > freevo: could not connect to socket > freevo: Connection refused > [EMAIL PROTECTED] patrick]# Hi. In this case, it is normal, because you killed lircd.

Re: [Freevo-users] lirc : irw say nothing .

2008-09-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Lunes, 1 de Septiembre de 2008 16:55, Andreas Dick escribió: > do you have any /dev/lirc* devices? Hi. Do you see anything if you do: cat /dev/lircd (or lircd0...) while pressing buttons? At least, you should see something. Not what you would see with irw, but something. Alberto --

[Freevo-users] 1.8.2: can't play videos

2008-08-30 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I've just upgraded a test installation to 1.8.2, and I can't play videos anymore. I'm using mplayer and I get this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/main.py", line 296, in eventhandler app.eventhandler(event) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sit

Re: [Freevo-users] IPTV

2008-08-28 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Miércoles, 27 de Agosto de 2008 21:42, Igor Plyatov escribió: > #EXTINF:0,TV 1000 > udp://224.1.1.40:6000 > > > I can watch IPTV on my desktop PC with the VLC player, but how to > accommodate a freevo PC for this purpose? Hi. I don't know how VLC works, but if mplayer works (something li

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo no sound in kde

2008-08-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 26 de Agosto de 2008 20:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > have you the same problem not using freevo? e.g.: 'mplayer .mp3' > > no, it work great. Hi. Copy&paste your configuration of the sound, specially AUDIO_PLAYER and AUDIO_DEVICE. You should also check the logs. Typically, /tmp

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo no sound in kde

2008-08-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 26 de Agosto de 2008 10:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > i try some mp3, and i have the same problem . Hi. Are you using arts in kde? If the answer is yes, disable it or make sure it uses alsa. Modern alsa can do dmix out of the box. That means that you can share the sound card betw

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 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] mame cache in freevo 1.8.1

2008-06-19 Thread alberto hernando
> > > Just given this a test, it looks okay to me. > > # freevo prompt > >>> import pickle > >>> x = pickle.load(open('/var/cache/freevo/romlist-0.pickled')) > >>> x.mameRoms.keys > should print out a list of rom titles. > > I'm no games expert, so I don't know what to suggest, have you enough >

[Freevo-users] mame cache in freevo 1.8.1

2008-06-09 Thread alberto hernando
Hi. I'm trying to setup freevo-1.8.1. One of the problems I've found is with the mame cache. I get a file romlist-1001.pickled in my cache of 794 kb. It is incomplete, because I see in the logs that it first scans the directory and then tries to generate the cache, ending like this:

[Freevo-users] problem with fxd file

2008-02-05 Thread alberto hernando
Hi. I've just discovered that I can have special configurations for certain files using fxd files. I'm trying to use it to create menus for my dual films, so that I have a message with the name of the track, rather than just a number. The same goes for subtitle. Here's a example of an ogm file con

Re: [Freevo-users] dvb question

2008-02-02 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Viernes, 1 de Febrero de 2008 22:43, Adam Charrett escribió: > This encoded video/audio is carried in an MPEG2 transport > stream, this is used even if the video is MPEG4 encoded. Ahhh... This was the detail that I didn't know. Now it is pretty clear that while the transport doesn't change, th

[Freevo-users] dvb question

2008-02-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I have a dvb related question. Not directly related to freevo, but, depending on the answer, it might be in the future. I'm doing this question here because some people might now and, who knows, depending on the country it might be important. My question is about dvb-t, the standard behind

Re: [Freevo-users] DVB-T hardware, and DAB

2008-01-28 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Domingo, 27 de Enero de 2008 22:30, Elizabeth Dodd escribió: > the hauppauge-pvr-500 won't do dvb-t. > http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr500mce.html Ahh!!! I always thought that pvr-500 was for dvb-t. In this case, perhaps wintv nova t-500 (also from Hauppauge) is really the same

[Freevo-users] DVB-T hardware, and DAB

2008-01-27 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. Finally, it seems that I'll have dvb-t at home. So I'll have to get dvb-t card. I was thinking in in hauppauge-pvr-500, which is like two pvr-150. It can encode to mpeg2, but can't decode mpeg2 from the hard disk. For divx/xvid/mkv... the cpu is needed, so any card is the same. Am I right

Re: [Freevo-users] Help !!!

2007-11-06 Thread alberto hernando
2007/11/6, Rahul Gosavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi All, >I am using Fc4 for freevo. I am able to watch TV through > mplayer properly.But when I try to get live tv from freevo it shows > "Channel > Has No Data Loaded" if I pressed enter it shows blank screen and again > come > t

[Freevo-users] ogm video and multiple audio tracks

2007-09-23 Thread alberto hernando
Hi. I'm trying to play some ogm videos with multiple audio tracks and I've noticed that freevo doesn't handle them right. Mplayer uses -aid to select the audio track, and according to the man pages, thet are 1, 2, 3, etc. But actually, my tracks are 0, 1, 2... I've checked this with a dvd ripped w

Re: [Freevo-users] tv tuner card suggestions?

2007-09-06 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Jueves, 6 de Septiembre de 2007 12:29:15 escribió: > thx for the elaborate clarification, very useful :) one question remaining > though, let's say i use dvb-t and let's say there are four chans in one > stream, let's assume i have the digital card with one tuner, as you already > said, given th

Re: [Freevo-users] tv tuner card suggestions?

2007-09-06 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Miércoles, 5 de Septiembre de 2007 23:16, escribió: > hi alberto :) > thx for your informative reply on the freevo list, but i have another > question, which imho is not really directly about freevo, so i thought, i'd > try and contact you directly, hope u don't mind ;) > > > Some cards have two

Re: [Freevo-users] tv tuner card suggestions?

2007-09-05 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:09:06 Jody Gugelhupf escribió: > how is it with digital tv tuner cards can they record more then one program > at the same time or not? if yes which one would be a good product for > DVB-S, DVB-T, and DVB-C? Hi. Some cards have two receivers/tuners. It's just lik

Re: [Freevo-users] playing dvd

2007-09-04 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Monday 03 September 2007 20:45:13 Gorka Olaizola escribió: > How do you copy the DVD? If you copy the files it won't work. You should > use an application like dvdbackup for this purpose. > Use dvdbackup -M and it should work. Aditionally if you have libdvdcss > the backup will be unprotected du

[Freevo-users] playing dvd

2007-09-03 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I have a question about how freevo manages dvd's. If I use a real dvd, no problem, freevo plays it (rather, xine plays it). But now I'm trying to copy dvd's to the hard-disc. In some cases, freevo knows that a folder has another video_ts folder, and shows it as dvd, like a real disc. But in

Re: [Freevo-users] crash with mame cache

2007-08-25 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Thursday 23 August 2007 19:49:51 Duncan Webb escribió: > What does /tmp/roms contain, reasonable data or junk? > > > The same roms don't generate any error in freevo 1.6.2. Any idea? I have > > no clue about this log. > > Not a big games player but I do have a couple of roms and it doesn't > cra

[Freevo-users] crash with mame cache

2007-08-23 Thread alberto hernando
Hi. I'm trying to run freevo-1.7.3. I have a crash with mame, while generating the cache. In /tmp/freevo/main-1001.log I get this: Call MAME command : /home/freevo/bin/mame updating via listxml Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/main.py", line 288,

freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net

2007-08-16 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. A few monts ago, I started a discussion here about my moving to lfs from debian for my box running freevo. It took me some time, but I've done less work than I wanted. What works: - It boots :) Using LFS-6.2, I got my system booting with little problems. I then compiled x.org-7.2 accordin

Re: [Freevo-users] updating to 1.7.2

2007-07-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. > > You should have a recordserver, webserver and encodingserver. > > The only thing that I can think of is TwistedWeb, you must use 2.4.0 as in > 2.5.0 they removed internet app but this would not stop them being built. Very good. I installed twistedweb 2.4.0 and the servers are running. I d

Re: [Freevo-users] updating to 1.7.2

2007-07-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. > > - I can't use the cd, i always have "no action defined". No more messages > > in the logs. > >   > > I'm guessing here but maybe it's not recognised as an audio cd my kaa > metadata. Try mminfo /dev/cdrom Well, this one was my fault. A mistake in /etc/fstab. > > > - recordserver, webser

[Freevo-users] updating to 1.7.2

2007-07-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. After some time using freevo-1.6.2, I'm trying to upgrade to 1.7.2. I'm doing it in a new partition with LFS, so I'm installing everything from source. I'm using my old local_conf.py as a base, so I have already more or less what I want, but I have some problems: - I can't use the cd, i alw

Re: [Freevo-users] Posting to the lists - don't hit reply then start a new topic

2007-06-25 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Lunes, 25 de Junio de 2007 13:20, Jody Gugelhupf escribió: > sorry guilty as charged ;) will be more carful in the future, btw came > around to finish the wiki site today for the TV recording stuff, hope it > will be ok that way it is... thx again to u and duncan for the help :) Hi. Top postin

Re: [Freevo-users] tv_grab_uk_rt not working...

2007-03-28 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Thursday 29 March 2007 08:15:53 Duncan Webb escribió: > I assume you are talking about recording and if so what do you expect > freevo to do when there is no programme information available? This is not about recording. You really can't watch any tv channel when the guide is corrupt. Alberto

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo & LFS

2007-03-27 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 27 de Marzo de 2007 15:19, Jason Tackaberry escribió: > > directfb don't need/want X running. IIRC in the wiki it suggests using > > ratpoison as window manager, this works well for a dedicated box as it is > > so light weight. > >   > > Why use a window manager at all? You don't need

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 networking/lirc/tv-card/sou

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 propriet

Re: [Freevo-users] recording an X session

2007-03-25 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 - T

[Freevo-users] recording an X session

2007-03-25 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 freevo2,

[Freevo-users] freevo & LFS

2007-03-25 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 b

Re: [Freevo-users] Struggling with Xorg dpms

2007-02-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Domingo, 25 de Febrero de 2007 23:44, Jim Duda escribió: > I'm running freevo on a FC5 installation.  I'm having trouble disabling > the Xorg dpms feature.  I'm using an nvidia FX 5200 card with the binary > nvidia drivers from nvidia.  After some amount of time, my TV-out > display goes dark.  

Re: [Freevo-users] MPEG-2 HD Playback?

2007-02-07 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Wednesday 07 February 2007 03:32:29 Christopher Bland escribió: > However, I > cannot seem to play any of my videos which are MPEG-2 HD format. I have > an HD tuner on my "server" (which is a Mac) so all of my non-DVD videos > are MPEG-2 HD. I can play these back successfully with VLC but not in

Re: [Freevo-users] PVR-350

2007-01-25 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Miércoles, 24 de Enero de 2007 20:26, Pascal Schirrmann escribió: > I'm using a PVR-350 card on my freevo box. > The system is based on a Mandriva 2007. > I setup the PVR card as a X display, and start freevo with the -fs option. > > I'm really impressed by the picture (and our TV, a 82 cm / 32"

Re: [Freevo-users] PVR-350

2007-01-24 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Miércoles, 24 de Enero de 2007 11:49, Elizabeth Dodd escribió: > bought a PVR-350 and have ivtv 0.4, and have tuneable video. > The sound out appears to be separate cables for L and R, and I only have > stereo connectors lying around the house. > Is there a way to get the sound direct from the c

Re: [Freevo-users] Thoughts on recording / viewing multiple channels at once. (DVB)

2006-12-27 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Miércoles, 27 de Diciembre de 2006 23:24, Stephen Rowles escribió: > dvbstream can be used to multicast out the all the pids on given frequency. > > Could the record sub-system be changed instead of recording using > mplayer to dump one channel, dvbstream could be used to tune to the > requested

Re: [Freevo-users] cache behaviour

2006-12-23 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Sábado, 23 de Diciembre de 2006 06:58, Duncan Webb escribió: > You may need to run freevo cache --rebuild this should recreate the > whole cache. Nothing has changed much with the cache but any code change > may impact the cache. Which means that the cache should be rebuilt after > an upgrade. >

[Freevo-users] cache behaviour

2006-12-22 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. After some problems with 1.6.1, I decided to give 1.6.2 a try. Everything seems to work well, but a I have a question. In 1.5.4 everytime I entered a new folder, I saw the "Scanning folder" message (more or less, I see it in Spanish). And if the folder never changed, I never see that messag

Re: [Freevo-users] 15.4->1.6.1:some problems

2006-12-17 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Domingo, 17 de Diciembre de 2006 22:05, Duncan Webb escribió: > rss server is in the 1.7.0rc1 release, not in 1.6.0. Oh, Thanks. I messed things... But, seeing that 1.6.1 has some bugs too, would you suggest me using 1.7.0rc1? It has some interesting features. Does it work with python 2.4?

[Freevo-users] 15.4->1.6.1:some problems

2006-12-17 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I'm tryin to upgrade my freevo-1.5.4 box to 1.6.1, and I've run into some problems: - I can't build mmpython-0.4.10. I can't post here any logs, because I've lost the net connection to the box, but I get a gcc error. It's using debian sarge. So I'm using the old mmpython-0.4.8 (9?). Freevo-

Re: [Freevo-users] Song names aren't shown in Freevo 1.6

2006-11-15 Thread alberto hernando
2006/11/15, wout clymans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have the same problem, really annoying! Hi. You can configure it. Pressing E on the folder, you can configure it (it's an option). There, you can choose using MediaId tags or not. Alberto --

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