[Freevo-users] Status of 1.9.2.

2012-11-04 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, in March 2011 1.9.2b2 was released. Will there be ever an usual release of 1.9.2 or can the beta be considered as stable? The reason for asking is that Arch Linux has 1.9.0 in their repos because there is no 1.9.2 release. The maintainer is asking now if there are any bugs in 1.9.2b2 so he s

Re: [Freevo-users] encodingserver does not reencode tvrecordings in latest debian squeeze packages

2010-02-20 Thread Bjoern Franke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 20.02.2010 11:41, schrieb Bjoern Franke: > Hi, > > yesterday I tried to use the encodingserver to reencode tvrecordings > after they have been recorded. > > But nothing gets reencoded and I get the following error message:

[Freevo-users] encodingserver does not reencode tvrecordings in latest debian squeeze packages

2010-02-20 Thread Bjoern Franke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, yesterday I tried to use the encodingserver to reencode tvrecordings after they have been recorded. But nothing gets reencoded and I get the following error message: Exception in thread Thread-5: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/l

Re: [Freevo-users] Recordings fail with debian installed freevo

2009-08-08 Thread Bjoern Franke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonsoir, > I have installed freevo on my debian distro (unstable). > > I did configure the directories, the tv channels, and some mplayer options, > but that's all. > Freevo runs fine and I can watch live TV, browse EPG, and schedule > recordings. >

Re: [Freevo-users] disc detection error

2008-10-29 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi Dischi, > I do not think it ever did :) However, some month ago it worked :) > That happens if the disc reports subtitles and when kaa.metadata wants > to read what kind of subtitles there are they are not available. Current > kaa.metadata svn fixes that. Thanks, I will install kaa.metadata

[Freevo-users] disc detection error

2008-10-28 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, my rf inferno - cell:nine-DVD is not detected by freevo any more: 2008-10-28 23:36:47,554 DEBUGrom_drives.py (445): Inserting disc in drive CD-1 2008-10-28 23:36:53,766 DEBUGrom_drives.py (524): drive_status changed 2 -> 4 2008-10-28 23:36:53,888 DEBUGTrying audio/cd 2008-10-28

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem recordserver don't stop

2008-09-07 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hello Duncan, > Difficult to say from the description, you need to send some information > about the TV card and how you have set up freevo to record. > > Consecutive recordings works quite well, the delaying only means that > the pre-record interval is ignored. What hasn't happened is that th

Re: [Freevo-users] 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 5-6: invalid data

2008-07-15 Thread Bjoern Franke
Bjoern Franke schrieb: > Hello, > > some months ago I had the same problem, but I don't remember how I fixed > it. > The freevo-webserver has problems with the german "Umlaute" in the > TV.xml-file. > > Freevo is version 1.8.1, LOCALE in local_config.py

[Freevo-users] 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 5-6: invalid data

2008-07-13 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hello, some months ago I had the same problem, but I don't remember how I fixed it. The freevo-webserver has problems with the german "Umlaute" in the TV.xml-file. Freevo is version 1.8.1, LOCALE in local_config.py is set to iso-8859-15. web.Server Traceback (most recent call last): : 'utf8'

Re: [Freevo-users] exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid data

2008-03-28 Thread Bjoern Franke
Bjoern Franke schrieb: > Hello, > > since some weeks, this appears when I try to access the webinterface. I > don't believe anything, but.,.. My box is running Freevo 1.7.3 (debian > packages). > > > web.Server Traceback (most recent call last): The problem

[Freevo-users] exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid data

2008-03-24 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hello, since some weeks, this appears when I try to access the webinterface. I don't believe anything, but.,.. My box is running Freevo 1.7.3 (debian packages). web.Server Traceback (most recent call last): exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: inva

Re: [Freevo-users] tv_grab_de_tvtoday

2008-01-13 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi Duncan, Duncan Webb schrieb: > > Have you run the tv_sort program on the TV.xml file, it usually fixes > bad data files. Were there any problems before 2008? How I hate the > crappy perl scripts that grab tv data they are always breaking. > Using tv_sort seems to fix this problem. Sorry f

Re: [Freevo-users] tv_grab_de_tvtoday

2008-01-08 Thread Bjoern Franke
John Molohan schrieb: > Bjoern Franke wrote: >> Hi Tanka, >> >> Tanja schrieb: >> >>> I have just checked and see the same problem in the webinterface. >>> In the normal freevo interface everything works fine. The data is there in >>

Re: [Freevo-users] tv_grab_de_tvtoday

2008-01-08 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi Tanka, Tanja schrieb: > I have just checked and see the same problem in the webinterface. > In the normal freevo interface everything works fine. The data is there in > the xml file. > It seems to be a problem of the webinterface... Perhaps I should add this to the bugtracker? > The reason

Re: [Freevo-users] tv_grab_de_tvtoday

2008-01-07 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi Tanja, > For now we did some googling and found another possible source: www.tvprog.org > The data is not as extensive as the data from epgdata.com, but it is easy to > get. > It seems to origin from the dvb-t data stream itself and contains good data > for the next > 6 days for most of the i

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo under low end HTPC.

2006-08-30 Thread Bjoern Franke
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:30:40 +0200, you wrote: >I would like to know how should I configure the local_conf.py if I >have a PIII 650. I mean, resolution, size to view TV, size to record >TV, VCR_CMD (buffer,stereo??, video codecs, audio codecs) I have a >SAA7134 card. Because I think I may not be a

Re: [Freevo-users] best codec/compression?

2006-07-09 Thread Bjoern Franke
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:53:56 -0700, you wrote: >So I have two questions. One, why is mplayer doing this, and can it be >fixed. Two, if it cannot be fixed is there a way to make xine the >default player for recorded shows only? Perhaps you can take a look at the logs what mplayer does or yo

[Freevo-users] best codec/compression?

2006-07-03 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, some weeks ago I upgraded my freevobox to a Duron 750 with 384MB RAM. The last three years I used lavc/mpeg4 for encoding in 320x240 from my bttv-card. This codec produced large files, 1 hour = 500-600MB. Now I tried xvid (also in 320x240) and the files are smaller. I would rather like to us

[Freevo-users] tuning a freevo-box | x11 vs. fb

2006-01-09 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hello, I run freevo since 2 years on a P3 450 with 256MB RAM and a gf2mx400. The box is connected via composite to my TV and runs debian sid. Recording TV and watching DVDs works fine, but sometimes the machine slows down because it swaps around. A memory upgrade is not possible because the mobo

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo homepage

2005-08-28 Thread Bjoern Franke
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:39:50 +0200, you wrote: >The error comes when I try to download a plugin og a skin. The first >line in the error is: > >Warning: fopen(files/Plugins/Freevo-Weather-0.8-nl.tar.gz.dlcnt): failed >to open stream: Read-only file system >in /home/groups/f/fr/freevo/htdocs/addons/

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo CVS compiling problems

2005-05-30 Thread Bjoern Franke
On Mon, 30 May 2005 21:12:01 +0200, you wrote: >I am completely new to Python, what is wrong here? >In which package is the module? > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "setup.py", line 16, in ? > from util.distribution import setup, Extension, check_libs, >docbook_finder > File "

[Freevo-users] recording fails

2005-03-24 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hello, after updating my debian-sid-system some strange things happen: freevo records only damaged avi's. I enabled CHILDAPP_DEBUG=1, but nothing is logged into /tmp/freevo/recorder_stdout and _err. excert from recordserver-0.log: 2005/03/24 22:17 CET [*RecordServer*] found a program to clean 200

Re: [Freevo-users] tv_grab_de_tvtoday / no channel data loaded

2005-02-20 Thread Bjoern Franke
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:34:00 +0100, you wrote: >> tv_grab_de_tvtoday grabs the data without error, but freevo always >> says no channel data loaded. >Did you removed the old TV.xml.pickled in /var/cache/freevo or /tmp/freevo ? >If not, remove it, run freevo cache (not sure if it's neccessary) and

[Freevo-users] tv_grab_de_tvtoday / no channel data loaded

2005-02-17 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hello, freevo worked fine with the dumped XML-file from nxtvepg, but nxtvepg does not work here any more. So I tried to use tv_grab_de_tvtoday and changed the channel-ids in local_config.py. tv_grab_de_tvtoday grabs the data without error, but freevo always says no channel data loaded. Any idea

Re: [Freevo-users] XFree86 using a TV.

2004-01-16 Thread Bjoern Franke
>Thanks, I will give this a try. I am a little confused though. >Everything I have been reading says that with a Composite connection you >can only achieve 640x480i resolution. Also that PAL and NTSC can only >do about 15 khz. From your configuration, it looks like you are >achieving 800x600 an

Re: [Freevo-users] recording..

2004-01-15 Thread Bjoern Franke
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:14:50 -0500, you wrote: >recorded all crazy.. Is there anyway to speed it up??? Oh and how about >sound , why did it not record sound? > You can set the recording device of /dev/dsp to e.g. line-in with the command aumix -l R -l HTH bjo -- ICQ# 12220433 | http://www.the

Re: [Freevo-users] XFree86 using a TV.

2004-01-14 Thread Bjoern Franke
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:35:51 -0800, you wrote: >Well, I finally got the answer to my question about my Hitachi TV's scan rates. >Since I am connecting to the TV using an S-Video cable, the horizontal scan rate is >the standard NTSC at 15.75. Until I buy one of those nifty VGA to Component boxe

[Freevo-users] mencoder-call / wrong channel

2004-01-11 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hello, I'm running freevo 1.4.1 and use the TV.xml-file dumped by nxtvepg. After changing the syntax of the mencoder-call in the config-file mencoder records now, but the recordserver calls it with the wrong channel. 2004/01/12 05:09 CET [*RecordServer*] RECORDSERVER GOT EVENT NOTICE 2004/01/12 0