Re: [Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately

2009-11-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:26:25PM EST, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, John Molohan wrote: Or that the maintainer didn't clean his/her install before making the packages? Either way it sounds like a package problem. John it is a packaging problem i ran the rm-r on the

Re: [Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately

2009-11-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:51:16AM EST, John Molohan wrote: Chris Jones wrote: I'm setting up debian Squeeze on a separate partition and the version of Freevo is 1.9.0. Freevo starts on vt9 at boot time, I see the screen with the progress bar but before I get to the main menu

Re: [Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately

2009-11-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:40:12PM EST, John Molohan wrote: [..] The bug tracker for 1.x is here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=446895group_id=46652. But it looks like this might just be the result of having old kaa modules around. I've just had a look back through my imap archive

[Freevo-users] Debian Squeeze - Freevo 1.9 starts and shuts down immediately

2009-11-07 Thread Chris Jones
I'm setting up debian Squeeze on a separate partition and the version of Freevo is 1.9.0. Freevo starts on vt9 at boot time, I see the screen with the progress bar but before I get to the main menu, there is a message informing me that freevo is shutting down and I'm bounced back to a linux

Re: [Freevo-users] set DIRECTORY_USE_MEDIAID_TAG_NAMES

2009-10-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 04:00:34AM EDT, togtog wrote: This folder.fxd file also looks like the right way to disable use of tags in my videos, via the DIRECTORY_USE_MEDIAID_TAG_NAMES option, without also turning off tags for my music. A lot of my videos seem to have garbage tags. I had

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.1 - VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER='mplayer' - freevo looks for Xine

2009-09-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:49:21AM EDT, Michel Hoogervorst wrote: On my system, Freevo indeed plays DVD's with Xine whenever available, even though I have set mplayer as my preferred player. I always fixed this simply by removing Xine the way you did... have you removed xine from

[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.1 - VIDEO_PREFERED_PLAYER='mplayer' - freevo looks for Xine

2009-09-01 Thread Chris Jones
I tried playing a DVD and Freevo started Xine. I verified that my preferred video player in /etc/local_conf.py is set to mplayer. I removed Xine from the system via an apt-get remove and now Freevo crashes whenever I try to play a DVD. Has anyone seen this? Is there something else I need to

Re: [Freevo-users] Update of Freevo packages for distributions?

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:30:24PM EDT, Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 19:58 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote: In truth Mailing lists get much faster responses and more viewing than forums do. Forums just tend to be easier to google. Neither is intrinsically better than the other,

Re: [Freevo-users] Update of Freevo packages for distributions?

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:58:49PM EDT, Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:08 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: Well, I certainly don't think that a web interface designed to meet the needs of the entire population can compare with the MUA setup that I and many others like myself

Re: [Freevo-users] Update of Freevo packages for distributions?

2009-08-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:58:08PM EDT, Evan Hisey wrote: 2009/8/9 bluepuma.excite bluep...@excite.com: [..] By the way, I would prefer to have a regular Freevo forum over this mailing list, the handling is not very user friendly. In truth Mailing lists get much faster responses and more

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo+mplayer - Audio/video out of sync'

2009-08-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:24:35AM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Has anyone seen this with Freevo 1.8.1 and found some way to address or alleviate this issue? yes and since i put --framedrop in the command it is in sync, and i certainly don't notice

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.9 appletrailers crash

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:57:46AM EDT, Matthew Job wrote: I think what you just did is called hijacking an existing thread. Its contrary to netiquette, but practically, it means that you will get better response starting your own thread, e.g. from subscribers who may have filtered my postings

Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 12:04:46PM EDT, John Percival wrote: I modified the code to make it work (for my location it displays a weather map, not a radar map - but at least it is a map). I checked it with Long Island and it does display a map, not sure if it's the sort you want though. I

Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Jones
Two things: There is definitely some form of cache issue involved. I ran your improved version of oneclick.py under my personal id, rather than the freevo id, that normally runs on vt9, and I was able to display a map for many areas, including China, South America, and various European countries.

Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:52:43PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: Also, I mistyped RSXX063 (Moscow, Russia) and entered RUXX063 instead and this causes freevo to crash. CJ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free

Re: [Freevo-users] Weather forecast

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 03:16:39PM EDT, John Percival wrote: Chris, Don't know about a cache. There is WEATHER_AGE which I have set to 1 sec to force it to get the data every time (normally it's set to an hour). Now it's working.. Must have been sloppy testing on my part. I'll have a look

[Freevo-users] Weather forecast

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Jones
I have found several plugins that appear to add a Weather Forecast entry to the main freevo menu and I'm not sure which I should use. There appears to be a weather plugin, a weatherdata plugin and.. took me a while to find it a oneclick plugin. I eventually set up the oneclick.py and this seems

[Freevo-users] Does freevo change system mixer settings..?

2009-07-27 Thread Chris Jones
I am a little baffled by this: since I installed freevo, I find that my mixer settings as displayed by alsamixer are regularly tampered with. The machine is an old laptop with cheap speakers - they're a no-brand 3-way outfit I paid less that twenty dollars for in CompUSA some 4-5 years ago - and

Re: [Freevo-users] Does freevo change system mixer settings..?

2009-07-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:17:59PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: I am a little baffled by this: since I installed freevo, I find that my mixer settings as displayed by alsamixer are regularly tampered with. [..] It's in local_conf.py, in the first

[Freevo-users] Normalize sound level

2009-07-27 Thread Chris Jones
Does freevo provide for any means to normalize sound levels..? I'm watching a web TV stream and the commercials sound about twice as loud as the show. This means that since it's getting late I have to get ready for the next batch of commercials and make sure I turn down the volume by about 30% to

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

2009-07-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 03:27:38PM EDT, Duncan Webb wrote: [..] /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py is the default config file and has the events, look for EVENTS = Adding something like this to local_conf.py you can see all the events: print_events = True if print_events: # Print

Re: [Freevo-users] Switch CapsLock Control keys [SOLVED]

2009-07-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:54:22PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:02:14AM EDT, Jonathan Isom wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Chris Jonescjns1...@gmail.com wrote: [..] What's a clean way to add the xmodmap tweak to the freevo standalone startup scripts

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.1 - No headlines found - [SOLVED]

2009-07-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:18:21AM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: [..] Per the [Freevo-users] list archive, there appears to be a bug in the headlines plugin that ships with the 1.8.1 version of freevo that I am running: http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freevo-users] RSS link that is known to work with freevo

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:57:08PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: [..] plugin.activate('headlines', level=45) HEADLINES_LOCATIONS = [ ('ABC', 'http://www.abc.net.au/news/syndicate/sciencerss.xml'), ] #plugin.remove('headlines') Thanks, I get the exact same result with message: ERROR:

Re: [Freevo-users] Switching CapsLock Right Control keys

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:43:50PM EDT, Jonathan Isom wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Chris Jonescjns1...@gmail.com wrote: [..] What's a clean way to add the xmodmap tweak to the freevo standalone startup scripts? I I'm not sure if there is a easy way to add to the scripts, but I

Re: [Freevo-users] Switching CapsLock Right Control keys

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:02:14AM EDT, Jonathan Isom wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Chris Jonescjns1...@gmail.com wrote: [..] What's a clean way to add the xmodmap tweak to the freevo standalone startup scripts? [..] Hi try #su freevo //add freevo to end of .xinitrc

Re: [Freevo-users] List of non working radio links provided in freevo-1.x

2009-07-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 07:17:33PM EDT, John Molohan wrote: Hi, This was mentioned in another threat and has been true for quite a while. The web radio links that 1.x provides are somewhat broken. This should probably be a bug report I wouldn't go this far, but for anyone learning the

[Freevo-users] RSS link that is known to work with freevo

2009-07-13 Thread Chris Jones
RSS is the one area where I have not been able to get freevo to work. Could anyone provide a link that is known to work so I can use that to test my setup and figure out what's wrong with my setup? Thanks, CJ -- Enter

[Freevo-users] Switching CapsLock Right Control keys

2009-07-13 Thread Chris Jones
On a linux debian lenny box, I have freevo start up on vt9 at boot time. After I the freevo main menu is displayed, I Alt+Ctrl+F1 back to the linux console and startx to log into my regular environment. I am then able to switch back and forth between the two environements by hitting

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'

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

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

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 Especially when

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

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Jones
I was initially looking for a non-GUI interface to play directories that contain .mp3's and .flv's. I don't like traditional GUI application with their toolbars, pull-down menus, icons, etc. and I was looking for a lean and mean way of managing my audio and video content. I couldn't find an

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

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:27:48PM EDT, John Molohan wrote: Chris Jones wrote: [..] Is there any way I can convince freevo to give me access to these directories, or am just using the wrong tool for the job? Thanks, CJ You'll need to tell freevo where you mp3s and flvs

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

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:59:56PM EDT, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Do you mean that if I have 20-30 directories with .mp3's or .flv's, I need to edit the config file every time I want to switch to a different directory.? no, be smarter than