Re: [Freevo-users] DISPLAY and mplayer

2009-09-08 Thread Jake Briggs
Evan Hisey wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Jake Briggsjak...@coretech.co.nz wrote: Hi All I very recently upgraded from 1.8.1 to 1.9, and its seems that hitting the button on my remote that has the config DISPLAY in the lircrc has stopped making mplayer cycling through its OSD

[Freevo-users] DISPLAY and mplayer

2009-08-13 Thread Jake Briggs
Hi All I very recently upgraded from 1.8.1 to 1.9, and its seems that hitting the button on my remote that has the config DISPLAY in the lircrc has stopped making mplayer cycling through its OSD states (none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time). I am sure I didn't set it up to

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

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 11

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

Re: [Freevo-users] iPod support

2009-06-23 Thread Jake Briggs
I managed to get FUSEpod to go with only one issue on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). You need to modify a file though. You need to add the line : #include cstring in the file fusepod_util.h before you compile it. Just chuck it underneath all the other includes. Then I have it auto mount

Re: [Freevo-users] Can I point to multiple sources for one link?

2009-05-04 Thread Jake Briggs
I solved this problem with LVM - one LVM volume containing 4 partitions, in the end. Joe Hildreth wrote: I think I would still have the same problem. Say I mounted disk one as /Movies/Disk1 and disk two as /Movies/Disk2 I have been keeping movies on Disk one (750GB) and serials on disk two

Re: [Freevo-users] Can I point to multiple sources for one link?

2009-05-04 Thread Jake Briggs
Manfred Schmitt wrote: Joe Hildreth wrote: 2) I have modified the video entry to: 'Serials', '/media/disk1/serials/' 'Serials', '/media/disk2/serials/' Just some hints: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufs

Re: [Freevo-users] 16x9 telly/monitor, and the theme

2009-02-12 Thread Jake Briggs
Philip Tuckey wrote: On Friday 6 February 2009 07:02, Jacob Briggs wrote: Hi All I recently reinstalled my freevo machine (replaced gentoo with ubuntu), and installed 1.8.3, but I can't for the life of me remember how I got the interface to be widescreen! At the moment, its full screen

Re: [Freevo-users] Interface jumps back

2007-11-22 Thread Jake Briggs
Jake Briggs wrote: Gorka Olaizola wrote: I noticed that behaviour last month but I couldn't track the code that was responsible for it. I deactivated almost all plugins but it didn't stop. Now with rel-1 and latest Ubuntu it seems not to happen. I am using 1.7.2, so maybe

Re: [Freevo-users] Interface jumps back

2007-11-21 Thread jake briggs
Duncan Webb wrote: Hi All I have an odd issue with freevo, it started to happen when I rebuilt my freevo box about a year ago. I'll browse to a directory, say (from the main menu): movies/Tv/Some Tv Program/ and leave the interface displaying that directory and after some time (maybe a

Re: [Freevo-users] Interface jumps back

2007-11-21 Thread Jake Briggs
Gorka Olaizola wrote: I noticed that behaviour last month but I couldn't track the code that was responsible for it. I deactivated almost all plugins but it didn't stop. Now with rel-1 and latest Ubuntu it seems not to happen. I am using 1.7.2, so maybe that is the issue I have a

[Freevo-users] Interface jumps back

2007-11-20 Thread Jake Briggs
Hi All I have an odd issue with freevo, it started to happen when I rebuilt my freevo box about a year ago. I'll browse to a directory, say (from the main menu): movies/Tv/Some Tv Program/ and leave the interface displaying that directory and after some time (maybe a couple of minutes, its

Re: [Freevo-users] For the site: What hardware (tv/graphics/sound) card do you use?

2007-08-09 Thread Jake Briggs
John Molohan wrote: * TV card - analogue, dvb-t/s/c, atsc None * Sound card - with output used Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Line out. * Graphics card - with output used VGA compatible

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo, hd and upscalling ? media center gallery and user info ?

2007-06-12 Thread Jake Briggs
Well I got it the first time :D kikoune wrote: Finally I was looking at the Media center gallery wiki page and it will be very cool if more freevo user can post their setup and maybe add a few comments on it (what hardware specs, what settings ...). It would a great way to learn about the

Re: [Freevo-users] Removing ads

2006-10-24 Thread Jake Briggs
I swear I found a marketing/manager bollocks generator, that would generate grammatically correct (apart from verbed nouns :) ) sentences that made no sense. Damned if I can find it now though :( Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 19:03 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:

Re: [Freevo-users] Best Linux distro for Freevo?

2006-10-12 Thread Jake Briggs
I third it, and it has repos for freevo :) Seems to be a version behind at the moment though Michael Labowicz wrote: I second debian, it is more flexible and free in my opinion. Mike On 10/12/06, Ewen Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Gentoo, which I've found pretty good once I

[Freevo-users] windows freevo

2006-08-30 Thread Jake Briggs
Hi All Let me start by saying that I love freevo, I have been using it for about 1 1/2 years so far, and its been a good lounge companion :) I don't use any of the tv functionality, freevo just gives me an easy to see interface to my music and movies that I can use my remote to control. So I

[Freevo-users] generating fxd files en masse

2006-03-30 Thread Jake Briggs
Hi All I have a bunch of avi's, I don't want to sit on the couch for 2 hours searching for their details on IMDB using the IMDB plugin to create fxd files and download the associated image. Is there a way to do this automatically? Maybe from the command line? In the wiki, there is a section

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer under freevo does nothing

2006-03-23 Thread Jake Briggs
Have a look in the freevo logs, there you will see the command line used to launch mplayer. Try running that by hand :) The logs are in /tmp/freevo In my main-1000.log file, I have entries such as : BORING LOG FILE ENTRIES mplayervis.py (422): Detected MPlayer 'export' audio

Re: [Freevo-users] Sound across a network

2005-10-19 Thread Jake Briggs
You could use JACK, here is the page listing the apps that runs with JACK: http://jackit.sourceforge.net/apps/ The 3rd one down is called Oddcast, an Icecast/Shoutcast streamer. From the main web page : JACK is a low-latency audio server, written for POSIX conformant operating systems such

Re: [Freevo-users] Sound across a network

2005-10-19 Thread Jake Briggs
of the same pc that freevo runs on) oddcast gives sound to streamcast/icecast streamcast/icecast gives sound to remote pc listen! The trick would be telling jack where to output sounds to, alsa or oddcast. I wouldnt imagine that it would be difficult. Jake Briggs wrote: You could use JACK, here

Re: [Freevo-users] Visualization while lissening to music ???

2005-07-26 Thread Jake Briggs
pygoom?? I dunno Sebastian Hardt wrote: Hi there, i am using freevo for no about 2 years and i love it. So here come my simple question ;) Is there a Visualization plugin for freevo. I think i saw something like this on a screenie of somebody running freevo. Thx for your help Greetings

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: vlc timeshifting

2005-07-25 Thread Jake Briggs
Dirk Meyer wrote: Karl Lattimer wrote: I just wish I knew python and could code this stuff ;S http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html YE GODS MAN! I already do Java/Perl/PHP at work 5 days a week, now you want me to learn another language... Erm OK, when i get the time ;)

[Freevo-users] changing a dvd while running freevo

2005-07-25 Thread Jake Briggs
Hi all How does one change a dvd when running freevo? For example, I just watched a movie, and I want to watch another. Do i have to exit freevo, umount the dvd, eject the dvd, then insert the new one, then run freevo again? Or can freevo do this sort of thing automatically (well, apart from

Re: [Freevo-users] changing a dvd while running freevo

2005-07-25 Thread Jake Briggs
WiSHiE wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:29 am, Jake Briggs wrote: you press eject on your remote(or keyboard . ), take the DVD out, and put a new one in. So your saying that freevo will umount the dvd, and dosent use supermount? Because that would be handy :) You do not need to exit

Re: [Freevo-users] changing a dvd while running freevo

2005-07-25 Thread Jake Briggs
WiSHiE wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:44 am, Jake Briggs wrote: you dont need to mount a dvd to play it. o. I get it now. eject can be used with EJECT mapped to a button on the remote, or . on your keyboard. Thats my mission tonight 8) I am sure it will be easy. I

Re: [Freevo-users] VCRVO project, a note on cables

2005-06-20 Thread Jake Briggs
My god, do you guys listen to your stereo equipment, or the music coming out of the speakers? :) Geert Decorte wrote: I think a few people need to get into high fidelity audio. To be clear : cable is cable, it's just a piece of metal.( Some people claims they can hear the difference

Re: [Freevo-users] Automagically getting audio covers

2005-06-14 Thread Jake Briggs
Yes, there is a free tool to do this. Buggered if I can remember what it was, but it was a linux GUI tool and it found most of my collection. Later on today, I'll have a google and try to remember what it was called, but you may have found it already :) Jake Helmut Auer wrote: Hi, Is

Re: [Freevo-users] Automagically getting audio covers

2005-06-14 Thread Jake Briggs
=198882 Matt Jake Briggs wrote: Yes, there is a free tool to do this. Buggered if I can remember what it was, but it was a linux GUI tool and it found most of my collection. Later on today, I'll have a google and try to remember what it was called, but you may have found it already :) Jake

Re: [Freevo-users] ID3 tags

2005-06-14 Thread Jake Briggs
This may help, alhtough it uses freedb and file paths to guess the id3 values, and rename files. http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ Matthew Bettencourt wrote: This is slightly off topic, however, i am guessing it comes up often here. Is there any util that will take the info that is gotten