Re: [Freevo-users] [OT] Motherboard to use with freevo

2013-01-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 13-01-13 06:02 AM, Dirk Meyer wrote: > No PCI Slots! I use the internal GPU and the CPU for video decoding > (more than enough for H.264 1080p). For digital audio out you may need a > small extension for koax out (I already had that from my prev. board). You mean you can't do /any/ HDMI audio w

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.9.0 vs freevo1-git

2012-06-11 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 12-06-10 08:27 AM, Anders Eriksson wrote: > Not fixed in git as of today. A quick glance at the code suggests that > this chunk of code assumes IPv6 somehow. I have a ipv4 only system > (kernel w/ CONFIG_IPV6 not set). Do I_have_ to enable v6 to get this to > work? Ah, well this explains why s

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.9.0 vs freevo1-git

2012-06-02 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 12-05-31 04:40 AM, Anders Eriksson wrote: > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/kaa/base/sockets.py", line > 433, in _make_socket > sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6, socket.SOCK_STREAM) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/socket.py", line 184, in __init__ > _sock = _realsoc

[Freevo-users] Kaa development moved to GitHub

2012-01-16 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi everyone, For those that aren't aware, Kaa is an umbrella project for a series of modules that provide various functionality to both Freevo 1 and Freevo 2. Up until now, both Kaa and Freevo were using a subversion (svn) server maintained by yours truly on freevo.org, our hosted server supporte

Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo 2.0

2011-07-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 11-07-26 09:59 PM, Phil Raymond wrote: > I might be the only Freevo user using this method of recording, but it's > worked like a charm for nearly 2 years and I have a library of HD movies and > concerts to show for it. I use the HD PVR too, and (for the moment) do recording with a custom sc

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] The future of Freevo 2.0

2011-07-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 11-07-17 05:47 AM, Dirk Meyer wrote: I tried XBMC some days ago and while it looks very nice, it forces me to organize my media collection in a way I don't want to and has some usability issues (IMHO). Therefore, I still need Freevo. :) You know it's funny you say that, because after finally

Re: [Freevo-users] kaa.imlib2 regressions (was Re: more about images)

2010-11-10 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 14:03 +, Adam Charrett wrote: > I've copied the freevo-devel list for Jason to pick this up. Which I have, and committed a fix. Alberto, can you please give kaa.imlib2 from svn a try again and report back if you're still seeing any exceptions and in particular the high m

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo publicity

2010-04-04 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 19:50 +0100, John Molohan wrote: > That's up and linked in now. Cool! Thanks to both of you. Jason. -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer, hdmi, ac3, tv, surround amp = digital noise?

2009-11-18 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:24 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: > Is this a setting problem in alsa / driver / mplayer? Or is this simply > because the TV is doing the wrong thing? I'm inclined to believe the > that TV is failing to decode the digital signal and effectively sending > out stereo noise b

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer ac3 sound over s/pdif

2009-11-09 Thread Jason Tackaberry
1. On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:05 +0100, "Michael Müller" wrote: > I detected that I don't have to reboot the whole system, I only have > to restart freevo. I think freevo holds in some way the sound dev > because if I use mplayer from console all works fine. I'm a bit unclear about that last pa

Re: [Freevo-users] Video showing slick new OSD for Freevo-1

2009-10-21 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:54 +0100, John Molohan wrote: > >>> from kaa.distribution.core import * > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kaa/__init__.py", line 7, in > > except (ImportError, __import__('pkg_resources').Distribu

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and python 3.x

2009-09-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:47 -0500, Jonathan Isom wrote: >I was wondering if anyone has used freevo with python3.1 yet? will > it work or will just crash? I'm sure it won't work at all. The real question is will py2to3 produce something that works. I doubt it. :) But no, I haven't tried.

Re: [Freevo-users] Motherboard with onboard HDMI

2009-08-21 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:03 -0700, Shane W wrote: > The gigabyte board would be perfect but jees, 1 pci slot, > that's craziness. If you see aproper ATX board in your > travels that is lga775 and nvidia hdmi, could you post > here? They seem hard to locate via Google. 1 PCI slot is plenty for me.

Re: [Freevo-users] Motherboard with onboard HDMI

2009-08-11 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 22:07 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: > Great, thanks for all the info and patches. I had been considering an > ION (Nvidia 9400) system with HDMI output to my LCD tv but I was worried > about sound working properly. It is good to know it is almost there. I suspect you'll be f

[Freevo-users] Motherboard with onboard HDMI

2009-08-11 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi all, Having recently upgraded my AV receiver to one that accepts HDMI and does all the latest HD codecs, upgrading my PC to support HDMI output was the next step. It's sometimes unclear what works and what doesn't under Linux, so for those in a similar situation, I thought I'd let everyone kno

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

2009-08-10 Thread Jason Tackaberry
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 painstakingly configured over the years to meet > their own particular

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

2009-08-10 Thread Jason Tackaberry
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, I think. (Although personally mailing lists integrate much more easi

Re: [Freevo-users] LIrc not working in freevo, but works with irw

2009-07-28 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 17:15 +1200, Bernard Mentink wrote: > It seems like freevo is looking at the wrong device (I have > a /dev/lirc0 and a /dev/lirc_01) > Is there some configuration file where I need to tell freevo the > device? Freevo (via pylirc) doesn't talk to the lirc device, but rather th

Re: [Freevo-users] Normalize sound level

2009-07-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 21:28 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > Does freevo provide for any means to normalize sound levels..? If you're playing back through mplayer, you might try the volnorm audio filter. Cheers, Jason. -- Le

Re: [Freevo-users] Latest svn (4195) Kaa install fails

2009-07-02 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 10:26 +1200, Bernard Mentink wrote: > Yes it is ... Ok. Give the most recent svn kaa.base a try. As per my last email, I've reverted some of the changes that should be causing your problem. Thanks, Jason. -

[Freevo-users] kaa.base svn breakage due to eggs

2009-07-02 Thread Jason Tackaberry
To those of you who helped test the recent kaa.base updates, my thanks. I'm disabled the egg support in kaa.base by default for now, until we can address some of the problems. If you installed kaa.base from svn over the past week, please remove site-packages/kaa* and reinstall the kaa modules you

Re: [Freevo-users] Latest svn (4195) Kaa install fails

2009-07-02 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:03 +1200, Bernard Mentink wrote: > TEST FAILED: /home/bmentink/freevo/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ does [...] > Anything I need to upgrade? Is /home/bmentink/freevo/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ in your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Cheers, Jason. ---

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.9.0 run error .. help please

2009-06-08 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 09:06 +1200, Bernard Mentink wrote: > Hmmm, well that is not my user experience. [...] > File "/usr/local/bin/freevo", line 218, in get_python > child.fromchild.close() > AttributeError: 'Popen' object has no attribute 'fromchild' Ah, ok, but this has nothing to with th

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.9.0 run error .. help please

2009-06-08 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:27 +0200, Meneer Jansen wrote: > Freevo Python install script trying to use a command called "popen2" > which is deprcated in the Python version Jaunty uses. Pity. Deprecated, but not removed. So the worst that will happen is that Python will print a warning, which d

Re: [Freevo-users] Kaa-diplay installation error

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 19:45 +0200, Publicy wrote: > This is what I've done but I've got the following error : What distribution are you using? Jason. -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterpr

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Announce: kaa.metadata 0.7.7

2009-06-03 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 22:05 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > I released a new version of kaa.metadata today. Please ignore version > 0.7.6 because it has a serious bug in the mp3 parser and update to 0.7.7 > as soon as possible. Just to expand on this, the bug was that the duration of some MP3s would be

Re: [Freevo-users] Kaa-diplay installation error

2009-05-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 11:59 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > kaa.display is used for mplayer to display the paused and play icons. In > fact, you lose the audio, subtitle and other mplayer osd messages when > this is active so it may be better to remove kaa.display from your > site-packages. Hm, why wo

[Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] kaa.base 0.6.0, kaa.metadata 0.7.6, and kaa.display 0.1.0

2009-05-26 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi all, kaa.base 0.6.0, kaa.metadata 0.7.6, and kaa.display 0.1.0 are now available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46652 MD5 sums: 5fdac0492dbbb412c2cafe32ea8c60a8 kaa-base-0.6.0.tar.gz 963fb09c2031e8110ddbb38d015c9611 kaa-metadata-0.7.6.tar.gz 3a45f

[Freevo-users] kaa.metadata changes (was: Kaa r4032 - trunk/metadata/src)

2009-05-22 Thread Jason Tackaberry
[+freevo-users] On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 15:21 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Sounds ok to me. Ok, done. Those of you who live on svn, please update kaa.metadata and report any problems. I made a few potentially invasive changes and want to get some more testing done before a release. kaa.base could

Re: [Freevo-users] Install Issue with latest SVN

2009-05-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 19:13 -0400, Jim Duda wrote: > Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute > 'maxint'" in 0x832812c>> ignored Not a problem with Freevo: http://bugs.python.org/issue1704790 Cheers, Jason. -

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] PRE-[ANNOUNCE] Release 1.8.4

2009-05-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 18:38 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > Didn't dischi send a mail out about dropping support for Python-2.4 in > kaa.base and IIRC nobody really objected? May be it is time to make the > jump ;-) Yeah, but it's possible the types of people that frequent the mailing lists are more l

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] PRE-[ANNOUNCE] Release 1.8.4

2009-05-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 12:29 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > I don't see a problem with _adding_ support during minor revs, but > removing support during a minor rev seems contrary to what most people > would expect. Sorry,

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] PRE-[ANNOUNCE] Release 1.8.4

2009-05-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 18:21 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > Good point, not sure what our strategy is over Python versions. 1.5.4 > added support for Python-2.4 and 1.3.3 added support for Python-2.3 so > it would seem not that important. I don't see a problem with _adding_ support during minor revs,

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] PRE-[ANNOUNCE] Release 1.8.4

2009-05-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 17:38 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > For some people the most important change is that Python-2.4 is no > longer supported whereas Python-2.6 is now supported. I wonder if this change alone warrants a version upgrade to 1.9.0? There's an expectation that minor version bumps won

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo on linux maganiza (march 09)

2009-05-13 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:29 +0200, Alberto González Rodríguez wrote: > Linux magazine in his 100 issue has made a review of the media center > for linux and give a good impression of Freevo > > http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/100/Media_Centers.pdf Thanks for passing this along, Alberto. T

Re: [Freevo-users] Help freevo - put some screenshots on the wiki

2009-04-07 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 07:30 -0700, Douglas Seifert wrote: > I put one here (http://doc.freevo.org/XMLTV), but the MoinMoin syntax > is leaving me cold. I know how you feel. It's on my eventual todo list to migrate to mediawiki. As an aside, please feel free to convert screenshots to JPGs. That

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo 2 development survey

2009-03-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:39 -0700, Douglas Seifert wrote: > Is the survey link still working? I get a blank page when I open it > in my browser. Oops, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out. Should be up again. Thanks, Jason.

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo 2 development survey

2009-03-13 Thread Jason Tackaberry
[Cross-posting on freevo-users] On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 21:15 +, John Molohan wrote: > How is the survey going, have you had many responses? When do you reckon > you'll close it and release the results? We currently have 234 responses. I'll probably let the survey run for another week or two,

Re: [Freevo-users] SVN version 11339 is not working?

2009-03-12 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 13:20 +0900, Han Hartgers wrote: > (The main-1001.log file is generated change compared with last time I > tried the svn.) Are there any tracebacks in the log? Cheers, Jason. -- Apps built with the

[Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo 2 development survey

2009-03-01 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi all, The Freevo 2 development survey is now online: http://freevo.org/surveys/1/ It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to complete. We'd appreciate it if all of you would take the time to fill it out. Please let me know if you run into any problems. Thanks to all of you who provided fee

Re: [Freevo-users] no noise freevo box

2009-02-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 08:03 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: > of HD playback. Hopefully the ION will also support the linux vpdau api > which will make it a very small and quiet self contained machine capable > of HD: > > http://hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIAs-Ion-Small-FormFactor-PC-Platform-/ Wow

Re: [Freevo-users] Playing Copy protected DVD

2009-02-24 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:37 -0500, Benjamin Lawetz wrote: > 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. An easy > workaround for mplayer is adding -sb 250 to the mplayer (seek > 2,500,000 bytes into

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.8 memory usage when viewing images

2009-02-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 10:55 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > I did notice that all the images are cached for later use but didn't > check when they are freed from the cache. Of course caching big images > would cause a memory problem. kaa.imlib2 has two layers of cache: one for uncompressed data (16M

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] VDPAU - full HD playback using an NVidia card and lower speed CPU.

2009-02-18 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 08:32 -0600, Jonathan Isom wrote: > > Hopefully they do some optimization work. Alternatively, maybe there's > > some way to share textures between processes. (If there is, it would > > almost certainly require patching the player.) > > Here is a thread that may be of inter

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] VDPAU - full HD playback using an NVidia card and lower speed CPU.

2009-02-18 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:16 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: > Hopefully the graphics system for Freevo2 will be able to take advantage > of this API to accelerate the output and provide shiny OSD display etc :) Maybe. I have tested the Freevo 2 video pipeline with VDPAU and there are some problems.

Re: [Freevo-users] Hardware for Freevo 2

2009-01-28 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:54 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory > Controller Hub > > IIRC it is a 950 Google agrees. Thanks. -- This SF.net email is sp

Re: [Freevo-users] Hardware for Freevo 2

2009-01-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 13:23 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > I have problems getting vsync on my external monitor, but the clutter > test app worked well with 1080p video. And, I forget, did you have GMA 900 or 950? Jason. --

Re: [Freevo-users] Hardware for Freevo 2 (was: Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement)

2009-01-26 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 08:54 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: > The case I linked before from Hiper was the only reason I was "allowed" to > have a media centre PC in the first place. Nice. Does the wife allow you to have an A/V receiver? :) Those tend to be much bulkier. > uATX is fine and will fi

[Freevo-users] Hardware for Freevo 2 (was: Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement)

2009-01-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 21:54 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: > I was uncertain with the replies, is a GMA950 good enough for Freevo 2? Theoretically yes, provided your CPU is fast enough. (Tentatively, I would recommend at least a Core 2 duo at 2.6GHz, although 3.0GHz might be safer when it comes to

Re: [Freevo-users] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:52 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > I guess so. There are four choices: Only three. > 2. You have a gfx card that does not support hardware colorspace >conversion and has no shader support in the GPU. That means we have >to do the colorspace conversion in the CPU. Ha

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-24 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:00 +, Andrew Flegg wrote: > A $40 PCI card, which'll fit a low (CPU-)power Mini-ITX machine in a > small case with room for only one or two PCI cards? PCI? No. If you have no free PCI-express slot, then clearly you can't upgrade easily. The alternative is a motherbo

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-23 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:55 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > When comparing the picture quality of TV broadcasts from CRT TVs and TFT > TVs the picture quality was simply much better with the CRTs. I'm rather tempted to say the reason is, paradoxically, because of the added (temporal) resolution and (s

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.8 memory usage when viewing images

2009-01-22 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 20:21 +0100, Olivier Sessink wrote: > memory.. It's running freevo dedicated, so besides the X server and a > ssh daemon there is nothing else using memory, still freevo is killed by > the out-of-memory killer. What changed? Can I tune the memory usage Smells like a memory le

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:11 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > What gfx card to you have? Note that a $40 nvidia card will provide an excellent Freevo 2 experience :) -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community So

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 08:59 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > For analogue TV and DVB-T of analogue recordings the CRTs are still very > much better than flat screens; this has to do with the none square > pixels on CRTs. Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm skeptical, as I don't see why this couldn't

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:53 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > So after the 2.4 question, here a new one: anyone not using X11 and why? I'm also interested in answers especially that don't involve old hardware. This may be a controversial statement, but we're not considering older hardware at all for Fre

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:50 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > kaa.rpc and we want to rename one function there. I guess you also use > kaa.Process which will be updated with a new API soon (that API requires > 2.5). Not just a new API, but semantic changes that might mean a not-so-straightforward porting

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 20:18 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > Personally, I don't mind making Python-2.5 a requirement. I wonder how > many people are still using Python-2.4 as it can be a biggish task to > migrate all the packages. Biggish, although I think most recent distros take care of that without

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-16 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 19:52 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > There is an etch package for python 2.5, so this would not be a huge deal. This seems to be the general sentiment so far. Duncan, you're so far kaa.base's biggest customer (by means of Freevo 1.x) so I'd definitely like to hear your th

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo doesn't work after update

2008-12-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 07:58 +1100, Laurence Huizinga wrote: > However, just to try freevo out I get the following errors: [...] > [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/freevo/main-1000.log' > > [Errno 13] Permission de

Re: [Freevo-users] CPU

2008-12-01 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:22 +0100, Helmut Auer wrote: > Try setting POLL_TIME in local_conf.py to a higher value, e.g. > > POLL_TIME = 0.1 > or > POLL_TIME = 0.5 Surely the default setting shouldn't cause Freevo to use 50% of a core? If it were me, I'd attach strace to the process to see if I co

Re: [Freevo-users] osd changes and imlib2 trackback

2008-11-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 20:39 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > That is odd, that is what kaa.base is doing to detect imlib2 > support. Can you try to debug the library functions in > kaa.base.distribution.core? Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on here, but if you could add some debugging to kaa/base/src/di

Re: [Freevo-users] osd changes and imlib2 trackback

2008-11-29 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 22:43 +, John Molohan wrote: > I'm a bit puzzled now but have probably missed something? Is this a 64-bit platform? Try compiling this short file, call it test.c: #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { imlib_context_set_display(

Re: [Freevo-users] osd changes and imlib2 trackback

2008-11-24 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:02 +, John Molohan wrote: > So display still doesn't pick up imlib2 (from what you said it uses it > separately from kaa-imlib2 so I can stop worrying about compiling > that?). Any pointers on where I'm going wrong? Ah, it sounds like your Imlib2 wasn't built with X1

Re: [Freevo-users] osd changes and imlib2 trackback

2008-11-24 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 10:56 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > kaa.display X11, Framebuffer and SDL all work with imlib2 or evas, if we > remove evas, imlib2 is a requirement. About the dfb support: it only > opens a surface. What is this good for? Ok, with evas you can use evas > on dfb, but if we drop ev

Re: [Freevo-users] osd changes and imlib2 trackback

2008-11-23 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 23:22 +, John Molohan wrote: > SystemError: kaa-display compiled without imlib2 display support. [...] > So kaa-display does seem that it was compiled without X11 imlib2 support > but I do have kaa-imlib2 installed: kaa.display uses Imlib2 directly as well. It looks lik

Re: [Freevo-users] Myth frontend

2008-10-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:06 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > there are Technical Writers, who work with the developers, > architectures, engineers, etc., and produce actually readable and ^ ... architects. Need more coffee, appa

Re: [Freevo-users] Myth frontend

2008-10-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:12 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: > One of my pet peeves this, so I'm afraid I've got to comment :). (Oh and I > work as a Software Engineer btw). Then of course you also know that in addition to Software Engineers, there are Technical Writers, who work with the developers,

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo UI featured in Remix video

2008-10-17 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 14:11 +0200, Giovani Spagnolo wrote: > Just to let you know that we have presented a remix video in the IPTV2.0 > conference in Rome, featuring the User Interface of some FLOSS media > centers, and Freevo was there. Cool. It actually showed the 2.0 PoC demo done by Chandan P

Re: [Freevo-users] kernel 2.6.27 and Hauppauge PVR 350 card : some troubles

2008-10-12 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 16:01 +0200, Pascal Schirrmann wrote: > I had some troubles to install every needed dependency, the 2.6.27 > kernel is a little young. For example, I had to install a cvs version of > lirc, the lirc 'official' doesn't compile on kernel above 2.6.25. I use 2.6.27. CVS lirc

[Freevo-users] Desperately seeking a motherboard that doesn't suck

2008-09-24 Thread Jason Tackaberry
So I just bought an Asus P5Q-E, whose sound chipset (ADI AD2000B) doesn't properly work with ALSA, and (after having spent the last 2 days compiling bleeding edge stuff) I can't get SPDIF output working. In frustration, I decided to dust off my trusty SB Live! which I used many years ago, which I

Re: [Freevo-users] FreeVo broken with python 2.4 ?

2008-09-08 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:19 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > I could release kaa.base 0.5.0 and kaa.metadata 0.7.4 tomorrow if you > like. Does everything work with current SVN? I also want to release a > new kaa.imlib2, only a small thread bugfix. Just fixed a few bugs with kaa.base. It could use a bi

Re: [Freevo-users] Looking for XVMC Video Card Advice

2008-08-31 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 16:52 -0400, Jim Duda wrote: > I've been using an Nvidia FX6200 video card with freevo for a while now. > I play HD content, so I need the Xvmc feature. Unless this has changed by a very recent development I haven't heard of yet, XvMC cannot be used to decode VC-1 and H264.

Re: [Freevo-users] Comment on new install

2008-08-26 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 21:01 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > (note, mine doesn't start, even after that) At some point in 2.x, there will be a big effort (by me, if necessary) to make Freevo usable out of the box, or at the very least ridiculously easy to get started. The new config subsystem in 2.

Re: [Freevo-users] New 1.8.2; stuck at kaa-metadata

2008-08-26 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 09:17 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo_downloads # cd kaa-base-0.4.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaa-base-0.4.0 # python setup.py install > inotify supported by glibc; good. > running install > running build > running build_py > running build_ext > running insta

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2008-07-26 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:18 +0200, Olivier Arsac wrote: > I'm wondering why I get these drops... I was under the impression than > other people were having better results with slower CPUs... (or were > they not outputting to a FullHD display?) My E6600 (2.4Ghz) can handle cornel_m1080p.mov without

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2008-07-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi Olivier, On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:14 +0200, olivier arsac wrote: > I have a problem though... I'm unable to get a run without dropping > frames even on a 3.2GHz core 2 duo (penryn e8200 OC) > If I disable sound output the test run smoothly... something fishy > here. If you disable sound, MPlay

Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone got a TViX (custom hardware media centre)?

2008-07-11 Thread Jason Tackaberry
John Molohan wrote on 09/07/08 11:49 AM: > I just stumbled across the TViX HD M-6500A which looks like pretty damn > nice media centre box. A few posts I've found says it runs linux on it's > 64MB flash drive. I'm wondering if anyone here has one? I think it'd be > a great bit of kit for a freev

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 - why does it need to poll anyway?

2008-07-11 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Dirk Meyer wrote on 10/07/08 04:00 PM: >> Doing it this way would require some re-architecting of the guts of >> freevo of course :( > > Yes, that is what Freevo 2.0 does. No polling anymore, everything is > handled by sockets and pipes or with timer if a plugin depends on a Duncan is welcome to

Re: [Freevo-users] Advice on new hardware

2008-06-22 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 16:09 +0100, John Molohan wrote: > > 1. I'd recommend Nvidia for it's Linux support. But that wasn't your > > upgrade, naw was it? > > No but it's a consideration. From what I'm reading at the moment support > for the common inbuilt intel graphics is getting a lot better.

Re: [Freevo-users] UI idea

2008-06-21 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 14:19 +0100, Adam Charrett wrote: > The drive to get some documentation in kaa is a great start, but some > proper architecture diagrams would help all involved. This is a fair criticism. I'm sympathetic to the complaint that the barrier to entry is high. The reality is th

Re: [Freevo-users] UI idea

2008-06-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 15:18 +0200, Meneer Jansen wrote: > I agree. But, looking at my wallet, that my take quite some years! Ha > ha. ;) That's why I hope that animations *will* be optional. You can buy a perfectly capable nvidia card new for $40. Probably half that if you want to get something u

Re: [Freevo-users] Notice for next release

2008-05-23 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 20:51 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > summer. I hope to get the new GUI code ready by that time, maybe you > also have some video overlay stuff by then (BTW, gstreamer rocks) TV > support will still be missing. I'd like to work on that this weekend. Not overlay per se, but gettin

Re: [Freevo-users] Notice for next release

2008-05-16 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:01 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Yes, Freevo 2 has a sqlite based database (kaa.beacon) which contains > most information from kaa.metadata. It might be nice to see Freevo 1.x start to make use of more kaa modules. Beacon might be tougher to integrate with, but it does provi

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Freevo wiki fixed

2008-04-30 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 21:37 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > If not then there is something rather broken, have a look at this page: > http://doc.freevo.org/LircDevInput > click the edit(text) link and you see lots more than is displayed on > this page. Something does look quite broken here. Sigh. I

[Freevo-users] Freevo wiki fixed

2008-04-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi, I believe I've fixed the problems with the wiki (the recent changes and search pages). I have also updated to the latest version (1.6.3). Please let me know if you run into any other problems. Sorry again for the extended period of brokenness. Cheers, Jason. -

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] package change?

2008-04-03 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 20:08 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > I think that we discuss this on the devel list, as IIRC dischi and jason > did some analysis of xml parsers. We've basically standardized on xml.sax as it had a good balance between performance and memory consumption, and it's bundled with

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.0 error

2008-03-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:35 +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote: > Sunday morning but the recent changes page had stopped working and the > last edit on a few pages is supposedly done by 'localhost'. Maybe Oh, sorry, I missed the part about the recent changes page. It does seem to be broken. I'll have a

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.0 error

2008-03-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:35 +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote: > installation page. Saturday night I was browsing around the wiki and it > just stopped working, it kept displaying a blank page. It was back again > Sunday morning but the recent changes page had stopped working and the *raises hand* Sorry

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Release 1.7.7 and 1.8.0

2008-03-24 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 10:59 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > not work. The changes to kaa.metadata are small and compatible to the > previous release, only small bugfixes. Maybe not. I changed the behaviour of 'language' attribute so that it is a human readable string, whereas before it was a language

Re: [Freevo-users] kaa-popcorn: allow mplayer input when mplayer is not embedded

2008-03-08 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi Harm, On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 13:22 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > Freevo prevents mplayer from understanding input even if you configure freevo > not to embed mplayer. This resulted in a mplayer window that could not be > closed, skipped or paused and forces you to watch the video untill it ends.

Re: [Freevo-users] Improved mplayer quality through differing video driver

2008-02-13 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 09:38 +, Justin Finkelstein wrote: > I had a play around and found a solution: to switch the video driver > that mplayer uses to 'gl2'. What video card are you using? I suspect the reason is that you have antialiasing enabled with your GL driver. Have you looked at your

Re: [Freevo-users] guide and tv_grab problems on Gentoo

2008-02-01 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:27 -0600, Evan Hisey wrote: > We can always got to 1.10 after 1.9 and just keep it going till all > the features match the 2.0 target :) Of course. *rolls eyes* Silly me. :) - This SF.net email is

Re: [Freevo-users] guide and tv_grab problems on Gentoo

2008-02-01 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:56 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > The dates in your TV.xml look as if they are incorrect they should be in > the form: Duncan, any plans to use kaa.epg in a future freevo release? On another note, with 1.8 out soon, there's only 1.9 left before you run into 2.0, and it seems

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo cpu wakeups

2007-11-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 2007-11-20 06:39, Jaap Struyk wrote: > Recently I started with powertop to see how I can bring down > powerconsumtion and therefore temp. on my server/freevo box and freevo > is responcible for most interupts; around 230 per second. > Is there a way to lower this? (polling intervals for media or

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo Webserver

2007-10-15 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 2007-10-15 15:48, Pascal Welter wrote: > But why does it use its own webserver instead using apache with > mod_python ? So that the out-of-the-box experience is better. I don't want to setup apache on my HTPC. Cheers, Jason. ---

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 2 setup ?

2007-10-04 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 2007-10-04 11:16, Evan Hisey wrote: > freevo2 is nto yet ready form regular use. Several of the features > have not yet been implemented. Give 1.7.3 a try. that is the current > user targeted release and it works well. It's also worth mentioning that the youtube video is a working prototype usi

Re: [Freevo-users] Pip or translucency in Freevo?

2007-09-18 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 2007-09-18 15:46, Brett Granger wrote: > I see that the "Newvo" video on YouTube appears to include Pip video, > and the GeexBox 2 screen shots show their menu over a DVD playback... Yes, that's the idea for Freevo 2. There are still some things to be settled though. We're not quite sure how

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

2007-09-04 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 2007-09-04 08:31, Jody Gugelhupf wrote: > i'm also wondering how audio is recorded from the WinTV PVR-500, does > it need to be connected to the sound card of the computer or the > hardware encoder card takes care of it? You connect audio to the Hauppauge card as well as video. It outputs an m

Re: [Freevo-users] Support for Schedules Direct in kaa.epg

2007-08-24 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 07:35 -0500, Michael Labowicz wrote: > I was under the impression that Schedules Direct does use xmltv. If > this is true, why can't the 1.x series of Freevo use the data as well? That's backwards, xmltv now (or will soon?) uses Schedules Direct for NA data. Of course, Fre

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