Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.7.0 Release

2007-02-27 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 27 Feb 2007, at 19:31, Duncan Webb wrote: > Karl Lattimer wrote: >> Any news on 1.7 RPMS? >> >> I'm hoping that the series of crashes i get in 1.6.3 will be fixed in >> this release. > > Karl, > > Would you be a bit more specific about crashes a

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.7.0 Release

2007-02-27 Thread Karl Lattimer
Any news on 1.7 RPMS? I'm hoping that the series of crashes i get in 1.6.3 will be fixed in this release. K, - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the ch

Re: [Freevo-users] FC5 yum install kaa

2007-02-26 Thread Karl Lattimer
>> Error: Missing Dependency: mmpython >= 0.4.10 is needed by package >> freevo > > There seems to be an error in the dependency tree, mmpython is no > longer needed (it is kaa.metadata now). > I had this same problem recently, I don't know what caused it however (something pulled kaa-metadat

[Freevo-users] Yum repository issue

2007-01-27 Thread Karl Lattimer
I was lead to believe that the most recent yum release of freevo utilised kaa-metadata rather than mmpython, however running yum errors because of a conflict between kaa-metadata and mmpython. It seems the dependency for mmpython hasn't been removed from the freevo package. Can anyone confirm thi

Re: [Freevo-users] How can I use Freevo events to run scripts?

2007-01-15 Thread Karl Lattimer
What about the existing command main menu item? Shouldn't the hack go in there so it can be used in the future for other hacks like this? K, On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 07:27 -0800, Ryan Roth wrote: > AFAIK this does not exist. You should be able to make it work by > modifying menu.py and adding a

Re: [Freevo-users] Clock drawing problems since 1.6.2

2007-01-06 Thread Karl Lattimer
far as I remember from posts you should remove and add back clock > in local_conf.py. Mine is like following: > plugin.remove('idlebar.clock') > plugin.activate('idlebar.clock', level=50, args=('%d %B %a %H:%M')) > > R. > > On 1/6/07, Karl Lattimer <

[Freevo-users] Clock drawing problems since 1.6.2

2007-01-06 Thread Karl Lattimer
It seems the text from my clock is overlaying the date and time ontop of one another since I upgraded to 1.6.2 today. I've checked various skins and the same problem occurs. any ideas what is causing this? K, - Take Surv

Re: [Freevo-users] which distribution to use...

2007-01-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 10:11 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 08:47 +0100, Jaap Struyk wrote: > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/lvcool/ for KT133 and > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/fvcool/ for newer chipsets. > > On my server/freevo-box (athlon-1333) lvcool gives me -10c. an

[Freevo-users] Merry christmas!

2006-12-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
Merry xmas freevo'ers, I'm spending this week in Egypt and thought I'd let you all know that you should maybe take a break from the list mail today ;) Thanks to freevo xmas TV has become more bearable so lets just consider that today when the Queens speech comes on the box. K, -

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-22 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 15:42 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: Very well considered. My 2c on this is that a gtk/web/freevo based config could all use the same code path to generate config files. I think configuration of nvidia/ati/other cards and tv cards should for the most part be handle by the

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-21 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 21 Dec 2006, at 10:04, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Karl Lattimer wrote: >> In all seriousness I think for freevo2 what we really need is an >> initial runtime thing rather than an installer. For most >> distributions install is easy however configuration is hard. >> loca

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
>> >> Doesn't the friendliness of the installer fall on the shoulders of >> the >> distributer really. With apt/yum freevo is very easy to install imho >> > I disagraa about apt/yum being / making freevo easy to configure. I said easy to install, not configure if you look at a previous email I

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 20 Dec 2006, at 23:56, Jordan wrote: to the terminal you know (apt-get) well, or is it an ubuntu thing... Thats an ubuntu/deb thing but the principle is the same, and I believe its already like that. Or at least it pretty much is for fedora, getting freevo into the ubuntu repos or f

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 20 Dec 2006, at 23:42, Jordan wrote: i meant is it implemented in freevo. (can i go in and type apt-get freevo) Go in where? k,- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay pane

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 20 Dec 2006, at 23:28, Jordan wrote: > ok then, package manager it is. Is this currently implemented? Is > it easy to do? most distributions have a package manager, as previously mentioned. eg. RPM or DEB are packages, the package managers of the same name also have repository handling

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 20 Dec 2006, at 23:01, Jordan wrote: oh, i worded it wrong, i meant that you dont NEED to rely entirely on auto-detection of the users config. Details you cant automatically get can be asked as a question to the user running the installer. But distribution detection is trivial, so tha

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 20 Dec 2006, at 23:00, Jordan wrote: Yeah, i guess if we cant make a bonefied "installer," an easy config of the existing installer app would be "ok". Im just not understanding why there cant be a simple "installer" that the user can run, select options, and it installs. Even if this d

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 20 Dec 2006, at 22:26, Jordan wrote: "IMHO the best idea would be a script that a) checks the distro b) installs freevo based on the distro I give autopackage no big hope projects with many deps -Dischi" Regardless of Dischis suggestion I was referring to the fact you stated "but you

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 20 Dec 2006, at 22:29, Jordan wrote: Yes, "idiot friendly" i could not have said it better! Of course the current installation methods are fine for existing users/devs/ non idiots.. yet the majority of new linux users (lke me) are kind of stupid when it comes to linux... So "idiot frie

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
hell access and whatever else required to facilitate this. K, On 20 Dec 2006, at 21:13, Karl Lattimer wrote: On 20 Dec 2006, at 21:10, Jordan wrote: okey dokey then but you dont even have to have a script just some installer that even questions the human, simple questi

Re: [Freevo-users] A new look

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On 20 Dec 2006, at 21:10, Jordan wrote: okey dokey then but you dont even have to have a script just some installer that even questions the human, simple questions, like "choose your distro" or "choose your tuner card", "choose resolution." etc What you mean like a scrip

Re: [Freevo-users] Soundcard for Linux

2006-12-19 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 11:06 +0100, Antispam wrote: > A long anser for such short question ;) > > I also have an onboard soundcard and true, the sound isn't great. > I'm looking for a soundcard that will give me perfect sound, cause the wife > wants it to be as good as the cd-player. > > Looking a

Re: [Freevo-users] Soundcard for Linux

2006-12-19 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:27 +0100, Antispam wrote: > Hello all, > > Just a quick question: Can someone tell me what soundcard they are using. > X-mas is coming and I would like to buy (read get) a new sundcard. I have an onboard via 82xxx or something to that effect, but you should find that any

Re: [Freevo-users] xine speed patch

2006-11-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
What I think may be useful would be a method to adjust the a/v sync of a xvid movie, On the odd occasion I have had these and having to run mplayer in its own x session with the keyboard attached in order to play the movie. K, On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 17:01 +0100, Paul Sijben wrote: > attached is a

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-16 Thread Karl Lattimer
> One tip, to reduce the long boot time when booting from a CF card, > boot with the kernel option ide=nodma. You should maybe put that little tip bit in the wiki K, - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

Re: [Freevo-users] USB harddisk automount/and unmount?

2006-11-01 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:09 +0100, Paul Sijben wrote: I have looked at usb and usbstorage. These are good at putting in menu items when I insert a USB device, but do not mount the disk. Modern desktop systems take care of that, nice but not on my setup where there is no desktop in sight. Now

Re: [Freevo-users] [Announcement] RPM packages for 1.6.0 on FC5 available

2006-10-31 Thread Karl Lattimer
Are there any RPMS in the Fedora Core 4 repo. If you are unable to I'll build them for you and post them up somewhere for you to insert them into the repo. K, On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:27 +0800, TC Wan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RPM packages for Freevo 1.6.0 and m

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.6.0 Released.

2006-10-28 Thread Karl Lattimer
Did you include my IMDB fix in the end? K, On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:01 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > Hi all, > > A bit ahead of schedule Freevo-1.6.0 will be released this evening. > > I hope you have as much fun with the new version as I have had preparing it. > > Don't forget to report and bug

Re: [Freevo-users] Removing ads

2006-10-24 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 19:03 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:15 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > > > > It will certainly be a feature added at some point on the Freevo 2 > > > platform. > > > > > > you seem to have f

Re: [Freevo-users] Removing ads

2006-10-24 Thread Karl Lattimer
> It will certainly be a feature added at some point on the Freevo 2 > platform. you seem to have forgotten the tags! K, - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly

Re: [Freevo-users] music player thought

2006-10-22 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 11:29 -0700, Michael Ruelle wrote: > I've looked at http://jerakeen.org/code/pythondaap/ > which seems to be a set of classes to interface with > a DAAP server (the protocol behind itunes). looks > promising but i don't see the kind of generic > browsing/zeroconf hooks. Haven

Re: [Freevo-users] IMDB issues

2006-10-17 Thread Karl Lattimer
file.write(self.print_variant()) file.write(line + '\n') else: file.write(line + '\n') file.close() util.touch(os.path.join(config.FREEVO_CACHEDIR, 'freevo-rebuild-databas

Re: [Freevo-users] IMDB issues

2006-10-17 Thread Karl Lattimer
Ideally, we would have a small file that exists on freevo.org that net-connected freevo boxen can pull periodically to update to new code that fixes issues like this that are sporadically temperamental. Wouldn't it be better to pull a small text config file from the web. For instance; th

Re: [Freevo-users] IMDB issues

2006-10-17 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 15:32 +0100, John Molohan wrote: Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 14:31 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > >> Has anyone else been experiencing problems where the IMDB lookup >> results in an FXD file being created with a blank title? The

Re: [Freevo-users] IMDB issues

2006-10-17 Thread Karl Lattimer
I might take a look at it tonight and see if its something simple and dumb, Is it too late to get a patch into 1.6? K, On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 10:12 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 14:31 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > Has anyone else been experiencing problems where

[Freevo-users] IMDB issues

2006-10-17 Thread Karl Lattimer
Has anyone else been experiencing problems where the IMDB lookup results in an FXD file being created with a blank title? The result is that the file goes to the start of the list. There should probably be some kind of fall back solution to this based on the filename, if the title field returns

Re: [Freevo-users] S-Presso and Freevo

2006-10-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 10:46 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:38, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > All they are required to do is respect the copyright > > holders, distribute the GPL or tell interested parties what license it > > is and where they can

Re: [Freevo-users] S-Presso and Freevo

2006-10-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 09:56 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Sunday 15 October 2006 09:33, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > After reading a little of this thread I'm wondering what it is exactly > > you're expecting Asus to give you? If you're looking at getting the code &

Re: [Freevo-users] S-Presso and Freevo

2006-10-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 19:10 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote: > Karl- > They do have to make the GPLed code available. If they have made any > mod's to the code to get it to work on their hardware then those have > to be released. Sorry this is a very primitive understanding of the GPL and its implicati

Re: [Freevo-users] S-Presso and Freevo

2006-10-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
fy the puritans. They won't give you things like their init scripts, custom hardware code, and custom UI code as that stuff is legally theirs. Remember the GPL doesn't stop you making money out of the code, it just tries to make it impossible for you to claim ownership. For instance I can

Re: [Freevo-users] get freevo to log out user when quitting

2006-10-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
gnome-session-save --kill Is the command to logout of a session. K, On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 10:39 +0100, mat holton wrote: I take it from the lack of responses to this message that this functionality isn't built in so I would have to hack the code myself to get it working? Maybe I wasn't

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Evas MPEG Canvas

2006-10-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:25 +0200, Tom Van den Bon wrote: > I can't for the life of me remember how I did the capture for > http://urandom.ca/~tack/kaa-menu-demo.avi > Wow, is that what the new Freevo 2.0 is going to look like ? Very nice indeed Check out the latest SVN of freevo 2 and

Re: [Freevo-users] New gentoo install

2006-10-02 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:04 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: My new install for the S-Presso is progressing slowly Current problems dvd drive not detected as such (gets info from fstab with ROM_DRIVES = None) /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom is in fstab so cannot detect a DVD in the drive as a movie to be pl

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't watch recording

2006-09-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
OK, when you try and play something try this. ps faxwww | grep mplayer that should split out the full command line of mplayer, next try and run that exact same command line and watch the output. Simply running mplayer or xine from the command line can miss out further freevo type stuff. If

Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.

2006-09-19 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:18 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote: > Seems like some peopele have never heard of linux, MythTV or Freevo. > This is from the shuttle spec page: Wots freevo? ;) Oh yeah, that'll be that thing microsoft copied to remove as a competitor before they entered the market. K, --

Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.

2006-09-18 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:22 +0100, John Molohan wrote: Duncan Webb wrote: > Justin Wetherell wrote: > > I've just finished a building a Shuttle XPC SB83G5M > (http://eu.shuttle.com/en/desktopdefault.aspx/searchcall-12/searchcategory-238/noblendout-1/tabid-72/170_read-11083/) > which works

Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.

2006-09-11 Thread Karl Lattimer
Hi Ashley, You mentioned pretty boot process; http://www.bootsplash.org/ Try that, suse have been using it for a while, you can do things like animations (fbmngplay) and progress bars using it, and its not as bulky as RHGB. as far as hardware is concerned a good UK provider is https://linitx.

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 19:28 -0700, Ryan Roth wrote: > I have a 36" Sony Wega, mabey he has a 13" TV :) Comeon tack, own up are you using a 3.5" casio handheld TV with an RF modulator to convert the composite signal? K, /me thinks that Tacks TV is gonna keep getting smaller until it is ludicrousl

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
> > It simply makes sense that I wouldn't see an improvement. The limitation > here is my television. It only has about 480 lines of visible > resolution. Maybe your TV/video card is really crappy? I've got a reasonably new phillips and there is a noticeable difference for me. BTW, after checki

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
> In fact if anyone claims otherwise I'll simply refuse to believe it > until I get a good explanation. :) You must have faith my child. ;) It _IS_ better quality, possibly because nvidia have done some good work on stabilising the video at that resolution, now I'm not saying I can read ordinary

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
> I don't grok how this can possibly provide superior output to running > the card at the TV's native vertical resolution and using software > scaling (in mplayer, say). Try it! There is a noticeable difference . > It will support xine, which has tvtime's deinterlacers (including > GreedyH and To

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
but it looks wicked eitherway! legacy how? I have a geforce mx4400 in my freevo, I don't know about older cards although I expect anything that can do this in windows will also be able to do it in linux now. K, > > On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 00:43 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > F

[Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
For those who aren't aware and are using nvidia cards with TV-output the new nvidia drivers see one incredible improvement (as I've just discovered). The drivers are now capable of outputting a 1024x768 signal on TV, this has been a limitation of the drivers for some time and now we can enjoy high

Re: [Freevo-users] Too large image with TV Out.

2006-05-04 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 02:29 +0200, Layn wrote: > Hello list. > I have configured my freevo in a monitor in this monitor everything > is ok. Now i have put this computer in a TV. I can start freevo without > problem, everythings are seen ok, but when i try see a video i have > notice that

Re: [Freevo-users] Errors compiling latest SVN Version

2006-05-02 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 00:14 +0200, Robert wrote: > Hi, > > I did not yet get this compiled, really. What did work was (since I only > want to use X11 display) commenting out the following lines in > kaa/display/setup.py: > > check_library('X11', [''], '') > # check_library('imlib2', '1.1.1') Thi

[Freevo-users] Democracy

2006-04-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
I don't know how many of you know about this, but my god its good. http://www.getdemocracy.com/ Oh, be sure to check out the very informative how to give cpr on french maid tv... It is very very erm... informative ;) K, PS. Dischi any chance of audio/video podcast support in freevo2? ---

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: rage by rasterman

2006-04-26 Thread Karl Lattimer
> You can do this with metacity too, and I agree, it's not a thing I can > live without. That and moving windows to different desktops: hold alt, > left click, hit shortcut key to change desktop. It's interesting these > little indispensable little workflows one develops over the years Metacity

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: rage by rasterman

2006-04-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
> As an aside, E is the reason I switched the Linux, oh-so-many years > ago. > > 'course I don't use E anymore (I'm perfectly happy with GNOME -- for > certainly definitions of happy, because they all suck really, including > E), but without E, I'd probably still be a Windows weenie. :) I thin

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: rage by rasterman

2006-04-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
> I don't really give a rats ass about fdo :P I want my desktop the way I > want it. (gnome and kde both suck imnsho) > Kde sucks, bug gnome is warm fuzzy and homely! > > Maybe in five years or so, once they've started falling into line with > > freedesktop.org then it'll be an actual desktop,

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: rage by rasterman

2006-04-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 00:30 +0200, Morten Nilsen wrote: > Karl Lattimer wrote: > >> look at the movie .. menu thumbs are all animated while on screen .. the > >> in-movie thumbs are stills > > > > You looked at it more than I ;p > > > > Glad someone

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: rage by rasterman

2006-04-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 00:16 +0200, Morten Nilsen wrote: > Karl Lattimer wrote: > > I doubt that the thumbs depicted in the rasterman/rage image would be > > animated unless he smokes an awful lot of crack. It just wouldn't make > > sense to have all that video on screen

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: rage by rasterman

2006-04-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
> > OK, Raster is doing much more. If you look at > > http://www.rasterman.com/files/rage_08.jpg he also has thumbnails for > > different positions in the stream. So let us say 20 thumbnails and > > this pushes the 3 seconds to 1 minute. > > Are they 20 animated thumbnails? (I don't have the vid

Re: [Freevo-users] Oh deary me!

2006-04-24 Thread Karl Lattimer
> I wouldn't sweat it. After all, every stand-alone > 'offical' DVD player I've met won't let you jump out > of the FBI/INTERPOL warnings. Yet all you have to do > is push MENU in Freevo and off it goes... > Gotta love that ;) > As for Porn driving the technology industry? Can you > deny it? The

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Oh deary me!

2006-04-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
> Give the people porn, and they will follow > > Regards, > Wander. I'm gonna quote you on that ;) Seems the same in the mobile content market, all the providers seem to think people want to watch TV on their mobiles... The fact of the matter is they want porn clips they can laugh at with thei

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Oh deary me!

2006-04-19 Thread Karl Lattimer
> It's like > democracy, even if some of us don't like it, just because if others do, > these evil things keep existing... > > "I find myself in the corner of the room, with my leather bound book open scrawling "down with big brother" over and over, was I dreaming? -- Winston smith, George O

[Freevo-users] Best give you guys a giggle

2006-04-19 Thread Karl Lattimer
http://www.qdh.org.uk/wordpress/?p=48 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into

[Freevo-users] Oh deary me!

2006-04-19 Thread Karl Lattimer
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/19/philips_enforced_ads_patent/ Can this be avoided if it comes into force in future freevo releases, we could use a slogan like "take back your channel hopping" K, --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by x

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo on FC5

2006-03-31 Thread Karl Lattimer
Try replacing $releasever with 4 in the repo line FC4 uses python 2.4 same as FC5, therefore it should work with the FC4 RPMS installed. by setting the $releasver to 4 you should obtain the RPMS for FC4. K, On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:46 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi to all. > > Someone kno

Re: [Freevo-users] webtv

2006-03-06 Thread Karl Lattimer
Well, you'll need realplayer9 and w32codecs installed to access most of the streams. Most of them rely on vp6vfw i found, and some are out of date. i.e. BBC news 24 I found that quite a few of the streams were not really that good, but giga has some cool things on, in german, although i don't spea

[Freevo-users] DVD/Movie on CD not working...

2006-02-27 Thread Karl Lattimer
I recently upgraded from FC2 to FC4, along with this there is a change to the location of the DVD drive to /media rather than /mnt, I have updated my fstab but still freevo does not seem to recognise a DVD drive at all. Any suggestions? I could be missing a CD-drives option from my freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Python IDE

2006-02-22 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:07 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > "Justin Wetherell" wrote: > > I wondering which Python IDE people use; I am looking for a Open Source IDE. > > I am currently using VI, so anything is better. > > Emacs > > SCNR > > > Dischi, using Emacs > You are hardcore /me bows d

[Freevo-users] Telewest + DVB-C

2006-02-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
Hi, Is anyone out there using a DVB-C pci card with their freevo in the UK, I've just spoken to telewest and all they had to say was I wouldn't get any support from them if the thing went wrong and they didn't know what the status was of using a DVB-C card with a PC. The thing is, using a c

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo 2.0

2006-02-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:12 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Matthew Goeden wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer DIschi! /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ > > freevo/* gets added when executing "emerge freevo", which is listed > > in the freevo 2.0 install wiki page as an easy way to install the > > freev

Re: [Freevo-users] Can not ALSA mixer volume from Freevo

2006-02-19 Thread Karl Lattimer
Check the modules are loaded, I had a similar problem modprobe snd-mixer-oss K, On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 11:08 +0100, Jortan wrote: > Hi, > > I've just bought a new SB Audigy SE sound card and had to install new > ALSA drivers version 1.0.11rc3. I can use alsamixer to control volume > but when I t

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: All my MP3s are played twice

2006-02-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
> Should be fixed in 1.5.3. If not, report back. > Dischi I've started getting this problem now also, running freevo 1.5.4, i just upgraded from fc2 to fc4 using yum today, it worked fine before hand so must be something to do with the new mplayer/xine i've got installed. fixed by adding; plugin

Re: [Freevo-users] appletrailers plugin

2006-02-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
I've just updated appletrailers with this script (haven't used it in a very long time) and I still get an empty directory error. It does scan the apple site (progress bar and all), but doesn't show anything up? K, --- This SF.net email is spon

Re: [Freevo-users] LIRC and tranmitting

2006-02-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
> It is a matter of putting the signal from where you are taking the > -12V on low instead of high. RS232 codes "1" as -12V and "0" as +12V. > Or perhaps you can feed the +12V from the power supply directly. I take power from the PSU already, the signal line is -12 at rest and during transmissio

[Freevo-users] LIRC and tranmitting

2006-02-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
Hi all, I'm looking into replacing my homebrew lirc receiver with a transceiver which will make things a bit nicer regarding my external tuner. I have tried to build a homebrew transmitter but unfortunately after buying the components and building the device as described i found that the serial

Re: [Freevo-users] Pylirc

2006-01-31 Thread Karl Lattimer
The RPM you want to install is lirc-devel if you want to build it, and lirc will need to be installed. However, if you're installing pylirc as an RPM why do you have to build it from source? Regards, Karl On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:38 +0100, Jan Jensen wrote: > I just tried to install pylirc-0

[Freevo-users] BUG in tvtime stdout handling [was] freevo crashes while tvtime is running

2006-01-26 Thread Karl Lattimer
It seems this problem has something to do with the following part of the trimmed output. On 22 Jan 2006, at 17:36, Karl Lattimer wrote: When watching TV with tvtime (because mplayer is broken and I can't seem to get it fixed) freevo crashes in the background dumping out the foll

[Freevo-users] freevo crashes while tvtime is running

2006-01-22 Thread Karl Lattimer
When watching TV with tvtime (because mplayer is broken and I can't seem to get it fixed) freevo crashes in the background dumping out the following output. It happens after a few minutes of running tvtime Something in the OSD?? BTW: I don't press a key/ir button or anything else, this just

[Freevo-users] line input not muting/unmuting when playing tv with mplayer

2006-01-22 Thread Karl Lattimer
For some reason I cannot seem to get line input to mute/unmute when using mplayer to view tv. The unmuting has always been a problem, I added a tvopt argument of ";aumix -l 90" to fix that, however since upgrading to freevo 1.5.4 now the tv doesn't mute when exiting. Anyone have this prob

Re: [Freevo-users] Xine and Mplayer - slow dvd playback

2006-01-18 Thread Karl Lattimer
Hey I helped you, now you help everyone, put a wiki entry in for it ;) Regards, K On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:39 +0100, Jan Hagemejer wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:29:28 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote > > I doubt this is a problem with the player, rather a problem with your > > driv

Re: [Freevo-users] Xine and Mplayer - slow dvd playback

2006-01-18 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:35 +0100, Jan Hagemejer wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:29:28 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote > > I doubt this is a problem with the player, rather a problem with your > > drive. > > Try running this command > > /sbin/hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/dvd > >

Re: [Freevo-users] Xine and Mplayer - slow dvd playback

2006-01-18 Thread Karl Lattimer
I doubt this is a problem with the player, rather a problem with your drive. Try running this command /sbin/hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/dvd Regards, Karl On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 08:39 +0100, Alberto Hernando wrote: > Hi. > > > > >I have two issues, both concerning dvd playback. > >No matter what I do

Re: [Freevo-users] screensaver

2005-12-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:15 +0100, Fabio Papa wrote: > Karl Lattimer wrote: > >>xset -dpms s off > > > > > > > > This never worked for me. > > > > I had tried it, as it was the first reference i found to the dpms > > problem. > > Hi

Re: [Freevo-users] screensaver

2005-12-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
> xset -dpms s off This never worked for me. I had tried it, as it was the first reference i found to the dpms problem. Regards, Karl -- This message was scanned for viruses by a trial version of BitDefender for Linux Mail Servers. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.

Re: [Freevo-users] screensaver

2005-12-05 Thread Karl Lattimer
I have a hack to fix this /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off -display :0 /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s reset -display :0 that should do it, the first one turns suspend off, the second resets the display so it comes back on. hope this helps On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 13:33 +0100, Emmanuel Sale wrote: > Hello all, >

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo will not start (recent svn)

2005-11-28 Thread Karl Lattimer
try setting OS_CACHEDIR to /tmp in your local_conf.py, that should do it. On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 20:37 -0500, Brian wrote: > Hi > > I have worked through a bunch of errors with a svn install of freevo. > > Now I seem to be stuck > > Here is my last error that I can not solve. > > Traceback (mos

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2005-10-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
I think the lcd plugin including track length, position, name etc... would be best when playing a movie but If you look at a DVD player one issue that always bugs me is that they insist on having a constantly moving/flickering playing icon. This is stupid and distracting. the screen should chan

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2005-10-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
How about clock on the first line, on the second line do things like scroll headlines, weather, sysinfo etc... On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:04 -0600, Matthew Bettencourt wrote: > I have been toying with the idea of redoing the lcd part in freevo since > i also have a new lcd display. I was thinking

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo And integration of VLC

2005-10-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
So the question is.. how much would it take? What's a ball park figure? At least you have to let me chew on it. Personally I'm not sure. I can't do it as I don't have the time. However it would be an interesting task to do as I've only recently learned python and I'm learning the freevo co

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo And integration of VLC

2005-10-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
(i suggest xfake), then you've gotta have local clients connect to that, as well as remote clients. Regards, Karl On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 08:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:48 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > how much is the bounty? > > Depends on the comple

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo And integration of VLC

2005-10-24 Thread Karl Lattimer
how much is the bounty? On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:58 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > Has anyone on this list been able to get VLC intergrated into Freevo? I > am currently running Freevo as a set-top box and set-up a separate > server box running VLC and acting as a VoD server. > > Rig

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Differentiating new items

2005-10-11 Thread Karl Lattimer
On the themeing side of things, I imagine that this could best be achieved by setting a colour for new items, and maybe a different colour for unplayed items, and fading that colour (opacity change) based on the date of the file. So for instance one day could be equivalent to a 10% opacity change i

Re: [Freevo-users] autorip

2005-10-04 Thread Karl Lattimer
I once wrote a small C tool which detected C insertion for a DVD ripper in gtk2. It used a fairly basic ioctl call to detect that the disk had been inserted, I imagine that this can also be done in perl/python. There is lots of documentation on how to do this in C on the net, try searching google f

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
On the subject of pc-to-tv adapters, I used one I got from maplin electronics here in the UK with freevo. It had two buttons on it, one was an overscan button and the other was a bugger up the picture button which made the screen go green?!?! The overscan button would change through 3 modes, one o

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters, ATI TV-Out

2005-10-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:25 +0200, Alberto Hernando wrote: > El Lunes, 3 de Octubre de 2005 23:16, Karl Lattimer escribió: > > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/theater_out.php > > > > You've gotta check it out of CVS, build the XF source tree, then build > > the gatos

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
> I have a NVIDIA card. The nice thing is that you can use it as > xinerama/dual head. But I heard that the Tv-out of ATI is far better. LIES, HISS. NVIDIA is far superior! With ati-tvout turn the kettle on and you get some distortion, turn the microwave on and the screen goes craz

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters, ATI TV-Out

2005-10-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
> I have the same problem that you have... I have struggled like hell to > have my ATI 9000 Radeon http://gatos.sourceforge.net/theater_out.php You've gotta check it out of CVS, build the XF source tree, then build the gatos driver while pointing to the XF build folder, this works very well, it

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