Re: [Freevo-users] Randomizing .m3u playlists

2003-12-29 Thread Matthew Caron
I mentioned this a month or so ago. No one responded, but I would second that this is a useful feature. Matt McLeod wrote: I've got myself a fairly large .m3u playlist. Freevo is quite happy to play it, but there doesn't seem to be a random play option in the SELECT menu (? I mapped this stuff

Re: [Freevo-users] newbie with a lot of questions

2003-12-12 Thread Matthew Caron
something that will blend in with my other home theater gear. Anyone have any unique solutions to keeping it quiet and cool? - Overspec everything, especially CPU fans - I buy all my power supplies and cooling stuff from pcpowerandcooling.com. Their Ultra-Quiet line of PSU's really are that

Re: [Freevo-users] newbie with a lot of questions

2003-12-12 Thread Matthew Caron
(For the List, I think he was referencing my sig file) Dave Graham wrote: Dude, Just slap up a linksys router and you're fine...i block all the ports I don't need and haven't had an invasion yet. That will stop active worm attacks over the network, but what about the web page of doom/email of

Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew Caron
I've had good luck with Redhat (Now Fedora Core). Slick installer and lots of extra setup tools. Dave Graham wrote: Looks good! I'm getting the M1 with a Casetronics C137 I'm coupling this with Hauppage's WinPVR-350 Haven't made my decision about distro's yet (and since I suck at all

Re: [Freevo-users] vga to tv converter + xfree86

2003-12-07 Thread Matthew Caron
Here is what my monitor section looks like: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameGeneric Extended Super VGA, 800x600 @ 60 Hz, 640x480 @ 72 Hz DisplaySize 350270 HorizSync31.5 -

Re: [Freevo-users] vga to tv converter + xfree86

2003-12-07 Thread Matthew Caron
Have you tried having X autoprobe for the settings? What is it, XFree86 --setup or something like that? Ryan wrote: These settings have given the worst results so far :(. I'll call the company and see what they say, otherwise its off to ebay. On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 08:07, Matthew Caron wrote

Re: [Freevo-users] vga to tv converter + xfree86

2003-12-07 Thread Matthew Caron
It depends on what you mean. It's not as crisp as a monitor, but it's as crisp as all the video game systems I hook up to my TV. The limit is how good the TV can display. Ryan wrote: Actually I just plugged the vga converter back into my XP laptop and the display isn't crisp at all. This thing

Re: [Freevo-users] vga to tv converter + xfree86

2003-12-06 Thread Matthew Caron
What resolutions refresh rates can the unit do? Should be in the manual. Ryan Detert wrote: I just bought a Startech vga to tv converter. It is designed to work with windows of course, and it works perfectly on windows. However, on XFree86 4.3, slackware 9.1, using the nvidia drivers for TNT2,

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Performance/Config questions

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Caron
Still broken. We switched to the plugin design in 1.3.1 and noone ported the xmms plugin to it. Thanks for the info. Might take a crack at it myself, time permitting. Plugin architecture seems straightforward. You need the cvs version of xine to use xine as audio player. Than add

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Performance/Config questions

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Caron
Only in cvs of Freevo, not 1.4 Thanks. Will get the CVS. -- I have learned much more about Microsoft by using the Linux operating system than I ever would have done by using Windows. -- Neal Stephenson, In The Beginning Was The Command Line ~~ Matt Caron ~~

[Freevo-users] Feature idea/question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Caron
Is there a way to randomly play songs within a playlist? If not, might this be a thing worth adding? -- Whoever, being a citizen of the United States, commits any murder or robbery, or any act of hostility against the United States, or against any citizen thereof, on the high seas, under color of

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo CVS - freevo cache starts in / - Fixed it

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Caron
That is what happens if one of the configuration directories is wrong: IMAGE_ITEMS was misnamed IMAGES_ITEMS (it was my mistake, I typed it rather than copy-paste) Matthew Caron wrote: Any idea why, when I run 'freevo cache' today's CVS version of freevo, it seems to start in / and cache all

[Freevo-users] Performance/Config questions

2003-11-29 Thread Matthew Caron
After searching around and satisfying most of my issues, these remain: 1.) The Changelog says xmms support was broken at 1.3.1. Is it still broken? If not, how dows one turn it on 2.) Is there any was to use xine for playback instead of mplayer? Xine seems to support more of my files than

Re: [Freevo-users] Performance/Config questions

2003-11-29 Thread Matthew Caron
3.) Does the reading of .m3u lists/generating random playlists have to be so unbelievably slow? snip Please ignore this question - Reading those nifty messages that scroll by really fast tells one about freevo cache which, of course, fixes this problem. Apologies to the list. However, my