Re: [Freevo-users] /dev/video

2005-03-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Don Watson wrote: Nicholas Ruddick wrote: modprobe ivtv will return no output data. As long as it didn't return an error it's fine. You will know that the module is loaded if you run lsmod. This will display ivtv in the list. Insmod is a different type of modprobe, ignore it now, i

Re: [Freevo-users] /dev/video

2005-03-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
modprobe ivtv will return no output data. As long as it didn't return an error it's fine. You will know that the module is loaded if you run lsmod. This will display ivtv in the list. Insmod is a different type of modprobe, ignore it now, if modprobe works that's all you need to use. Check dmes

Re: [Freevo-users] /dev/video

2005-03-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Don Watson wrote: Don Watson wrote: Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Don Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] don]$ xawtv This is xawtv-3.93, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.8.1-24mdk) can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/video

Re: [Freevo-users] /dev/video

2005-03-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Don Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] don]$ xawtv This is xawtv-3.93, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.8.1-24mdk) can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or

Re: [Freevo-users] Feature Request - Protected directories

2005-03-28 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Hi Justin, This is already implemented within Freevo. Put a file in the directory you want protected and calling it ".password" . Within this file place the password you want to protect the directory with. Hope this gets what you want Nick Justin wrote: Hi, I would like to request a feature if

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with MPlayer failing to play media

2005-03-14 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
I'm confused to why everyone is saying you need gmplayer? gmplayer is a gtk front end to mplayer that is not needed by freevo. mplayer is all that is needed. If it works from command line, then it should work with freevo. Check that it is being correctly detected by running freevo setup. This

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Selection as Picture and not as Rectangle possible ??

2005-03-13 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Your skin looks very good, could you post it on the list when you think it is suitable for other people to test it. I would like to give it a go :-) Nick Dirk Meyer wrote: "Stefan Franz" wrote: Am Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:26:05 +0100 schrieb Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Stefan Franz" wrote

[Freevo-users] Freevo mentioned on slashdot again!

2005-03-08 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Freevo was mentioned recently on slashdot in regard to Plextor PVR's being supported now under linux. planetjay writes /"Plextor PVR's now support Linux with an open source SDK

[Freevo-users] Can't get DIRECTORY_AUDIO_FORMAT_STRING to work in 1.5.3

2005-02-14 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Hi, I tried changing in /etc/freevo/local_conf.py the line DIRECTORY_AUDIO_FORMAT_STRING = '%(t)s' to DIRECTORY_AUDIO_FORMAT_STRING = '%(n)s - %(t)s' so I could display track numbers beside the audio title. However, it does not seem to be working. In fact I have never got this to work, tried way

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: call for working DirectFB configurations survey - please share your success stories!

2005-02-08 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
ts the bare minimum needed. All I want is freevo to play movies and audio with mplayer, basic system functions and have webmin installed remote admin. So far I'm down to 208 packages with some more to trim out. :-) Nick Dirk Meyer wrote: Dirk Meyer wrote: Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Que

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: call for working DirectFB configurations survey - please share your success stories!

2005-02-08 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
k are not needed looking through qpkg -I. I don't have xmltv or a TV input card installed so I'm still not sure where to look. I await your use flags with interest :-) Nick Lucian Muresan wrote: Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Ah no, freevo is not displayed in 16:9 but 4:3. It gets the mode fr

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: call for working DirectFB configurations survey - please share your success stories!

2005-02-08 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
install it but whenever I emerge -uv world it wants to reinstall it every time. I have the -X use flag set and all X like packages removed. Be interested to see your setup files too. Regards, Nick Lucian Muresan wrote: Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Heres my setup using a G450 which works well for a P

Re: [Freevo-users] call for working DirectFB configurations survey - please share your success stories!

2005-02-07 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Heres my setup using a G450 which works well for a PAL 16:9 TV setup. /etc/directfbrc matrox-crtc2 matrox-tv-standard=pal primary-layer=02 disable-module=elo disable-module=joystick disable-module=keyboard disable-module=ps2mouse disable-module=serialmouse disable-module=sonypi disable-module=sdlin

Re: [Freevo-users] Folder-wide mplayer_options

2005-01-24 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
I had the same problem trying to use and finding it did not work. Could not find a solution either :-( Does anybody have any ideas for this? Nick Jesper Mathiassen wrote: I have run into some problems using mplayer_options in fxd files. My goal is to make all my recordings in their folder played

Re: [Freevo-users] Terminal on TV with G450 and DirectFB

2005-01-19 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Shawn Dowler wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:43:48 +, Nicholas Ruddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All I can say Shawn is I looked into the same ideas you have a few months back and didn't really come up with much. Con2fb seems to have very little information out on it and dfbter

Re: [Freevo-users] Terminal on TV with G450 and DirectFB

2005-01-17 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
All I can say Shawn is I looked into the same ideas you have a few months back and didn't really come up with much. Con2fb seems to have very little information out on it and dfbterm I haven't tried. If you do come up with solutions to boot up screens and terminals share it with the list. I'd b

Re: [Freevo-users] Fine-Tuning Freevo confs

2004-12-16 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Does it do it not show up dvd's for all dvd's or just some. I had a problem with one dvd where it did that. Check lsdvd package is installed correctly. Perhaps try removing it and installing it again. This package is required for viewing the chapter listings in dvd's. Nick Andrew Osborn wrote:

[Freevo-users] Can't get to work with my fire...

2004-12-06 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Hey, I'm trying to get my freevo's screensaver working. It calls an fxd file to start a video (a fireplace video - I well recommend it as your screensaver, all my friends find it hilarious). The problem is there is an intro title screen for the first 65 secs that I want to skip past. So mplayer

[Freevo-users] Gentoo Bootsplash on TV out with Matrox G450?

2004-10-20 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Anybody been able to get the bootsplash logo of Gentoo to output to on the TV-out. I'd like to be able to see gentoo booting and shutting down on my G450. It should be possible to get my framebuffer console to output to TV, just can't quite get it, only a fuzzy screen :-( Thanks, Nick -

[Freevo-users] directfb matrox Mplayer horizontal splitting

2004-09-22 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Hi,   I’m setting up my Matrox G450 with directfb. I’m running Gentoo 2004.2 Kernel 2.6 and freevo 1.5.0 (trying to upgrade to 1.5.1 off portage but it wants the new version of Perl which then fails to complile, its another story anyway). Whenever I play a movie though it plays it fine ap

[Freevo-users] Weather plugin broken for UKXX0061 - Glasgow, Scotland, UK??

2004-09-08 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
The weather plugin worked for this location before, but suddenly it’s broken and the data file is showing nothing significant in it. Is this a known issue?   Thanks,   Nicholas

RE: [Freevo-users] DVD Drive only showing files, not playing.

2004-09-02 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
;On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 20:51 +0100, Nicholas Ruddick wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I'm running Gentoo 2004.2, Freevo 1.5.0 mmpython 0.4.5 and trying to get >>freevo to play dvd's. When I put a dvd in and select the drive it won't play >>the dvd instead shows th

[Freevo-users] DVD Drive only showing files, not playing.

2004-08-31 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
_EXE='lsdvd' to LSDVD_EXE='/usr/bin/lsdvd' Manually specified the drive in local_conf.py as mounting in /mnt/dvd from /dev/dvd None of these have made a difference. The problem still exists. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Nicholas Ruddick ---

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Missing dependency.....

2004-06-08 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users Fedora comes with Python 2.3, you've gone back to 2.2 which is a bad move. Fedora relies heavily on python for alot of its inbuild configurat

Re: [Freevo-users] SDL 1.2.7 DXR3 Patch?

2004-06-07 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
In fact, what is SDL actually used for? Do I need it? Is it just for xmame or does freevo use it? I just use freevo for movies and music, mplayer doesn't use SDL so what does? Does the freevo gui use SDL? Nicholas Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Is it that, it doesn't work full stop? Or is

Re: [Freevo-users] SDL 1.2.7 DXR3 Patch?

2004-06-07 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Is it that, it doesn't work full stop? Or is it because SDL has changed so much that with a bit of hacking it could work again? Nicholas Ruddick Justin Wetherell wrote: DXR3 doesn't not work with 1.2.7. The only combo that I could get running is: SDL-1.2.6 and ffmpeg-0.4.6. You c

[Freevo-users] SDL 1.2.7 DXR3 Patch?

2004-06-06 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Hi, I'm trying to get DXR3 with FC2 runnning. Nearly there, but is there a patch for SDL 1.2.7 for dxr and no-keyboard?? I tried the 1.2.6 patch but it said 1 out of 3 hunks failed. I hear the gcc one isn't needed with the new SDL. Thanks, Nichol

Re: [Freevo-users] Announcement: RPMs for Fedora Core 2 available

2004-06-05 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Sorry I was being stupid. I was wget 'ing all the links on the site and of course some aren't direct links (the ones on sourceforge anyway) so it was making false rpms. Nicholas Ruddick wrote: I'm having problems installing the rpms, some of them are coming up with errors -

Re: [Freevo-users] Announcement: RPMs for Fedora Core 2 available

2004-06-03 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
I'm having problems installing the rpms, some of them are coming up with errors - python-twisted-1.3.0-1_fc2.i386.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest): this is the same with mmpythin, lsdvd, freevo-core, freevo-recording and maybe some others. What should I do? Nicholas Ruddic

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: FXD Internet Radio not showing title

2004-05-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Dirk Meyer wrote: Nicholas Ruddick wrote: Lounge-Radio It's See share/fxd for examples Dischi Ah ok thanks the wiki has it different as - RadioIO 80's mos.jpg http://radioio.sc.llnwd.net:8220/ Alternative More choices,

Re: [Freevo-users] problem with xmms

2004-05-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
h-xmmsplugindir and --with-xmmslibdir options. Try that and it would be a good work around. Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle

[Freevo-users] FXD Internet Radio not showing title

2004-05-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
the info about it. Any ideas? Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE.

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: xmms without X

2004-05-27 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
for formats. That said, on the mplayer site it does say if you just want to play audio you shouldn't use it and consider using something like xmms. Contradictions all around :-) Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Ora

[Freevo-users] BUG - Memory Leak, Picture Viewer

2004-05-22 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
I'm using a recent CVS version of Freevo and having problems with a memory leak, once i've looked at about 50 pictures it just slows down and then exits. I have CACHE-IMAGES off but have the image transition thing on default. Any ideas? Thanks, Nichol

Re: [Freevo-users] Firebird plugin key entry

2004-05-19 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
t who made it aswell. Nicholas Ruddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The firebird plugin is not reccomended for 1.5. Try the new(all one line in local_conf.py): plugin.activate('command.CommandMainMenuItem', args=(/usr/local/freevo_data/Commands/Mozilla.fxd', ),

Re: [Freevo-users] Firebird plugin key entry

2004-05-18 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
I've removed the firebird.py plugin from the addons page since it is not applicable anymore. Forget who made it aswell. Nicholas Ruddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The firebird plugin is not reccomended for 1.5. Try the new(all one line in local_conf.py): plugin.act

Re: [Freevo-users] Appletrailers plugin Freevo 1.5rc2

2004-05-17 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Cheers I didn't have the original .tar.gz file for installing the rest of the files that come with it. I got sent it and replaced the appletrailers.py and it works great now! Nicholas Ruddick Lars Michael Jogback wrote: I've copied the attached appletrailers.py into the plugins dir

Re: [Freevo-users] local config file

2004-05-15 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
No, do not do that it can break stuff! There is a local_conf.py.example in the freevo directory. Copy that to /etc/freevo or .freevo/ in you're home directory. Nicholas Ruddick skeeterskip wrote: I just installed Freevo 1.5 and couldn't seem to find the local config file. I'm t

Re: [Freevo-users] Appletrailers plugin Freevo 1.5rc2

2004-05-15 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
I've copied the attached appletrailers.py into the plugins directory and put plugin.activate('video.appletrailers') as it states in the file into local_conf but nothing is showing up on the main menu or the Watch a Movie screen. What am i doing wrong? Thanks Nicholas Ruddic

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: F2/Power button

2004-03-14 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
the keycode, i can get that just using 'xev' and pressing the button brings up the keycode and showing it isn't mapped to anything. What is the syntax i add to local_conf.py to add say the keycode 169 to POWER? Regards, Nicholas Ruddick -

[Freevo-users] BUG - Scheduled Records, latest CVS.

2004-03-11 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
When i select a program from the program guide and select "Schedule for recording" it says it has been added and gets highlighted green. But on the main TV page it still says "No recordings scheduled" even after a full freevo restart, same symptom

Re: [Freevo-users] Keyboard repeat not working

2004-03-09 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
%s' % (str(self.sdl_driver)),2) | | pygame.mouse.set_visible(0) |+pygame.key.set_repeat(500, 30) | self.mousehidetime = time.time() | | self._help = 0 # Is the helpscreen displayed or not Thanks for you're he

Re: [Freevo-users] Keyboard repeat not working

2004-03-09 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
is is a pygame thing that needs to be set. I found this method in the pygame doc some time ago, but I haven't tested it: | pygame.key.set_repeat([delay, interval]) I don't know excactly where to put it, but probably somewhere in the OSD class. Regards Viggo Fredriksen Nicholas Ruddick wrote:

Re: [Freevo-users] Keyboard repeat not working

2004-03-09 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
#x27;m not sure exactly how to add to the list of keysym names new custom ones. Does anybody have any experience of this. I have had a look at the acme and lineak packages but i'd like to see how to do this directly. Nicholas Ruddick Viggo Fredriksen wrote: This patch makes keyboard repeats work o

[Freevo-users] Keyboard repeat not working

2004-03-09 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
ideas? Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo cvs and mmpython cvs

2004-03-09 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
I did a cvs checkout and copied it to runtime/lib/python-2.3/site-packages/mmpython and all seems happy now :-) Nicholas Ruddick jlaska wrote: This is fine as long as the CVS freevo was installed into the system under the python library path. If it's running from its own folder (e.g.,

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-05 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Yeah it seems to be a problem of ATRPMS not knowing that perl-Term-Progressbar is on it's site and to use it. Dependancies must be borked somewhere... Nicholas Ruddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hi Jon,

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-03 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Nah its not, but i'll pop it in the wiki now. Tim Walter wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas Ruddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Go to the ATrpms repository http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/fc1/ and add | rpm http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/1/en/i3

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-02 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
have at-bleeding not at-testing. Be sure to change back to at-testing after though. Nicholas Ruddick | --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit

[Freevo-users] Freevo cvs and mmpython cvs

2004-03-02 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Freevo CVS says it cannot find the version of mmpython i'm running, and to get the latest version off cvs. I'm running a mmpython rpm so where should i install the mmpython cvs version to on Fedora? Nicholas Ruddick --- SF.Net is sp

[Freevo-users] freevo setup and freevo.conf defaults

2004-02-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
specified in freevo.conf that it was europe? Finally does the first channel freevo uses have to be 0, can it not be 1? I'd like to match BBC1 to the tvtime 1 channel. Nicholas Ruddick --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux App

[Freevo-users] CVS local_conf.py.example Version

2004-02-29 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
The local_conf.py.example version which I presume we are ment to template off is only version 4 while freevo cvs says we should be using a version 5.07 and so won't start. Should this not have been updated? Nicholas Ruddick --- SF.N

RE: [Freevo-users] Re: Fedora + Firebird Plugin

2003-11-28 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Go here to find it - http://www.irvined.co.uk/freevo.shtml . I'm going to put it up on the freevo plugins page. Would the maintainer please note this. Nicholas Ruddick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andres Ederra (sf) Sent: 28 Nov

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Feature questions about Freevo - help with pointers?

2003-11-28 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
Put the firebird.py into the plugins directory of Freevo and put plugin.activate('firebird', level=45) in your local_conf.py file. Nicholas Ruddick On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 21:05, Dave H wrote: > I like the idea of the firebird browser plugin, but can`t get it working > bec

[Freevo-users] Fedora + Firebird Plugin

2003-11-28 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
ebird. I'm using Freevo 1.4 Final. Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help Y

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't change volumes - alsa

2003-11-27 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
t at the moment. Nicholas Ruddick On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 02:14, Paul Kimberley wrote: > Did you change this line in you local_conf.py? > # DEV_MIXER = '/dev/mixer'# mixer device > > If I'm not mistaken freevo & components use OSS, since you are usin

Re: [Freevo-users] How do i stop main directory size and image checking?

2003-11-25 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
ould wirte a plugin that would show what machines are on/off > > by pinging them and showing them in the idlebar greyed out or not and in > > the movies/music/pictures only the machines that are on would show the > > directories. > I would like to see a patch like that too! > >

[Freevo-users] How do i stop main directory size and image checking?

2003-11-24 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
/music/pictures only the machines that are on would show the directories. Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE

[Freevo-users] Can't change volumes - alsa

2003-11-24 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
For some reason freevo 1.4 has suddenly stopped being able to change volumes or mute. I have to run alsamixer seperately to set them. Anybody know how this could have happened? Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Can you make this a little easier for mainstream distros?

2003-11-17 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
-get repository. Only thing is I only have 3GB of bandwidth a month, would that be enough you reckon? Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any We

[Freevo-users] Installer error

2003-11-16 Thread Nicholas Ruddick
5: dl_main: Assertion `_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_prev->l_next == _rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_next' failed! Help! Nicholas Ruddick --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your com