Re: [Freevo-users] New site - any final thoughts before

2007-08-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 14:40 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > I'd like to see forums on the site. > > > I think they are more convenient and simpler to use than mailing > > > lists. > > > Sorry if this has been

Re: [Freevo-users] New site - any final thoughts before

2007-08-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 20:18 -0400, Chris P wrote: > I'd like to see forums on the site. > I think they are more convenient and simpler to use than mailing > lists. > Sorry if this has been covered before. I prefer mail lists. (personal preference) -

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

2007-08-09 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:25 +0100, John Molohan wrote: > * TV card - analogue, dvb-t/s/c, atsc NONE > * Sound card - with output used Internal Motherboard Sound (analog) output to Amp > * Graphics card - with output used Nvidia Geforce 5200 w/ S-Video to RCA output. > * Mother

[Freevo-users] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I was feeling a bit un-appreciated as a Developer and I thought of all the other developers of Open Source (Free) Software who relentlessly contribute to/make Open Source (free) software. I just wanted to take some time to officially say *Thank You* for all the good things which you guys/gals have

Re: [Freevo-users] Running Freevo on second video card

2007-07-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:45 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Brian McKee wrote: > > On 03/07/07, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On an [OT] note - It's looking like it would be helpful to know a > > little python to use freevo better -

Re: [Freevo-users] Running Freevo on second video card

2007-07-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 21:39 -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > Hi All > First post here - please let me know if I'm missing anything etc... > I'm trying to get Freevo 1.7.2 running on my Ubuntu 6.06.1 box on the > second video card and monitor. > Wuth gdm running normally if I do 'freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Frevo 1.7.x-SVN - Autogen.sh nodocs

2007-06-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 09:32 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > > 1. Kaa - For X reasons, I cant get this thing to be installed into the > > specified prefix. (Freevo setup will not be able to locate kaa.) Ended > > up have to install it as system wide then freevo will be able to find > > it. > > Did you

[Freevo-users] Frevo 1.7.x-SVN - Autogen.sh nodocs

2007-06-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I tried installing the latest svn release of freevo on my home media server (currently on 1.6.2) and checked out the wiki page on getting it installed for testing purposes.. Few items. 1. Kaa - For X reasons, I cant get this thing to be installed into the specified prefix. (Freevo setup will not

Re: [Freevo-users] vlc plugin - how to use?

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 22:14 +0200, Geert Decorte wrote: > For rtsp streams, you could use mplayer as well. > > This is what I'm doing with Freevo in my TV menu. I have server > with vlc providing live streams. > > I've tried the plugin, but it created a extra menu. My aim was to > stream l

Re: [Freevo-users] vlc plugin - how to use?

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:39 +0200, Pascal Schirrmann wrote: > Ow Mun Heng a écrit : > > I'm wondering on the new VLC plugin and how it can be used. > > > > Is it only useful for RTSP streams or can it also be used for normal > > video? I would suppose that normal

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] 1.7.2 - audio faster than video when playing movie

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:42 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > seems like neither mplayer nor xine likes my usage of esd. falling back > > to using oss, it seems fine for now.. > > These days you man be better of using alsa as oss has been deprecated > for

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] 1.7.2 - audio faster than video when playing movie

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
seems like neither mplayer nor xine likes my usage of esd. falling back to using oss, it seems fine for now.. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:43 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Sorry.. Wrong List.. > Resend to correct list. > > > > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:36 +0800, Ow Mun

[Freevo-users] vlc plugin - how to use?

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm wondering on the new VLC plugin and how it can be used. Is it only useful for RTSP streams or can it also be used for normal video? I would suppose that normal video is doable also, however, I can't get it configured. plugin.activate('video.vlc') when running it, I get this in the logs ===

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo Gentoo Portage in SVN

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:17 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > If you > have a working ebuild for 1.7.1 please send it to me and I will > include it to the overlay. See if this works.. (hope it goes through the maillist) freevo-1.7.2gentoo-ebuild.tar.bz2 Description: application/bzip-compressed-tar -

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] 1.7.2 - audio faster than video when playing movie

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Sorry.. Wrong List.. Resend to correct list. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:36 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi, > > Just installed 1.7.2 from a gentoo ebuild (link posted in separate > email) and found out that the audio is for X reasons having a couple of > seconds faster than the v

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo Gentoo Portage in SVN

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:17 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I guess this is directed directly at whoever maintains a gentoo overlay > > in svn (I just noticed that!!) > > That would be me. Yeah.. I figured that.. but IRC has taught me NOT to be s

[Freevo-users] Freevo Gentoo Portage in SVN

2007-05-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I guess this is directed directly at whoever maintains a gentoo overlay in svn (I just noticed that!!) Anyway, I just want to find out more about this overlay before I dive headlong into it (actually already did :-0) Gentoo bugzilla has a freevol ebuild in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1

Re: [Freevo-users] LinuxMCE - anyone tried this?

2007-04-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:47 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote: > Last time looked LinuxMCE was based on MythTV. That particular setup > in the video was using some really oddball but cool hardware using the > x10 protocol stuff for home automation. Nice piece of advertising and > Linux propaganda though. I

Re: [Freevo-users] Appletrailers in 1.7.0

2007-03-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:00 +0100, Michel Hoogervorst wrote: > Maybe a stupid question but... > > In the changelog I see: > New apple trailers plugin (disabled by default) > > So, I thought lets try it... but I can't find it in the Freevo > package? > How do I enable this? If not mistaken, this

Re: [Freevo-users] Weekly 2.0 SVN Update

2007-02-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 11:24 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > It should work now as expected, I will prepare new ebuilds today. May I know where to find the ebuilds? Is it in Gentoo's bugzilla or some other location?? Thanks - Tak

[Freevo-users] Bluetooth Remote Control (using a SE T630)

2007-02-11 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, I struggled with making my own IR receiver to use with LIRC but it's been > 1 year with no progress. (yeah.. Lazy :-) ) Anyway, i stumbled across Bluemote (can't remember the URL right now) but it connects a Bluetooth enabled phone (I have a Sony Ericssion T630 and according to the site, the

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

2006-11-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 19:57 +0200, Jaap Struyk wrote: > Thanks for including my rain theme ;-) Hmm.. I just installed 1.60 and didn't realise there were a few new themes.. Looking Good!! BTW, did anyone of you guys notice that there's an OSS project for Mac called itheatre? http://www.itheaterpr

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

2006-11-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 19:14 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote: > distro. I wonder who wins this time. The record holds Gentoo with > official ebuild less than one hour after I announced a release on > irc. Please do not forget to also update mmpython. Hmm.. I use Gentoo.. :-)

Re: [Freevo-users] Adding a new Video Player

2006-04-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:01 +0200, Gorka Olaizola wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 06:13:28PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > I want to ask, if someone here can tell me how to add a new Video > > player into Freevo. > > > I've done some plugins for Freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Adding a new Video Player

2006-04-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:21 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to ask, if someone here can tell me how to add a new Video > > player into Freevo. > > > > Currently, There is xine and mplayer. I would like to add an

[Freevo-users] Adding a new Video Player

2006-04-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
tried just copying the xine.py/mplayer.py file into eg: xine1.py/mplayer1.py but when I try to get the video to be played, I only see 2 options. 1. PLay 2. Play with Alternate player How can I add another option to it? Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsof

[Freevo-users] Video-Plugin Submenu

2006-04-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
yer Which file should I be hacking?? videoitem.py? Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:05:56 up 3 days, 18:24, 5 users, load average: 0.72, 0.33, 0.38 --- This S

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Left/Right Audio Switching

2006-04-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 07:35 +0200, Lucian Muresan wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > [..] > > > > Hey.. That works out great. Now, what I need is to figure out if I can > > put a keyboard shortcut key for that. > >> "upmix_mono" plugin has an integer parame

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Left/Right Audio Switching

2006-04-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 12:46 +0200, Lucian Muresan wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > [...] > > > > It's really frustrating that Linux, with all it's multimedia greatness, > > can't even do Left/Right Audio Switching like what can be done on a > > standalo

Re: [Freevo-users] Left/Right Audio Switching

2006-04-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:15 +0200, Alberto Hernando wrote: > El Sábado, 1 de Abril de 2006 17:50, Ow Mun Heng escribió: > > The thing here is, I have some avi files which are dual-language. eg: > > Left = English > > Right = Chinese > > > Freevo allows to choose the a

[Freevo-users] Left/Right Audio Switching

2006-04-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
t/Right Audio Switching like what can be done on a standalone < USD20 DVD/VCD player. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:44:59 up 1 day, 2:03, 5 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.23 -

[OT] There's Freevo 1.5.6?? [Was Re: [Freevo-users] Combo TV-Cards in Freevo 1.5.6]

2006-02-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
nothing to do with the org topic, but there exists Freevo 1.5.6??? Where? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:21:39 up 1 day, 28 min, 4 users, load average: 0.52, 1.02, 3.19

[Freevo-users] Shortcut for "Play Random Music"

2006-02-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
ed? Also, the Power/Sleep functions, doesn't seem to do anything for me. How can I make it Work better? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:10:24 up 1 day, 10 min, 3 users, load

[Freevo-users] Slow Access to RMVB (Real media) files

2006-02-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
-packages/mmpython/mediainfo.py", line 155, in result += reduce( lambda a,b: self[b] and b != u'url' and u'%s\n %s: %s' % \ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xca in position 8: ordinal not in range(128) I'm gonna try upgrading to 0.4

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Bad default config - Xine (messes up widescreen videos on regular TVs)

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
ackages/freevo instead of in /usr/share/freevo > Sorry, I have a 4:3 tv and so I never saw the problem. I guess the > best way to fix this is to use a 16:9 resolution in Freevo, > too. Someone needs to create a nice 16:9 skin to make it all working. The problem here is that xine will expa

[Freevo-users] Audio.Detach Plugin - Audio still playing when playing Video

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
tached audio but you won't hear their audio." Well, something's wrong, I can hear the audio. Is there anything which I should be doing or am I doing something wrong? Freevo-1.5.4 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 19:2

[Freevo-users] Video & Volume Control

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Anyone has any comment on this? BTW, how do I re-map freevo's shortcut keys? (perhaps map 0/9 to increase volume instead) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 19:11:04 up 9:13, 6 users, load average: 2.29, 1.66, 1.36 ---

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

2005-10-25 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:20 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > To be honest, with the current value of USD I wouldn't really bother > myself for that, I doubt that many others would too. 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. >

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

2005-10-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:48 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > how much is the bounty? Depends on the complexity of the work. I'm not sure what price to put on it. USD100-200?? Would that suffice? > > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:58 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Hi All, > >

[Freevo-users] Freevo And integration of VLC

2005-10-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
erest, please email me offline to work out the details. Thanks for the great work thus far on freevo. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:53:21 up 7:11, 6 users, load average: 0.58, 0.48, 0.52 --

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer has the hiccups...

2005-10-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:14 -0700, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running into this strange problem that I'm not able to solve. > Whenever I watch a certain real video stream via freevo/mplayer the > video stutters and it looks like it's skipping frames every 2 seconds > or so. Audio is fine

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: vlc timeshifting

2005-09-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
is is more important to me than supporting every > player. But if someone whats to help, I would accept vlc patches. Understand. I'm gonna start hacking on it to see if I can come out with anything. >From the looks of things, VLC _does_ seem to be really good. > -- Ow Mun Heng Gen

[Fwd: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and rtsp (live.com) - Mplayer jerks

2005-09-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Forwarded Message From: Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andreas Lorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and rtsp (live.com) - How I did it. Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:54:35 +0800 On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 19:08 +0200, Andreas Lorensen wrote:

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: vlc timeshifting

2005-09-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
r idea. If so: > don't! Timeshifting should be handled in the client, not the streaming > server. VLC server running VOD is the current setup. I've not tried embedding / asking freevo to open up vlc. I'll give it a shot. -- Ow Mun H

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and rtsp (live.com) - How I did it.

2005-09-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
gt; Then I added the following in freevo/tv/plugins/mplayer.py > > elif vg.group_type == 'rtsp': >self.fc.chanSet(tuner_channel, app='mplayer') >tvcmd = '' >args += ('"rtsp://%s" %s' % (tuner_channel, / >

Re: [Freevo-users] framebuffer: working but dvd doesnt start/play

2005-06-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:36 +0200, Stefano Guglia wrote: > hello! > I tried to install freevo/xine on a LFS linuxbox without X, framebuffer mode. > Photo, video files and music are working fine now, but DVD menu does not, > showing "no disc on DVD-x" or something like that. > If I try to play fro

Re: Solution: [Freevo-users] PVR350 / Fedora Core 1 / Framebuffer

2005-03-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
lone?? When I was playing around, I couldn't get Framebuffer to work fullscreen on Freevo. > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:09:47 up 8:47, 6 users, load average: 0.54, 0.70, 0.59 --

[Freevo-users] Running Freevo automatically as NON-Root

2005-03-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
tart Freevo from init. If # needed, Freevo will start a X server on its own. Make sure your X # server can handle the resolution defined in /etc/freevo/freevo.conf freevo="yes" -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:17:57 up 1 day

[Freevo-users] Setting Video Player Preference

2005-03-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
driver instead of XV. PS : reading the xxmc readme, noticed that it says it will try the xxmc and if it fails, it will fall back to using XV. I guess it's not really failing (since it's able to locate the driver). It's just that it's choppy. in README_xxmc.html.gz, there

[Freevo-users] Setting Video Player Preference

2005-03-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
driver instead of XV. PS : reading the xxmc readme, noticed that it says it will try the xxmc and if it fails, it will fall back to using XV. I guess it's not really failing (since it's able to locate the driver). It's just that it's choppy. in README_xxmc.html.gz, there

[Freevo-users] Mplayer stutters under Freevo

2005-03-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
share experiences with running Freevo on a EPIA M10K?? I would like to get more info on how best to optimese/get it to work! :-( -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:48:07 up 4:43, 5 users, load average: 0.90, 0.81,

[Freevo-users] EPIA M10K + DVD playing on Freevo High CPU Usage

2005-03-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
DVD/movie actually uses more Juice then under X?? (I tried playing the same DVD under X (fluxbox) and it was like 40-60% CPU Usage. ) PS : Pls CC me on replies, since list mail for some reason, does not reach me. (and yes.. I'm subscribed) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Mic

[Freevo-users] Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams

2005-03-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
From: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.net> Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams 2005-03-07 17:37 On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > What"s the best way to actually be able to play Internet Radio? > > eg: Shotcast/Icecast

[Freevo-users] Freevo + Internet Audio Streams

2005-03-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to to integrate a Shoutcast/Icecast stream into Freevo?? Maybe something like "Internet Radio". I know about the add-on named "shoutcast" but it provides only .fxd files and I'm unsure how to use it to play Internet Streams. Can

[Freevo-users] Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams

2005-03-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, What's the best way to actually be able to play Internet Radio? eg: Shotcast/Icecast Streams. I noticed the plugin "shoutcast grabber.pl" but am unsure how to use it. Can anyone help me out with this? ps: I don't want to run a icecast server. -- Ow Mun Heng

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: DirectFB

2005-02-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
m directfb Under Gentoo, it's a Use flag called "fusion" But AFAIK, Freevo has no use for it. > > > Dischi -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:45:26 up 4:51, 2 users, load average: 1.47, 0.47, 0.27 -

[Freevo-users] Fbdev + fullscreen + video

2005-02-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
works fullscreen) but audio will go off after 10-30 secs into the film. Either that or it will not sync with the video. What are my choices? I'm compiling Xorg-6.8.2 as I write this to see if it helps. Does anyone has any better experiences to share or anything like that?? Please Help --

[Freevo-users] Freevo + fullscreen on FBdev

2005-02-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Question: How can I enable fullscreen of freevo or mplayer/xine while running in fbdev? I can get fullscreen just using xine -Vfb or mplayer But I can't get it to fullscreen when freevo is started. This is EPIA M10K on Gentoo -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microso