Re: [Freevo-users] Using Python 2.3

2003-08-22 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:46:04PM +0200, Jortan H wrote: > Thanks for the info. I'm running Debian and use the > "full binary release" of Freevo. > > I read at the installation section in Freevo web page > for Debian that "a binary of Freevo itself will not be > available until the next major rel

Re: [Freevo-users] Debian packages for Sarge?

2003-08-22 Thread Aubin Paul
I only have a machine running sid; presumably, most of the dependency packages will end up in Sarge within two weeks, so you'd just end up perpetually behind. I can try and prevent it from locking the binaries to the libc6 revision, but it would be tricky. Though mplayer itself isn't coming fro

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and oxine

2003-08-22 Thread Aubin Paul
er than mplayer does, as we all prolly know. i find oxine actually > runs and displays the dvd, unlike the other two. if you can tell me a > way to use xine without running x or framebuffer, please do. > > thanks, > -atom > > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 08:08, Aubin Paul wrote: >

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and oxine

2003-08-22 Thread Aubin Paul
e or /dev/tty session. i have no such console or X session. > > -atom > > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 00:06, Aubin Paul wrote: > > Oxine probably isn't what you'd want, since it would replace Freevo; > > it provides a navigation interface on it's own. > > >

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and oxine

2003-08-21 Thread Aubin Paul
Oxine probably isn't what you'd want, since it would replace Freevo; it provides a navigation interface on it's own. Since oxine uses the drivers from libxine, as does fbxine, if the output works on your DXR3 under oxine, it'll work on fbxine. On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:06:25PM -0400, Adam Stephe

Re: [Freevo-users] cvs

2003-08-21 Thread Aubin Paul
Try the snapshots; I don't think CVS is going to improve much for quite awhile... :( On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:00:24AM -0500, Matthew Bettencourt wrote: > Ugh, how I hate sourceforge CVS lately :) I have been trying to get the > latest CVS version of freevo and I get until > > cvs server: Upda

Re: [Freevo-users] Using Python 2.3

2003-08-20 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:20:10PM +0200, Jortan H wrote: > I will try more later when I get home. But I'm sure > that I have /usr/bin/python symlinked to python2.3. > > I've written python scripts and can run them in python > shell (or whatever it's called) and sys.version > returns 2.3.0 but wh

Re: [Freevo-users] Using Python 2.3

2003-08-20 Thread Aubin Paul
Freevo will use whichever python is named /usr/bin/python; so if you symlink python2.3 to python then it'll work. The thing to remember is that you will need to make sure you have Python 2.3 versions of the modules installed... On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:35:47PM +0200, Jortan H wrote: > Hi, > > I

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo cd rip possible bug.

2003-08-19 Thread Aubin Paul
THOUT warning under > slackware.) and cdparanoia is also now behaving. > > Thanks for your help! I guess the moral of the story is to avoid redhat > 9.0 for now. > > > -Original Message- > From: Aubin Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo lockup

2003-08-19 Thread Aubin Paul
Can you look at your logs and see if there is a message there? On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:30:26AM -0400, Gray, Tim wrote: > I can sucessfully lock-up freevo every time doing the following... > > > select a show that is on right now. > > press f6 to schedule a recording and then schedule it to

Re: [Freevo-users] Registry type global variable location?

2003-08-18 Thread Aubin Paul
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:03:18PM -0400, Joe Stump wrote: > ps. I know it's a small and somewhat insignificant patch, but I have to > believe this annoys people besides me. All the patches we put in are small and insignificant; it's the aggregate that matters :) In all seriousness though, I woul

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo for people with non english speaking background ?

2003-08-18 Thread Aubin Paul
I can't do the translations as I'm only comfortable in English (I speak some other languages, but I imagine native speakers would be better :) That said, it doesn't matter how we do it, though I hope we can choose something built into Python 2.3 at least; third-party libraries just make headaches

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

2003-08-18 Thread Aubin Paul
to the menu's. > > Mark > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:31:14 -0400 > Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you put directfb in your freevo.conf, it's an error since Freevo > > doesn't know about directfb, just about dfbmga, hence the > > mes

Re: [Freevo-users] webradio support

2003-08-18 Thread Aubin Paul
e freevo plugin live audio does?? parse the file and > start mplayer? What is the next step to get streaming working. > > M > > > Aubin Paul wrote: > >It has more to do with mplayer; but recent (CVS of the main branch) > >have much improved RealAudio stream

Re: [Freevo-users] tv listings for USA (using the xmltv na)

2003-08-18 Thread Aubin Paul
Channel names refers to two different things; one is the unique channel id (i.e. your C02wzzm.linkit.com) and the other is the more "human" one. Freevo uses the unique channel id for recordings and for listings, but the name can be either pulled out of the XML (using a script in CVS) or you can us

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo cd rip possible bug.

2003-08-18 Thread Aubin Paul
can I try to see what > is happening? > > i'm running on RH9.0 with the stock cdparanoia and a fresh lame installed. > > mplayer is also a fresh install from the latest release. > > > -Original Message- > From: Aubin Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > S

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo for people with non english speaking background ?

2003-08-18 Thread Aubin Paul
The text in Freevo comes out of the XML, so all you would need to do to localize it, would be to make a new XML that inherited from one of the skins and then override the text; On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:36:41PM -0400, David Sagnol wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there is a project to translat

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo cd rip possible bug.

2003-08-18 Thread Aubin Paul
What would /dev/dsp be involved at all? We call cdparanoia and lame directly, so unless there is something wrong with one of those, I'm not sure how /dev/dsp could be affected. On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:12:24PM -0400, Gray, Tim wrote: > I spent this weekend putting together a freevo box. I have

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: funny icons for most items

2003-08-17 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:45:45PM -0500, Krister Lagerstrom wrote: > Sounds like he's talking about > "testfiles/Music/ThomasRusiak-Hiphopper.png". This would mean that the > config files do not point to his own music dirs. > > Maybe we should make the testfiles its' own package? Then it could

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

2003-08-17 Thread Aubin Paul
27;CD-1')" > ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected that /dev/hda is the same device as /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, > skipping > freevo: bad file format, line 21 > WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found! > Couldn't open mixer /dev/mixer > > Mark > > libdirectfb-0.9.so.19 => /usr/li

Re: [Freevo-users] webradio support

2003-08-17 Thread Aubin Paul
I would recommend: Mostly Classical Classical Music http://www.mostlyclassical.com/mp3/classical128k.pls Xine works only somewhat; Mplayer follows the embedded IPs in the pls file (which is important since mostlyclassical changes often enough to make it annoying to hardcode the IPs) Xine only wo

Re: [Freevo-users] webradio support

2003-08-17 Thread Aubin Paul
It has more to do with mplayer; but recent (CVS of the main branch) have much improved RealAudio streaming, and when coupled with the live.com rtsp support, it's pretty decent overall. MMS has always been supported, as has HTTP so I think it's pretty much covered. On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 04:30:00

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

2003-08-16 Thread Aubin Paul
1.25 then I shouldnt need the patch? > I'm not sure how to debug my sdl installation. > > Its kind of late in the UK so I'll catch you tomorrow. > > Thanks for the help. > > Mark > > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:27:47 -0400 > A

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

2003-08-16 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:50:25PM +, mark wrote: > I think I have seen some directfb messages when starting freevo but only when > setting directfb instead of dfbmga in freevo.conf. > Since I have no monitor on the media box, I dont know if directfb was actually > displaying anything. The m

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: DVD ripping

2003-08-16 Thread Aubin Paul
It mostly just calls command-line utilities, so it's probably less useful for us than the utilities themselves. At the least, I would think some simple front end for vobcopy and mencoder would suffice. It could probably be done quite easily using the cdbackup plugin code. Personally, I'll never be

Re: [Freevo-users] import error with Image in CVS

2003-08-16 Thread Aubin Paul
You need the mmpython library, which is available from mmpython.sourceforge.net, or from the snapshots in Freevo.sourceforge.net/snapshots On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:38:45AM -0400, Joe Stump wrote: > Now I'm getting the following error. I've searched around and can't find > anything associated wit

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo, dfbmga and sdl. (that old chestnut)

2003-08-16 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 03:21:36PM +, mark wrote: > my frewevo.conf contains > > display = dfbmga > geometry = 720x480 > tv = pal > I've also used 720x576 with no luck If you're using PAL you have to use x576 > /etc/directfbrc > > atrox-crtc2 > matrox-tv-standard=pal > primary-layer=2 I'

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: 1.3.4 some findings.

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:29:00PM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > But since Aubind did the code and used "interface" instead of > "PluginInterface", the plugin crashes... (I already corrected that in > CVS some days ago) Actually I haven't touched the idlebar since it became a plugin, so

Re: [Freevo-users] Music and Freevo

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
Yes, freevo can "play" m4a files. You need faad support in mplayer, and there is no tag support... yet. I'm actually in the middle of writing tag support for it, which will end up in mmpython hopefully. I don't know if the runtime is built with faad support... That said, I don't think AAC is wor

[Freevo-users] Re: mini itx cases, and a right turn

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Shan
t my PVR alone until I feel like fighting with it again. Well, this is more than two cents, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Thanks for listening/help and for having such a useful project! -- Paul P.S.: Know where I can get an IR module for this mobo that can fill the ho

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Playing DVDs with mplayer or xine.. little progress

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:55:53PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > The buttons FF and REW should seek in the stream. Actually, this is a different issue, and one that I noticed as well, there are two types of DVD fast forward - seek and chapter skip. In mplayer we have FF Seek 10 Right Seek 60 in XI

Re: [Freevo-users] TvTuner Recommendation

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:14:13PM -0400, GoinUp wrote: > Could someone please help me decide between two Tv Tuner Cards. I am trying to > decide between the Prolink Pro and the ATI TV Wonder VE. I have only read bad > things in regards to ATI and linux but I'm not sure if this only concerns th

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Playing DVDs with mplayer or xine.. little progress

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
That won't work, because the right/left and up/down are used for navigating DVD menus. On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:34:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps map the right/left arrow for seeking, and up/down arrow for chapter > skipping? > > - Original Message - &g

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer problem

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
To play m4a files, you need mplayer compiled with faad support; it's not very common so you might not have it. On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:05:47PM -0700, zack hastings wrote: > I'm having trouble with mplayer, first off freevo says > it cant find it when i do ./freevo setup it returns > ERROR: cant

Re: [Freevo-users] WinTV USB

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
I would definitely, definitely avoid it. The PVR USB model is a workable option, but USB isn't fast enough to provide raw video to Linux. The PVR model uses relatively low bitrate MPEG2, so it's passable, but using a card (or a firewire/USB 2 tuner, if they exist) would be a better option. If y

Re: [Freevo-users] TV going into sleep mode

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
There is a script in helpers/ called blanking which turns it off in the framebuffer/mga mode. If you're in X, you'll need to disable X blanking instead. Aubin On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:44:52AM -0400, Al Faller wrote: > I am having problems with my TV going into "sleep mode". After about 15 > mi

Re: [Freevo-users] Radeon7000, mplayer and framebuffer

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
the latest mplayer versions in mplayer CVS have a (alledgedly) much faster fbdev driver; it might be worth trying that. Aubin On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:46:58AM +0300, Teemu Ahola wrote: > Hi, > > I am able to get mplayer to work with vesa framebuffer and vidix. > However performance is very poo

Re: Re: [Freevo-users] Playing DVDs with mplayer or xine.. little progress

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
What video output are you using? On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:29:36PM +0200, Thomas Zangl - Home wrote: > > Am Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:50:05 -0700, schrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > >This alone did not work for me (it is needed though). I also saw a post on > >the devel mailing list, and though

Re: [Freevo-users] scanning directory, be patient...

2003-08-14 Thread Aubin Paul
> occured with the kernel module ( mount -t smbfs ). Would using the CIFS > module work better or is still too experimental ? (those experimental flags > say nothing, devfs is also experimental but i neaver heard anyone > complaining). > > Mvg > den_RDC > > > O

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo runtime binaries, debian, directfb

2003-08-10 Thread Aubin Paul
Also, you said that you used 'apt-get' to install the packages; if you use the runtime, the Debian packages will NOT be used. You have to use one or the other. On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:19:49AM +0200, Benjamin Zeiss wrote: > hello, > > --On Sunday, August 10, 2003 23:53:14 +1200 Greg Andrews >

Re: [Freevo-users] scanning directory, be patient...

2003-08-08 Thread Aubin Paul
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:02:35PM -0600, Eric Jorgensen wrote: > Linux is an excellent samba *server. It's not such a good client. It's > actually a pretty lousy client. the samba client is ftp-like in nature. Unless you compile in smbfs.o in the kernel and mount the drive. Then your Linux

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 & SDL?

2003-08-05 Thread Paul Hampton
Hi Mark Basically you need to manually add the line src/video/dxr3/Makefile into configure.in amougst the other ones (search for src/video/ataricommon/Makefile and add the line around there) Good luck! Paul Mark Benson wrote: Hi, After much head scratching and compiling I finally have

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording Scheduler

2003-08-03 Thread Aubin Paul
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:41:46AM +, Roh . wrote: > when does speed matter? i run the WebVCR+ database on a p1 233 and it > certainly isnt slow I'm not saying that speed is the issue. I use MySQL for my websites, and I'm happy with it. I'm saying that it isn't suitable for this type of appli

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording Scheduler

2003-08-03 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 07:23:38PM -0400, Joe Stump wrote: > I was hoping for a non-command line interface for this type of operation. > It looks like WebVCR+ is exactly what I'm looking for. I think I'll be > using that to record my stuff for now and then move back to Freevo when > this option is

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording Scheduler

2003-08-03 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:19:50PM -0400, Joe Stump wrote: > I think I'm going to build something with a MySQL backend that allows > people to always record a show at a specific time on specific days. My > thinking is that this will require Apache+MySQL along with a scripting > language (I'm profic

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.3.3 is out

2003-08-03 Thread Aubin Paul
Not yet; currently, you can just install the freevo 'task' package to get all the dependencies and then put Freevo's source package somewhere like /usr/local/freevo. It is currently too difficult to put Freevo in proper 'debian' locations without changing a lot of stuff, so I just make the depende

Re: [Freevo-users] What I find funny about the virus is..

2003-08-02 Thread Aubin Paul
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:17:46PM +0100, Mark Casey wrote: > Mac OS X looks nice, as long as it isn't such a piece of crap that <=9.x > is... I never was a OS 9 guy; I jumped on the Mac OS X is UNIX bandwagon :) > Before any Mac zealots jump to it saying Mac OS 9 etc is great, I work as an > IT

Re: [Freevo-users] What I find funny about the virus is..

2003-08-01 Thread Aubin Paul
I digress, but what you probably meant to say was that Mac OS X kicks the crap out of Linux. Windows just has games going for it. :) On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:40:33PM +0100, Mark Casey wrote: > That it's for windows and was posted to a list where the project in question > is for linux. > Mind you

Re: [Freevo-users] Framebuffer vs. X

2003-08-01 Thread Aubin Paul
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:22:40AM -0400, Davin Desborough wrote: >OK, I am hopelessly confused (in other words, a noob) on this issue. I >get the point that framebuffer lets you run without X, but is that a >tremendous improvement? I am currently running Freevo under X with my >GeF

Re: [Freevo-users] CVS?

2003-07-31 Thread Aubin Paul
Try the snapshots; they're available on the website and are often more current than what you can get out of Sourceforge (which is 24 hours behind) On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:53:55PM -0700, Tim Schall wrote: > Blah. Pardon the intursion if I missed something in a past discussion. I'm > having is

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD noty -- Dischi?

2003-07-31 Thread Aubin Paul
Original Message - > From: "Aubin Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD noty > > > > The MEDIA: Status=4 indicates that Freevo found the CD. Wha

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD noty

2003-07-31 Thread Aubin Paul
The MEDIA: Status=4 indicates that Freevo found the CD. What is it saying in the interface when you put in an audio CD? Does it say "unknown disc" even after waiting a little while or does it say "no disc" On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:47:38PM +0200, Georg K?nzel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAG

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD noty

2003-07-31 Thread Aubin Paul
w/cdrw > Freevo 1.3.2 and 1.3.1 both fail to read a cd. > > Thanks for everything! > > -Davin > > - Original Message - > From: "Aubin Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:05 AM > Subject: Re:

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Legal issues

2003-07-31 Thread Aubin Paul
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:03:30PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Interessting. But you can't use this version of Xine with Freevo. Not > because we don't want to, but Freevo needs some special features which > are n Xine only for some days. But maybe we can mix xine.py and > xine_cvs.py: if xine --ver

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD not

2003-07-31 Thread Aubin Paul
Can you post the part from your logs where it mentioned the autodetection? Aubin On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:55:42PM +0200, Georg K?nzel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > It shouldn't make a difference; did you try the script I posted? > Yes, I did. Same results as po

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD not recognized

2003-07-31 Thread Aubin Paul
It shouldn't make a difference; did you try the script I posted? On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:34:51PM +0200, Georg K?nzel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I tried the same settings as Alec - and encountered exactly > the same problems. Drive is running as scsi through id

[Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD not recognized

2003-07-30 Thread Aubin Paul
ttle > Endian > AO: [alsa9] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps) > Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit... > Video: no video > Starting playback... > A: 18.3 0.3% 31% > > MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_aud

[Freevo-users] Re: tv_grab_uk no longer working?

2003-07-30 Thread Paul
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:09:37 +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote: > if you enabled ECN then all bets are off with ananova.com i found this > out very painfully a month ago -- Yes, I remember this issue. I checked my setup at the time, and everything was OK. tv_grab_uk was working fine back then. Don't thin

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD not recognized

2003-07-30 Thread Aubin Paul
Hmm... I had some problems awhile back because some of my audio cds were mixed mode, so I had to add the ioctl for that. Maybe you can try something? Put the following into a script: --- #!/usr/bin/env python import os from fcntl import ioctl fd = os.open('/dev/cdrom', os.O_RDONLY | os.O_NONB

Re: [Freevo-users] Irman, Lirc and button repeat

2003-07-30 Thread Aubin Paul
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:43:00AM +0300, Matthieu Weber wrote: > The one which is in the runtime, version I-don't-know-what. It actually > returns ['ENTER'] when I press Enter for the first time, and [] for the > repeated 'ENTER' events. But it does not give the repeat number, so that > counting t

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-30 Thread Aubin Paul
Isn't the TV out interlaced? Shouldn't mplayer leave it alone? On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:44:14AM -0300, Rob Shortt wrote: > Rob Shortt wrote: > >Rob Shortt wrote: > > > >>that files from the pvr250 were _awesome_. However upon further > >>examination there is an extremely noticable and annoying

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Audio CD not recognized

2003-07-30 Thread Aubin Paul
Are either of you trying to play mixed audio cds (i.e. cds with a data track?) On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:32:00AM -0400, Davin Desborough wrote: > >> Strange. Freevo asks the rom drive about the media. It should report > >> back that it is an audio cd. Have you tried it with more than one > >> aud

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: tv_grab_uk no longer working?

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
You may need to file a bug with the xmltv developers then, as we do not maintain the grabbers themselves... Aubin On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:28:29AM +0100, Paul wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:43:57 -0400, Aubin Paul wrote: > > > XMLTV is at 0.5.15, you may want to try upgrading i

[Freevo-users] Re: tv_grab_uk no longer working?

2003-07-29 Thread Paul
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:43:57 -0400, Aubin Paul wrote: > XMLTV is at 0.5.15, you may want to try upgrading it. Same problem with 0.5.15 Paul --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-comme

Re: [Freevo-users] tv_grab_uk no longer working?

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
XMLTV is at 0.5.15, you may want to try upgrading it. On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:52:03PM +0100, Paul wrote: > Anyone noticed that tv_grab_uk is no longer working? > > $ /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk --output TV.xml --days 3 using config filename > /home/mc/.xmltv/tv_grab_uk.conf cannot

[Freevo-users] tv_grab_uk no longer working?

2003-07-29 Thread Paul
Anyone noticed that tv_grab_uk is no longer working? $ /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk --output TV.xml --days 3 using config filename /home/mc/.xmltv/tv_grab_uk.conf cannot fetch http://www.ananova.com/tv_listings/_xmltv.php?show[]=regions at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk line 1362. I'm using XMLTV 0.5.8

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:22:31PM -0300, Rob Shortt wrote: > Hmm. When I got directfb setup last night the first thing I noticed was > that files from the pvr250 were _awesome_. However upon further > examination there is an extremely noticable and annoying choppy effect. > Do you get that?

Re: [Freevo-users] Irman, Lirc and button repeat

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
-0400, Aubin Paul wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:21:52PM +0300, Teemu Ahola wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have running Freevo system :) and I have tried to configure Lirc to > > > handle corretly my TV's remote. Thing is that it (Salora RCS

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
Rob, How do you have your PVR250 setup? I tried using Freevo/DirectFB/mplayer with the PVR250 and while normal movies looked good, anything from the PVR looked awful. Aubin On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:24:05PM -0300, Rob Shortt wrote: > Jortan H wrote: > >However, when I started Freevo, it stopp

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0200, Jortan H wrote: > When I configure SDL I get a message saying that > pkg-config is missing and required to build DirectFB > video driver. I guess this is why Freevo won't start. > But I have pkg-config installed... Anyone that have an > idea of what to do?

Re: [Freevo-users] audio.cdbackup

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
gt; > > - Original Message - > > > > From: "Rich C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:47 AM > > > > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] audio.cdbackup > > > > > > > >

Re: [Freevo-users] Legal issues [Was: audio.cdbackup]

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:32:50AM +0100, Q wrote: > However my impression now is that people appear to fall into two camps on > this, those who are concenrned about the exact letter of the law and who are > anxious to comply - and those who don't give a damn, think these laws are > silly and absub

Re: [Freevo-users] audio.cdbackup

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:26:52AM +0300, Matthieu Weber wrote: > Yes, but there must be no link from Freevo's homepage to the brazilian > web site hosting the binaries, because that would be ``publishing a way > to get around the copy protection systems''. And if we don't give the > end-users an e

Re: [Freevo-users] audio.cdbackup

2003-07-29 Thread Aubin Paul
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:09:54PM -0700, Rich C wrote: > If you really want a stand alone HTPC machine, Freevo > should really run the mencoder process. I imagine > setting the process at a low priority should allow you > to still do other things (watch TV, listen to music) > while it's encoding.

Re: [Freevo-users] audio.cdbackup

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:03:11PM -0700, Rich C wrote: > Well, getting back to your original question, it would > be fairly easy to copy and modify audio.cdbackup > (cdbackup.py), to be transformed into a DVD backup > plugin. For use in countries where it's legal of > course. > > Vobcopy is a

Re: [Freevo-users] Irman, Lirc and button repeat

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
I really wouldn't be able to answer that; you may want to try the lirc lists. On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:21:52PM +0300, Teemu Ahola wrote: > Hi, > > I have running Freevo system :) and I have tried to configure Lirc to > handle corretly my TV's remote. Thing is that it (Salora RCS150) has no > se

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
DirectFB is actually much easier than it used to be. You really just need out of the box versions of DirectFB and SDL. If your distribution provides directfb support in SDL you might not need to build anything. On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:21:25PM +0200, Jortan H wrote: > I can run MPlayer with -vo

Re: [Freevo-users] Re TV Time shifting

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
It's in the cards - if you mean "live pause" - but it was something Rob had been working on, and he's away right now. On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:19:51PM +0100, Q wrote: > >On a seperate matter, and hopefully moving off the topic of legality, >although I know I'm probably going to be slaye

[Freevo-users] Re: audio.cdbackup

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
No program should link to dvdcss directly; it's always done through dvdread... On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:52:49PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Aubin Paul wrote: > > As long as all Freevo does is call third-party applications, or > > libraries like dvdread that can, but do not

Re: [Freevo-users] Legal issues [Was: audio.cdbackup]

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:36:25PM +0300, Matthieu Weber wrote: > > They are testing copy protected audio cds in Germany right now. I bet > > until the end they have the same in Canada for all new stuff. > > Same in France (where I'm from) and in Finland (where I live). Or do you > think about ye

Re: [Freevo-users] Legal issues [Was: audio.cdbackup]

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
AIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:36 PM > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Legal issues [Was: audio.cdbackup] > > > On Mon 28.07.2003 at 02:41:32PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > > Aubin Paul wrote: > > > It's completely foolish, but your fair use rig

Re: [Freevo-users] audio.cdbackup

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
laws exist, I am more than happy to continue to break them - providing > no one gains finacially, or indirectly through piracy in anything I choose > to do. As I said, backing up my own personal paid for collection shouldn't > be of concern to anyone. > > Q > > -

Re: [Freevo-users] audio.cdbackup

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
gt; useage info in the Documentation wiki: > > > > 2.3.7 Ripping/Backing Up Audio CDs > > http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DocumentationPage > > > > -Rich > > > > --- Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know if

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: SDL, g400, and dfbmga

2003-07-28 Thread Aubin Paul
ing the matrox > command, I got: > > Open /dev/fb1: No such file or directory > > -Nick > > On Sunday 27 July 2003 07:04 am, Aubin Paul wrote: > > It was a G400 setting; I used the 'matrox' program and the s

Re: [Freevo-users] audio.cdbackup

2003-07-27 Thread Aubin Paul
I don't know if the cdbackup plugin exists outside of CVS, so you'll need to either upgrade to the CVS version or wait for a new release... 1.3.2 was out before the cdbackup plugin was completed... Aubin On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:23:59PM -0400, christopher neitzert wrote: > hiya > > I'm running

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: SDL, g400, and dfbmga

2003-07-27 Thread Aubin Paul
It was a G400 setting; I used the 'matrox' program and the settings from the Wiki. Aubin --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: SDL, g400, and dfbmga

2003-07-26 Thread Aubin Paul
terly confusing. Aubin On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:45:16AM +0200, Markus Schneider wrote: > Aubin Paul schrieb: > > >>And yes, the menus do flicker a bit. Using dfbmga, I didn't find any > >>possibility to control the flicker fixer yet... anybody? > >> > &g

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: SDL, g400, and dfbmga

2003-07-26 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 09:03:13AM +0200, Jesper Skov wrote: > Doing "SDL_GFXDRIVER=fbcon SDL_FBDEV=/dev/fb1 freevo" results in SDL > blanking the primary output. > > So pygame doesn't appear to behave in the same manner as mplayer. I > guess I'll have to look at the code to see if I can figure ou

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: SDL, g400, and dfbmga

2003-07-25 Thread Aubin Paul
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:57:34AM +0200, Markus Schneider wrote: > I do not use the fusion patch at the moment - I got the impression that > it made things sort of unstable. I heard the opposite; that it was more unstable without it. I guess I should give it a try and see. > And yes, the menus

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: SDL, g400, and dfbmga

2003-07-25 Thread Aubin Paul
I'll add this to the documentation; the only questions I have are whether you used the fusion device and whether you got the flicker inside Freevo's menus one of the other people mentioned. Aubin On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Markus Schneider wrote: > Hello there, > > I can confirm

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: Freevo on Tech TV Tomorrow

2003-07-24 Thread Aubin Paul
It sounds like the majority of issues they had were ones that would have been resolved with a quick visit to our mailing lists; that or reading the documentation, the mail archives, the Wiki, or the website; all of which mention you can build a recording system with a low end TV card (and a low end

Re: [Freevo-users] SDL, g400, and dfbmga

2003-07-21 Thread Aubin Paul
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:28PM -0700, Nick Hatch wrote: > I'm having quite a bit more trouble getting the dfbmga setup to work with SDL, > however. I've tried the patch and instructions available at: > http://www.directfb.org/mailinglists/directfb-users/2003/04-2003/msg00068.html. > Nothing. I

Re: [Freevo-users] WinTV cards

2003-07-21 Thread Aubin Paul
Any help is always appreciated... > > > > > > Ralph > > > > > > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 07:31, Aubin Paul wrote: > > > > Did you install the test_ioctl program and set your inputs, etc.? > > ivtv docs explain what the ioctls do > > see http://

Re: [Freevo-users] Running freevo-snapshot on Debian

2003-07-20 Thread Aubin Paul
Sorry; do an apt-get update, and try it again. I didn't realize fchksum wasn't available in Debian's sources. I put a copy in the apt source. On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:57:16PM +0200, Lars Michael Jogb?ck wrote: > > It's all available from the apt source except Freevo itself; > > just do an 'apt-g

Re: [Freevo-users] Running freevo-snapshot on Debian

2003-07-20 Thread Aubin Paul
It's all available from the apt source except Freevo itself; just do an 'apt-get install task-freevo-cvs' but make sure you have both apt sources in your sources.list http://freevo.sourceforge.net/install.html#distributions mmpython is there, as are the majority of dependencies not included with

Re: [Freevo-users] WinTV cards

2003-07-20 Thread Aubin Paul
Did you install the test_ioctl program and set your inputs, etc.? On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 10:21:47PM -0700, Ralph Buchanan wrote: > Well I built the modules (ivtv) and got them installed. I never did > patch my kernel though. 2.4.20. Maybe that's why I'm having tuner > problems??. Setting tuner=4

Re: [Freevo-users] Wintv 350

2003-07-18 Thread Aubin Paul
As far as I know, they both use the same encoder chip, so you wouldn't need to do anything different for the 350. Still, it's worth doing the kernel patch if you can. On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:32:54PM -0500, Paul Onley wrote: > You say that you did not have to do anything to the k

[Freevo-users] Wintv 350

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Onley
atures are supported. PAul >If this is the PVR250, I didn't need to patch my kernel at all; just >extract the firmware, build the modules, and modprobe them. The only >weirdness was that the documentation claims that the tuner input is >input

Re: [Freevo-users] WinTV cards

2003-07-18 Thread Aubin Paul
I'm not sure; it's probably the better route, but it's not necessary. On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:47:20PM -0300, Rob Shortt wrote: > Aubin Paul wrote: > >In the build instructions for the modules, it says that you don't need > >to patch the kernel... > >

Re: [Freevo-users] WinTV cards

2003-07-18 Thread Aubin Paul
quot; On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:29:26PM -0300, Rob Shortt wrote: > Aubin Paul wrote: > >If this is the PVR250, I didn't need to patch my kernel at all; just > > Well, not since you were already using v4l2. :) > > You still

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