Re: [Freevo-users] how to start freevo

2005-03-26 Thread Peace Monk
i am using the same distro.. are you sure when you typed urpmi freevo that freevo got installed? where did you get the rpm from ? are you sure it is a mandrake 10.1 rpm? On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:48:55 -0800, dlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peace Monk wrote: > > >First, what

Re: [Freevo-users] how to start freevo

2005-03-26 Thread Peace Monk
First, what distro do you use, and is freevo installed? If it is installed, simply type freevo on a xterminal window, and freevo will startup. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Pr

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo on a VIA EPIA 800?

2005-03-06 Thread Peace Monk
Thats really good news. I have been trying to get mplayer play my video files in full screen. I have not yet had any luck under xwindows, however, have been able to play in frame buffer mode. I was wondering if directfb supports this card. Does the graphics card support any form of hardware acc

Re: [Freevo-users] ATI + Xorg + XV?

2005-03-05 Thread Peace Monk
ectfb, and so far this one has the best TV out I've seen. I am currently working on a new media center based on a VIA EPIA 800 motherboard.. this is going to be challenging. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:29:13 -0700, Eric Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:

[Freevo-users] Freevo on a VIA EPIA 800?

2005-03-05 Thread Peace Monk
I have been working over a week to get this up and running with freevo, but have been struggling with via drivers for the graphics card. Using gentoo. Anyone out there have this working successfully with TV out? Thanks, Monk --- SF email is s

Re: [Freevo-users] Gentoo: emerge freevo fails

2005-03-05 Thread Peace Monk
When I do opengl-update I got the following message. This version requires >=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 02:20:31 +0200, Petri Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:52:51 -0400, Peace Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > !!! ER

[Freevo-users] Gentoo: emerge freevo fails

2005-03-05 Thread Peace Monk
Hello, emerge freevo fails. I am using kernel 2.6.8.1 and XFree86-4.4 (i need to for tv-out with my card). tiny root # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.8.1-epia1 i686) =

Re: [Freevo-users] ATI + Xorg + XV?

2005-03-04 Thread Peace Monk
Thanks for your reply Eric. My brother can see full screen video by using gmplayer using x11 driver. So, how can I configure freevo not to use xv at all, but use x11 in full screen? If this is possible, then the problem is solved. > -vo x11 isn't xv - use -vo xv, leave out the x11 part. I trie

[Freevo-users] ATI + Xorg + XV?

2005-03-04 Thread Peace Monk
Hello All, I am trying to remote help my brother setup a freevo box. here are some info on his machine: Mandrake 10.1 Kernel 2.6.8 Xorg ATI 9200 with tv out (installed latest ATi drivers) When I play a movie file with -vo x11, xv option, all I get is a full black screen. So I ask, has anyone g

Re: [Freevo-users] problem playing video files

2005-02-26 Thread Peace Monk
Anan what did you have to do to get greevo play the video? I get the same problem with mandrake 10.1. Plays audio of an mpg file, but no video. On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:02:51 -0500, Allan Psaila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never mind I think i found the problem. It was directing the video to > t

[Freevo-users] Freevo run on arm platform?

2005-02-05 Thread Peace Monk
Hello all, I just inherited an arm based mini pc called a netwinder. Its got audio and video out, so I was wondering if I can get freevo running on it, then I can mount it in my car with a mini lcd screen.. it would be so cool if it will work. Anyone here gor experience with linux on arm? Thank

[Freevo-users] No AC3 audio when playing dvd files.

2005-01-05 Thread Peace Monk
Hi, I have freevo configured to use mplayer with directfb (G400) and alsa audio. Every non-ac3 mpeg files seem to play fine, however, when I play VOB files that have ac3 content, I hear no audio at all. I use the SPDIF output of my MAudio sound card. I have been able to play DTS audio CDs via x

Re: [Freevo-users] Mandrake 10.1 and Python-Imaging

2005-01-05 Thread Peace Monk
Drew: Could you send me a copy of the file too please? I am using Mandrake 10.1 and am seeing problems in the picture module, so maybe the problem is related. On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 11:46:14 +, drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Osborn wrote: > > >I heard mandrake 10.1 uses python-imagi

Re: [Freevo-users] Error loading freevo. Mandrake 10.1 Community

2004-12-02 Thread Peace Monk
Andrew, did you run the freevo -fs command from xwindows, or from a terminal? It seems like freevo was not running in an xwindows envirnment, so it did not have a Xserver to connect to?. When you log into your kde or gnome session, and run freevo what do you get? On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:30:58 -

Re: [Freevo-users] DirectFB / G400 / Kernel 2.6.8.1 problems

2004-12-02 Thread Peace Monk
24648 2 jbd57368 1 ext3 ohci_hcd 21188 0 usbcore 112224 3 ohci_hcd rtc11960 0 On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:50:43 -0500, Chris Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have the i2c modules loaded? > > (send out

[Freevo-users] DirectFB / G400 / Kernel 2.6.8.1 problems

2004-12-01 Thread Peace Monk
I had directfb working before, but I had to rebuild my machine. This time I am taking notes so I will post them when I have it all running with freevo. I followed instructions from http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/directfb/matrox-tv-out-howto When I run dfbterm I get: (*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing conf

Re: [Freevo-users] Error loading freevo. Mandrake 10.1 Community

2004-11-30 Thread Peace Monk
How did you install freevo? Did you download each rpm and install it manually? I use Mandrake 10, and have urpmi configured with the media list produced at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Yesterday, all i did was type "urpmi freevo", and mandrake downloaded and installed everything it needed to run f

[Freevo-users] Some problems.

2004-10-31 Thread Peace Monk
Hello all, First of all, thank you for freevo.. we have been using freevo with directfb on a Matrox G400 card over 2 months, and we love it. Here are some occational problems that I am facing that I am hoping someone can help me with: 1. I find that sometimes, my remote takes a while to respond,

[Freevo-users] Data cds not being autoloaded.

2004-10-01 Thread Peace Monk
When I load data cd that has mp3 files into my drive, I need to manually mount it to be able to see the files in it. I find dvds and audio cds are automatically detected. I have the following in my local_conf.py ROM_DRIVES = [ ('/mnt/hdd','/dev/cdrom','CD')] Thank you!! Monk.

[Freevo-users] customising freevo.

2004-09-25 Thread Peace Monk
Hello all, I am in the process of customising my freevo setup. Here are some questions I am trying to find answer for. 1. commands plugin: According to the docs, the commands plugins should be already installed, but when I do freevo plugins -l does not list commands plugin as installed. What do

[Freevo-users] M-Audio revolution 7.1 digital out

2004-09-01 Thread Peace Monk
I know this is not the best place to ask, but has anyone have a m-audio revelution 7.1 card working with spdif digital out? Thanks, Monk. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get

[Freevo-users] Freevo questions.

2004-08-31 Thread Peace Monk
I now have a working installation of freevo with directfb (G400). I was hoping to find if freevo can be easily configured to meet my following needs. 1. Watch VDR recordings without having to convert them to mpeg files? I know I can play it on mplayer, but freevo does not show these files when I

[Freevo-users] How to control freevo via ssh

2004-08-25 Thread Peace Monk
Hi all, I am invoking freevo from a ssh terminal on my windows machine, but my keyboard does not work when I try to control freevo. Keyboard only works when I start freevo from the local terminal. How can I fix this? Thank you! Monk.

Re: Re: [Freevo-users] SDL_DirectFB: Unsupported pixelformat (0x00200806)

2004-08-25 Thread Peace Monk
it keeps working. On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 Rob Shortt wrote : >Peace Monk wrote: >>I did run freevo successfully via DirectFB (G400). I messed around with the freevo >>config files, and I think I screwed it up. I however, put back the original files >>and even reinstalled

[Freevo-users] SDL_DirectFB: Unsupported pixelformat (0x00200806)

2004-08-24 Thread Peace Monk
I did run freevo successfully via DirectFB (G400). I messed around with the freevo config files, and I think I screwed it up. I however, put back the original files and even reinstalled freevo, and am still getting errors. The details are as follows: I have Mplayer successfully runnong on Dir

Re: Re: Re: Re: [Freevo-users] Cant get G400 to work. Help!

2004-08-21 Thread Peace Monk
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 Peace Monk wrote : >After much recompiling, I finally got freevo working with directfb. However, when I >run freevo, the display comes on the VGA monitor (not TV). Also, when I play a dvd, >the movie appears on TV. Anymore environment variables I ne

Re: Re: Re: [Freevo-users] Cant get G400 to work. Help!

2004-08-21 Thread Peace Monk
After much recompiling, I finally got freevo working with directfb. However, when I run freevo, the display comes on the VGA monitor (not TV). Also, when I play a dvd, the movie appears on TV. Anymore environment variables I need to set? Thank you..

Re: Re: [Freevo-users] Cant get G400 to work. Help!

2004-08-21 Thread Peace Monk
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 Josh Peck wrote : >I'm running 1.4.1 (still) with directfb. I know that when I recompiled >SDL with directFB support I had to move the SDL stuff from the runtime >directory out and copy or link the built one in its place. I don't know >if you have the runtime installed or n

[Freevo-users] Cant get G400 to work. Help!

2004-08-20 Thread Peace Monk
Help! I still cant get my G400 to work via directfb. Directfb works with mplayer. I recompiled SDL with directfb support. These are my configs: Kernel 2.6.7 Mandrake 10 freevo-1.5-rc4 pygame-1.6 SDL-1.2.7 SDL_image-1.2.7 SDL_mixer-1.2.4 SDL_ttf-2.0.6 smpeg-0.4.4 MPlayer-1.0pre5 Did: export SDL

[Freevo-users] DirectFB and Matrox G400

2004-08-19 Thread Peace Monk
What I have: Mandrake 10, kernel 2.6.7 freevo-1.4.1-13mdk libSDL1.2-1.2.7-2mdk I am trying to get freevo work with my G400 via directfb. According to SDL faq, I need to set SDL_VIDEODRIVER enviornment variable to tell SDL to use directfb. I already have matrox drivers installed in kernel, and

Re: RE: [Freevo-users] Some questions

2004-08-19 Thread Peace Monk
  On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 Mick wrote : >search this list for info ont he VDR plugin.. > >Mick Nevermind Mick, I found one.

Re: RE: [Freevo-users] Some questions

2004-08-19 Thread Peace Monk
  On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 Mick wrote : >search this list for info ont he VDR plugin.. > >Mick Hi Mick, I dont see a way to search the mailing list archives in SF. It says I need to pay for membership for that feature. Is there another location where the list is archived? Thanks.

[Freevo-users] Some questions

2004-08-18 Thread Peace Monk
Hi Guys, I am currently using VDR for scheduling and watching DVB programs. Is a great software, but lacks eyecandy and other media features. I was wondering if there is anyway to integrate freevo with VDR. i.e, I would use freeevo to browse through channels, and schedule recordings, to VDR. B