AW: [Freevo-users] Displaying interlaced content on TV

2004-02-04 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, AFAIK, there is no trick needed. You should not see any interlace lines on a TV Set. It is different if you have something which was not deinterlaced properly. Regards, Thorsten -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im

AW: [Freevo-users] Subject: RE: Hard Drive Space

2004-02-02 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Jeremy Metcalf Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2004 05:19 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Subject: RE: Hard Drive Space I actually don't have a freevo setup right

AW: [Freevo-users] Automated shutdown?

2004-02-02 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Matthieu Weber Gesendet: Montag, 2. Februar 2004 08:00 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: Re: [Freevo-users] Automated shutdown? ...but it also does not shut down if you want

AW: [Freevo-users] Automated shutdown?

2004-01-31 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi all, On Wed 28.01.2004 at 12:53:23PM +0100, Pferdekaemper, Thorsten wrote: Hi, I have had a look at your coding and I have tried something similar. On my system, the line r = self.lircd_sock.recv(64) blocks until I press a key on my remote. It seems that the line

AW: [Freevo-users] mencoder options for low spec machine

2004-01-30 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, /usr/bin/mencoder tv:// -t driver=v4l: Have you tried the correct driver (v4l2) yet? input=2:norm=PAL:width=320:height=240: Have you tried width=384:height=288 or width=360:height=288 yet? I can imagine that this is a little bit faster. outfmt=yv12:devi

AW: [Freevo-users] Automated shutdown?

2004-01-28 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I have had a look at your coding and I have tried something similar. On my system, the line r = self.lircd_sock.recv(64) blocks until I press a key on my remote. It seems that the line self.lircd_sock.setblocking(0) has no effect. Perhaps this depends on the version of LIRC

[Freevo-users] nxtvepg keeps switching channels...

2004-01-28 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I am using nxtvepg to create the XMLTV listings for freevo. I am doing this roughly as described in http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/GermanXmltvGuide I also have a cron job which dumps the nxtvepg databases into TV.xml. I am pretty convinced that this is a really good idea,

[Freevo-users] Shutdown crashes nxtvepg databases?

2004-01-28 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I am grabbing my XMLTV listings by nxtvepg... Yesterday, freevo had problems to convert the listings in its own format. I tracked that down to the point that the nxtvepg databases were lost. In this case, nxtvepg does nothing any more. I had to do a new provider scan to set this up again...

AW: [Freevo-users] Hard Drive Space

2004-01-28 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, this depends on your settings. You can find the settings in local_conf.py. Look for VCR_CMD. I believe that the standard settings use 1200kBit/s MPEG4 for video and 128kBit/s MP3 for audio. That's 1328kBit/s or 584MByte/h. So your hard drive is able to store up to 140 hours. (If 80GB

AW: [Freevo-users] MPlayer catches keypresses

2004-01-21 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Goeden Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2004 20:37 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: RE: [Freevo-users] MPlayer catches keypresses I had the same problem. It is a focus problem. Set START_FULLSCREEN_X = 1 in your local_conf. Matt From: Pferdekaemper, Thorsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply

AW: [Freevo-users] MPlayer with no sound when watching TV

2004-01-21 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
2004 14:10:01 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 From: Pferdekaemper, Thorsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:45:57 +0100 Subject: [Freevo-users] MPlayer with no sound when watching TV Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

AW: [Freevo-users] Re: MPlayer catches keypresses

2004-01-21 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Dirk Meyer Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2004 11:11 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: MPlayer catches keypresses Pferdekaemper, Thorsten wrote: Hi, I know

[Freevo-users] MPlayer catches keypresses

2004-01-20 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I know that I have sent something about this issue yet. Sorry... When freevo starts mplayer for movies or TV, it seems that mplayer catches the keypresses, even though it is called with -slave. It does not seem that mplayer is the problem here. I have tried the mplayer which comes with the

[Freevo-users] MPlayer with no sound when watching TV

2004-01-20 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I am using a Terratec Cinergy 600 TV card. (With SAA7134 and therefore only working with v4l2.) When starting mplayer, it seems that it is not really aware of the sound. It unmutes the sound of the TV, but I can not turn the volume up or down. The OSD always display the volume as being at

[Freevo-users] WG: Problems when downloading files with freevo webserver

2004-01-16 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I have just encountered some problems when trying to download files with the freevo webserver. When clicking on the download link, it did load about the first 64k, but not further. In the webserver log file (/tmp/freevo/webserver-1001.log) I found ...Warning! request.finish called

[Freevo-users] MPlayer catches keypresses instead of slave mode?

2004-01-16 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I have come across a problem I could not track down yet. It seems like mplayer does not really run in slave mode when playing movies, bit it does when playing music. Normally when playing a movie with freevo, I could use the + and - keys on the numpad to increase or decrease the volume.

AW: [Freevo-users] startup failure

2004-01-16 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, the two messages do not mean anything harmful. The first is only an information. The second just tells you that your remote control won't work (if you have one...). You also do not need a TV card to make freevo work. Freevo always writes some log files. On my system, they can be found in

AW: AW: [Freevo-users] Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P ...

2004-01-15 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P... from memory.. you will need to export USER=root before stating freevo. and there was is very good help on autosarting freevo in the wiki. Mick On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 01:12, Pferdekaemper, Thorsten wrote: Hi, yesterday evening/night I have continued my

AW: [Freevo-users] Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P...

2004-01-13 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
this box. It should have a really good TV out. Which I haven't even tried out yet... Regards, Thorsten -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pferdekaemper, Thorsten Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

AW: [Freevo-users] Re: Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P ...

2004-01-13 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Meyer Gesendet: Montag, 12. Januar 2004 20:29 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P... Pferdekaemper, Thorsten wrote: I chmod'd /dev/fb0, /dev/mixer and /dev/psaux (there's the mouse...). A few things are working now. But it seems

AW: [Freevo-users] Images with DVD

2004-01-12 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Nigel Orr Gesendet: Montag, 12. Januar 2004 10:50 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: RE: [Freevo-users] Images with DVD My linux computer has both a DVD drive and CDROM drive.

[Freevo-users] Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P...

2004-01-12 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I am currently setting up a freevo box on a MSI Hermes 651P. I would like to share my experiences, problems and solutions I found out. Perhaps someone is interested... Regards, Thorsten 1. The idea === Last year, I began to digtize some old videotapes. I also began to use

AW: [Freevo-users] German TV Program

2004-01-08 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Sebastian Hardt Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2004 10:40 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] German TV Program Hi, i am from Germany and I have a problem since

AW: [Freevo-users] Old Question Reborn-No Sound

2003-12-30 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, have you ever tried different values with audiorate=...? Kind regards, Thorsten -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Matthew Carpenter Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2003 06:42 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

WG: [Freevo-users] Re: XMLTV from TV-Movie...

2003-09-09 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dirk Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 5. September 2003 21:07 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: XMLTV from TV-Movie... yesterday, I have installed the grabber from Ben Bucksch which uses the data sources of

[Freevo-users] XMLTV from TV-Movie...

2003-09-05 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, yesterday, I have installed the grabber from Ben Bucksch which uses the data sources of TV-Movie to create XMLTV files. At the end, it worked, but there are some findings I'd want to share. 1. The listings sometimes contain real unicode characters, i.e. characters with a number outside

AW: [Freevo-users] Re: Snapshot of 02.Sept.2003: Some problems (and proposed solutio ns.. .)

2003-09-04 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dirk Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. September 2003 18:07 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: Snapshot of 02.Sept.2003: Some problems (and proposed solutio ns.. .) Pferdekaemper, Thorsten wrote: I am pretty sure

AW: [Freevo-users] Re: Snapshot of 02.Sept.2003: Some problems (and proposed solutio ns.. .)

2003-09-04 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: William Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The /etc/freevo.conf file can only support one setting for display. If you want to switch between the two, you'd need to keep two versions of the config file and setup the correct version before starting

AW: [Freevo-users] Re: Snapshot of 02.Sept.2003: Some problems (and proposed solutio ns.. .)

2003-09-04 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Wan Tat Chee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The /etc/freevo.conf file can only support one setting for display. If you want to switch between the two, you'd need to keep two versions of the config file and setup the correct version before starting freevo.

[Freevo-users] [OT] mplayer playing slowly or is it mencoder?

2003-09-04 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gray, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. September 2003 14:23 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: [Freevo-users] [OT] mplayer playing slowly or is it mencoder? Actually it seems to be a mencoder problem recording. My freevo unit is

[Freevo-users] German TV listings and how to get them...

2003-09-04 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, currently, the servers for german XMLTV listings (www.szing.at and yasd.cc) seem to be not working. So I am searching for alternatives to tv_grab_de. Ben Buksch has written something which should be able to get the TV listings from TV-Movie in XMLTV format (see

AW: [Freevo-users] Problem getting freevo to recognize that a CD- ROM has been inserted - solved!

2003-09-04 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: James Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. September 2003 16:06 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [Freevo-users] Problem getting freevo to recognize that a CD- ROM has been inserted - solved! anyone can do this, but on the

AW: [Freevo-users] Today snapshot

2003-09-03 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Alec - Freevo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. September 2003 04:41 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Today snapshot Hello there, While trying the latest snapshop (02-Sep-2003)i got this : Traceback (most recent call

AW: [Freevo-users] Re: 1.3.4 bug?

2003-09-03 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dirk Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 1. September 2003 21:34 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: 1.3.4 bug? Because CVS now has the following new features: o only scan needed dirs, even on disc (since yesterday,

[Freevo-users] Snapshot of 02.Sept.2003: Some problems (and proposed solutions...)

2003-09-03 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, yesterday I have installed the newest snapshot of freevo and mmpython. This was my first upgrade of freevo. Here are my problems and solutions about that... 1. The startup script did not recognize that the runtime was present. (It complained about import Image...) It tried to find runapp in

[Freevo-users] Re: Snapshot of 02.Sept.2003: Some problems (and proposed solutions.. .)

2003-09-03 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dirk Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. September 2003 12:30 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: Snapshot of 02.Sept.2003: Some problems (and proposed solutions.. .) 2. freevo won't work any more when started

AW: [Freevo-users] Re: 1.3.4 bug?

2003-09-02 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dirk Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 1. September 2003 21:34 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: 1.3.4 bug? Current CVS only scans the needed directories so it should be under 10 sec. I do not really believe

AW: [Freevo-users] Scanning huge file systems (was: Re: 1.3.4 bug?)

2003-09-01 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
We need to rething the metadata loading. It seems to work fine in most cases, but too many files on a disc will slow things down. But without mmpython parsing the disc, we won't have mp3 tags to sort the items. Hi, I have made some positive experiences by implementing progress

[Freevo-users] Re: Scanning huge file systems

2003-09-01 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, [Dischi:] There is no progress bar in the Freevo gui code. I will take a look at it this evening, mayve I can find something. I have tried to implement one on my own. I have attached it to this mail. (ProgressIndicatorBox.py) It's far from perfect, but it works for me. (Sorry, these

[Freevo-users] Some findings about german EPG (XMLTV, TV_GRAB_DE)

2003-08-29 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, I have tested the XMLTV program guide in my freevo installation yesterday. I have found out some things which I want to share. (This applies to german program listings...) 1. Somewhere in the Docs, I have found that you can just wget the listings from yasd.cc. This does not seem to work

AW: [Freevo-users] Re: 1.3.4 bug?

2003-08-29 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dirk Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 29. August 2003 12:54 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: 1.3.4 bug? Stian Davidsen wrote: Mick wrote: When loading freevo, if my CD drives are full, the discs are not

[Freevo-users] Switch to TV with NVTV and freevo

2003-08-20 Thread Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
Hi, yesterday, I've tried to get freevo working on my TV. I am using freevo in framebuffer mode with resolution 640 x 480. So far so good. Then, I have switched to the TV using nvtv -r 640,480 -s Small -t now, I saw the console on the LCD and on the TV. (I wondered about this, cause the