Re: [Freevo-users] video.xine.py issues

2009-09-19 Thread Richard van Paasen
Xine-lib implements all media handling, codecs, input/output, OSD and also the ivtv livepause (buffering) functionality. Xine-ui depends on xine-lib and adds just a gui and command line interface. Freevo uses the xine application (=xine-lib + xine-ui) through that command line interface. So yes, w

Re: [Freevo-users] video.xine.py issues

2009-09-18 Thread Richard van Paasen
> > > Basically just use the latest SVN. Freevo is kinda stuck waiting on > the next stable release of the xine UI for a few features. > Maybe it is a good idea if some people ask the xine-ui guys to apply the pending patches for Freevo and to release a new version. The current release is over 2

Re: [Freevo-users] LIRC ChanelUp ChanelDown w/h tv.ivtv_xine_tv

2008-12-18 Thread Richard van Paasen
From: Evan Hisey > >> As ivtv does not require any special settings for up and down > >> channels, I would first check that you have them set right in the > >> lircrc file. Do them work with tvtime? Also check the debuging log. > > > > > > IIRC this is only available in the cvs version of the xine

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with autoshutdown plugin

2008-12-18 Thread Richard van Paasen
From: Martin Beck > Thanks for your answer! my only problem now is how to run it as root. > I'm user 'freevo' now. Do I need to run as the 'root' user or can I > still be 'freevo' and do a workaround? You should add user 'freevo' to the /etc/sudoers file. Or, better, add the commands that freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Question about the new ivtv_xine plugin

2008-09-22 Thread Richard van Paasen
> Pascal Schirrmann wrote: > > David Frager a écrit : > >> You indicated that when > >> you press record, the record starts. Does the record start at the time you > >> press "record" or at the time you started watch TV? > > You are right, the record start at the begining at the show, not at the

Re: [Freevo-users] Shutdown is not happening

2008-07-14 Thread Richard van Paasen
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Sandip Devnath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 4). > >From freevo GUI I shutdown the sytem. I get following error > > sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo Does the following solve the problem? http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/10553-solved-sudo-so

Re: [Freevo-users] more 1.7.5 issues, xine doesn't appear to be doing xvmc any more

2008-01-28 Thread Richard van Paasen
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Stephen Rowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 28-Jan-2008 19:53 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] more 1.7.5 issues, xine doesn't appear to be doing xvmc any more > Duncan Webb wrote: > > Would you try changing

Re: [Freevo-users] Some questions about freevo feautures

2007-03-21 Thread Richard van Paasen
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Gillen Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > And where can I find that patch for xine. > > On the xine mailing list, sourceforge or here: http://www.t3i.nl The xine team is planning a new release. You can also just wait for that. Richard

Re: [Freevo-users] Autoshutdown-wakeup and RTC

2007-02-21 Thread Richard van Paasen
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - > Should the hardware clock be set to UTC (GMT) or local time? Doesn't matter, the nvram utility checks the RTC device to find out. UTC is the convention for UNIX machines. > Does the plugin take into account system timezone settings when setting the wakeup t

Re: [Freevo-users] How can I do to handle my plextor convertX(livetv(pause, etc...record...)

2006-11-02 Thread Richard van Paasen
I contacted Plextor for support on this issue. Hopefully I get a positive response. Richard. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Richard van Paasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 03-Nov-2006 00:38 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] How can I do to han

Re: [Freevo-users] How can I do to handle my plextor convertX(livetv(pause, etc...record...)

2006-11-02 Thread Richard van Paasen
Wow, this sounds like a nice device! It has hardware DIVX encoding support for about EUR 170. MythTV does already support it. Freevo should support it too, IMO. A yearly computer fare is organized in my town this month (reduced prices for hardware...). I'll try and see if I can buy this device an

Re: [Freevo-users] lirc-compatible USB IR transmitters?

2006-10-20 Thread Richard van Paasen
Do you do mean transmitter or receiver? If you actually mean *transmitter*, what are yo using it for in the context of Freevo? I'm using the Marmitek USB/RF PC Remote Control. It is a Radio Frequency receiver device (433 MHz band) that connect via USB. The remote control uses RF signals to commun

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and MythTV

2005-08-17 Thread Richard van Paasen
Citeren regatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | MythTV: | 7. not good for slow PC since it will use QT and MYSQL (BAD) Not entirely correct: Freevo's TV section is not that fast either. Proper use of MySQL (o.a. indexed tables and smart queries) can result in a faster response than just parsing flat (xm

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Anyone into interface design?

2004-12-09 Thread Richard van Paasen
Citeren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Who is using freevo. The typical freevo user is IMHO someone who is willing | to undergoe the sometime very annoying troubles of a linux installation with | several undocumented software elements. Yes, I like to spend many hours on trivial, but hard-to-solve problems..

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Anyone into interface design?

2004-12-02 Thread Richard van Paasen
Citeren Zach Lym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | ... | But Jef puts a special | emphisis on modes. Modes are VERY VERY VERY bad. Yes in the 'vi' way (edit/review modes) they are terrible. But, in the Startrek series, where the light turns dim and red light flashes on when the enterprise crew is to go int

Re: [Freevo-users] Suggestions for IR Receiver

2004-11-10 Thread Richard van Paasen
I have an irman remote setup with Lirc. You need libirman (seee www.evation.com) to get it working. Lirc may be compiled without irman support on your system, see the docs for lirc. Richard Citeren Evan Hisey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Chris- | If you just have to build a new one the IR reciever

Re: [Freevo-users] runtime config changes

2004-10-14 Thread Richard van Paasen
Citeren Eric Bus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Richard van Paasen wrote: | | >The advantage that XML offers is that it adds the hierarchy that Freevo | config | >files are currently missing. The impact of a erro in XML format is indeed | huge, | >on the other hand. | > | > | But

Re: [Freevo-users] runtime config changes

2004-10-14 Thread Richard van Paasen
, for what I've read from the YAML site. It adds hierarchy without too much tagging. Richard. Citeren Dale Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Eric Bus wrote: | | > Richard van Paasen wrote: | > | >> Instead, all modules should be extended with a 'reconfigure' method |

Re: [Freevo-users] runtime config changes

2004-10-14 Thread Richard van Paasen
You definitely don't want to restart freevo after changing configuration settings from within freevo. Remember this annoying behaviour of MS-Windows when you e.g. changed the resolution of the screen? Also, if one changes something and Freevo crashes on restart, then one has no clue where to fix i

Re: [Freevo-users] (re) Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-10-01 Thread Richard van Paasen
Citeren Dale Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Hum, on the other hand, is anyone actually recording movies from TV to | _keep_ them? I mean - we have got DVD, right... and if not then P2P :) I | for one hate movies run on TV for these reasons: Depends on what you mean by "keep". Forever: no, couple

Re: [Freevo-users] More Ideas for next Freevo

2004-10-01 Thread Richard van Paasen
Citeren Rob Shortt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | give some specifics or hunt it down if you see one. Also I think zombie | processes are caused by a parent process dying and nothing calling | wait() on the child. If I remember correctly, you can ignore SIGCHLD: signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_IGN) so that the chi

[Freevo-users] New Idea

2004-08-19 Thread Richard van Paasen
ram such a module, but I want to share this idea with the community. Maybe someone could pick up this idea ? Regards, Richard van Paasen. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $

Re: [Freevo-users] Buying a TV out card

2004-07-19 Thread Richard van Paasen
don't know the best place to look). Cheers, Shaun On Mon July 19, 2004 14h08, Richard van Paasen wrote: Also remember to buy a *good* quality S-Video cable, it really matters! Keep the cable length as short as possible. --- This S

Re: [Freevo-users] Buying a TV out card

2004-07-19 Thread Richard van Paasen
Also remember to buy a *good* quality S-Video cable, it really matters! Keep the cable length as short as possible. Shaun Jackman wrote: I'm buying a video card for tv-out and Freevo. I do not really use the gaming functions, so primarily it should be cheap. It'll probably be PCI so that I can st

Re: [Freevo-users] Buying a TV out card

2004-07-19 Thread Richard van Paasen
I haven't used a Radeon card with tv/out, but did use a PCI Radeon and an AGP NVidia card in a multi-head setting (xinerama) with XFree. I found that it was not possible to use DRI on both cards since the drivers are different, and only one could be loaded at the time. With two NVidia or two Ra

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Better DVB support (C programmers needed)

2004-07-15 Thread Richard van Paasen
Yes, there is an input_pvr module for xine that uses the ivtv driver for the 250/350 family. Fons van der Beek wrote: As far as I know xine only supports this for wintv 250/350 or am i wrong? Richard van Paasen wrote: Maybe I'm missing something here? Xine already has timeshiftin

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Better DVB support (C programmers needed)

2004-07-15 Thread Richard van Paasen
Zoolook wrote: Richard van Paasen wrote: Maybe I'm missing something here? Xine already has timeshifting and works well with Freevo. Why do you want mplayer instead of xine? Maybe one reason is also the fact that the xine devs have dropped DirectFB support, and many freevo users who r

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Better DVB support (C programmers needed)

2004-07-15 Thread Richard van Paasen
Maybe I'm missing something here? Xine already has timeshifting and works well with Freevo. Why do you want mplayer instead of xine? Timeshifting works smoothly on my epia (1 GHz) machine (with a pvr-250). Richard. Fons van der Beek wrote: Therefore a suggested way to implement it: -from the pro

[Freevo-users] Gentoo sync-freevo problem

2004-06-14 Thread Richard van Paasen
Hi, [Hmm, my first post didn't make it to the list, so I'm sending again...] I'm trying to update freevo to 1.5-rc3 on my Gentoo box. I installed this box in november last year and since then I did not upgrade anything on it (just used free 1.4 hapily with my TV and remote control). The script "

[Freevo-users] creating music playlist

2004-04-08 Thread Richard van Paasen
How do I create a playlist manually? I have a playlists directory + Playlists entry in the music section with .m3u files, but freevo says "This directory is empty" when I select the Playlists entry from the music section.

Re: [Freevo-users] nfs mount

2004-01-14 Thread Richard van Paasen
if freevo is playing a song and the fileserver goes down? > Richard van Paasen wrote: > > I have my music directory mounted via nfs from a fileserver to my freevo > > box. However, the fileserver is not always on thus freevo hangs when it > > accesses the music directory when the f

[Freevo-users] nfs mount

2004-01-14 Thread Richard van Paasen
I have my music directory mounted via nfs from a fileserver to my freevo box. However, the fileserver is not always on thus freevo hangs when it accesses the music directory when the fileserver is offline. Is there a way to prevent freevo from hanging? Maybe samba? Richard ---

[Freevo-users] OSD text position

2003-12-14 Thread Richard van Paasen
Hi, I use overscan for the TV out, but that way I loose a small amount of the image on each side. This is not a problem, but the OSD text is now displayed only partly. Is there a way with mplayer and xine to position the OSD text somewhat lower and to the right? - Richard. -

Re: [Freevo-users] Xine is never used

2003-12-04 Thread Richard van Paasen
try xine --help and see if it supports the --no-lirc flag. If *not*, then remove the --no-lirc flag in the xine.py source file. - Richard. Justin T Wetherell wrote: I have Xine installed and working from the command line but when I go to play a DVD thru Freevo is ALWAYS uses mplayer. this is my

[Freevo-users] Recorded filename format

2003-12-02 Thread Richard van Paasen
Using ivtv_record as the record plugin, the recorded files have filenames like: 11-27_19:55_Seinfeld_-_.mpeg The '_' is converted to a space in "Recorded Shows", but a ' - ' is displayed at the end of each entry. How can I control the filename format? - Richard. ---

[Freevo-users] Date/time format in scheduled recordings

2003-12-02 Thread Richard van Paasen
How do I change the date&time format in the scheduled recordings list? Currently it lists e.g. Monday Dec 02 07:55 PM Veronica: Seindfeld Wednesday Dec 03 07:55 PM Veronica: Seindfeld Thursday Dec 04 07:55 PM Veronica: Seindfeld I'd like it to change to: Mon 12-02 19:55 Veronica: Seindfeld et

Re: [Freevo-users] pre-record amount? re-attempts?

2003-11-21 Thread Richard van Paasen
I'd also be nice to get a notification if a recording should start while I'm watching a(nother) channel. Maybe configurable to force/ask/ignore the scheduled record. - Richard Citeren Joe Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | I have a question about the recording deamon (actually two). | | 1.) Does it

[Freevo-users] video / music menu

2003-11-02 Thread Richard van Paasen
I have music albums in subdirs of "/video/" and video files in "/video/". In local_config.py I can set e.g: DIR_IMAGES = [ ('Images', '/images') ] But how do tell freevo that it should display the subdirectories in /images/ when I select Images from the main menu? Same for video... it's anno

Re: AW: [Freevo-users] NEW: hddtemp idlebar plugin

2003-10-28 Thread Richard van Paasen
Try this new script. I changed the parsing of the hddtemp output. - Richard. Jan Grewe wrote: Sorry richard, but i only get |-1| in my idlebar ... Normal ouput: # hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: Maxtor 4R120L0: 45°C Version: # hddtemp --version hddtemp version 0.3 beta8 /jan #if 0 /* # -*-

[Freevo-users] NEW: hddtemp idlebar plugin

2003-10-27 Thread Richard van Paasen
Hi, I'm just getting started with freevo, so, I've decided to make my first plugin. It displays harddisk temperatures on the idlebar using hddtemp. It is capable of polling at a given interval and displays maximun temperatures of on or more sets of harddisk devices. The plugin should be put in

[Freevo-users] timeshift

2003-10-24 Thread Richard van Paasen
A short question: is timeshifting supposed to work with ivtv/PVR-250 ? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help u

[Freevo-users] PVR-250 / ivtv & local_conf.py

2003-10-21 Thread Richard van Paasen
I have my PVR-250 working on Gentoo. Now I need to configure local_conf.py, but I only get errors about the record_client in freevo. Selecting a channel from the TV Guide does not work. Can someone send post a working example of local_conf.py? Richard. ---

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-card -- advice needed

2003-10-19 Thread Richard van Paasen
ong? - Richard. Rob Shortt wrote: Richard van Paasen wrote: Now I want to add TV recording (and maybe playing/time-shifting) to Freevo, so I need to buy a TV card for it. It must have h/w MPEG encoding since the VIA board is only 1GHz, but I'm not sure about the decoding part. Do I need

[Freevo-users] TV-card -- advice needed

2003-10-17 Thread Richard van Paasen
, so I need to buy a TV card for it. It must have h/w MPEG encoding since the VIA board is only 1GHz, but I'm not sure about the decoding part. Do I need to get an expensive Hauppage WinTV PVR-350 or will a PVR-250 do? Or is there a better option? Thanks for your answer, Richard van P

[Freevo-users] TV-guide bug report

2003-10-17 Thread Richard van Paasen
Hi, First I'd want to say that freevo is a great program! I found a small bug in the TV-guide section. I have a TV.xml listing (dutch) in which the programming for a certain channel is discontinued for some time: Kamerbreed Studio sport wielrennen Programme "Kamerbreed"

Re: [Freevo-users] Booting into freevo

2003-10-13 Thread Richard van Paasen
arguments "-dpms s off" for X did the trick. Richard van Paasen wrote: Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but how do I disable the screen blanker of X? I boot into X and freevo (without windowmanager). In the xinitrc I have: #!/bin/sh # xset -dpms xset s off sudo -H -u freevo

[Freevo-users] Booting into freevo

2003-10-11 Thread Richard van Paasen
Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but how do I disable the screen blanker of X? I boot into X and freevo (without windowmanager). In the xinitrc I have: #!/bin/sh # xset -dpms xset s off sudo -H -u freevo sh -c "cd ~/freevo;./freevo" halt # The sudo part runs the binary version of freevo a

[Freevo-users] Increase repeat rate with up/down in menu from remote conrol

2003-10-10 Thread Richard van Paasen
How can I increase the rate by which the menu bar is being scrolled when I press the up/down/left/right arrows on my remote control? If I set repeat=1 in lirc.conf then the scrolling is a bit faster, but not fast enough for me. I like the 2-step scrolling speed of freevo when repeat=0 in lirc.conf.