[Freevo-users] Initial tuning file for UK hannington and crystal palace

2012-02-24 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hannington has been adjusted, so the initial tuning file that I have doesn't work any more. I've run w_scan to create a new one (note I have 2 aerials one pointing to crystal palace and one to hannington) I thought it might be useful for people here it is:

Re: [Freevo-users] Stopping freevo from trying to use mminfo on inserted disks?

2011-12-20 Thread Stephen Rowles
Stephen- More usefully in general would be if you could give a list of the DVD's that are problems. This sounds like a case were improving mminfo makes more sense than breaking a generally useful system. If the dev's know what dvds break things then they can look for ways to identify badly

[Freevo-users] Stopping freevo from trying to use mminfo on inserted disks?

2011-10-25 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, Increasingly I am having problems with badly formatted DVD's (copy protection systems) that are corrupt if mminfo tries to read them, but will play just fine if you play them in a real DVD player (or if I just use Xine to play the DVD from standard X session without Freevo involved).

Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo 2.0

2011-07-18 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 17 July 2011 15:29, Tuomas Tonteri t...@tuomastonteri.fi wrote: Hi, I was wondering what is the place of Freevo 2.0 in the landscape of alternatives? What makes it unique from all the other HTPC software? There seems to be more competition here than there was five years ago. This from a

Re: [Freevo-users] Trouble with DVD Play in 1.9.2.beta

2011-03-08 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 08/03/2011 03:21, Jim Duda wrote: On 03/07/2011 11:23 AM, Adam Charrett wrote: lroom mminfo /dev/dvd /dev/dvd | type: CD |subtype: data | media: MEDIA_DISC | mime: unknown/unknown | id: 2007083012392900SUNSHINE | label: SUNSHINE Okay, I'm with you

[Freevo-users] Problems with nasty copy protected DVD's

2011-03-07 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I have purchased a couple of Disney DVD's recently, because my Son loves them (Cars, Toy Story). However there are problems with them. It seems that they have figured out how to break libdvdread which results in it chewing 100% of ram and then dieing. It seems that this is due to the

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with nasty copy protected DVD's

2011-03-07 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 03/07/2011 04:18 PM, Adam Charrett wrote: Hi all, I have purchased a couple of Disney DVD's recently, because my Son loves them (Cars, Toy Story). However there are problems with them. It seems that they have figured out how to break libdvdread which results in it chewing 100% of ram and

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo vs XBMC vs Boxee

2011-02-24 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 23/02/2011 21:48, Bill Burroughs wrote: Hi all, I had been using Freevo for almost 4 years until about 4 months ago - I got a 720p TV, and as my Freevo box wasn't powerful enough to decode 720p, I bought myself a cheap little (Argosy) media box. Needless to say, losing the ability

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer audio/video sync

2011-02-10 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 10/02/2011 23:24, Jim Duda wrote: Thanks for the response. That is exactly what I have done. I run the same command (minus the -slave option) on the command line outside of freevo and the same video plays without any problems. It's a real mystery. Thanks, Jim This may be a silly

Re: [Freevo-users] Poor performances with mkv and mp4 files

2010-11-26 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 26/11/2010 06:56, Leandro sullo sgorbio wrote: ind of player ? mplayer on a pinolino:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : VIA Eden Processor 1200MHz Is the processor too slow? files are 1080p encoded movies ?

Re: [Freevo-users] It's upgrade time!

2010-10-05 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 10/05/2010 06:44 PM, James Trietsch wrote: I'm a little less clear when it comes to video cards. Now that I'm using the VGA input on my TV, I can let go of the Matrox (don't need the great NTSC output anymore). I'd also like something that can do 1280x720 or 1920x1080 (or maybe 960x540

Re: [Freevo-users] Which distro?

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 30/08/2010 18:34, Paul wrote: I've been using Freevo on Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about 6 months but always with the intention of trying something else at some point. The main reason is the audio performance, I seem to be one of the many users suffering from Ubuntu's implementation of

Re: [Freevo-users] multiple audio outputs using mplayer? (HDMI + SPDIF)

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 16/06/2010 22:55, John Molohan wrote: Hi Stephen, Glad to hear you got it all running in the end. Can you return the favour and help the community by posting this up to the wiki? Thanks, John Very good point! I always forget the wiki :( There is now an extra section in the

[Freevo-users] Selectable audio output when playing an item?

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, Looks like my duplicate sound solution doesn't work too happily with video output :(. Audio is fine by my Video output slows down and gets out of sync occasionally before catching up again. If I output directly to 1 hardware output it is fine. So as a solution for this issue, until I

Re: [Freevo-users] multiple audio outputs using mplayer? (HDMI + SPDIF)

2010-06-16 Thread Stephen Rowles
Thanks for the tip in the right direction. Following lots more searching / experiments I finally have a .asoundrc that works. I now play music and tv using mplayer -ao alsa:device=both The following is the config I use in case it helps someone else. pcm.both { type route

[Freevo-users] multiple audio outputs using mplayer? (HDMI + SPDIF)

2010-06-13 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I've finally cleared enough room to get my AC3 capable amp and speakers set up in the house :). I've changed my xine config to output ac3 when viewing DVD's and it's all funky, spdif output via optical into the amp and it all works grand. However music and stereo sound still go to the

Re: [Freevo-users] Latest svn no DVD/CD mounting

2009-12-02 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 12/02/2009 06:17 AM, Bernard Mentink wrote: Ok, a re-install partially fixed the issue. It seems I was running 11635, and now it is 11637. The DVD icon shows up (after a long while ..) when the DVD is put in the drive. However, a message comes up saying there is no /media/dvd mount

Re: [Freevo-users] Picture/sound errors (macro blocks/pops squeaks) when watching live TV while recording...

2009-11-23 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 11/23/2009 11:23 AM, Adam Charrett wrote: At a guess, your HDDs don't have enough bandwidth to record 2 streams to disk and playback 1 all at the same time. The reason for the macro blocks and audio pops is the data isn't being fed fast enough to the decoders (xine/mplayer). I see you've

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer, hdmi, ac3, tv, surround amp = digital noise?

2009-11-19 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 11/19/2009 12:11 AM, Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:24 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: Is this a setting problem in alsa / driver / mplayer? Or is this simply because the TV is doing the wrong thing? I'm inclined to believe the that TV is failing to decode the digital

[Freevo-users] mplayer, hdmi, ac3, tv, surround amp = digital noise?

2009-11-18 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, Not really the right place, but before I subscribe to alsa / mplayer to try and work out what was wrong I thought I would start here :) I've got an ASRock ION-330, and I'm trying to get surround sound sorted out. It is an ION system (Nvidia 9400). I use the following mplayer command:

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer, hdmi, ac3, tv, surround amp = digital noise?

2009-11-18 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 11/18/2009 01:34 PM, strawks wrote: Hi, did you try to output dts/ac3 encoded audio through HDMI instead of raw PCM? mplayer -ac hwac3,hwdts -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 master_and_commander.iso Ah, Yes I did, I must have copied and pasted the wrong command from my bash history :). I

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer ac3 sound over s/pdif

2009-11-10 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 11/10/2009 09:01 AM, Michael Müller wrote: Ok, I try to figure it out: 1. Scenario: Kde: Mplayer from konsole without special audio arguments (freevo is not running): 1. Play AC3 passthrough; works. 2. Play PCM; works. 3. Play AC3 passthrough; works. 4. Play

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.3 remote record server not working?

2009-10-14 Thread Stephen Rowles
Duncan Webb wrote: The other problem is a mis-match of different versions. The API of kaa packages is relatively unstable so you need to be sure that freevo and the kaa packages match. Turned out to be a kaa mis-match problem. I had 0.6.0 which was installed from rpm's from the fedora

[Freevo-users] Freevo with VDPAU - howto on the wiki

2009-10-13 Thread Stephen Rowles
All, I've just finished setting up freevo on an ASRock ION-330 with VDPAU output for hardware accelerated playback. I've documented what needed doing in the hope that it might help someone: http://doc.freevo.org/ASRockIon330Fedora I've still got various issues but they are because of my weird

[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.3 remote record server not working?

2009-10-12 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi, I'm still in the rather slow process of moving my working freevo install over to a new machine. However I am trying to do a backend / frontend split and want to run the record server on my server box, while my freevo front end simply talks to it. I have set the following sent on my client

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.3 remote record server not working?

2009-10-12 Thread Stephen Rowles
Stephen Rowles wrote: Hi, I'm still in the rather slow process of moving my working freevo install over to a new machine. However I am trying to do a backend / frontend split and want to run the record server on my server box, while my freevo front end simply talks to it. I have set

[Freevo-users] Recommended version of Freevo?

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I'm currently running 1.8.3 and as stated in my other post I'm upgrading / re-organising my systems. How stables is 1.9.0 considered? Is there a 1.9.1 due out soon? Is it recommended to stay with 1.8.3 as considered the stable release or should I go with 1.9.0? All opinions welcome :D

[Freevo-users] Frontend / Backend freevo setup (DVBStreamer)

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi, I'm sure this was mentioned as being possible, but I cannot find any documentation telling me how (or I'm being blind!). I am about to re-jig my freevo setup as I've just bought a shiney new ASRock ION-330. I've got mplayer etc. all working using VDPAU and can do high-def using only 5%

Re: [Freevo-users] Motherboard with onboard HDMI

2009-08-21 Thread Stephen Rowles
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Dirk Meyer wrote: The gigabyte board would be perfect but jees, 1 pci slot, that's craziness. Is it? What do you need for a media PC? TV cards: USB (as much cards as you like), Sound: onboard, graphic: onboard (and you would not like PCI

Re: [Freevo-users] Motherboard with onboard HDMI

2009-08-11 Thread Stephen Rowles
Jason Tackaberry wrote: Hi all, Having recently upgraded my AV receiver to one that accepts HDMI and does all the latest HD codecs, upgrading my PC to support HDMI output was the next step. It's sometimes unclear what works and what doesn't under Linux, so for those in a similar situation,

Re: [Freevo-users] xxmc/xvmc

2009-07-23 Thread Stephen Rowles
Chris Thomas wrote: Ok I tried almost every possible combination to get mpeg decoding working in Freevo 1.8.1-3 with my CLE266 Via chip. Probably some odd combination of options for xine, have your tried turning debugging on to find out what the child apps are doing: DEBUG = 5

[Freevo-users] DIY VGA cable.

2009-07-22 Thread Stephen Rowles
All, As per my other email I've just upgraded to an LCD telly and needed a VGA cable to run from one end of the room where the media PC lives to the TV on the other. I wanted this nice and out of sight which meant a 7meter run. Decent 7meter VGA cables are quite expensive, but I found this on

[Freevo-users] Pictures showing the wrong aspect ratio?

2009-07-22 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I have just upgraded at home and now have a 16:9 wide screen LCD - YAY! :D I've changed X over to use the VGA out from my graphics card rather than the old S-Video that I used for the CRT. Now with much better picture and larger display area. I am running 1360x768, the native rez of my

Re: [Freevo-users] DIY VGA cable.

2009-07-22 Thread Stephen Rowles
Stephen Rowles wrote: All, As per my other email I've just upgraded to an LCD telly and needed a VGA cable to run from one end of the room where the media PC lives to the TV on the other. I wanted this nice and out of sight which meant a 7meter run. Decent 7meter VGA cables are quite

Re: [Freevo-users] Configuring HD PVR with Freevo 1.90

2009-06-08 Thread Stephen Rowles
Phil Raymond wrote: Thanks Stephan, that's what I needed. Now I need help with stopping a recording. I read the wiki and used the command VCR_POST_REC = ('cat /dev/video1 -c')to stop recordings. When Freevo reaches a stop time, the lighted tv screen in the corner of the Freevo window goes

Re: [Freevo-users] Configuring HD PVR with Freevo 1.90

2009-06-06 Thread Stephen Rowles
I'm sure you've tried this, but just to be certain... From reading the wiki, and guessing from your emails I think your VCR_CMD should be: VCR_CMD = 'cat /dev/video1 %(filename)s' Is that what you tried when you say you set the VCR_CMD to /dev/video1? If not give that a try and see if it

[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8.3 - panorama skin - recorded date not showing

2009-05-31 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I've recently upgraded from 1.7.x to the 1.8.3. I've just noticed that in the TV program listing the date and time it was recorded. I'm sure it used to in 1.7.x. Is there anything I can do to get it back again? Is this something that has changed in the skin? Any help to get it back

Re: [Freevo-users] How to migrate record schedule and favorites?

2009-05-24 Thread Stephen Rowles
Duncan Webb wrote: and /var/lib/freevo but to no avail! I had lots of favourites setup and many things waiting to be recorded, which files do I need to copy across? You can run freevo convert_favorites /path/to/old-record_schedule.xml Should do the trick. If the schedule of the

[Freevo-users] How to migrate record schedule and favorites?

2009-05-23 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, Real pain here, hopefully there is a quick and painless solution... I've just re-installed my Media Centre machine, which was running a very old Fedora 7, with a slightly more up to date Fedora 10 (possibly I should have waited a week and got Fedora 11.. ah well!). I have migrated

Re: [Freevo-users] Help freevo - put some screenshots on the wiki

2009-03-18 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi John, I've updated the http://doc.freevo.org/FreevoInAction page and created separate pages for each of the skins. From the FreevoInAction page, you can click on a thumbnail for a skin to see the screenshots of various Freevo functions displayed with that skin. For consistency, I moved

Re: [Freevo-users] Help freevo - put some screenshots on the wiki

2009-03-12 Thread Stephen Rowles
John Molohan wrote: John Molohan wrote: Hi, The wiki page with screenshots of freevo is badly in need of some attention. Does anyone have 15 minutes to take a few screenshots and update it? http://doc.freevo.org/FreevoInAction Thanks, John No takers? :( John

Re: [Freevo-users] no noise freevo box

2009-02-27 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hello List, I want to setup a new freevo box. I want to make it small, flat and silent. I got a case with a passiv DC/DC PSU. I will use the box mainly for watching AVIs and listening to music. At the moment I am using the matrox g450 on my old CRT TV. But I want to use a default LCD

Re: [Freevo-users] no noise freevo box

2009-02-27 Thread Stephen Rowles
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 08:03 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: of HD playback. Hopefully the ION will also support the linux vpdau api which will make it a very small and quiet self contained machine capable of HD: http://hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIAs-Ion-Small-FormFactor-PC-Platform-/ Wow

Re: [Freevo-users] Help !!!

2009-02-25 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi All... I am using my customize TV.xml file as EPG in freevo which is manually created from website data.Now I want to update my TV.xml on daily basis.Any one has automated scripts for the same.If it is their or any suggestion for the same please let me know..

Re: [Freevo-users] Playing Copy protected DVD

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I've recently purchased the Dark Knight DVD. Upon inserting it into my Freevo system, Freevo crashed. Trying to play it in mplayer, the movie never starts. After googling a bit, I found out these DVDs are protected by some stupid safety. An easy workaround for mplayer is adding -sb

[Freevo-users] VDPAU - full HD playback using an NVidia card and lower speed CPU.

2009-02-18 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I heard about this today in response to my post asking about HDMI output on Linux, having seen the 5 letters I decided to look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU This looks very good apparently there is already support in xine and ffmpeg. OSD effects, de-interlace, h.264 decode

Re: [Freevo-users] HDMI output with audio in Linux?

2009-02-18 Thread Stephen Rowles
Awesome - thank you! I had not heard of VDPAU.. so looked it up and it looks perfect, with a new graphics card my AMD LE1000 might even play back HD h.264 content - WOW. I have one from MSI, model N9500GT-MD512Z, Nvidia 9500 fanless. It was only one I found with heatsink on oposite side of

Re: [Freevo-users] 16x9 telly/monitor, and the theme

2009-02-06 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi All I recently reinstalled my freevo machine (replaced gentoo with ubuntu), and installed 1.8.3, but I can't for the life of me remember how I got the interface to be widescreen! At the moment, its full screen but 4x3. Videos play properly (apart from dvds, they play in 16x9 but using the

Re: [Freevo-users] Hardware for Freevo 2 (was: Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement)

2009-01-26 Thread Stephen Rowles
As much as I hate the fact that the driver is closed source, I'd myself still make every effort to build an HTPC with an nvidia GPU. However, if you want onboard video, there are still options with nvidia. The Asus P5N7A-VM looks like a decent option:

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-25 Thread Stephen Rowles
Jason Tackaberry wrote: We're moving into the HD era. You need a more capable system to play HD content. If HD content doesn't interest you and UI eye candy, Freevo 1.x will continue to be available for as long as Duncan is motivated to work on it. Supporting older hardware is a pain with

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibility of Timeshifting DVB using Xine tv plugin

2009-01-22 Thread Stephen Rowles
HTML Hey pplBR Can someone tell me if I'm on the right track?BR What I have is a video group for dvb as recently discussed which works fine to watch tv.BR I have the xine plugin activated and the mplayer plugin removed for watching tv as mplayer doesn't seem to work.BR BR Now is it

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 DVB-T recording

2009-01-04 Thread Stephen Rowles
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: VCR_CMD = CONF.mplayer + ' -dumpstream -dumpfile %(filename)s dvb://%(channel)s' TV_RECORD_FILE_SUFFIX = '.ts' fxd file no recording this is what recordserver logs 2009-01-04 15:40:45,000 INFO recordserver.py

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo DVB Setup (preferably using xine)

2009-01-03 Thread Stephen Rowles
lhuizi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Guys, Righto, I am still having trouble getting tv to play in freevo, or even getting the tv guide to update. I have installed shepherd grabber for Australia (is some process in Arch Linux) as recommended and have run this using freevo tv_grab which

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.8.3 DVB-T recording

2009-01-03 Thread Stephen Rowles
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I've just got this far with setting up using DVB-T I can watch TV fine in Freevo. I've made three attempts on recording a stream through Freevo and not been successful yet. Using the wiki page http://doc.freevo.org/DVBConfig as reference First try with the

Re: [Freevo-users] Xine outputting the wrong ratio video?

2009-01-03 Thread Stephen Rowles
Duncan Webb wrote: So the black bars need to be cropped off and the image aspect needs to be changed to wide-screen. I tend to use mplayer rather than xine and with mplayer you can add mplayer-options to the fxd file which allow specific options for the video. It is also possible to use a

[Freevo-users] Xine outputting the wrong ratio video?

2009-01-02 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, My media centre failed just before Christmas (great timing!) so the server was pressed into service as a new machine until I can afford to repair the real one. I have set it up now, and output is via an Nvidia card using their drivers onto a standard CRT TV The output resolution is

Re: [Freevo-users] xine or mplayer (or vlc) dvb setup instructions

2008-12-27 Thread Stephen Rowles
I am not too worried about xmltv either at the moment although the wiki seems to think that without xmltv the whole dvb thing won't work.nbsp; I find this hard to believe. Perhaps the wiki can just recommend the necessary code adjustments for Xine, Mplayer (or VLC) and how to get these to

Re: [Freevo-users] Mplayer and Freevo config for DVB

2008-12-20 Thread Stephen Rowles
Laurence Huizinga wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to set up DVB tv in freevo and I think I am very close. Hopefully once I get this part of the Freevo box running I can leave it alone for a while, keep the wife happy, and stop nagging this user list. I am running Arch 64 bit if it makes any

Re: [Freevo-users] Myth frontend

2008-10-20 Thread Stephen Rowles
Sounds good. As I mentioned I'm sure that the tivo has a much more intuitive way of doing all these, I just wanted to point out that the functionality exists in freevo. Maybe some of these plugins should be activated by default or maybe the documentation should be better but that's another

Re: [Freevo-users] Myth frontend

2008-10-20 Thread Stephen Rowles
For 4 it's really the community's responsibility, the developers will code and answer questions but it's the end users that should be helping to make the wiki work. One of my pet peeves this, so I'm afraid I've got to comment :). (Oh and I work as a Software Engineer btw). Developers writing

Re: [Freevo-users] Myth frontend

2008-10-19 Thread Stephen Rowles
Eric Jorgensen wrote: I've only been using open source software for 15 years, but a common thread I've seen in user interface design is that it generally looks like it was conceived of by a programmer, and thus typically meets the barest of strict requirements by a hair or less, and has

Re: [Freevo-users] Using xine for ISO files

2008-09-25 Thread Stephen Rowles
I had a similar issue, but simply renamed all my .ISO files to .iso :D I think a better fix would be to do these sort of comparisons with a version of the url that has been put into all lower case. The case of the extension really shouldn't matter, I should be able to play .Iso, .iSo, .isO etc.

Re: [Freevo-users] How to isolate freevo on second display from first display

2008-09-03 Thread Stephen Rowles
But there are many obstacles right now, one of them is that when I start playing a movie with freevo, mplayer starts, and the focus goes to the video window. So if somebody is typing on the main computer, the keys suddenly will go to the video. My goal would be the following: - use a

Re: [Freevo-users] Press the red button?

2008-08-25 Thread Stephen Rowles
Adam Charrett wrote: Along with this, is there any way to view the digital text that is transmitted on DVB? Have a look at redbutton on sourceforge, it is supposed to be able to do exactly what you want although I've not tried it out. Cheers Adam Looks great, thanks, I will

[Freevo-users] Press the red button?

2008-08-24 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, Does anyone know of any programs or work that will allow the viewing of red button content on Linux? During the coverage of the Olympics there have been several times when I have wanted to watch other coverage that is transmitted on Digital TV in the UK (DVB-T and DVB-S, although only

Re: [Freevo-users] UI idea

2008-06-19 Thread Stephen Rowles
Looks very nice and bling-bling indeed. :) However, I fear that this sort of interface would *require* openGL (i.e. proprietary Nvidia or Ati/AMD driver). Which would also mean a complete rewrite of Freevo I think. And last but not least: my TV-out (via the utility 'nvtv') does not work

Re: [Freevo-users] How to burn livetv files (VOB) to DVD

2008-05-29 Thread Stephen Rowles
Once I have captured a video, how do I burn it to DVD? So far, I have been just moving them to my Windows PC and using Nero K3b appears to have the ability to create a Video DVD Project, when it opens up click on Futher actions... and select from the menu. This appears to create a project

Re: [Freevo-users] idlebar.system.sensors problem?

2008-05-16 Thread Stephen Rowles
plugin.activate('idlebar.system.sensors', args=(( 'temp2', '(@*30/43)+25'), 'temp1')) Or something like it is what you want. HTH Duncan Cool, that works. I just have to get the correct calculation I guess. The calculation can be got from your lmsensors config file: /etc/sensors.conf

[Freevo-users] known problems with favorites not scheduling?

2008-04-07 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I'm using 1.7.6.1 and I seem to have some favorites that don't schedule correctly. every evening I grab a new set of listings from the radio times, then I run the favorite scheduler to ensure everything is up to date, but it seems to miss some programs (mostly ones my wife wants to

Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone Using intel GMA 3100 for xvmc and HDTV ?

2008-03-15 Thread Stephen Rowles
Jim Duda wrote: With the SB51, I run with a single core 2.4G Intel P4, no hyperthreading. For video, I'm using Nvidia FX6200. All in all it works quite well, albeit I have occasional video stutter when playing HDTV content with xvmc using both mplayer and xine. I'm only using 45-50 %

Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone Using intel GMA 3100 for xvmc and HDTV ?

2008-03-14 Thread Stephen Rowles
Jim Duda wrote: With the SB51, I run with a single core 2.4G Intel P4, no hyperthreading. For video, I'm using Nvidia FX6200. All in all it works quite well, albeit I have occasional video stutter when playing HDTV content with xvmc using both mplayer and xine. I'm only using 45-50 % of

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1 improvement

2008-03-11 Thread Stephen Rowles
Just to make that point clear: ENTER always should open the submenu, whereas SELECT selects the first choice in the submenu. In that sense you only need ENTER, but SELECT is a handy short cut. Right, now that is a VERY useful piece of information, understanding the intended behavior behind

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1 improvement

2008-03-11 Thread Stephen Rowles
After the next release of Freevo I would like to get an idea of which areas in Freevo-1 need to be looked at for improvements. Oh, one other thing I got burned with today :) tvguide updating! I would love to see freevo have a robust built in mechanism for getting and updating TV guide

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1 improvement

2008-03-11 Thread Stephen Rowles
The first problem is keeping Freevo usable with a remote control. Making a playlist with up, down, enter and back keys is slow and tedious. We all know it. *snip* So if you can think of some other concepts I can deal with the will_code_for_food_student, to see if we can make something

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1 improvement

2008-03-10 Thread Stephen Rowles
After the next release of Freevo I would like to get an idea of which areas in Freevo-1 need to be looked at for improvements. You can vote by following this link: http://www.doodle.ch/yp6maagr5kgagkk5 Looking forward to some feed back Some comments on my voting :) More info on what I

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1 improvement

2008-03-10 Thread Stephen Rowles
It's not really necessary to have a big config file, you can remove the comments: sed -i 's/#.*//' /etc/freevo/local_conf.py remove any trailing whitespace: sed -i 's/ *$//' /etc/freevo/local_conf.py remove any blank lines: sed -i '/^$/d' /etc/freevo/local_conf.py Tidy it up:

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1 improvement

2008-03-10 Thread Stephen Rowles
Stephen TV Watching: TV watching would be much better if it was like a stand alone PVR, I would like to see fastforward and rewind (I realise things like mplayer and xine have issues with these) working, pause, and record working while watching TV. What part of this is not

Re: [Freevo-users] lack of sound output when using freevo full screen?

2008-03-10 Thread Stephen Rowles
Duncan Webb wrote: When you run with --fs freevo starts a new xserver without a window manager. Really we need you XINE and MIXER settings from you local_conf.py to be able to help more. Duncan Ah ha, Right that would explain it, the new X session probably means total lack of access

[Freevo-users] lack of sound output when using freevo full screen?

2008-03-07 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I'm slowly getting my laptop up and running with freevo. However I have a problem. I am using it as a laptop but want to run freevo as a media centre. When I launch freevo without using full screen mode I have problems with xine when watching movies as the UI appears, and sometimes

Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone Using intel GMA 3100 for xvmc and HDTV ?

2008-03-01 Thread Stephen Rowles
Jim Duda wrote: Thanks! I look forward to your report. Jim There will be a slight delay, the laptop that has arrived doesn't match the spec on the web, so it's been sent back.. hopefully next weekend :) - This SF.net

[Freevo-users] remote record server with different versions of freevo?

2008-02-28 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I've just got a new laptop and I would like to run a remote client to freevo to allow watching media etc. from the laptop rather than having to be in front of the TV (or for when other people are using the TV). I have seen from the wiki that I can configure the record server to be remote

Re: [Freevo-users] remote record server with different versions of freevo?

2008-02-28 Thread Stephen Rowles
Yep, my current setup is a machine next to the TV which is on when needed, a laptop I use for development and the record server in the loft which is on 24x7. I've not had any problems while using different version of freevo and I've only just updated to the latest 1.7 branch, I haven't tried

Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone Using intel GMA 3100 for xvmc and HDTV ?

2008-02-24 Thread Stephen Rowles
Jim Duda wrote: The SG33G5B comes with an integrated Intel GMA 3100 graphics engine which an HDMI port. Can anyone confirm if the GMA 3100 works well with Xorg, xvmc, mplayer, and xine? Any issues? The SG33G5B also comes with Realtek ALC888DD audio, which I want to use the digital SPDIF

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

2008-02-15 Thread Stephen Rowles
Stephen Rowles wrote: Duncan Webb wrote: The only thing that I can think of is that freevo is using more memory and you have just gone over the top of the physical memory. You can check this with Dag Wieers' dstat or vmstat program. Duncan Memory is a very good suggestion

[Freevo-users] Python development IDE

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I've recently been getting more into tweaking freevo to do what I want, and investigating fxd files / plug-ins. I also received a Tux Droid (http://www.kysoh.com/) for my birthday which can be programmed using python. I am going to be looking at writing new gadgets for it including an

Re: [Freevo-users] Python development IDE

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rowles
Really, not impressed by PyDev? I've tried several IDEs, DrPython and Eric are the 2 that spring to mind, but I've settled for EasyEclipse for Python, one download and install everything is ready to use for Python. Mind you I've not tried debugging inside Python, prefering the printf method

Re: [Freevo-users] What dvb cards have you got?

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen Rowles
John Molohan wrote: Hi all, I want to update the site again as dvb is becoming more widespread and popular. Can you reply and let me know what dvb-c/s/t card you have? If it's supported out of the box or if it needs some kernel/driver updating? Thanks, John I run a Nova-T Stick

Re: [Freevo-users] What dvb cards have you got?

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, I want to update the site again as dvb is becoming more widespread and popular. Can you reply and let me know what dvb-c/s/t card you have? If it's supported out of the box or if it needs some kernel/driver updating? Thanks, I run a Nova-T Stick (DVB-T):

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with MCE Remote Control and freevo

2008-02-03 Thread Stephen Rowles
Andreas Will wrote: Hello, i have a problem with my Microsoft Mediacenter Remote. I followed all the steps described in http://doc.freevo.org/Lirc I tested the installation with ircat --config=/etc/freevo/lircrc freevo Everything works fine. The mapping is correct. But when starting freevo,

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

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen Rowles
Duncan Webb wrote: I've been testing this but the CPU usage of xine is not affected by freevo. Using a matrox G400DH the CPU usage is about 80% with or without freevo running. The only thing that I can think of is that freevo is using more memory and you have just gone over the top of the

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

2008-01-29 Thread Stephen Rowles
Richard van Paasen wrote: Is xine eating up the cpu (check with 'top')? If you have a (VIA) unichrome video chipset, check the ~/.xine/config file of the user that runs freevo. There is an entry for saving cpu cycles: video.device.unichrome_cpu_save = 1 This takes down the cpu load from

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.7.5 upgrade, no TV guide

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen Rowles
you also need DEBUG_CHILDAPP = 1 and then you will get a /var/log/freevo/tv_grab-1000.log You will also need to set LOGGING see the local_conf.py.example. Also quite a few variable have been renamed so you should also run a freevo convert_config on your local_conf.py HTH Duncan Ah, I

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

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen Rowles
Stephen Rowles wrote: Has there been any changes to the way freevo uses xine between 1.7.1 and 1.7.5? It appears to be issuing the correct command: /usr/bin/xine --auto-play=fq --hide-gui --borderless --geometry 720x576+0+0 --no-splash --stdctl -V xxmc -A alsa --no-lirc file:///data/TV

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

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen Rowles
Duncan Webb wrote: Would you try changing the line: self.app = XineApp(command, self) to: self.app = childapp.ChildApp2(command) This will stop freevo parsing the output of the xine command. I don't think it will make any difference but will stop the call backs from stdout and stderr.

[Freevo-users] 1.7.5 upgrade, no TV guide

2008-01-27 Thread Stephen Rowles
Help Just upgraded my freevo installed from 1.7.1 to 1.7.5. Now my TV guide isn't working anymore. I have a valid TV.xml file that was working just fine before the install, allowing browsing the TV etc. however now it doesn't work. Parsing the guide doesn't take long enough and it creates

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.7.5 upgrade, no TV guide

2008-01-27 Thread Stephen Rowles
Stephen Rowles wrote: Help Just upgraded my freevo installed from 1.7.1 to 1.7.5. Now my TV guide isn't working anymore. I have a valid TV.xml file that was working just fine before the install, allowing browsing the TV etc. however now it doesn't work. Parsing the guide doesn't

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

2008-01-27 Thread Stephen Rowles
Has there been any changes to the way freevo uses xine between 1.7.1 and 1.7.5? It appears to be issuing the correct command: /usr/bin/xine --auto-play=fq --hide-gui --borderless --geometry 720x576+0+0 --no-splash --stdctl -V xxmc -A alsa --no-lirc

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

2008-01-27 Thread Stephen Rowles
Stephen Rowles wrote: Has there been any changes to the way freevo uses xine between 1.7.1 and 1.7.5? It appears to be issuing the correct command: /usr/bin/xine --auto-play=fq --hide-gui --borderless --geometry 720x576+0+0 --no-splash --stdctl -V xxmc -A alsa --no-lirc file:///data/TV

Re: [Freevo-users] TV listings gone (Your listings expire in 0 hours.)

2008-01-01 Thread Stephen Rowles
Ah, Radio times site seems to lack any data after midnight, no 2008 details in the XML yet. If you are using DVB then you can get them from dvb using this program (spend a while searching): http://www.darkskiez.co.uk/index.php?page=tv_grab_dvb I got the svn 0.10 version which seems to

[Freevo-users] Video playback devices (slightly off topic)

2007-12-05 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, This isn't really to do with freevo, but related :) I have most of my media on a central file server (linux + samba), so all my DVD's, Photos and Music are all shared from a big central disk. I also share out the local tv recording directory from my freevo box via samba. My freevo

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