[Freevo-users] Recording only makes 2kb file

2004-03-06 Thread Tim Walter
Hi, When recording TV it seems to trigger a 2kb file to be created and then quits This is from my recordserver log, running it directly seems to run indifinitely but only the 2kb file created again Any pointers? 2004/03/06 08:46 GMT [*RecordServer*] popen ./runtime/runapp /usr/bin/mencoder tv:

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-04 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Too Late. ;) Hi, I'm really sorry. However the fact you responded and confirmed it wasn't complete stupidity on my part was enough to spur me on. Many many thanks for making the effort Best wishes Tim -- Tim http://yingtong.co.uk

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-04 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hi Jon, Normally I would gratefully decline and struggle on myself but I have spent countless hours on this. If you are able in a sensible timeframe (for you) then I would really appreciate the help...

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-04 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Tried that... apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Changed sources.list to at-bleeding did apt-get update again just in case got two dependencies unresolved Perl(Term::Progressbar) >=2.00 xmltv grabbers >= 0.5.29 Any further suggestions

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-03 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas Ruddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Nah its not, but i'll pop it in the wiki now. Tim Walter wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas Ruddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Go to the ATrpms repository http://atrpms.phys

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-02 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas Ruddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Go to the ATrpms repository http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/fc1/ and add | rpm http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/1/en/i386 at-bleeding to your apt sources.list file. Then just do a apt-get update and a apt-ge

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-02 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jlaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I'll be creating a yum/up2date archive for fc1 and fc2 within a week here (out of town for a bit) and will post the reposit

Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-02 Thread Tim Walter
an hold out until next week this may help. Will do I think. Any idea if I can run it on my XP machine and pass the file across to the tmp directory on Linux box in the meantime? :-) Might try this whilst waiting (Thanks for the response so soon) Tim -jlaska On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:45 +,

[Freevo-users] Playing audio CDs

2004-03-02 Thread Tim Walter
Hi, Got Freevo 1.4.1 pretty nicely installed on Fedora. When I put audio CD in, it appears in the freevo directory structure, and tunes appear in the list. However selecting one makes freevo show each "tune details" in turn for a second or so, til the full list has been displayed then returns

[Freevo-users] xmltv installation trouble

2004-03-02 Thread Tim Walter
Hi, Struggling to get xmltv installed. Tried via apt-get, tried downloading rpms from the site, and always seem to fall foul of the dependencies which I can't seen to resolve. Anyone got a surefire way of installing it to RH9 or Fedora BTW installed Freevo 1.4.1 to Fedora very successfully si

[Freevo-users] Fedora

2004-02-21 Thread Tim Walter
Anyone using Freevo with Fedora. Any significant differences with config c.f. RH9? Thanks -- Tim http://yingtong.co.uk AMD Athlon 1000, 400Mb Ram, 40GB HD Hauppauge PCI TV card, PAL Radeon 9200 VO, RH9, Freevo1.4 --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Spe

Re: [Freevo-users] tv_grab_uk

2004-01-27 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Rob Davis wrote: Oh my goodness! Okay, I'm sort of understanding what's going on, but how do you select which channels you want? Guesswork? What are their names? How do you add new names (tried working out which channel

Re: [Freevo-users] Next release next sunday

2003-12-08 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hi, since 1.4 is not bugfree, I guess we should release Freevo 1.4.1 next sunday. CVS is not stable right now, so 1.4.1 will base on 1.4 with the following patches: o add a missing 'config.' to prevent rom_drives from crashing

Re: [Freevo-users] Standalone Freevo, no internet

2003-11-23 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I think the answer to the question is the manual recording option that lets you record at a certain time/day combination. You give up favorites though. Also, the TV guide works fine without channel data AFAIK. You can select a ch

Re: [Freevo-users] Standalone Freevo, no internet

2003-11-23 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Shortt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Tim Walter wrote: I want to run it unconnected to the internet so XMLTV won't work. How do I make recording work satisfactorily as it seems it depends on XMLTV to obtain the TV programme times. Without i

[Freevo-users] Standalone Freevo, no internet

2003-11-23 Thread Tim Walter
I have Freevo 1.4 installed and more or less working. I want to run it unconnected to the internet so XMLTV won't work. How do I make recording work satisfactorily as it seems it depends on XMLTV to obtain the TV programme times. Without it freevo defaults to 1st Jan for 3 months recording (W

[Freevo-users] 2 questions, fresh install and F6

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Walter
For various reasons I need to install afresh... Whats the best route to installing freevo currently? 1.4rc1 then rc3 over the top, if so how do I ensure it is installed in the correct directory? Or can I install straight to rc3 somehow? Second. On my current system the F6 key doesn't seem t

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Recording problems, almost there!

2003-10-20 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Shortt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Tim Walter wrote: Freevo setup and working for TV and playing DVDs, also web interface works fine. Can set up recordings via web and all appears to work, channel choice, timing (out by an hour but can sort that l

[Freevo-users] Re: Recording problems, almost there!

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Walter
Hi, Ongoing saga, but almost sorted... 1.4rc1 Installed and working Mplayer installed and working mencoder installed and working standalone via commandline Freevo setup and working for TV and playing DVDs, also web interface works fine. Can set up recordings via web and all appears to work, ch

Re: [Freevo-users] Setup Error

2003-10-16 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:39:06PM -0400, Mike LeVan wrote: I used the RPM's from the sourceforge site. I copied the freevo_config.py to local_config.py and added in the TV channels. In 1.4rc1, you should copy local_conf.py.exa

[Freevo-users] Recording server

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Walter
Hi, Still troubled by trying to get the recording server to work... First to get it out the way.. Can the record server run without XMLTV installed? Assuming it can, how can I start the Record Server manually as a check? Whatever I try and organise the web interface resolutely announces the

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Uhm, maybe I'm reading this email wrong, but shouldn't there be spaces between the asterixes in the cron job? * * * * * /usr/local/freevo/freevo execute src/tv/record_daemon.py Also, it's odd that the cron editor didn't pick th

[Freevo-users] Newbie update, and some more questions!

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Walter
Some may remember my recent posting about problems with getting MPlayer working. For info eventually tracked it down to an old ISA Soundblaster card I was using. Replacing that with a PCI version did the trick and sound is now OK, and MPlayer plays... I now have Freevo playing TV, and DVDs to

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie; Recording doesn't, and DVDs etc slow d own and stop...

2003-10-08 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gray, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes every time I had a "strange problem" in freevo downgrading to 0.91 with mplayer fixed it. I personally will not touch it until it is released as a real 1.0 version. same as my in use freevo units.. 1.4 will not get installed

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie; Recording doesn't, and DVDs etc slow down and stop...

2003-10-08 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eirik Meland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Tim Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Second prob.. In Mplayer, and freevo if I try and play avi's (created on MS windows machine) or play a DVD, it plays for a second or two, then slows down and st

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie; Recording doesn't, and DVDs etc slow d own and stop...

2003-10-08 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gray, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Yes, mplayer 1 is currently a problem as it really is not a full 1.0 release but a release candidate... you need to find and install the 0.91 version. if you are using gnome there is a package manager somewhere in the menu

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie; Recording doesn't, and DVDs etc slow d own and stop...

2003-10-07 Thread Tim Walter
ou compile mplayer? did you download a pre made rpm for it? does it do the same thing outside freevo? Mplayer 1 via rpm (I thought it would be easier!) IS that a problem. Is it something I can roll back from? It does it outside freevo the same as within Cheers Tim -Original Message-

[Freevo-users] Newbie; Recording doesn't, and DVDs etc slow down and stop...

2003-10-07 Thread Tim Walter
Hi, Gradually climbing the rockface, current situation is as follows Freevo installed and sort of running. Can see pictures, access DVD files, and have set up the TV channels to work correctly (not bad eh!) My aim is to be able to run a freevo box to record TV and have video out, also play DV

[Freevo-users] Various Problems setting up for TV out etc

2003-10-05 Thread Tim Walter
Hi, Recently posted as Newbie and was encouraged to take the plunge with Freevo... Now some problems. I installed RH9, then got Xawtv working and installed freevo, and Mplayer Set up for PAL resolution in local_conf.py However I found two main problems (Amongst several!) 1. The picture qua

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie, is Freevo what I need/want?

2003-09-26 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I'm using RH9 and its pretty easy to use, I suggest you install apt-get I tired apt-get on a previous foray into Linux, and couldn't get it to work (wouldn't find the required urls across network to cable modem, will try agai

Re: [Freevo-users] Newbie, is Freevo what I need/want?

2003-09-25 Thread Tim Walter
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Davin Desborough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I can't speak to the TV quality, as I don't use that portion of Freevo. Hi-res movies look fabulous on the tv when played through Freevo. As for RH8 vs. RH9, I went with 9 and have had no problems related to the OS. Thanks

[Freevo-users] Newbie, is Freevo what I need/want?

2003-09-25 Thread Tim Walter
Hi, newbie questions on the horizon... I am newish to Linux, and you may say I am jumping in the deep end, but I need to have a purpose for spending time learning stuff, and this might be my purpose... A few assorted questions if I may. Equipment Athlon 1000 256Mb Ram Radeon 9200 video card