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

2009-01-26 Thread Dirk Meyer
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> iz dodd wrote: >> > the old celeron did not have enough power to record and run the tuner, >> > so the s-presso case is out of service. >> >> DVB or analog? A DVB recorder does not need much CPU power. I use an AMD >> Geode with 500

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

2009-01-26 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Dirk Meyer wrote: > iz dodd wrote: > > the old celeron did not have enough power to record and run the tuner, > > so the s-presso case is out of service. > > DVB or analog? A DVB recorder does not need much CPU power. I use an AMD > Geode with 500 MHz and that is enough. If you

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

2009-01-26 Thread Dirk Meyer
liz dodd wrote: > the old celeron did not have enough power to record and run the tuner, > so the s-presso case is out of service. DVB or analog? A DVB recorder does not need much CPU power. I use an AMD Geode with 500 MHz and that is enough. If you want to record analog TV with mpeg an-the-fly yo

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

2009-01-25 Thread liz dodd
On Monday 26 January 2009 8:54:08 am Stephen Rowles wrote: > Or should I be looking for a more modern intel graphics chipset? Or > possible a bigger case so I can fit a cheap nvidia card in there? Or as > other people suggested, USB attached TV reception? tbh I'm not sure a > bigger case in the lou

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

2009-01-25 Thread Stephen Rowles
Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> I wonder why the Atom boards use the GMA 950? >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA >> >> The board from Intel uses this chip. Aren't there any better boards? >> > > Yeah it's really too bad the otherwise nice looking Atom board comes > with a old and crippled gr

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:52 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> I guess so. There are four choices: > > Only three. > > >> 2. You have a gfx card that does not support hardware colorspace >>conversion and has no shader support in the GPU. That means we have >>to do the col

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

2009-01-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:52 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > I guess so. There are four choices: Only three. > 2. You have a gfx card that does not support hardware colorspace >conversion and has no shader support in the GPU. That means we have >to do the colorspace conversion in the CPU. Ha

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

2009-01-25 Thread Morten Lied Johansen
Dirk Meyer wrote: > Morten Lied Johansen wrote: >> Dirk Meyer wrote: >>> Morten Lied Johansen wrote: I'm running Freevo using FB (uvesafb I think, been a while since I checked the actual config), simply because I couldn't figure out how to configure it any other way (and get it to wo

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Morten Lied Johansen wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote: >> Morten Lied Johansen wrote: >>> I'm running Freevo using FB (uvesafb I think, been a while since I >>> checked the actual config), simply because I couldn't figure out how to >>> configure it any other way (and get it to work). :) >> >> What gfx c

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
liz dodd wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2009 8:05:09 pm Stephen Rowles wrote: >> Now I have a VERY low profile case (40mm hight clearance internally) and >> only space for 1 card... now as that slot will probably be a 2 tuner tv >> card, > > my new tv tuner is just an oversized usb stick in size and

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Stephen Rowles wrote: > I was thinking about one of the new Atom 330 (dual core) motherboards as > these are supposed to be able to handle 720p and some 1080p content with > the latest playback drivers, but the graphics card is a very old GMA > 950, would you expect that sort of system to cope w

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:00 +, Andrew Flegg wrote: >> A $40 PCI card, which'll fit a low (CPU-)power Mini-ITX machine in a >> small case with room for only one or two PCI cards? > > PCI? No. If you have no free PCI-express slot, then clearly you can't > upgrade easil

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

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:55 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: >> When comparing the picture quality of TV broadcasts from CRT TVs and TFT >> TVs the picture quality was simply much better with the CRTs. > > I'm rather tempted to say the reason is, paradoxically, because of the > a

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

2009-01-20 Thread Morten Lied Johansen
Dirk Meyer wrote: > Morten Lied Johansen wrote: >> I'm running Freevo using FB (uvesafb I think, been a while since I >> checked the actual config), simply because I couldn't figure out how to >> configure it any other way (and get it to work). :) > > What gfx card to you have? If I recall correc

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

2009-01-20 Thread Dirk Meyer
Morten Lied Johansen wrote: > I'm running Freevo using FB (uvesafb I think, been a while since I > checked the actual config), simply because I couldn't figure out how to > configure it any other way (and get it to work). :) What gfx card to you have? > As to the 4:3 vs 16:9 debate, I am of the o

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

2009-01-20 Thread Morten Lied Johansen
Dirk Meyer wrote: > > I guess so, too. For a CRT the G400 is great. But I expect CRTs to die > in the next years. Even with kaa.popcorn integrated, Freevo 2 is only > beta status. 1.8 has many cool features that need to be ported. I don't > know how many people will jump on the 2.0 branch once I r

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

2009-01-20 Thread Duncan Webb
Dirk Meyer wrote: > John Molohan wrote: >> Dirk Meyer wrote: >>> Duncan Webb wrote: >>> I've just started the jump from Python-2.4 to Python-2.6 on my DirectFB machine. So far it has been easy enough and been fairly trouble free. >>> Stupid question from the 2.0 development p

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

2009-01-19 Thread Duncan Webb
Dirk Meyer wrote: > Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> I'm prepared now to begin using Python 2.5 features inside kaa.base and >> make it a formal requirement unless there are no further arguments. >> This new requirement will apply to svn shortly, and to the next release. > > We could remove the 2.4 yiel

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

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Meyer
John Molohan wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote: >> Duncan Webb wrote: >> >>> I've just started the jump from Python-2.4 to Python-2.6 on my DirectFB >>> machine. So far it has been easy enough and been fairly trouble free. >>> >> >> Stupid question from the 2.0 development point of view: you use DF

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

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Meyer
Duncan Webb wrote: > I've just started the jump from Python-2.4 to Python-2.6 on my DirectFB > machine. So far it has been easy enough and been fairly trouble free. Stupid question from the 2.0 development point of view: you use DFB in Freevo? What card to you have? For 2.0 we are going we are mak

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

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > I'm prepared now to begin using Python 2.5 features inside kaa.base and > make it a formal requirement unless there are no further arguments. > This new requirement will apply to svn shortly, and to the next release. We could remove the 2.4 yield support with the get_resu

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

2009-01-15 Thread alhaz
Quoting Dirk Meyer : > Hi, > > we are wondering if we can make Python 2.5 a requirement for Freevo 1.8? > It would make things a lot easier in kaa.base (signal handler) and > kaa.metadata (relative imports). So how many users still use Python 2.4 > and why? Python 2.4.4 is the default on Debian

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

2009-01-15 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hi, we are wondering if we can make Python 2.5 a requirement for Freevo 1.8? It would make things a lot easier in kaa.base (signal handler) and kaa.metadata (relative imports). So how many users still use Python 2.4 and why? Dischi -- It's not Area 51 I'm worried about- it's Areas 1 through 50