Re: [Freevo-users] AppleTrailer Plugin

[Dan Schmidt]

Eye candy is good, but I may argue that what Freevo really needs is good documentation.  I would gladly spruce up the wiki, but I think my wife will kill me if she catches me working on "that freevo thing" anymore.  At the risk of starting a Myth/Freevo debate, what Freevo has over Myth (from what I see and what I'm told) is that it easier to setup, and it's more stable.  But, there's Myth documentation everywhere.  If Freevo can prove it's quicker/easier to setup than Myth, perhaps we could get more developers to spell the burnt out ones.  Your mplayer args idea is good: MPLAYER_ARGS['video'] = "-cache 5000 -user-agent QuickTime/7.5" Can fix appletrailers.  (recognizes it as 'video' instead of 'mov', don't know why)  Don't use a ' as that can break it. My appologies, Youtube breaking had NOTHING TO DO with the user agent,, but rather bad timing.  Ubuntu 9.10 uses an old youtube-dl.   Downloading a new one at http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/ seems to fix it.  John Molohan wrote: On 13/03/2010 12:48, Dan Schmidt wrote: Pierre Ossman?  Can't seem find his email and it appears that he hasn't posted in years.  As for the developers, things don't look so good on freevo-devel.  There are still devels lurking, they just don't have much spare time at the moment, I guess that's partly a reflection of the current climate. What's really needed is a great skin designer more than anything. Henne's new osd for freevo 1.x makes it possible to have a great looking interface which freevo is currently lacking (other media centres have already moved ahead in that area) to build on it's strong underlying core. Having tested xbmc recently I'd be half temped to ask who ever designed their skin/interface if they'd be interested in working on freevo if the community could put up a bounty. Did you try adding a 'mov' entry to the MPLAYER_ARGS setting in local_conf? That's assuming it's possible to pass the user agent on the command line. John John Molohan wrote: Dan Schmidt wrote: Adding: user-agent=QuickTime/7.5 to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf made the appletrailer plugin work again. However, it very effectively breaks the youtube plugin. I took a look at the code, but got confused very quickly. (I am but a humble network engineer) Class VideoItem has a mplayer_options, but it's set from tvinfo[3] which is from show_name[0] from config.VIDEO_SHOW_REGEXP_SPLIT(self.name)... it made my brain hurt. I guess you could try to set it after init, but that seems to be a kluge. I suppose I could look at it some more, but I still haven't had time to update the wiki with the last information I found. Somebody out there probably knows exactly where to stick this, right off the top of their head. However, developers seem to be scarce these days. Adding -user-agent 'QuickTime/7.5' is all that is needed to fix this. Hi Dan, This is great to know. You could try email the plugin writer (email address should be listed in the source file) and see if they could do it? Otherwise hopefully one of the other contributors might look at it. In the mean time can you add a note in the wiki for others? Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- John Molohan IT Manager Griffith College Dublin South Circular Road Dublin 8 Ireland Phone: +353 1 4163366 Web: www.it.gcd.ie www.gcd.ie Disclaimer: This E-mail is from Griffith College Dublin. The E-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may be privileged and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the addressee you are prohibited from disclosing its content, copying it or distributing it otherwise than to the addressee. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the e-mail from your computer. Bellerophon Ltd, trades as Griffith College (registered in Ireland No. 60469) with its registered address as Griffith College Campus, South Circular Road, Dublin 8, Ireland.

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