[Freevo-users] Video playing inside freevo

2007-04-23 Thread Andrea Magatti
Hi all, i was wondering if it was possible to have a sort of preview of video files (or video device like /dev/video0) or any other accesible video source (thinking of embedding skype movie window), on the right side of the screen. This video-in-freevo should play when you select a menu item on

[Freevo-users] Multiple lirc devices: Streamzap and Antec Fusion Imon Knob

2008-08-26 Thread Andrea Magatti
Hi all, i'm using freevo on gentoo from portage 1.7.6. Everything works, but i was trying to use two different lirc device. One is a Streamzap USB, recognized as /dev/lirc0 and perfectly working The other device is the volume knob of the Antec Fusion case, recognized ad /dev/lirc1, working

Re: [Freevo-users] Multiple lirc devices: Streamzap and Antec Fusion Imon Knob

2008-08-27 Thread Andrea Magatti
Duncan Webb wrote: Andrea Magatti wrote: [SNIP] I don't know if the problem is freevo that only watch at the first lirc device, or pylirc that only uses one device (the streamzap device). I don't think that this is the problem. freevo nor pylirc care about devices, lirc uses

Re: [Freevo-users] lirc : irw say nothing .

2008-09-02 Thread Andrea Magatti
Sorry, you're right. irw listen to /dev/lircd which is a socket created by the lirc daemon from man irw: irw will connect to any Unix domain socket and will print the data that it receives to stdout. If you don't give it a socket name argument it will watch /dev/lircd. Useful for debugging.

[Freevo-users] Freevo-1.8.2 can't launch Generic Games

2009-01-05 Thread Andrea Magatti
Hi all, i've configured freevo to show the games menu and according to the guide, i've configured freevo to launch Tuxracer (and planning to install g-compris and the new kde4 tuberling, which are the favourite games of my 5 years old daughter) I've got a strange behaviour: in local_conf.py

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1.8.2 can't launch Generic Games

2009-01-06 Thread Andrea Magatti
bent...@lqjr.qc.ca wrote: Hi Andrea, from memory you need to add a file with extension .tux in the /etc/freeov/games/tuxracer directory. Basically the game menu has a launching program with a list of games that can be launched from it (designed I'm guesing for game emulators).

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1.8.2 can't launch Generic Games

2009-01-06 Thread Andrea Magatti
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Andrea Magatti wrote: Thanks, but this is exactly what I did, Anyway i've go a doubt: the file: /etc/freeov/games/tuxracer/tuxracer.tux is just an empty file, or a link to the game's executable? thanks again an empty file Really can't

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1.8.2 can't launch Generic Games

2009-01-06 Thread Andrea Magatti
Evan Hisey wrote: Really can't undertand why still doesn't work, freevo keeps on not launching any generic game. To be sure this is the documentatio link i've used: http://doc.freevo.org/GamesConfig Section Linux Games PS: the user is freevo, and freevo is in the games group, my box is

[Freevo-users] /audio/plugins/mplayer.py and MPLAYER_AO_DEV_OPTS problem

2009-07-02 Thread Andrea Magatti
Hi all, seems like i can't get audio spidf out (iec958) when playing music, but when playing video files everything is ok. in freevo 1.8.2 (gentoo) i've configured the MPLAYER_AO_DEV_OPTS ='device=iec958' and MPLAYER_AO_DEV= 'alsa'. these parameters are correctly passed to the mplayer

[Freevo-users] /audio/plugins/mplayer.py and MPLAYER_AO_DEV_OPTS problem

2009-07-03 Thread Andrea Magatti
Hi all, seems like i can't get audio spidf out (iec958) when playing music, but when playing video files everything is ok. in freevo 1.8.2 (gentoo) i've configured the MPLAYER_AO_DEV_OPTS ='device=iec958' and MPLAYER_AO_DEV= 'alsa'. these parameters are correctly passed to the mplayer

Re: [Freevo-users] /audio/plugins/mplayer.py and MPLAYER_AO_DEV_OPTS problem

2009-07-04 Thread Andrea Magatti
Duncan Webb wrote: Andrea Magatti wrote: Hi all, seems like i can't get audio spidf out (iec958) when playing music, but when playing video files everything is ok. in freevo 1.8.2 (gentoo) i've configured the MPLAYER_AO_DEV_OPTS ='device=iec958' and MPLAYER_AO_DEV= 'alsa