[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.5.x Wakeup Client and Server

2006-08-08 Thread Duncan Webb
Hi all, I just written a client/server process to set the nvram and shutdown the machine. I allows a fall-back time for the next start if no program has been scheduled to record. Fall-back times are there to allow running of cron jobs such as tv_grab. It sets the nvram with nvram_wakeup, but

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.5.x Wakeup Client and Server

2006-08-08 Thread Duncan Webb
Duncan Webb wrote: Hi all, I just written a client/server process to set the nvram and shutdown the machine. I allows a fall-back time for the next start if no program has been scheduled to record. Fall-back times are there to allow running of cron jobs such as tv_grab. It sets

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.5.x Wakeup Client and Server

2006-08-11 Thread Duncan Webb
Robert Winder wrote: On Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 7:54:05 PM, Duncan wrote: One problem I'm having is finding a version of grub that actually works with the --once patch. It seems to stay at the poweroff entry. Well it was a long time ago I messed with this but never found a grub version

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo crashes (microdom.py)

2006-08-11 Thread Duncan Webb
Mustafa Yilmaz wrote: Hello all, I've recently installed freevo and I had no errors during installation. When I try to run it though I get an error: ImportError: No module named web.microdom. I found out that web.microdom is part of twisted-python, I checked if it's installed and found

Re: [Freevo-users] (Help weird happenings): FIX for tv_grab issue...

2006-08-11 Thread Duncan Webb
Flynn42 wrote: For Norm or anybody else with the same problem... Yesterday I started having the same tv_grab_na_dd problem you described. I was only getting listings up to the current hour. I started hacking away and found that the --days parameter in tv_grab_na_dd was only

[Freevo-users] Wakeup-0.0.5 released

2006-08-18 Thread Duncan Webb
Hi all, Been working hard on the wakeup server, client and idlebar plugin for freevo-1.5.4 and have made quite a few changed since the last release. Changes include: Using the power button on the remote to toggle the user suspend mode Setting the nvram as early as possible to set the nvram so

Re: [Freevo-users] live365 integration

2006-08-21 Thread Duncan Webb
Christian Lyra wrote: Hi, Is there a way to listen to live365 stations with freevo? I tried to save a playlist and look inside, and found that the playlist includes my current IP address, some kind of session IDs and a timestamp, so I guess just using the .pls

Re: [Freevo-users] Tvtime and Audio -- doesn't always un-mute and turn up volume

2006-08-29 Thread Duncan Webb
mlists wrote: On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:53 +0100, John Molohan wrote: mlists wrote: On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 19:28 -0400, mlists wrote: I've found a bit of a pattern as to why launching TVTime doesn't always set the audio properly. TVTime doesn't always launch properly

Re: [Freevo-users] newbie to no-newbies :P

2006-08-30 Thread Duncan Webb
Ignacio - wrote: Hi!, im glad because I found this awesome app, and I would like to help with something like developing. I think it means that I have to learn python but I don't know how, some help to begin to ? O'Reilly's Learning Python is well written and easy to follow. If that helps

Re: [Freevo-users] window size/pos - mplayer tv-channels

2006-08-31 Thread Duncan Webb
Johannes Zellner wrote: Hola, first of all thanks for the good work ! I've mostly two problems with freevo: I have a old tv and i'm using a resolution of 720x576Noscale to get a nature feeling when watching TV. But now freevo's gui is cuttet-off of course and few things aren't visible,

Re: [Freevo-users] Issues installing freevo, suse 10.1 i586

2006-08-31 Thread Duncan Webb
Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, I've encountered some issues installing freevo on a suse 10.1 system as follows... Firstly, I installed the required dependencies with YaST, then as root tryed to install Freevo as follows... suse-1:/home/chrisw/freevo-1.5.4 # python setup.py install

Re: [Freevo-users] Ubuntu package (1.5.4) incorrect mixer plugin

2006-08-31 Thread Duncan Webb
Amadeus Stevenson wrote: Hi, I found the problem when I wasn't getting sound control with freevo under Ubuntu dapper. mixer.py doesn't exists, but ossmixer.py does. seems like someone changed over without updating freevo_conf.py. This is a bit strange as the mixer.py is part of the

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 2 French user manual translation...

2006-09-05 Thread Duncan Webb
John Molohan wrote: Xavier Gattuso wrote: Hi everybody! I'm new here (with mailing-lists too ;)). I'd like to contribute on the French user manual translation. I'm Swiss-French. Is the manual (or some piece of it) available somewhere? Bonjour, je suis nouveau ici (Je débute aussi avec

Re: [Freevo-users] Using multiple inputs

2006-09-06 Thread Duncan Webb
Daniel Lawson wrote: Thanks for the reply! Sorry, I wasn't very clear at all. The PC can't change the cable channel, which comse in through composite. But, because my analogue reception is poor, I want to be able to record BBC, etc from the cable box. I can do that manually using the

[Freevo-users] Unicode error in coversearch.py

2006-09-07 Thread Duncan Webb
Hi all, These is an unicode error in freevo-1.5.4 coversearch when an artist or album name contains none ascii characters. audio/plugins/coversearch.py line: 190 can be changed to: dict_tmp = { artist: artist.encode('ascii','replace'), album: album.encode('ascii','replace') } which stop a

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo errors and xine problems

2006-09-20 Thread Duncan Webb
Chris Thomas wrote: Looks like you have several problems here I getting this when I start Freevo: --- Freevo start at Wed Sep 20 20:15:20 2006

[Freevo-users] Freevo-1.5.x Update and Testing Required

2006-09-22 Thread Duncan Webb
Hello all, I've been applying some patches to the freevo-1.5 branch. The branch is available by getting the source from subversion with the command: svn co svn://svn.freevo.org/freevo/branches/rel-1-5/freevo The patches that have been applied are listed below. You can look at these bugs by

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1.5.x Update and Testing Required

2006-09-22 Thread Duncan Webb
Duncan Webb wrote: Hello all, I've been applying some patches to the freevo-1.5 branch. The branch is available by getting the source from subversion with the command: svn co svn://svn.freevo.org/freevo/branches/rel-1-5/freevo The patches that have been applied are listed below. You can

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't View Recordings / Configuring Freevo to record from line-in

2006-09-22 Thread Duncan Webb
Brandon Rader wrote: OK, I tryed playing the recording with mplayer through terminal and here's what I get. I don't know how to open something with framebuffer--even if you don't need me to do this anymore, could you tell me how? Here's the errors [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't View Recordings / Configuring Freevo to record from line-in

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan Webb
Brandon Rader wrote: Oops, I forgot that I moved the file. Here's the REAL error report. MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron D Prescott; Pentium D/XE Smithfield; Xeon Nocona,Irwindale (Family: 15, Stepping: 4) CPUflags:

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't View Recordings / Configuring Freevo to record from line-in

2006-09-24 Thread Duncan Webb
Brandon Rader wrote: I guess the file is empty... It's 0 bytes. I don't know why it would be, so it must not be recording correctly. Here is a command that will use mencoder to record 10 seconds from /dev/video0. The space at the beginning of the line is important. You can try this and make

[Freevo-users] [patch] video-dvdimage-0.1 doesn't like a ENTER at Play Title

2006-09-24 Thread Duncan Webb
Hi all For freevo-1.5.x the plug-in video-dvdimage-0.1 by viggo causes a crash then the ENTER button is pressed when the Play Title is selected. The reason is that item.files is None, the attached patch checks this and returns. Duncan --- freevo-1.5.4/video/plugins/dvdimage.py 2004-02-26

Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution.

2006-09-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Saturday 19 August 2006 06:35, Ashley Dawkins wrote: Hi, one thing about Freevo is that there are many ways to achieve the same result. My new in-construction box is an Asus S-Presso box. It has gentoo and xfce on so far, the tv card has just been solved,

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't View Recordings / Configuring Freevo to record from line-in

2006-09-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Hi Brandon, You've been very quiet on this for a couple of days, have you given up or found a solution? Or just been too busy? Cheers Duncan Brandon Rader wrote: The only reason I have v4l instead v4l2 is because I had tried v4l2 several times already and was just desperate and tried it

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with xmltv feed

2006-10-02 Thread Duncan Webb
John Molohan wrote: Rob Davis wrote: It seems like my xml feed sometimes forgets to terminate with /tv Is there a way to get Freevo to handle this error without throwing a wobbly and ignoring the whole list.. Could do but you'd probably be better fixing the grabber bug

Re: [Freevo-users] New gentoo install

2006-10-03 Thread Duncan Webb
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Monday 02 October 2006 21:57, Karl Lattimer wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:04 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: My new install for the S-Presso is progressing slowly Current problems dvd drive not detected as such (gets info from fstab with ROM_DRIVES = None)

Re: [Freevo-users] dvd error mesages was Re: New gentoo install

2006-10-03 Thread Duncan Webb
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Tuesday 03 October 2006 19:11, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Have you got lsdvd installed? It's used in freevo to read the disc structure. Fair question, but it seems I had done that. I would guess that without it xine would fail. SPRESSO freevo # which lsdvd

Re: [Freevo-users] dvd error mesages was Re: New gentoo install

2006-10-03 Thread Duncan Webb
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 02:15, Duncan Webb wrote: Copy protected DVD, some dvd manufacturers add bad sectors to the DVD so they won't play in PC DVD drives. I you have a DVD that is more than a couple of years old try this one. If you've tried several DVDs

Re: [Freevo-users] adjusting mplayer for tv

2006-10-03 Thread Duncan Webb
alberto hernando wrote: Hi. I have an standalone freevo box, with a bt878 tv card and (usually) without a keyboard. I use mplayer to watch and record tv, because tvtime didn't give good results. Well, the quality is more or less good, but I want to adjust it better. I'm talking about

Re: [Freevo-users] adjusting mplayer for tv

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan Webb
Alberto Hernando wrote: El Miércoles, 4 de Octubre de 2006 06:12, Duncan Webb escribió: brightness, hue and saturation on the command line with: -tv contrast=50,brightness=-40 etc. Hi. I know about this, and that's what I'm using. But perhaps I didn't explain it well the first

Re: [Freevo-users] tvtime loading plugin failed

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan Webb
alessandro cinelli wrote: hi, i installed freevo but i have this problem: WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found! You need a lircrc file Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/plugins/rom_drives.py, line 347, in move_tray fd =

Re: [Freevo-users] get freevo to log out user when quitting

2006-10-05 Thread Duncan Webb
John Molohan wrote: Hi Mat, It's a bit busy around here at the mo so don't take the lack of response personally but you're right with your guess. There's already support for shutting down the PC so you could just hack that to make whatever call you need to log out instead. All patches are

[Freevo-users] Multi-tuner support in freevo

2006-10-05 Thread Duncan Webb
Hi all, Trotted off today to get one of those Hauppauge PVR-500 with two tuners. What I would like to do is make the appropriate modifications to freevo so that people can watch TV and record at the same time. I hope that this can be in the next freevo release, planned for the end of this month.

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't Record, Mencoder Errors

2006-10-06 Thread Duncan Webb
Brandon Rader wrote: OK, I just got Grim Fandango, so I've been on the Windows side of things just because at any moment, I could have a sudden urge to sit down and play that game for four straight hours, so I haven't done anything with Freevo for a while. Because of that, I'm going to

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't Record, Mencoder Errors

2006-10-06 Thread Duncan Webb
Brandon Rader wrote: I made the changes to local_config.py and started freevo up. Here's the log file. You need to fix the errors: Error: VIDEO_SHOW_DATA_DIR not found is a directory pointing to you video files can be empty MPlayer version is: 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 is a

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't Record, Mencoder Errors

2006-10-07 Thread Duncan Webb
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Sunday 08 October 2006 09:13, Justin Wetherell wrote: I believe v4l and v4l2 are two different drivers. From the Mplayer config: --enable-tv-v4l --enable-tv-v4l2 Two different options, make sure v4l2 is enabled. no idea how to make that happen in gentoo, USE=v4l

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't Record, Mencoder Errors

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan Webb
Brandon Rader wrote: Error: VIDEO_SHOW_DATA_DIR not found is a directory pointing to you video files can be empty I didn't quite understand what you were saying. It sounded like you meant to say it can't be empty, but I wasn't sure. It should contain a path to a directory that contains you

[Freevo-users] Freevo-1.6.0 ChangeLog and Release Notes

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan Webb
Hi all, The ChangeLog and Release Notes have been updated with the changes for freevo-1.6 and are now in svn at r8342. Of course, if there is something missing or incorrect please let us know. It says: Release 1.6.0 (2006-10-31): --- * New events to allow jump directly

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't Record, Mencoder Errors

2006-10-11 Thread Duncan Webb
Brandon Rader wrote: I can't figure out how to watch TV in mplayer to send you the config files. I used $ mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 tv://21 I'm pretty certain that you should be using the v4l2 driver as this is a kernel feature not a tv card feature. Try: mplayer -v -tv

Re: [Freevo-users] xvideo question

2006-10-14 Thread Duncan Webb
Bryan English wrote: I'm trying to setup freevo on fedora 4 using an ATI Radeon 9200. I've got the ATI drivers installed ( fglrx ) and setup dual-head. Everything works pretty good except when I view a movie, in freevo, mplayer or xine using xvideo it crops the bottom half of the video. No

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
mat holton wrote: Hi there! I want to buy a hardware encoder card for freevo but also one that will work with MythTV. As I understand it, freevo doesn't work with a central recording server? Am I wrong? AFAIK, freevo has network support and a record server, never used this feature as my

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
mat holton wrote: Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means. Of course, you can do real-time DIVX encoding with mencoder but there is a noticeable loss of quality. Higher quality conversion

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
mat holton wrote: The Hog wrote: - Oorspronkelijk bericht - From: Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] mat holton wrote: Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means

Re: [Freevo-users] best TV-card

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
John Molohan wrote: Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:18 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: You should buy the card that offers the best compression ratio. Are there any cards that do real-time MPEG-4/DIVX/XVID ? I second that question - that would be the ultimate TV

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't compile smpeg

2006-10-16 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Jergens wrote: Hello List, I’m compiling everything from scratch (LFS v6) and am having a problem with smpeg. I’m not at my freevo machine right now, but does anyone know if there are patches to update smpeg to compile on recent GCC? Also, what actual functionality does smpeg

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo FreeBSD port freevo-1.5.4_3 install problems (mmpython detection?)

2006-10-17 Thread Duncan Webb
Olaf van Loon wrote: Thanks for you reply Gorka, but I think pyxml is already installed: ~pkg_info | grep PyXML py24-xml-0.8.4 PyXML: Python XML library enhancements Gorka Olaizola wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:46:10AM +0200, Olaf van Loon wrote: Hi list, checking

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo FreeBSD port freevo-1.5.4_3 install problems (mmpython detection?)

2006-10-17 Thread Duncan Webb
is the problem? Could it be so that threading has to be compiled in python itself? Or should there be a thread.py as well as the threading.py? There should be a class Thread(_Verbose) in threading.py Thanks for you assistence. Duncan Webb wrote: Olaf van Loon wrote: Thanks for you reply Gorka

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo FreeBSD port freevo-1.5.4_3 install problems (mmpython detection?)

2006-10-17 Thread Duncan Webb
Olaf van Loon wrote: Duncan Webb wrote: There should be a class Thread(_Verbose) in threading.py There is a class Thread in threading.py. But it's asking for a module (No module named thread). What's going on here? I'm no BSD man, have you tried: python import threading import thread

Re: [Freevo-users] Watching TV interrupts recording

2006-10-17 Thread Duncan Webb
Simon Detheridge wrote: Using freevo's TV Guide, if I decide to watch TV while something is recording, the recording is killed at the point I activate the TV. Is it possible to get freevo to prevent me from doing this? (i.e. have Freevo refuse to allow watching of TV while recording is taking

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't compile smpeg

2006-10-17 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Jergens wrote: Thank you all for your responses. I did a search of the dev list yesterday and there is an old post where Dischi comments that Freevo probably doesn't need smpeg. If this is incorrect, please respond. It's an sub-dependency, it used by pygame. Pygame has gone from

Re: [Freevo-users] tvtime.py failing

2006-10-18 Thread Duncan Webb
mat holton wrote: Hi there everyone, I really want to get tvtime working through freevo but at the moment I'm having no luck at all. I've activated the plugin, it tries to start but when freevo starts up I get this (amongst other stuff): File

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't compile smpeg

2006-10-19 Thread Duncan Webb
wouldn't make this assumption, you can try it and if it fails come back and fix it. Good luck with the garage. -Oscilated -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Webb Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:19 PM To: freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and thin clients

2006-10-20 Thread Duncan Webb
Michael Brown wrote: Hi Richard aka The Hog! Thanks! I'll look into that. Offhand, do you know if I can run two Lirc configs? I'd like to run the MVP as well as the PVR-150's IR remote once I get my Matrox G450 working on the second head. Also, is it possible to run 2 seperate

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't compile smpeg

2006-10-20 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Jergens wrote: I wouldn't make this assumption, you can try it and if it fails come back and fix it. That was my thought. I'm already on it! I've successfully got freevo up and running (without smpeg). Now I'm starting the endless configuration stage. I just did a search of the

Re: [Freevo-users] External channel changing doesn't work

2006-10-22 Thread Duncan Webb
naudefj wrote: Hi, I've set TV_CHANNEL_PROG = './chchan %(channel)s' in local_conf.py. However, freevo doesn't call chchan when channels are changed. Are there anything else I need to do to get it working? I quick scan through the code and there are no references to TV_CHANNEL_PROG, which

Re: [Freevo-users] External channel changing doesn't work

2006-10-22 Thread Duncan Webb
naudefj wrote: Hi, On Sunday 22 October 2006 15:27, Duncan Webb wrote: naudefj wrote: I've set TV_CHANNEL_PROG = './chchan %(channel)s' in local_conf.py. I quick scan through the code and there are no references to TV_CHANNEL_PROG, which means that it has possibly been replaced

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't compile smpeg

2006-10-24 Thread Duncan Webb
Evan Hisey wrote: Andrew- Okay, I was not getting smpeg to compile with out them. I will change that on the wiki then. Did you need to turn it off with a configure option? I will take an other stab at compiling with out them and see what I get. Evan On 10/24/06, Andrew Jergens [EMAIL

Re: [Freevo-users] Removing ads

2006-10-25 Thread Duncan Webb
Dirk Meyer wrote: Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 19:03 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: Furthermore, Freevo 2 Technology will deliver a state-of-the-art, high-end, robust, high-performance, easy-to-use, enterprise-ready, home theater experience to be enjoyed on a wide range of

Re: [Freevo-users] Removing ads

2006-10-25 Thread Duncan Webb
Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:37 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: There is an interesting paper, not about ads but about finding cuts in news streams, possible the same system could be used to find ads. http://www2006.org/programme/files/pdf/p52.pdf Did you just get back

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't compile smpeg

2006-10-25 Thread Duncan Webb
Andrew Jergens wrote: Something to do with sndarray and surfarray; surfarray is used in osd.py and animation/transition.py. A quick grep through the sources will reveal what is used. I use: grep -r --include=*py regex src or grep -r --include=*.[ch] regex /path/to/c/libs/ So, you're

Re: [Freevo-users] Is there a way to have a localized freevo?

2006-10-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Bastian Farkas wrote: if your distro is set to french do a locale at the command prompt and then set LOCALE in your local_conf.py to the same value as LANG. it should be something like fr_FR.UTF-8. You can also do an export LANG=fr.UFT-8 before running freevo I use these, then favorites, is

Re: [Freevo-users] No sound with FREEVO and my gentoo box

2006-10-28 Thread Duncan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I try to use freevo 1.5.4 with gentoo 2006.1 and kde 3.5.2-r2, but I have no sound when play videos or listen music with freevo. When I use amarok, xine, or another media application I listen the sound, but with freevo no. Modern systems normally use

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.6.0 Released.

2006-10-28 Thread Duncan Webb
Justin Wetherell wrote: Is there any way to page certain button to different actions depending on the Menu? I'd like change the down arrow in the TV Guide to Page Down. If you do this how will you get to the next channel? Channel down is a page down. TIP === You can add this code a the bottom

Re: [Freevo-users] No sound with FREEVO and my gentoo box

2006-10-29 Thread Duncan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I try to use freevo 1.5.4 with gentoo 2006.1 and kde 3.5.2-r2, but I have no sound when play videos or listen music with freevo. When I use amarok, xine, or another media application I listen

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo stop not working?

2006-10-29 Thread Duncan Webb
Florian Demmer wrote: Hi! i am using gentoo and the init script that came with the ebuild to start/stop freevo. freevo itself is run using X and not in daemon mode, so using the-fs argument. though i originally installed the ebuild i am now using freevo 1.6 from svn/today. However i have

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.6 miss reading DVDs

2006-10-30 Thread Duncan Webb
Justin Wetherell wrote: Did we remove lsdvd for mmpython this release? I seem to remember that being discussed but im not 100% sure. I'd guess that would be the problem, if true. lsdvd is still required for mmpython-0.4.10 and so freevo-1.6.0. The svn rel-1 branch has been converted to use

Re: [Freevo-users] Music: cover art per album

2006-10-30 Thread Duncan Webb
naudefj wrote: Hi, Freevo is currently looking for a cover.jpg or (filename).jpg file to display as cover art. However, it would be great if it can also look for files called (ID3AlbumName).jpg. This will allow users to store music from several albums in a single directory. Please add

Re: [Freevo-users] MAME problems

2006-10-31 Thread Duncan Webb
Ryan Roth wrote: Here is my config: GAMES_ITEMS = [ ('Arcade Games', '/mnt/e/roms/mame', ('MAME', '/usr/local/bin/xmame.x11', '', '/mnt/e/roms/coverart', None ))] and my ./xmame/xmamerc: ### Video Related ### video-mode 1 fullscreen 1

Re: [Freevo-users] PVR 250 vs. PVR 500

2006-10-31 Thread Duncan Webb
Davin Desborough wrote: I am currently building out a new Freevo box. One of the changes I am considering is swapping my PVR 250 for a PVR 500 so I can have dual tuners. I have seen that some folks have the 500 working in Freevo, so I am not too worried about that. I am, however, concerned

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.6 miss reading DVDs

2006-11-01 Thread Duncan Webb
Evan Hisey wrote: Yup, it was a bad DVD drive. Not sure why it partially was working, but it all worked right with the new DVD drive. Older drives don't always work with DVD-R(RW) disks and sometimes also with DVD-9 disks. Usually it means that you need to do a firmware upgrade. BTW your bug

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.6 and LCD

2006-11-01 Thread Duncan Webb
Paul Sijben wrote: Yesterday I installed freevo 1.6.0 from scratch on a fresh Ubuntu 6.10 install. I ran into a few hitches along the way. One of them was the LCD plugin. My freevo box has a nice LCD display but pylcd is discontinued and no longer to be installed from the 'net. It was a

Re: [Freevo-users] ivtv and via unichrome tv-out interference???

2006-11-01 Thread Duncan Webb
Paul Sijben wrote: Hi all, I expect more people on this list to have a Hauppauge ivtv capture card on a via EPIA motherboard. So this might be of some help to someone. After rebuilding the software on my freevo box I have just spent several hours to get my Hauppauge 350 (ivtv) to record

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 Missing Font module

2006-11-01 Thread Duncan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all When i try starting freevo 1.6 i'm getting an error, missing font module. Which modules do i need for solving this problem. I'm running python 2.5 and all deps was installed successfully I've never tested freevo with 2.5, wonder if you are the first user to

Re: [Freevo-users] PVR 250 vs. PVR 500

2006-11-01 Thread Duncan Webb
Alberto Hernando wrote: El Martes, 31 de Octubre de 2006 23:19, Duncan Webb escribió: Normally the decision is based on how much cash you have, rather than the quality. Anyway, I have both a 350 and a 500 (a 350 is a 250 with a decoder and a 500 is 2x150). Hi. I'm thinking about getting

Re: [Freevo-users] PVR 250 vs. PVR 500

2006-11-01 Thread Duncan Webb
Alberto Hernando wrote: Hi. The 250 doesn't has a mpeg decoder, it's the 350 that has one, all the ivtv cards have an mpeg encoder. I think the main differences is the chipset that are used between the 150 and the 250. Hmm... I still don't know what do to then. If the driver supports 150

Re: [Freevo-users] VIDEO_GROUPS in 1.6

2006-11-02 Thread Duncan Webb
Paul Sijben wrote: I am expecting my second capture card today (also ivtv) and have been reading up on the Wiki on how to configure that to get two shows to be recorded at the same time. The text in the wiki did not help me much so I looked at the source. fc = FreevoChannels() if

Re: [Freevo-users] ivtv and via unichrome tv-out interference???

2006-11-02 Thread Duncan Webb
Paul Sijben wrote: correct. It has only one pipeline of mpeg hardware. With the 350 you can record and watch a recording at the same time, using the tv-out of the 350, I do this all the time. However, You can't watch a tv channel and record at the same time, unless you have a second tv card.

Re: [Freevo-users] ivtv and via unichrome tv-out interference???

2006-11-02 Thread Duncan Webb
. The only drawback is the tv-out is only 4:3. Paul Duncan Webb wrote: Paul Sijben wrote: correct. It has only one pipeline of mpeg hardware. With the 350 you can record and watch a recording at the same time, using the tv-out of the 350, I do this all the time. However, You

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.6 miss reading DVDs

2006-11-02 Thread Duncan Webb
to doesn't exist then PYLIRC is FALSE. In video/plugins/xine the following is defined: if not rc.PYLIRC and '--no-lirc' in command: command.remove('--no-lirc') I which case the --no-lirc option is *not* passed to xine. Seems reasonable to me, don't you think? Duncan Evan On 11/1/06, Duncan

Re: [Freevo-users] Deleting a movie ...

2006-11-02 Thread Duncan Webb
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Simple question, I hope ... how do I delete a movie / tvshow when I've finished watching it? Having to go to a shell and use 'rm' just doesn't seem right :( I foudn the file_ops.py file, and it is listed as being active, but for the life of me, I can't figure

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.6 miss reading DVDs

2006-11-02 Thread Duncan Webb
Evan Hisey wrote: Duncan- Personally I think the xine developers are not being logical, I don't see why they should disable --no-lirc when lirc has not been built-in. Agreed, but that is what they have done. I think they should change the help messages but silently ignore --no-lirc when lirc

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.6/ Ubuntu 6.10/EPIA/xine weirdness

2006-11-04 Thread Duncan Webb
Paul Sijben wrote: I have noticed two possibly related weirdnesses with xine in my freevo 1.6/ Ubuntu 6.10/VIA EPIA/TV-out PAL setup. 1) pressing fast forward on the remote is often not really responded to very quickly 2) the program playing time is off a program of 84 minutes is displayed

Re: [Freevo-users] Zope interface dependency failes

2006-11-05 Thread Duncan Webb
Matthieu Gaeremynck wrote: Gents I was using freevo and everything worked fine until I upgraded my ubuntu version. I upgraded from dapper drake (6.06) to edgy (6.10). Now when I start freevo I get the message : Can't find all python dependencies: You need zope.interface installed. I

Re: [Freevo-users] LIRC - Smaller FF/RW step sizes

2006-11-06 Thread Duncan Webb
Robert Winder wrote: On Monday, November 6, 2006, 5:21:30 AM, Michael wrote: Hi All, I'm currently running freevo version 1.5.4 on my debian etch box. I recently got LIRC to work on the system and have mapped the keys in Freevo. One problem I'm noticing is, during video playback, my

Re: [Freevo-users] LIRC - Smaller FF/RW step sizes

2006-11-06 Thread Duncan Webb
Michael Labowicz wrote: On 11/6/06, *Duncan Webb* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Winder wrote: On Monday, November 6, 2006, 5:21:30 AM, Michael wrote: Hi All, I'm currently running freevo version 1.5.4 on my debian etch box. I

Re: [Freevo-users] 1.6 bug in record_types / String

2006-11-10 Thread Duncan Webb
Paul Sijben wrote: I seem to be unable to record this show through the web-interface. See the debug output below. Do I conclude correctly from this that String(prog) is barfing over the accented e in the title which it is trying to print because debugging is on? Will you submit a bug

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo PyLirc problem

2006-11-11 Thread Duncan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the release of 1.6, I decided to rebuild one of my freevo hosts entirely. I rebuilt with Fedora core 5, and have almost everything working except for the remote. Here is the error I get when I start up freevo: Freevo (1.6.0) start at Fri Nov 10 19:24:13 2006

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo PyLirc problem

2006-11-11 Thread Duncan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did notice that FC5 comes with python 2.4. Could that be the issue? More than likely. Simple test is python you can see the version import pylirc Duncan Thanks for the quick reply. Here are the results from your suggestion: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# python

Re: [Freevo-users] PRE_VCR like command

2006-11-13 Thread Duncan Webb
Ryan Roth wrote: Is there a command in Freevo like the PRE_VCR and POST_VCR commands except for movies? I have hacked this feature in to my own installs before, but I wasn't sure if it already existed. AFAIK there is no PRE/POST_VCR commands. What are you trying to do? The PRE/POST_VCR

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 cdbackup/coversearch issue

2006-11-14 Thread Duncan Webb
Jim Duda wrote: If I rip an audio CDROM using the cdbackup plugin, I cannot use the coversearch to fetch an album cover. For some reason I don't get the coversearch menu item. If I use some other method for ripping the CDROM, then I get a coversearch menu item. There is something odd

Re: [Freevo-users] Song names aren't shown in Freevo 1.6

2006-11-15 Thread Duncan Webb
Michel Hoogervorst wrote: It has always been shown in 1.5.4, and suddenly in 1.6 they are not shown anymore. Anyway, I tried configuring the folder, and enable MediaID tags, but still no names. Maybe I should have told that only the name is broken, the artist name, tracknumber etc are

Re: [Freevo-users] Song names aren't shown in Freevo 1.6

2006-11-15 Thread Duncan Webb
Sneakers Is this correct? I did not change anything special in my local_conf.py and i am sure that the title is set correctly in the id3tag Wout Duncan Webb wrote: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: It has always been shown in 1.5.4, and suddenly in 1.6 they are not shown anymore. Anyway

Re: [Freevo-users] Anybody good at graphics?

2006-11-15 Thread Duncan Webb
Evan On 11/15/06, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is any body here good at graphics? I thought I would update Tanja's great plug-in diskfree so that it would show a bar, similar to volume plug-in, of the amount of disk space that is free, instead of the pie chart. Attached

Re: [Freevo-users] Anybody good at graphics?

2006-11-15 Thread Duncan Webb
, the only criteria is that one image can be overlaid on the base image as a rectangle, with a bit of space below for the text. So it can work left to right, top to bottom, etc. Thanks again Duncan Evan On 11/15/06, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evan Hisey wrote: Duncan- I take it you

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 cdbackup/coversearch issue

2006-11-15 Thread Duncan Webb
have artist and album for a directory and have artist and title for an audio cd. Trouble is it works for me every time. Duncan Duncan Webb wrote: Jim Duda wrote: If I rip an audio CDROM using the cdbackup plugin, I cannot use the coversearch to fetch an album cover. For some reason I don't

Re: [Freevo-users] TV Questions

2006-11-19 Thread Duncan Webb
Davin Desborough wrote: I am currently switching from an old, clunky box running 1.5.4 to a new, purpose-built box running 1.6. Along this migration I have run across to questions I've not been able to find answers to: 1. The big one: On my 1.5.4 box, the TV guide channels are listed in

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo PyLirc problem

2006-11-19 Thread Duncan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to install pylirc into /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages and check that you have all the other dependencies. AFAIK you have two versions of python, and the site-packages are dependant on the version. Duncan Thanks, I installed python 2.3 and then reinstalled

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 cdbackup/coversearch issue

2006-11-22 Thread Duncan Webb
, tracktotal=len(song_names)) Which adds the title, artist, etc to the mp3. This could mean that something has not been installed correctly. Duncan Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Duda wrote: Duncan, Here is the debug info from the patch you provided

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 XMAME - BUG FIX

2006-11-22 Thread Duncan Webb
Ryan Roth wrote: Which version of xmame are you using? From what I see in version 0.106 the errors and messages go to stderr so should not affect the parser. Duncan It should be /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/games/mame_cache.py not

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.6 XMAME - BUG FIX

2006-11-22 Thread Duncan Webb
an os.remove() Duncan I'm using version 0.106. I will try Ryan's patch this weekend. Jim Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan Roth wrote: Which version of xmame are you using? From what I see in version 0.106 the errors and messages go

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