[Freevo-users] Can't rip a cd to flac files

2006-03-28 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi,I would like to rip my entire cd collection to flac files.I understand Freevo should be able to do this, but I cannot find any information on how to get it working.I've added the line flac = /usr/bin/flac to /etc/freevo/freevo.conf And to /etc/freevo/freevo.conf.py I've added the next two

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't rip a cd to flac files

2006-03-29 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Yahoo!! It works!! :-) I first got another error, but that seemed to be a rights problem on the /tmp directory ;-) Thaks you very much!!

[Freevo-users] Gapless playback of music files

2006-04-20 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi,Now I've ripped all my albums to flac files, and found out that Freevo doesn't play them gapless, which is VERY annoying when listening to a live album, or an album with an intro.Can gapless playback of my music be done within Freevo? When I play the files with XMMS the files are also played

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Gapless playback of music files

2006-04-25 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I understand, but I'm using flac files, not mp3 or ogg. Simply because I'm one of those people who _can_ hear the difference between mp3/ogg and lossless quality ;-) Won't it be possible to build some kind of playlist for live albums, and let Freevo pass the playlist file to mplayer to play the

[Freevo-users] cdburn.py

2006-06-15 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I have a problem burning audio cd's with the cd_burn.py plugin.Nothing seems to happen when I choose to burn an audio cd.To see what went wrong, I started Freevo from a console.When I select a folder with music, it says: CDBURN : Item type is dirCDBURN : Should show the menu? 1then when I select

Re: [Freevo-users] cdburn.py

2006-06-29 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Wander, I've tried your version of cd_burn.py, and indeed got a coaster. Since I had some time left, and I have a few cheapycheap cd-r spindles, I tried to solve that problem (and I succeeded). Nero showed me that the cd was full of data tracks instead of audio tracks. So I added the option

Re: [Freevo-users] Category history (tabbed viewing)...?

2006-07-06 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
By the way, has anyone done a fund raiser for you guys (if you're inneed of funds for the project)?A Freevo T-shirt sale would be cool...:-) I would think there's a marked for this, walking around with a 'Freevo' tee on a festival would be MUCH cooler then walking around with an 'XP MCE' tee :-PMe

Re: [Freevo-users] Can anyone recommend a good remote control?

2006-10-05 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
This has been asked before, not so long ago...I'm using a wireless gamepad (Logitech Cordless Rumblepad II), which works great with Freevo.I'm using it on a mainboard without USB 2.0, so USB 1.1 is not a problem. 2006/10/5, mat holton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there,Well, the title says it all really

Re: [Freevo-users] Best Linux distro for Freevo?

2006-10-13 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I'm using Mandriva 2006.Freevo is part of the package, and therefore can be installed by only typing: 'urpmi freevo'.Can it be more easy?? :-)2006/10/13, Evan Hisey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Nikosapi-Slackware pacakges of freevo for Slackware 10.x are athttp://tgz.eng.ua.edu/slackware-10.1it has freevo

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

2006-11-15 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I just installed Freevo 1.6 on my Mandrive 2007 machine. The machine was first installed with 1.5.4 from rpm (using Mandriva's urpmi). Now I downloaded the new mmpython and freevo, and first installed mmpython with 'python setup.py install', which gave no errors. Next I did the same for

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

2006-11-15 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
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 still shown. Michel 2006/11/15,

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

2006-11-15 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

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

2006-11-15 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
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, I tried configuring

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

2006-11-28 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
config, since I don't seem to be the only one with this problem ;-) 2006/11/15, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's indeed exactly what I have here. Only thing is that my music files are mostly flac files, so it's not related to mp3 files. In 1.5.4 I saw the title from the meta tag

Re: [Freevo-users] Scrolls through songtitels instead of playing mp3's

2006-12-14 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I see this on my system when the sound device is in use. 2006/12/14, Roland Petera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I've tried for several days now, but I can't find the answer to my problem: I installed freevo 1.6.0.1 (and I also tried freevo 1.6.1) on Kubuntu 6.06 I have a strange behavior when I

Re: [Freevo-users] Soundcard for Linux

2006-12-19 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
For my Freevo box, I bought a Terratec Aureon 5.1 card, which costs around 25 euro's in the Netherlands. It has SPDIF in and out, plus the usual mini-jack connectors and worked out of the box on my Linux box (Mandriva 2006, now 2007). 2006/12/19, Ignacio - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All depends on

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.6.2 Release

2006-12-21 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I see an update in the dutch translation as well. The date was always shown as Thu 21 blah, and now I see Do 21 blah! :D (Yes I downloaded 1.6.2 a few hours ago, accidentally :D) 2006/12/22, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone, Today Freevo-1.6.2 has been released. As you know the

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.6.2 Release

2006-12-21 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
One little thing: When I select the Dark skin, and restart Freevo, I get some kind of default looking skin? Haven't noticed that with other skins though. 2006/12/22, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I see an update in the dutch translation as well. The date was always shown as Thu 21

[Freevo-users] Using external commands and COMMANDS_DIR

2006-12-23 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I'm trying to make a submenu for external commands, but can't figure out how. The Wiki sais I can use the variable 'COMMANDS_DIR' to set up a folder with fxd-files for external commands: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/CommandsFxd But I can't get it to work, and see no errors in

[Freevo-users] FreevoLive!

2006-12-24 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I had some time left, and thought it would be nice to create a live cd for Freevo, based on Mandriva 2007. This morning I created a remaster of MCNLive Cherbourg (a live Mandriva 2007 system, created by a member of the Dutch Mandrivaclub). So now, after four hours of uploading (yes, slw

Re: [Freevo-users] FreevoLive!

2006-12-30 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Well, I made the remaster purely for fun, and a bit for my own education, but if people start to know and maybe use it, it would only be more fun of course ;-) 2006/12/30, John Molohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cool. I'll download a copy and try it out. I presume that you'd be happy with an

Re: [Freevo-users] FreevoLive!

2007-01-01 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
www.mcnlive.org), so the hardware compatibility is exaclty like that. I will ask the maker of MCNLive if she know's something about the cx-8800 driver. Thanks! 2007/1/1, Elizabeth Dodd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 31 December 2006 4:17 am, Michel Hoogervorst wrote: Well, I made the remaster purely

[Freevo-users] How to use freq's for TV in framebuffer

2007-01-03 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to use frequencies instead of channels with TV on a framebuffer. When I manually type 'mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:freq=208' everything works, but how to set this in my Freevo configuration? According to the Wiki it's not possible for watching, and

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.7.0rc2 and Kaa Releases

2007-01-03 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Quite off-topic: Maybe it's an idea to update the main page on freevo.org? ;-) 29-Nov-2006: New releases: Freevo 1.6.1 and 1.7.0rc1 2007/1/4, mike lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/2/07, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Today, freevo-1.7.0-rc2 has been released, there has been a

Re: [Freevo-users] Clock drawing problems since 1.6.2

2007-01-06 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
That's because the idlebar.clock plugin is enabled by default (I believe since 1.6.0 that is). So if you enabled it in local_conf.py, it's enabled twice. Comment-out the plugin.active('idlebar.clock') line from your local_conf.py will solve this. Michel 2007/1/6, Karl Lattimer [EMAIL

Re: [Freevo-users] FreevoLive!

2007-01-07 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
. Harri On Monday 01 January 2007 14:23, Michel Hoogervorst wrote: You must be able to install it simply by typing urpmi xawtv, but I will make sure to have it preinstalled by the next version :-) I don't know about the cx-8800 card, do you know if there is a Mandriva rpm package for this driver

Re: [Freevo-users] Button Bar Plugin

2007-01-08 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
So if I understand this right, it's simply a bar which tell's you what function is under what colour key? Could be very handy indeed when using a remote. 2007/1/8, Adam Charrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is the intent and application's of such a plugin? The idea is to present the user with a

Re: [Freevo-users] How to use freq's for TV in framebuffer

2007-01-19 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
'), ('4.tvgids.nl', 'RTL 4', '25'), ('5.tvgids.nl', 'RTL 5', '28'), ('25.tvgids.nl', 'MTV', '66'), ] ...AND IT WORKS!! Frequencies with mplayer!! :-D So, now my next project is to enable the record server to see if it works with mencoder as well. :-) 2007/1/3, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL

Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer and svd's

2007-01-22 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I believe PAL should be 768x576, so 480x576 is indeed a strange resolution for video 2007/1/22, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cornelius Koelbel wrote: Hello, found some of the old self-burned super video CDs and put them into my freevo box, which is running with directfb (matrox) and

Re: [Freevo-users] How to use freq's for TV in framebuffer

2007-01-23 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Bug #1642932 submitted :-) 2007/1/23, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: Duncan, When opening a station from the tv guide for watching tv, I see this in the main-500.log: ChildApp.__init__(), pid=3266, app= /usr/bin/mplayer -vo fbdev -ao alsa -fs -autosync 100

Re: [Freevo-users] Long running Command (fdx) crashes Freevo

2007-01-23 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I notice almost the same problem when running X from the commands menu (framebuffer setup). After a certain amount of time, x just gets shut down, and the main-500.logalso gives the Oops, command refuses to die, try bad hack line This is with Freevo 1.6.2 btw Bug? Or are commands just not

Re: [Freevo-users] Yum repository issue

2007-01-30 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Why could kaa-metadata and mmpython not reside on the same system? I know I have, because I tried 1.7rc1 a while ago. This is with Mandriva btw, and not installed with rpm. 2007/1/31, TC Wan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Lattimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Freevo-users] How to make Freevo work in the framebuffer

2007-02-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
is not there when I have not played a video yet. Freevo runs fine then. Does anyone know how to solve those issues? Thanks in advance, Michel Hoogervorst - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay

Re: [Freevo-users] How to make Freevo work in the framebuffer

2007-02-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
PROTECTED]: I had the same problem. I solved using fb xine instead of mplayer. On 2/18/07, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having problems getting Freevo to work the right way on a framebuffer. I have a system running Mandriva 2007.0, with the standard vesa framebuffer. When

Re: [Freevo-users] How to make Freevo work in the framebuffer

2007-02-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
:07 am, Davide \dada\ Carboni wrote: On 2/18/07, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll try that, but this will only provide a workaround for the problem, not a real solution, It depends if your goal is to play video or to *play video with mplayer*. But for a number of reasons

Re: [Freevo-users] How to make Freevo work in the framebuffer

2007-02-19 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
sdl it works perfectly, and even with the width and height set it works like a charm... but not when launched from Freevo? :-( 2007/2/19, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Duncan, I DirectFB won't work since I'm not root (or is there a way to run Freevo in DirectFB without being root

Re: [Freevo-users] How to make Freevo work in the framebuffer

2007-02-19 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
is wrong, since it is working correctly with the fbdev driver, but I'll try to enter it on the command-line this evening. 2007/2/20, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: This is the error I get when I play tv with Freevo (with display set to sdl). In mplayer-stdout.log: VO

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.6.3 Release

2007-02-19 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I tried to download it from several mirrors, but only get a broken file? Just tried it at work, with a Windoze machine, and winrar also reports a broken file... :-( 2007/2/19, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone, Today Freevo-1.6.3 has been released. As you know the Freevo 1.6 series

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo webserver guide display problems

2007-02-23 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Just checked on my Freevo box, and indeed the NOS Jeugdjournaal is taking up all space from 16.40 up to the end of what fits into the screen (18.30u). But when I click it, it shows 17.00u to 17.03u?? If I click on the to see the rest, everything seems to be O.K. Note that I'm still on 1.6.2 (my

Re: [Freevo-users] FreevoLive!

2007-02-23 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
, and what doesn't :-D BTW: I installed Freevo 1.6.3 with an test-rpm made by a member of the Dutch MandrivaClub, so there should be an official mcnl-rpm in a very short time ;-) Michel 2007/1/7, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just uploaded a new and improved version (yeah, it's getting

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo webserver guide display problems

2007-02-23 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
screen as well. Michel 2007/2/23, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just checked on my Freevo box, and indeed the NOS Jeugdjournaal is taking up all space from 16.40 up to the end of what fits into the screen (18.30u). But when I click it, it shows 17.00u to 17.03u?? If I click on the to see

[Freevo-users] Appletrailers in 1.7.0

2007-03-01 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Maybe a stupid question but... In the changelog I see: New apple trailers plugin (disabled by default) So, I thought lets try it... but I can't find it in the Freevo package? How do I enable this? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash.

Re: [Freevo-users] Appletrailers in 1.7.0

2007-03-01 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Then why is this mentioned in the Freevo 1.7.0 changelog? :-) 2007/3/1, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:00 +0100, Michel Hoogervorst wrote: Maybe a stupid question but... In the changelog I see: New apple trailers plugin (disabled by default) So, I thought lets

Re: [Freevo-users] RAM question...

2007-03-02 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Off course the more the better, but if I look at my system, which runs with 512MB ram (on Mandriva 2007, and without X) Freevo tells me there's about 350MB free memory left after about 2 hours of recording. Playing video's is no problem at all (have not tried HD movies yet). 2007/3/2, Duncan

Re: [Freevo-users] Appletrailers in 1.7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
]: On 3/1/07, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe a stupid question but... In the changelog I see: New apple trailers plugin (disabled by default) So, I thought lets try it... but I can't find it in the Freevo package? How do I enable this? It's in the contrib directory

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.7.0 Release

2007-03-03 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Mandriva 2007.0 rpm's are available now as well! Korrel from the Dutch Mandrivaclub (www.mandrivaclub.nl) has made rpm's of Freevo 1.7.0 and the kaa-packages, and after a lot of testing, we think all the dependencies are o.k now. They can be found at:

[Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-11 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, Since upgrading to 1.7.0, Freevo doesn't show any album covers when browsing/playing music. When browsing music, I see this in main-500.log: osd.py: Bitmap file /home/michel/Muziek/sic-mdk.png doesn't exist! I guess this should be music-mdk.png? Looks like it chops off the first two

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo to play movies in full screen

2007-03-12 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, Are you running Freevo on a framebuffer, or from X? When running in a framebuffer, setting the display to sdl in freevo.confmakes the mirracle happen :-) 2007/3/12, Lizard King825 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, My freevo is configure to start in full screen. I have done the freevo setup when

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 2.0 features

2007-03-16 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
What the video mentioned on the mainpage about then? That looks very cool and promising compared to 1.x :) 2007/3/16, Jason Tackaberry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 12:56 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: I read some interview on

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
? -- *Van:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Namens *Michel Hoogervorst *Verzonden:* 11 March 2007 19:11 *Aan:* freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Onderwerp:* [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0 Hi, Since upgrading to 1.7.0, Freevo doesn't show any album covers

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
-mdk.png doesn't exist! 2007/3/18, Michel Hoogervorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It seems my problem with 1.7.0 is bigger then I thought... since upgrading from 1.6.3 I found it to be very unstable. When playing a playlist, somehow, I do see cover images, but Freevo crashes when it tries to open something

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Ok, I changed line 288 like the item said, and it solved the crashes! :-D This I'm very happy with!! But, I still don't get any audio covers, while the are shown correctly when played from playlists. 2007/3/18, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: See:

Re: [Freevo-users] Listening to Music while watching pictures

2007-03-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Just hit the 'display' button ('d' on your keyboard) :-) 2007/3/18, Helmut Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello List, How can i look at my pictures without stopping the current music playlist ? Is FreeVo missing that feature ? -- Helmut Auer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
]: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: Ok, I changed line 288 like the item said, and it solved the crashes! :-D This I'm very happy with!! But, I still don't get any audio covers, while the are shown correctly when played from playlists. Somehow I don't think that this code about line 288, The file name has

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Long running Command (fdx) crashes Freevo

2007-03-19 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I tried this against an installed Freevo 1.7.0, in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/plugins/command.py, but now the plugin won't load anymore at all :-P So I guess I'm doing something wrong here (I'm no programmer, and don't understand how to use patches), I just tried putting the 'if

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-24 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Duncan, Can I provide you with some information of any kind? I would realy like this to work again... Do you want me to raise a bug report maybe? Michel 2007/3/19, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: I just have album covers named front.jpg or front.png in every album

Re: [Freevo-users] dvb-t kernel 2.16 or latest

2007-03-25 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
This is what is inside of the 2.6.17.5mdv kernel (which is used in FreevoLive 0.10) # Video Capture Adapters # # CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_VIVI is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848_DVB=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA6588=m CONFIG_VIDEO_PMS=m CONFIG_VIDEO_BWQCAM=m

Re: [Freevo-users] which distro for freevo?

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Cool! Someone else mentioning FreevoLive :-D If you wish to try FL, I'd recomment waiting for a small time, since I'm working on a new version, which is no remaster of MCNLive anymore, but build from a clean MDV2007.0 system. Also, I'll try to put the newer harddrake scripts (from MDV cooker

Re: [Freevo-users] recording an X session

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Something like this?: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ Michel 2007/3/26, Alberto Hernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. Recently, I've seen somewhere a software to record an X session. I know about xvidcap, but it eats a lot of cpu. The software I saw used some layer of the X protocol, and

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
]: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: Cool, I tried changing some front.jpg's to cover.jpg's, and that indeed worked! I'll raise a bug report for the front.* files. :-) 2007/3/24, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: Duncan, Can I provide

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
, and not to the list 2007/3/26, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dirk Meyer wrote: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: You've got it! There was indeed a .directory file in my Music folder. Removing that, gave me back all my cd covers!! :-D Strange that this didn't affect Freevo 1.5.x/1.6.x then? (Though I have

Re: [Freevo-users] Music album covers aren't shown anymore in 1.7.0

2007-03-27 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I think this is the default icon for this folder. In Mandriva (with KDE), when I open my personal folder, folders like 'Music' and 'Documents' have another color, with an icon in it, so I guess this is the folder icon with a speaker. See this for example:

Re: [Freevo-users] Generic Games

2007-04-24 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I don't know why it doesn't work, but I run Linux games like this: GAMES_ITEMS = [ ('Linux Spellen', '/home/michel/Games/Linux/', ('GENERIC', '', '', '', '.tux') ) ] I made a shell script for every game I would like to run, and put it in /home/michel/Games/Linux with the name

[Freevo-users] How to use the nVidia framebuffer

2007-05-11 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I hope nobody blames me for posting this in the freevo-users list, but the freevo-hardware list seems a bit dead... Could someone explain how to use the nVidia framebuffer, and if possible at a 720x768 (PAL) resolution? I have tried many options, but never got the nvidia framebuffer to work

[Freevo-users] Mixed-mode cd's

2007-05-16 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I just found out that my Freevo box handles mixed-mode cd's as normal audio cd's... before I start debugging, is this normal behaviour? My wife got a free cd, with a multimedia part on it. When I log into my box through ssh, I can see the contents of the cd, but Freevo only shows it as an

Re: [Freevo-users] Early finish to recordings

2007-05-27 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I had the same problem a few times whith my 1.6.x setup, but since 1.7.0 this problem has never came back again... actually, that is why I didn't post a question about it myself. Maybe it's a good idea to upgrade to 1.7.x? Michel 2007/5/27, John Molohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Duncan Webb

Re: [Freevo-users] games not playable in freevo

2007-05-31 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Ik had the same difficulties... and solved it like this: GAMES_ITEMS = [ ('Linux Spellen', '/home/michel/Games/Linux/', ('GENERIC', '', '', '', '.tux') ) ] The directory /home/michel/Games/Linux is filled with symlinks to game executables. The symlinks have to be named gamename.tux

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo and Python 2.5

2007-05-31 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
It seems to work pretty well on Mandriva 2007.1 with python 2.5 I only needed to downgrade twisted back to version 2.4 (v2.4 of twisted that is, not of python) 2007/5/31, Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jeremy Wilkins wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install the Freevo debian packages on a Feisty

Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding chanlist in freevo.conf

2007-06-06 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, The frequency tables are set in /usr/lib/python-2.x /site-packages/freevo/tv/freq.py. Myself I made a new entry for the specific frequencies of my cable provider in this, and configured chanlist=mycalbeprovider in my freevo.conf. Michel 2007/6/6, Yugandhar G.V [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi ,

Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding chanlist in freevo.conf

2007-06-07 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Yugandhar, In the freq.py file of Freevo 1.7 I see this: CHANLIST = { us-bcast : dict(NTSC_BCAST), us-cable : dict(NTSC_CABLE), us-cable-hrc : dict(NTSC_HRC), japan-bcast : dict(NTSC_BCAST_JP), japan-cable : dict(NTSC_CABLE_JP),

Re: [Freevo-users] Album Art

2007-06-07 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I think I'm having the same problem, with the latest kaa release (downloaded 2 weeks ago), so no svn version. When I enter a directory I see the cover image, when I go out of it, and return later the cover image is gone... and doesn't return after restarting Freevo. I tried removing the

Re: [Freevo-users] Album Art

2007-06-07 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Having said this... funny to see that the damn ugly cd front of Extreme - Pornograffiti just won't seem to go away :-P It just stays visible... This is a 'cover.jpg' file, with chmod 744 Another album, also with a 'cover.jpg', also with chmod 744, is not shown :-( 2007/6/7, Michel Hoogervorst

Re: [Freevo-users] Album Art

2007-06-08 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I tried removing /var/cache/freevo/* and indeed there were the album covers again... for once After returning to a previous played album, the covers are not shown anymore. Before I upgraded kaa, I had completely removed the directory /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/kaa. Is there another

Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding chanlist in freevo.conf

2007-06-12 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Yugandhar, What you entered in freq.py should look something like this: CHANLIST = { nl-multikabel: dict(PAL_MULTIKABEL), us-bcast : dict(NTSC_BCAST), . } Where the nl-multikabel line matches the PAL_MULTIKABEL below: PAL_MULTIKABEL = [ (10, 208000 ), #

Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding chanlist in freevo.conf

2007-06-12 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
installed XML TV but still I can't able to see the TV.xml file can u just tell me why I can't able to see the TV.xml file in my system. Regards, Yugandhar. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Hoogervorst Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:47

Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding chanlist in freevo.conf

2007-06-12 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
of xmltvid. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Hoogervorst Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:52 PM To: Yugandhar G.V Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding chanlist in freevo.conf I must say I have no clue... maybe someone else

Re: [Freevo-users] Album Art

2007-06-15 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
and then quits immediately, including daemon mode. Duncan Webb wrote: Wonder if sourceforge's mailing lists are broken at the moment? Try again. Michel Hoogervorst wrote: I tried removing /var/cache/freevo/* and indeed there were the album covers again... for once After returning

Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding chanlist in freevo.conf

2007-06-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
, Yugandhar G.V. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Hoogervorst Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:05 PM To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding chanlist in freevo.conf You could just fill in anything

Re: [Freevo-users] how to chown a freevo started as root

2007-06-24 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Why not just use autologin through inittab, like it's in the wiki? 2007/6/24, Pirlouwi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to start freevo using /etc/init.d/freevo, but I don't want it to be started as root. Is there a way to do this? Config variable? Other trick? Thx. LOUIS

Re: [Freevo-users] how to chown a freevo started as root

2007-06-24 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Why not just use autologin through inittab, like it's in the wiki? 2007/6/24, Pirlouwi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to start freevo using /etc/init.d/freevo, but I don't want it to be started as root. Is there a way to do this? Config variable? Other trick? Thx. LOUIS

Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding Channel List for India(Channel has no data loaded)

2007-06-25 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
been fixed in the meantime?) 2007/6/25, John Molohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Duncan Webb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Molohan wrote: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: This should work indeed... Maybe you can try to run mplayer from the command line yourself

Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding Channel List for India(Channel has no data loaded)

2007-06-27 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Of John Molohan Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 1:38 PM To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Regarding Channel List for India(Channel has no data loaded) Michel Hoogervorst wrote: This should work indeed... Maybe you can try to run mplayer from the command

Re: [Freevo-users] Using a wireless presenter to control Freevo

2007-07-26 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, Just got to the last bit there where you mention the wiki and that's where I was going to say to check. Freevo doesn't natively support mouse navigation I understand, but I was thinking, maybe there's a way of fooling the Linux OS in thinking that mouse-down is the same as the down

[Freevo-users] Using a wireless presenter to control Freevo

2007-07-25 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I just bought a Targus Wireless 2.4Ghz Presenter, which will have two functions: 1. Make my cat do some exercise (kinda cool to see how she reacts on the laser light :-P) 2. Hope to control Freeo with it. I bought this one, because it has a button to switch between presenter mode, and mouse

Re: [Freevo-users] Using a wireless presenter to control Freevo

2007-07-28 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I tried some, but can't get it to work at all :-( Because my distro (Mandriva) had no 'lsinput' in the input-utils package, I downloaded and compiled the utils from the package mentioned in the wiki (in the Linux event interface page). When I do ./lsinput, I get those two wich belong to my

Re: [Freevo-users] Using a wireless presenter to control Freevo

2007-07-29 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, When you press a button on you presenter do you see any messages from dmesg? If you do then you need to map the unknown events to an event using applykeymap Nope... nothing about this in dmesg|tail... You can also try input-events 2 or input-events 3 and press some keys, it you see

Re: [Freevo-users] Packagers please announce 1.7.3 packages here

2007-08-07 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I made an rpm package last week, which is in testing now at MandrivaClub.NL. I will upload the package this evening, because it has been tested OK a few times, and I also successfully installed it on FreevoLive :-) People wich Mandriva Linux 2007.1 spring can use the MandriveClubNL repos. To

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.7.3 Release

2007-08-09 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I have just updated FreevoLive with Freevo 1.7.3 as well. I updated it with the rpm-packages I made for Mandriva 2007.1 (as mentioned in the Packagers please announce 1.7.3 packages here thread), which is now publicly available. FreevoLive is still available from:

Re: [Freevo-users] [ANNOUNCE] Freevo-1.7.3 Release

2007-08-09 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
As far as I know, it doesn't :-P Problem here is that I don't have any experience with upnp... so I have no clue how to implement it. 2007/8/9, John Molohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Hoogervorst wrote: I have just updated FreevoLive with Freevo 1.7.3 as well. I updated it with the rpm

Re: [Freevo-users] For the site: What hardware(tv/graphics/sound) card do you use?

2007-08-09 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
* TV card - analogue, dvb-t/s/c, atsc Pinnacle PCTV Analog PCI Classic * Sound card - with output used Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI with optical out to receiver (very cheap card) * Graphics card - with output used GeForce2 MX 400 with TV-out to a 4/3 Sony TV * Motherboard

Re: [Freevo-users] New site - any final thoughts before launch?

2007-08-13 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
One litte thing... on the Freevo Live CDs page, my name is at both FreevoLive and Geexbox... though I have nothing to do with Geexbox ;-) Off course I do like the fact that you mention FreevoLive on the website. :-) Michel 2007/8/13, Dirk Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: John Molohan wrote: Hi all,

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo webserver won't start

2007-08-29 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I believe you need the older twisted 2.4 for it to work. http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/2.4/Twisted-2.4.0.tar.bz2 Things don't work well with newer versions... :-( 2007/8/29, Dan Mancini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm getting the following error when I try to start the Freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Broken XMLTV blocks TV viewing

2007-10-07 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
You could delete the corrupt xml file, then Freevo would just say channel has no data loaded, but it would still let you watch (and manually record) tv. 2007/10/6, Tommy Killander [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Yesterday the swedish XMLTV grabber stopped (due to a hacker attack of the swedb site

[Freevo-users] Lyrics plugin broken?

2007-10-09 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi, I wonder if anyone else has this problem: Suddenly the lyrics plugin on my box seemed to have stopped working. On every song I choose, it comes with Lyrics not found, sorry..., when I'm certain I had those same lytics on screen a few weeks ago. Is anyone else having this problem? Michel

[Freevo-users] FreevoLive 0.15

2007-10-18 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Hi all! I just uploaded FreevoLive 0.15 You can now choose between X11 and framebuffer video at the boot screen. Mandriva's hardware detection does a pretty good job detecting the right resolution for most monitors (most widescreen resolutions as well), and I configured Freevo so that it uses

Re: [Freevo-users] FreevoLive 0.15

2007-10-20 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Helleu :-) Hi Michel, That's great that your making so many improvements. I had a quick look on the site and the forums are getting a bit of traffic now, good to see that growing. Yes, it was a user on the forum that made me decide to create the X11 option, since he had some trouble getting

Re: [Freevo-users] FreevoLive 0.15

2007-10-20 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
2007/10/20, Duncan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder if this will work in all cases, xorg tends to ignore modelines and read them from the monitor. Have you come across ddcxinfo-arch-0.8, IIRC it comes from arch linux. This can give you ouput like: I understand, but I'm not reading the

Re: [Freevo-users] itv and vpodcast

2007-11-20 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
Also very true, but that means TV Recordings should also go under Movies? (Maybe I'm crazy, but that's where I over and over again start looking for my 'Recorded Movies from TV' ;) Simply put the record dir in VIDEO_ITEMS, that's the way I did it ;-) Can I propose to make it a configurable

Re: [Freevo-users] freevobox and vfd display

2007-11-25 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
@ Pascal: I don't know about your problem, but have you tried the stock kernel instead? The tmb kernel on Mandriva systems is, as far as I know, a kernel with little or no patches, which makes it pretty clean, but also less usable on most systems ;-) @John: A few years ago, I sold a few of those

Re: [Freevo-users] CD recording functionality

2007-12-03 Thread Michel Hoogervorst
I have this in my local_conf.py: plugin.activate('cd_burn') This is with 1.7.4, but I believe I did not change that part of the local_conf.py file since quite some time :-) 2007/12/3, Ryan Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed that a lot of the plugins have been moved to the Freevo core. There was

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