Package: freevo Version: 1.8.0-2 Severity: important
Hello, I've found a bug that seriously affects the usability of Freevo for me as someone who uses it purely as a media player without any live TV input, and mainly from CDs and DVDs. This problem has only appeared with Freevo 1.8.0-2; when using 1.7.3-1 playing files as described below seems to work perfectly. The problem is that under some circumstances, playing video from CD or DVD fails. When the failure occurs, the screen blanks as if the video player starts, then the freevo screen re-starts, displaying the parent to the directory on display when the movie was selected. Interestingly, it also appears that the CD/DVD has been unmounted when returned to Freevo. Most of the files I have that demonstrate this are quite large, so for now I'm going to try to describe the problem. If it is difficult to reproduce or if it would be useful anyway, I'd be happy to create cut-down files that demonstrate the bug and/or images of discs containing such files that demonstrate the problem. The problem is not seen for all CDs or DVDs containing video files, just some of them. So far, the following situations do cause this error of not playing the video but returning to the menu after a blank screen for a second or two: * CD/DVD with one or more directories containing video files. * CD/DVD with a directory containing a video file and other directories. These situations do not affect the bug either way: * The exact filesystem on the DVD. * The title of the disc. * Video encoding. These situations seem to work perfectly: * Video files in the root of a CD/DVD with no directories. * Copying a file manually to the hard drive, then playing from there. * Selecting a directory with just one video file in it (plays automatically). * Video DVDs. * Anything except for video files (music and images are fine). I'm perhaps a little unusual in not using Freevo for TV but only for playing files, and then mainly from CD/DVD, which is why I've just set the severity of this report to normal to start with. I'll keep trying a few things to narrow down the problem when I have the time, and will keep this bug updated. In the mean time, if you'd like any further information, configuration files or tests performing, feel free to let me know and I'll post the results as soon as I can. All the best, -Dave. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.3 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages freevo depends on: ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65 Linux console and font utilities ii debconf 1.5.20 Debian configuration management sy ii freevo-data 1.8.0-2 Themes and non-application data fo ii lsdvd 0.16-3 read the content info of a DVD ii mplayer 1:1.0.rc2svn20071207-0.3 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linu ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-central 0.6.5 register and build utility for Pyt ii python-freevo 1.8.0-2 Python modules for Freevo Versions of packages freevo recommends: ii cdparanoia 3.10+debian~pre0-6 audio extraction tool for sampling ii libxmltv-perl 0.5.51-2 Perl libraries related to the XMLT ii xine-ui 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2 the xine video player, user interf ii xmltv-util 0.5.51-2 Utilities related to the XMLTV fil -- debconf information: * freevo/display: x11 * freevo/path_to_audio: * freevo/path_to_image: * freevo/norm: pal * freevo/title_image: * freevo/chanlist: europe-west * freevo/geometry: 800x600 * freevo/title_audio: freevo/path_to_recordings: /home/freevo/recordings * freevo/start_on_boot: * freevo/path_to_video: * freevo/title_video: * freevo/services: xserver, recordserver, encodingserver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
