Le lundi 07 janvier 2008 à 18:39 +0100, Patrick Dessalle a écrit : > Hello, > > I don't know if it's the right place to ask question but I don't like > IRC ^^ > > I've tested Elisa (ubuntu gutsy packages) on the computer hooked on my > TV but there are a few limitations that make it quite unusable for me > (the main issues being the subtitles handling
I believe we still support subtitle files (but not vob sub yet). Just name your sub file like the video file, but with a different extension, depending on the sub format (srt or txt in most cases). > and the fact that file/folders names are truncated which isn't very > useful when trying to watch videos of some tv show since you don't > always get to see the season and episode number). Well, there's no easy answer to your concerns at this point. The ideal solution would be to not cut labels but make them horizontally animated. Eg, make them move from left to right back and forth, slowly. Unfortunately that's not supported yet in Pigment. :( > Other than that, elisa is a very promising project and one of the big > selling point for me, compared to mythtv and freevo, was that > installing the deb and running it just worked with HAL support and > without too much conf file tweaking. > > I'd like to check out if the current SVN version would be something I > could use on my TV (meaning the bugs that annoy me are fixed) or if I > should create new tickets or try to write some plugins myself. > When I run elisa.py on a "fresh" update (i.e. without any ~/.elisa > folder), the programs fails to load a component. I've tried each and > every *.conf from the sample_config folder and they all fail on some > exception at some point. Usually something about a frontend that can't > be created. > Can you give more details please? What component is failing to load. If you all dependencies to be installed, install the "elisa-extra" package. > By the way, on hal_service.py, line 62, on my version of dbus (0.82.4 > from Debian sid), I don't have a property "message" for DBusException, > I've modified that line (you don't use the value of message anyway) to > let elisa fail at some later point. > Hmm ok, can you give us the traceback you got? We'll find a proper fix for it, for all versions of DBus deployed around ;) > My question/suggestion is basically: does elisa run straight out of > svn (meaning i messed up somewhere) or is it normal that it doesn't > work on my machine ? > For now, I advise you to wait the release to use Elisa "in production". We are fixing some issues still, there will have some activity in SVN this week :) If you're using Sid, the official Elisa package will be updated shortly after the release. > Thank you for having read this awfully long email, > You're welcome, thanks for the feedback :) Philippe
