Markus Schneider wrote: > Hi list, > > sorry for the long post. > > I am very interested in testing the new Freevo-branch.
Brave!
> - I checked out freevo from CVS
> - "./autogen.sh" (this is missing in the installation instructions)
> - "make" (I believe it's just a typo in the Wiki: "Before you can
> start Freevo, you need to type 'makde'"???), this only seems to fail
> on pylibvisual (altough I do have libvisual emerged)
fixed in the doc.
> - "python setup.py install" for the subdirs below "lib"
> - "python setup.py install" in root project dir
Very brave. You should try to test it without installing it first.
> Do I need to patch my mplayer? Can I use version 1.0pre5 to apply it?
To use bmovl2 you need to patch mplayer. All other outputs work
without patching anything.
> I have my old local.conf.py (from 1.5.2) in /etc/freevo/ and unemerged
> freevo 1.5.2 (do I need this?)... I commented the line:
> "plugin.activate('tv', level=10)" in
> "/usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py" or else starting freevo will fail
> (...DatabaseError: no such table: channels...) for me.
The db stuff is work in progress. It should work now.
> When I start freevo with display set to "dfbmga" in
> "/etc/freevo/freevo.conf" I get the main menu on my monitor (first
> head), selecting a movie plays it on my TV (second head).
>
> I would like to help to solve this issue (my system & configuration
> worked fine with 1.5.2).What I don't understand at the moment: I
> thought the new cool menu architecture would rely on bmovl2 (from
> Jason Tackaberry), so I thought there would be one mplayer (or
> xine,...) instance running all the time that displays the elements of
> the GUI, right? However, the switch from the first head to the second
> head implies, that there gets a new mplayer started on my machine...
>
> What is wrong here?
Wrong is, that this part of mebox isn't fully implemented yet. You can
choose a display engine with OSD_DISPLAY. Possible values are sdl,
imlib2, bmovl and bmovl2 (is needs a mplayer patch). The last two are
not working as basic backend right now (small childapp problem I will
fix the next days). But even than, Freevo can't reuse mplayer for
playing the video, there is much work to be done.
More informations:
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freevo-2.0/HelpNeeded#mevas
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freevo-2.0/SourceDoc/GUI/Display
Dischi
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