James Trietsch wrote: > Hi guys, I've been happily tinkering and tweaking my copy of Freevo, > polishing up parts and fixing what I consider to be bugs. I swear my New > Year's resolution is to download the SVN branch, run the diffs and start > submitting bugfixes and feature requests. > > > I have two troubles currently, and I'm going to ask them in two different > e-mails on the list so they can be tracked more easily. So here's the first > one.
I suspect that you wanted to send this to the list, so I'll do it for you :) > I recently started playing with the encoding server and so far, pretty good > results. But always wanting to be informed, I activated the 'encoding' > idlebar plugin to display the current status and progress. However, when this > plugin is activated, Freevo starts lagging in its response to input. I don't > think it ever drops any commands, but they seem to execute about once per > second. That is, if I press down three times on the remote, the bar will move > down three spaces, one space per second. So it's not even like the screen is > updating slowly (where the bar would skip directly down to the third menu > item). You can play around with the polling rates, may be they are too fast for your machine. > Today I discovered the 'transcode' idlebar plugin, which uses icons in the > idlebar instead of the status text and progress bar. I briefly compared the > two and from what I can see, transcode is a plugin while encoding is a > daemon... but transcode has the exact same results. Which do you prefer? > I can't say for sure, but looking at the code it feels like there's some > shifty things going on with polling delay tracking and the like. I was almost > sure last night that it was something about the plugin not giving control > back to Freevo until its own polling timer had fired. But... I don't think > that's the case. It changes the polling rate according to what it is doing, so for audio it polls faster than for video. > Anyone else have this issue? Any ideas on what to tinker with to make it > behave better? It would be a bonus to know how my encoding jobs are going... > > By the way, I've come to appreciate the modular setup of Freevo, especially > when I do something dumb and crash the front-end. Or when I've made a > configuration change and need to reload the front end. I can do it while a > program is recording and not worry about missing a single frame. Or still set > stuff up on the web interface from work and not worry about restarting the > front end until I get home. Kudos! The plug-in nature of Freevo was a bit of genius :), but not mine :( Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
