I take it you found the wiki documentation lacking? You can help improve
it. THere is a small ilnk at the bottom which ordinary users can use to
help improve the documentation.

I think one of the problems freevo suffers from is the general driver
problem. I was lucky in that I found this project before I had a tv out
card and a tv tuner card. So i was able to get the supported hardware
after some research. But for people that already had this stuff working
under other operating systems it can be a chore.

also there are a couple setup options you can go with depending on your
hardware. If you have been snooping around the docs you will see
references to framebuffer only setups as well as X windows
configurations and again the driving factor between those two are
hardware. Also some people use dxr3 cards which also complicate things
setup wise.

And then of course there is the joy of soundcards and linux. This has
creaped up again as people want to use some of the smaller Shuttle
systems or some of the other small form factor systems which have sound
systems linux supports poorly or only in recent kernels.

And then just when you thought everything was all set there are those
european guys with their PAL standard versus the us (U.S.) with our NTSC
standard, enough to drive you batty. (this is for tv output in case you
are not already familiar)

There is alot to learn on this project I am finally getting a good hang
of it after five months tinkering and going through stuff. I hoping now
to go back through the documentation and improve it. Feel free to help
out if you have found some good clues regarding your setup.

Mike Ruelle
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On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:27, BobJ wrote:
> Is there ANY kind of docs that outline a step by step setup on freevo? Hell all I 
> want to do is to record a tv show, I could care less about scheduling and XML right 
> now. I've  made it to watching tv but have found that the keymap is not what is says 
> in the help file and that it locks up a lot....
> 
> Obviously I've got it compiled and wow it looks great but documentation is 
> lacking... but I don't want to sound critical as someone put a LOT of work into 
> this, but it seems a bit disjointed as to how/what, even after having read what docs 
> there are and fumbled with it for several hours now.... or, to run linux as I have 
> for the last four years should I be clairvoyant by now, and just KNOW what to do 
> next?
> 
> :)
> 
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