Dischi, Rob, Mike, Aubin, ... devs ...

Maybe "freevo setup" may check that and few more things and alert the
user:

* check if /dev/<devices> are readable by the user... use the ROM_MEDIA
autodetection to get possible devices...
* check if artsd is running and alert the user about using "arts" as
mplayer parameter or disable arts (if mplayer doesn't provide arts -ao)
* check if there is network connection (at least to cddb) and alert
user to disable network in local_config.py
* ??more?? maybe BTTV checking?

Anyone with some time do implement that?

Gustavo


 --- James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I've been
poking around in the freevo source code and found file 
> vcdinfo.py in directory mmpython/disc and I think I understand why my
> 
> VCD menu isn't listing properly.  It seems to be similar to the
> problem 
> I had when my CD wasn't recognized by freevo.  This code reads the 
> device file directly, seeks to a byte offset, and looks at what it
> finds 
> there.  In Mandrake it has authority to do that, and apparently in
> SuSE 
> it still doesn't.  When I changed SuSE to allow anyone to read the 
> device freevo was able to detect that a CD had been inserted into the
> 
> drive, whereas initially it could not.  Perhaps freevo needs to be
> able 
> to open the device for reading and writing (even though no writing
> seems 
> to be going on) to detect the menu items for a VCD.
> 
> I'm going to try this out tonight.
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > I have the same version of Freevo installed on two different 
> > computers, one running Mandrake 8.2 and the other running SuSE 8.2,
> 
> > and I have noticed that the VCD menu works better on the Mandrake
> box 
> > than it does on the SuSE box.
> >
> > First, some background.  I have made many of my own VCDs.  On these
> 
> > VCDs  I sometimes put more than one MPEG file.  On my DVD players I
> 
> > can use the "Skip" buttons to move between these files.
> >
> > When I use one of these VCDs on Mandrake I see a menu that lists as
> 
> > many items as I have MPEG files, plus one extra one at the
> beginning.  
> > I can choose any of these items and it will play the corresponding 
> > MPEG file.  I can also play the first extra item and it will just
> play 
> > the first MPEG file, so there is no real difference between playing
> 
> > the first item and the second item.
> >
> > On the SuSE box things are different.  There I ALWAYS see two
> items: 
> > the "extra" one at the beginning plus a second one that seems to 
> > represent ALL of the MPEG files combined.  I can play either item
> and 
> > the effect is that I play through all of the MPEG files in
> sequence.  
> > Of course I can't skip ahead to a given item; I always have to
> start 
> > at the beginning of the first item and use the fast forward key to 
> > progress through the files.
> >
> > Other than the extra item at the beginning, Mandrake seems to do 
> > exactly what I would want.  I can't figure out why SuSE isn't
> working 
> > the same way.  I have looked at the source code and I can't figure
> out 
> > where the VCD chapter menu is built.
> >
> > Any hints would be appreciated.
> >
> > James Simmons
> >
> >
> >
> >
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