you DO want v4lctl installed on your freevo box.

That way you can adjust color, bright and contrast to get better recordings.
(and to reduce file size!  I found by bringing up bright by 10% reduced my
file sizes by simply washing out some of the minor details in bright areas.
Overall I had a more pleasant to watch divx.)

Although I am swtiching over to mp1e and mpeg files now to take advantage of
using hardware playback in video chipsets and the dxr3 on lower end
hardware.





-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Murrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 12:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo + mp1e


Hi Aubin,

Actually, I installed xawtv-control, and I think I can
control channel changing using 'v4lctl' to do the
channel changing.  Here is my VCR_CMD now:

--- VCR_CMD ---
VCR_CMD = ('/usr/bin/v4lctl setnorm NTSC; ' +
           '/usr/bin/v4lctl setchannel %(channel)s; '
+
           '/usr/local/freevo/runtime/apps/mp1e ' +
           '-v ' +
           '-m3 ' +
           '-p/dev/dsp1 ' +
           '-r14,100 ' +
           '-S32 ' +
           '-a0 ' +
           '-c/dev/video0 ' +
           '-s640x480 ' +
           '-b3 ' +
           '-n%(timecode)s ' +
           '-o %(filename)s.mpg')
--- VCR_CMD ---

However, the traceback looks the same:

--- TRACEBACK ---
2003/10/11 09:00 PDT [*RecordServer*] Traceback (most
recent call last):
          File
"/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/pytho
n/log.py",
line 52, in callWithContext
            return context.call({ILogContext: newCtx},
func, *args, **kw)
          File
"/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/pytho
n/context.py",
line 32, in callWithContext
            return func(*args,**kw)
          File
"/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/inter
net/default.py",
line 122, in run
            self.mainLoop()
          File
"/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/inter
net/default.py",
line 130, in mainLoop
            self.runUntilCurrent()
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File
"/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/inter
net/base.py",
line 368, in runUntilCurrent
            call.func(*call.args, **call.kw)
          File "./src/helpers/recordserver.py", line
698, in minuteCheck
            self.record_app.Record(rec_prog)
          File
"/usr/local/freevo-1.4-rc1/src/tv/plugins/generic_record.py",
line 92, in Record
            self.rec_command = config.VCR_CMD %
cl_options
        exceptions.KeyError: timecode
--- TRACEBACK ---

However, I think the problem may be a little more than
that, since if I use the above mp1e commands on the
command line, nothing gets recorded; it just sort of
sits there, so I will see if I can get that working
first, but in the meantime, any ideas on what the
traceback is showing would be appreciated.

TIA,

Alan






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