Hi,
yesterday evening/night I have continued my freevo box...
As suggested by Tim, I switched to X now. First, I had to install the sis driver from
Thomas Winischhofers site (www.winischhofer.net: Many thanks for this!). After some
changes in the XF86Config-4 (or simliar...) concerning screen resolution and color
depth, KDE came up in 800x600x24 very smoothly after typing "startx".
Then I started freevo and that looked really weird. I forgot to change the display
settings in freevo.conf and freevo tried to "fbset" the screen size and the color
depth...
After changing this again, it really worked good. I could also remove the software
scaling from the mplayer settings. It really seems that X is supported better.
I then created an user "freevo" which I gave the following .xinitrc file
#!/bin/sh
freevo
It seems that freevo itself takes the role of the window manager this way. The whole
stuff starts up really fast that way (thanks, Tim!)
I then tried out some media, including the Matrix DVD, some DivX movies and some MP3s.
Mplayer played it all. After
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
I was not able to see any jerking any more...
But there were two problems...
1.
I have inserted a CD with two DivX movies. freevo showed me (by the CD plugin) that it
knew about the CD, but I could neither open the directory nor did freevo start to play
anything. The logs showed me a python traceback leading to the following coding in
rom_drives.py:
if data.tracks:
mplayer_files = []
mp3_files = []
image_files = []
for t in data.tracks:
if t and t['url']:
file = t['url'][len(media.devicename)+6:].replace(':', '/')
The part "t['url']" seemed to be offending. I've wrote a little bit more debug output
about "t" and changed the coding to
for t in data.tracks:
if t and t[0]['url']:
file = t[0]['url'][len(media.devicename)+6:].replace(':', '/')
...to make it work. But afterwards, I have inserted another disk and the rom_drives.py
crashed again. I changed the coding back and it worked again. I have not (yet) created
any coding that worked in both cases. Perhaps this is a known issue? Otherwise, I will
investigate this further.
2.
Sometimes, it seems that mplayer is not really running in slave mode. When playing
from CD/DVD, I had no sound at all. Trying to hit "+" or "-" on my keyboard set some
sound delay. I wanted to move the sound in another direction...
At the same time, I have copied some 30GB of data over the network to the freevo box,
perhaps this has something to do with the problem...
Next steps, I would like to perform...
1. Get rid of the frame buffer driver in my kernel. When starting my box, the frame
buffer driver gets loaded. This is not necessary any more and it seems to disturb the
rest of the system sometimes. It creates some debug output each time the graphics mode
is changed...
2. Start directly into freevo. I did this with framebuffer mode with some changes of
the inittab. I am not really sure yet how I can start X and logon user freevo
automatically at startup time.
Kind regards,
Thorsten
> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
> Gesendet: Montag, 12. Januar 2004 18:38
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: [Freevo-users] Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P...
>
> Hi,
> I am currently setting up a freevo box on a MSI Hermes 651P. I would like
> to share my experiences, problems and solutions I found out. Perhaps
> someone is interested...
> Regards,
> Thorsten
>
>
>
> 1. The idea
> ===========
>
> Last year, I began to digtize some old videotapes. I also began to use my
> computer as a video recorder and I also collected some shows in divx
> format. I did this with Windows XP on a relatively loud box...
> I found out that Windows did not let me do exactly the things I wanted to,
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