from memory..
you will need to export USER=root before stating freevo.
and there was is very good help on autosarting freevo in the wiki.
Mick
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 01:12, Pferdekaemper, Thorsten wrote:
> 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
>
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>
> > -----UrsprÃngliche 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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