Hi,
> you will need to export USER=root before stating freevo.
Why? When working with X, it does not seem that I need spacial user rights or
something similar. I just had to chmod the /tmp/freevo directory to allow freevo to
write there.
>
> and there was is very good help on autosarting freevo in the wiki.
Yes, I thought so.
Regards,
Thorsten
> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Mick
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2004 01:40
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: AW: [Freevo-users] Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes
> 651P...
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----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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