freevo is great, I'm playing around with it when I find the time, since the 1.3.x versions, congratulations to the developers!
I'm planning to build a freevo on gentoo based htpc, with no XFree86 atr all on that box, it must run only connected to the TV in the end.
I'm using version 1.4.1 with directfb 0.9.20 (and, sorry, I forgot the SDL version I'm using, 'cause I'm at work right know, will post that too if it matters) compiled with multi-application support, everything compiled from gentoo ebuilds and my Matrox G400 DH gives me a brilliant image on TV. So far, I'm using mplayer for movies, DVDs and audio (unfortunately Xine does not support directfb 0.9.20, I pray that will change soon), and the ivtv-plugin for viewing TV on my PVR250 (didn't manage to setup recording yet, but I know it's working, I cand "cat /dev/video0 > recorded_file.mpg").
Now I've got 2 major problems (beside recording, which I will address after I manage the TV-listings stuff):
1. Every time freevo starts the ivtv-viewer, or mplayer, the screen horribly flickers on my TV until freevo releases the directfb display and the other application comes in, and the same on going back. I still have my monitor connected on the first head of the Matrox card ( right now the box is still a desktop) and the same strange flickering is happening on the monitor console during these switches. Now, I have compiled directfb for multi-application support (enabled fusion stuff in the kernel). Is it possible to configure freevo not to leave the display when starting the other applications and thus avoid that flickering? I mean, it's meant to be a htpc box, I think no one would buy a DVD player or a set top box if it would flicker like that and all the time set the same resolution (720x576, PAL) over and over again during operation.
2. I've set up my TV_CHANNELS whith IDs taken from the /tmp/TV.xml which I download with the tv-today script for german listings (I think nextvepg is out of question on an ivtv card), and xmlTV is not working anyway), and I can start the ivtv viewer plugin on the highligted channel from the "View TV" list in freevo (I kept the cable frequencies from my old bttv card, and they work). The EPG list shows the correct "display-names" of the channels, but all of them just show "This channel has no data loaded". And as someone posted in another thread, very strange, below the list, at the left side, a strange date "1-Jan 0:00 - 4:41" which makes me assume that freevo didn't parse the TV.xml file at all... I even "sanitized" the TV.xml through tv_sort, but with the same result. What am I doing wrong with the EPG stuff?
Please tell me what other information I should provide...
Thanx in advance, Lucian
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