Duncan Webb wrote: > [snip] > > Have you installed cElementTree? This is quicker than the standard Python > ElementTree and may speed up the processing of TV XML data. Ahh, didn't know about that, will also try and give that a shot this weekend. Working on the system is hard because its our main TV and I don't want to miss recordings :) I'm also still on 1.6, waiting for the 1.7 stream to settle down a bit before upgrading. If it does work I will try and add something to the wiki about it as this would be a major help on the usability of the system.
> Yes you can, you can't play a stream backwards (MPlayer and xine > limitation), but you can jump back in small chunks see: > http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/FAQ#head-1a3f1df0e6b485720982726aa7969b6b0461d2fe > Its not really "rewind" though is it? its very frustrating if you miss something to have to skip back 5 minutes, then fast forward through it all to get to the bit you actually wanted to watch. I see this sort of thing as a big issue with usability and uptake of something like freevo by normal users. I realise its an mplayer and xine limitation, just very frustrating ;) Is this something that might change with Freevo 2.0? i.e. if freevo takes control of the stream that is being fed to the player? >>> * No program info available while viewing a recorded TV program, things >>> like time remaining, name and summary of the program. >>> >>> >> Because of the architecture of freevo this won't be available outside of >> the 2 branch. >> > > You can do this too, at least as far as the time elapsed and remaining is > concerned by sending the 'd' event to mplayer. The other two may be > possible with the video.bmovl plug-in but I'm not sure what state this > plug-in is in. > Unfortunately I need to use xine as its the only player that I can get to work and do hardware accelerated playback on my via EPIA system. I have tried very hard to get a working mplayer but no luck, given the low CPU power I need all the help I can get, my current system I can play video using only 10% CPU. Maybe I need to have another shot at mplayer. >>> * Application switching to watch video is very slow, I use xine and it >>> takes ages to start playing video and to get back to the freevo >>> interface afterwards >>> >>> >> This again seems a bit strange to me. Have you tried to debug it? Enable >> debugging in your local_conf and watch the logs and output with top etc. >> to try figure out what's happening. >> > > I think that you will find this is a feature of xine :) mplayer loads a > lot faster. You can confirm this with running the command from the command > line. > > prelink may help speed up the loading time of all applications. > As above, using xine is my only choice atm. Also for DVD playback I thought that mplayer doesn't handle menu's properly? > >>> * Picture viewer, with "slide show" time set, I cannot pause the >>> playback to look at one photo for longer >>> >>> >> Feature request on the tracker. >> > > Have you tried the pause button? IIRC you can pause and resume the image > viewer. > I thought I had tried that... will try again, that could well be "user error"! > [snip] > > >>> * From recorded show, would be really nice to have "add to favorites", I >>> sometimes record a program to discover I really like it and want to >>> record the rest of the series, would be ace to have a menu option to do >>> this. >>> >>> >> Again add a feature request to the tracker :) >> > > There is really not enough information in the fxd file of a recorded show > to do this at the moment. > Shame really, would be a very nice feature, I guess it makes the implementation harder as it requires extra info to be put in the fxd file, as well as adding the ability to schedule a recording. Thank you all for your feedback, I will try this all out and report back :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
