Dan Schmidt wrote: > Eye candy is good, but I may argue that what Freevo really needs is > good documentation. I would gladly spruce up the wiki, but I think my > wife will kill me if she catches me working on "that freevo thing" > anymore. At the risk of starting a Myth/Freevo debate, what Freevo > has over Myth (from what I see and what I'm told) is that it easier to > setup, and it's more stable. But, there's Myth documentation > everywhere. If Freevo can prove it's quicker/easier to setup than > Myth, perhaps we could get more developers to spell the burnt out ones. And I'm sure they'd appreciate it :) I know the feeling when it comes to dedicating time to "that freevo thing"... If you're relatively new to freevo you might still be able to help. Can you post under a new subject what you think is lacking from the wiki, where is comes up short and what would really help a new person in getting up and running? MythTV certainly do seem to have a great wiki, it would be a big help if we could raise the level of ours to match. > > Your mplayer args idea is good: > > MPLAYER_ARGS['video'] = "-cache 5000 -user-agent QuickTime/7.5" > > Can fix appletrailers. (recognizes it as 'video' instead of 'mov', > don't know why) Don't use a ' as that can break it. Excellent. Does that break anything else that you've seen? If not and you can test for a while it might be an idea to propose it as a bug fix. It could be as simple as a patch to local_conf.py that suggests people enabling the appletrailers plugin use this if it doesn't make sense to have it as a default. Either way it would certainly be useful to have in the wiki. > > My appologies, Youtube breaking had NOTHING TO DO with the user > agent,, but rather bad timing. Ubuntu 9.10 uses an old youtube-dl. > Downloading a new one at http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/ > seems to fix it. Cool.
John > > John Molohan wrote: >> On 13/03/2010 12:48, Dan Schmidt wrote: >>> Pierre Ossman? Can't seem find his email and it appears that he >>> hasn't posted in years. As for the developers, things don't look so >>> good on freevo-devel. >> There are still devels lurking, they just don't have much spare time >> at the moment, I guess that's partly a reflection of the current >> climate. What's really needed is a great skin designer more than >> anything. Henne's new osd for freevo 1.x makes it possible to have a >> great looking interface which freevo is currently lacking (other >> media centres have already moved ahead in that area) to build on it's >> strong underlying core. Having tested xbmc recently I'd be half >> temped to ask who ever designed their skin/interface if they'd be >> interested in working on freevo if the community could put up a bounty. >> >> Did you try adding a 'mov' entry to the MPLAYER_ARGS setting in >> local_conf? That's assuming it's possible to pass the user agent on >> the command line. >> >> John >>> >>> John Molohan wrote: >>>> Dan Schmidt wrote: >>>> >>>>> Adding: >>>>> user-agent=QuickTime/7.5 >>>>> >>>>> to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf made the appletrailer plugin work again. >>>>> However, it very effectively breaks the youtube plugin. >>>>> >>>>> I took a look at the code, but got confused very quickly. (I am but a >>>>> humble network engineer) Class VideoItem has a mplayer_options, but >>>>> it's set from tvinfo[3] which is from show_name[0] from >>>>> config.VIDEO_SHOW_REGEXP_SPLIT(self.name)... it made my brain hurt. I >>>>> guess you could try to set it after init, but that seems to be a kluge. >>>>> I suppose I could look at it some more, but I still haven't had time to >>>>> update the wiki with the last information I found. >>>>> >>>>> Somebody out there probably knows exactly where to stick this, right off >>>>> the top of their head. However, developers seem to be scarce these >>>>> days. Adding -user-agent 'QuickTime/7.5' is all that is needed to fix >>>>> this. >>>>> >>>> Hi Dan, >>>> >>>> This is great to know. You could try email the plugin writer (email >>>> address should be listed in the source file) and see if they could do >>>> it? Otherwise hopefully one of the other contributors might look at it. >>>> >>>> In the mean time can you add a note in the wiki for others? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >>>> Try the new software tools for yourself. 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