No problem :) I think I recall that vlc doesn't have a 'slave' mode as such like xine or mplayer and can't be controlled with lirc. Maybe that has changed or there's another way to work around it at this stage. I guess those using it must not be using a remote to control it?
John Dan Schmidt wrote: > I'm sorry, I completely forgot to thank you for your response. > > John Molohan wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> Are you trying the play with alternative player while you're in the TV >> menu? If so I've seen this and it seems to be a bug, it doesn't behave >> as expected but I haven't got around to looking at it and filing a bug >> report, maybe you can? >> >> If you go into the 'watch a video' menu and access your recorded show >> through that then the 'play with alternate player' choice you make >> should work. Check the log files to confirm which player freevo is calling. >> >> John >> >> Dan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> Thank you for your explanation of the edl file! >>> >>> It appears the problem is with Freevo. The edl file is created >>> correctly by the commserver, and works as expected on command line. >>> However, when I select "Play with Alternative Player" and select >>> "Mplayer," it ignores the edl file. >>> >>> Fabrizio Ferraro wrote: >>> >>>> Dan Schmidt wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I set the following, but I get "2010-03-19 15:42:37,271 INFO >>>>> encodingclient.py (100): encoding server is down" and removing >>>>> recordings doesn't seem to work. The commserver it's self seems to >>>>> scan the video for black, but it doesn't encode. Thanks much for your >>>>> reply! >>>>> >>>>> # ====================================================================== >>>>> # Freevo builtin encoding server settings: >>>>> # ====================================================================== >>>>> ENCODINGSERVER_UID = 0 >>>>> ENCODINGSERVER_GID = 0 >>>>> # >>>>> ENCODINGSERVER_IP = 'localhost' >>>>> ENCODINGSERVER_PORT = 18002 >>>>> ENCODINGSERVER_SECRET = 'secret2' >>>>> # If the current directory is not writeable as the user then set >>>>> # ENCODINGSERVER_SAVEDIR to os.path.join(FREEVO_CACHEDIR, 'encodings') >>>>> ENCODINGSERVER_SAVEDIR = '.' >>>>> >>>>> # ====================================================================== >>>>> # Freevo builtin commdetect server settings: >>>>> # ====================================================================== >>>>> COMMDETECTSERVER_UID = 0 >>>>> COMMDETECTSERVER_GID = 0 >>>>> # >>>>> COMMDETECTSERVER_IP = 'localhost' >>>>> COMMDETECTSERVER_PORT = 6667 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> The encoding server is not needed by the commdetect server. >>>> You are right, the commdetect server just scan the video for black >>>> frames and create an EDL file which is used by mplayer to skip specific >>>> parts of the video. Check the mplayer documentation for more infos on >>>> EDL files. >>>> I don't know if it works with xine too. >>>> >>>> Anyway, as any other "server" helper scripts, you have to run the >>>> commdetect server before you launch the main freevo application, by >>>> issuing the following command: >>>> >>>> freevo commdetectserver --daemon >>>> >>>> the same applies to the encoding server, if you need it: >>>> >>>> freevo encodingserver --daemon >>>> >>>> You can get a list of the helper script available, running: >>>> >>>> freevo --help >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> izio >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >>>> Try the new software tools for yourself. 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