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The following page has been changed by 203.14.13.6: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DocumentationPage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ == Configuration == === General Setup === - +==== 1.4.x ==== Default Freevo configuration parameters are stored in the file freevo_config.py. DO NOT EDIT freevo_config.py!!!! Make sure you have a /etc/freevo/freevo.conf file. If it is missing, go to the freevo directory and generate a new freevo.conf using: @@ -92,6 +92,71 @@ * Check path for mencoder in VCR command Directories that don't start with a / are relative to the directory that freevo was started from. + +==== 1.5.x ==== + +Mostly the same.. But the config options have changed. + +DIR_MOVIES is now VIDEO_ITEMS etc. All these optoins are fairly well documented in local_conf.py.example which should be located in /etc/freevo after follwing one of the above install methods. Please note down if its not there and update this page with where yoy find it. + +Just copy the example file to /etc/freevo/local_conf.py and edit it with you fav. editor.' + +Also, check out the freevo addons page, there are some cool plugins around (might be a good time to plug cd_burn and keep_dir_clean as i helped write them) + +For a list of plugins execute: +{{{freevo plugins -l}}} + +Then for more info on each one do: +{{{freevo plugins -i name}}} + +===== Mounting USB devices ===== + +There is some confusion on its current state. +Check the plugins usb and usbstorage. + +*note, you will need to set your OWN automount. I recoment hotplug for now. freevo 1.5 no longer mounts the device that usbstorage specifies, instead you need to have an automounter mount it and usbstorage should update the menu with the dir name. + +Yes, this is the 2.4 kernel way of doing things, hopefully for the next major release freevo will just sense a block device and mount it. + +===== Mounting remote fs's ===== + +A relative simple way to automount remote file systems is to use autofs. After install +use the following config files. +{{{ +cat /etc/autofs/auto.master +# $Id: auto.master,v 1.1 2000/08/08 17:53:33 achim Exp $ +# Sample auto.master file # Format of this file: +# mountpoint map options +# For details of the format look at autofs(8). +/smbnet /etc/autofs/auto.smbnet --timeout=30 + +cat /etc/autofs/auto.smbnet +# $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 2002/10/27 05:21:15 bcowan Exp $ +# This is an automounter map and it has the following format +# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location +# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage +#boot -fstype=ext2 :/dev/hda1 +#cd -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/cdrom +#floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0 +storage -fstype=smbfs,users,rw,username=someuser,password=somepass ://storage/Storage +camera -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sda1 +}}} + +An entry /smbnet should show up in / dir when autofs is started from init.d. To make sure autofs is started correctly +The output of 'ps ax | grep autofs' should be something like +{{{ +5410 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 30 /smbnet file /etc/autofs/auto.smbnet +}}} + +cd to /smbnet/storage and it should automagicly mount the filesystem + +After this edit local.conf.py and add the following in the VIDEO_ITEMS section or another ITEMS section if thats on your share. +{{{ +VIDEO_ITEMS = [ ('Storage movies','storage:/smbnet/storage')] +}}} + +Notice the hostname xp or storage before the path, it tries to ping the hostname and when succesfull the entry shows up in the menu, if not succesfull it doesn't show up and the filesystem isn't mounted. + === TV setup === ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-wikilog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-wikilog
