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The following page has been changed by 194.7.114.2: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/TipsAndTricks The comment on the change is: All tips moved to the new wiki ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -1,75 +1 @@ -= Tips and Tricks = - -Freevo's interface is straight forward, but sometimes features are more in how you use what you have than adding new options. -Moreover this is a good place to present helpfull scripts and other tricks, more or less belonging to freevo. -[[BR]][[BR]] - -See also in the new wiki: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/TipsAndTricks - - -== Get Daily Cartoons on your Freevo == -(By Tom Van den Bon) - -1. Create your own cartoons folder: - - mkdir /pictures/cartoons - -2. Edit your local_conf.py to point to your picture folder: - - DIR_IMAGES = [ ('Cartoons', '/pictures/cartoons'), ... ] - -3. After you have installed dailystrips use dailystrips -list to get a list of all available cartoons. - -4. Create a script called getcartoons containing the following: - - #!/bin/sh - - # get my fav cartoons - - dailystrips --local -stripdir -save -basedir /pictures/cartoons dilbert garfield thefifthwave - -5. Add it to your cron jobs. Depending on your distro either add a link to it in your cron.daily or add a line like this to your crontab: - - 0 4 * * * /usr/local/bin/getcartoons - -Dailystrips will put all the cartoons in their own respective directory and you can navigate it via the freevo -interface. - -== 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. +Moved to the new wiki : http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/TipsAndTricks ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Freevo-wikilog mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-wikilog
