Hans-Jürgen Ficker wrote:
> Hi, *!
>
> Finally, I'm back at using freevo!
Hi, welcome back. And you are using current svn, that's great. Since I
know you can code, I only need to find something to do for you now :)
> I think, I found a bug in tvserver/src/conflict.py, and fixxed it. It
> caused a
Hans-Jürgen Ficker wrote:
> Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hans-Jürgen Ficker wrote:
>>> Hi, *!
>>>
>>> Finally, I'm back at using freevo!
>>
>> Hi, welcome back. And you are using current svn, that's great. Since I
&g
Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to install freevo2. I've checked out the kaa and freevo
> modules but when I go to install kaa with
>
> python setup.py install --prefix=~/freevo2
>
> I get -;
>
> [setup] Entering kaa submodule base
> Building kaa shm module (no system shm module
Rob Shortt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> shane wrote:
>> I was not sure if thier is a standard way to read varibles in the
>> local config. For my plugin I used the following method. Is thier a
>> better way to do this?
>
> I can't recall if you can do this in 1.5 but in 2.0/CVS you can do
> something like this
Hi
Duncan Webb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I don't know if anybody is interested but one of my goals in using
> freevo was to be able to record the TV with teletext subtitles. At the
> moment none of the main players support subtitles from teletext so
> I've written this program to extract the subtitles
Hi
Duncan Webb wrote:
> One of my todo's is to add support for bttv cards but the next step
> is to rewrite the ivtv record plug-in so that it used vbi2srt and so
> can generate the subtitles as it records. This should be easy as
> when the input is a video device (/dev/video0) then a mpeg file an
shane wrote:
> Is most of the developer documentation just scattered around in the
> mailing lists and the wiki? I would really like to read and understand
> the API, in particular for writing good plugins.
I know, our doc sucks. I hope Freevo 2.0 will have a better doc.
> for example, I used thi
Rob Shortt wrote:
> Author: rshortt
> Date: Sun Dec 18 19:17:43 2005
> New Revision: 988
>
> Modified:
>trunk/epg/src/db_base.py
>
> Log:
> Make all queries unicode. This might be overkill, I don't know. Doing this
> will
> ensure only unicode data goes into the DB.
Overkill does not matter
Hi,
we will need a better config module for Freevo. The current one with
the python file and local_conf.py is a very bad idea. I started a new
config file format using ini style config files, but before I rewrite
stuff again, I want to summarize a list of features we need. And maybe
it won't be th
Rob Shortt wrote:
> Author: rshortt
> Date: Mon Dec 19 18:20:05 2005
> New Revision: 996
>
> Modified:
>trunk/epg/src/guide.py
>
> Log:
> Normalize some variables earlier and make them Unicode to eliminate errors.
>
>
> Modified: trunk/epg/src/guide.py
>
Cyril wrote:
> Have you checked python's built-in ConfigFileParser ?
> I've been using on my projects, and it works pretty well
> (http://abd.sf.net/ if you want to see it in action)
It does not meet most of my requirenments. It strips comments on
writing, can't check values based on types, etc.
Duncan Webb wrote:
> Dirk Meyer wrote:
>
>>Cyril wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Have you checked python's built-in ConfigFileParser ?
>>>I've been using on my projects, and it works pretty well
>>>(http://abd.sf.net/ if you want to see it in actio
Emmanuel Sale wrote:
> I am just wondering, is there a way to use or activate kaa xine by using the
> SVN freevo instead of the regular xine.py from freevo ?
Not yet, kaa.player and kaa.canvas are still under development and I
will wait until every needed feature is implemented before activating
i
Rob Shortt wrote:
> Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi, sorry for the late reply. :)
No problem, I did not had time to code the last days anyway.
>> we will need a better config module for Freevo. The current one with
>> the python file and local_conf.py is a ver
Rob Shortt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking at the Freevo 2.0 status and wondering what I could do
> to help move things along. This past week I got IVTV recording and
> watching working again (and also a URL record feature).
>
> I know we're planning on moving to epg2 in kaa WIP dir, with a
> c
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 19:12 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi. I should probably get my ass in gear and reply, lest I lose my
> voice. :)
Yes, IIRC you wanted to start this thread :)
> Firstly, I'd like to see most of the config suppo
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> For those who want to try the canvas movie stuff, you'll need xine-lib
> 1.1.1 or cvs, and if you want to use MPlayer as well, you'll need to
> patch MPlayer with the patch in kaa/player/patches.
Maybe you should try again to get the patches into mplayer?
> This canvas
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> I was originally going to type a big long email update, but I figured
> the best use of that time would be spent writing some manner of
> documentation. So I've done that, and you can see my working copy here:
>
>http://sault.org/mebox/canvas/
Nice! Very nice! :)
Ma
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>> (Propostion for a gift : a release a 2.0beta with kaa :)
>
> That would really be nice, and it was dischi's crackpipe dream back in
> August.
It was my dream in August 2004 (!!!)
But creating kaa with it's features takes more time and if we are
rewriting Freevo, we s
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:04 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Maybe you could move that to the Wiki as canvas doc? OK, first some
>> comments on your mail and after that some on the doc.
>
> I don't really want to recode all that to use wiki's syn
OK, first draft writting in 1 hour is in svn in kaa.base.config
Limitation:
o string/unicode checking conversion is missing
o it only suppots basic types like int, str, unicode, etc. I'm not
sure how to add more complex stuff
o comments are deleted on write, only the variable comments from the
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 19:08 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> > I don't really want to recode all that to use wiki's syntax. Can we put
>> > it somewhere on the site and just link to it from the wiki?
>>
>> OK, maybe someone e
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 21:30 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> o it only suppots basic types like int, str, unicode, etc. I'm not
>> sure how to add more complex stuff
>
> I find the schema definition in your example very difficult to read, and
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> I have committed an example to kaa/canvas/test/animation. It implements
> a menu similar to what you see here:
>
>http://sault.org/mebox/images/mainmenu.png
>
> When you move the arrow keys, the menu selector animates to the new
> position, and gives a little bounce b
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 16:17 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> ... it don't think this is cleaner. Defining many variables would be
>> ugly with that, too.
>
> Fair enough.
>
>> It could be possible to write my schema in a more cleaner way:
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> Someone wandered into #freevo earlier today and we were discussing some
> theme ideas, and I suggested he posted here about what kind of support
> he would need from the canvas in order to do the kind of various visual
> effects he had in mind.
I'm thinking about the curr
Justin Wetherell wrote:
> Will kaa.canvas be used as the menu engine for Freevo or just be used as a
> way to layer displays on top of mplayer/xine?
The first option.
> If the first option is the one used in Freevo, I could see using the
> canvas.xml a real powerful feature. If the menu system f
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:26 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> ... I see the problem here. Maybe we could find a better name, very
>> unlikly to be used like add_monitor. Or we make config stuff upper
>> case. So config.MONITOR is the variable and config.mo
Justin Wetherell wrote:
> Does mplayer have to be patched when DirectFB is used with Freevo
> 2.0?
I don't know, I don't use dfb. But we are rewriting the whole canvas
stuff and I hope to get better dfb support while doing it.
Dischi
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Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:06 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Maybe put svg support to kaa.imlib2? Yes, I know it has nothing to do
>> with imlib2, but kaa.imlib2 is our image lib and kaa.thumb is based on
>> that. So if you add svg support to kaa.imlib2,
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:41 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Same with Freevo. For text blocks I have some special handling in
>> Freevo. You define width and height and Freevo does the line
>> breaking. If the text is too long, Freevo adds '...'
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:14 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> > The user's order (of an existing config file) should override the
>> > order in the schema.
>>
>> I don't want to do that, this would make stuff very complicated. You
>
Justin Wetherell wrote:
> Is there any reason why mplayer with DirectFB wouldn't work when launched
> from Freevo2.0 but would work when launched from 1.5? I know you don't use
> dfb, so you can just ignore me. :-)
So I ignore that question :)
But we are working on better dfb support using kaa.ca
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>> I can't help it, but this is ugly.
>
> I don't like the tuple or dict styles either.
>
>> Maybe we can add some helper classes:
>>
>> | config = Group([
>> | Var(name='foo', type=int, descr='some text', default=5),
>> | Var(name='bar', type=unicode,
>> | d
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> Of course, ultimately Freevo 2.0 won't be using bmovl. It probably
> makes sense to just remove bmovl now. Dischi?
Until I switche to kaa.canvas, bmovl will be in Freevo to have at
least some osd.
Dischi
--
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Justin Wetherell wrote:
> I guess i'll just add plugin.remove('video.bmovl') and play around with my
> analog card some more.
bmovl is no plugin anymore, but you can disable software scaling, this
should prevert bmovl from starting.
Dischi
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The idea that a human being
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:37 -0500, Justin Wetherell wrote:
>> Well, I found out why Mplayer works in 1.5.4 but not in 2.0. Freevo2.0
>> adds a bmovl command line parameter which screws up the screen.
>
> bmovl? Aacck. My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
Is you no stuff in
Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:37 -0500, Justin Wetherell wrote:
>>> Well, I found out why Mplayer works in 1.5.4 but not in 2.0. Freevo2.0
>>> adds a bmovl command line parameter which screws up the screen.
>>
>> b
Karl Lattimer wrote:
> I've got so many ideas for making the freevo menus create an impact
> with animation, rotation and flipping would improve things a little
> but i doubt its that important.
>
>* size
>* move
>* color
>* sequence
>* throb
You should shar
Duncan Webb wrote:
> What's the configuration required for the tvserver, using an ivtv card?
Sorry, I only know about dvb
> Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place for the documentation. The Wiki
> seems to be horribly out of date.
Yes, way to old.
Dischi
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Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> Unfortunately there are still plenty of limitations, mainly limited by
> evas itself. We can't rotate arbitrarily, and we can't scale text
> objects. This means that certain MCE-style effects are still
> impossible. Hopefully improvements will happen to evas.
Freevo s
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:29 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Freevo should not look at MCE for effects. Features are still the
>> important part.
>
> Features are still important, but we should look at all sorts of
> interfaces to get ideas and implem
Horst Eyermann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on my freevo2 installation I need to be connected to the internet when
> starting freevo2 (current version from svn).
>
> As I did not manage yet to work out what happens, I thought you might be
> able to help. (This did not happen with freevo 1.5 by the way):
Yo
Duncan Webb wrote:
> Justin Wetherell wrote:
>
>> You need to have freevo-tvdev recognize your TV card before you even
>> start to play around with freevo-tvserver.
>
> Okay, I think I'm being very stupid but I can't figure this out.
> # freevo-tvdev list
> gives two devices ivtv0 and tv0
> both ar
Justin Wetherell wrote:
> I do this before starting Freevo 2.0: "route add 224.255.222.240 lo"
Yes
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Hi,
I changed the config file stuff for tvdev. When you update Freevo from
svn make sure you delete ~/.freevo/tvdev-* and /etc/freevo/tvdev*
Dischi
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Rob Shortt wrote:
> Duncan Webb wrote:
>> Happy New Year to you all
>
> Happy new year. :)
>
>> I've been looking at the code and it seems to say that channels.conf has
>> four fields and in ignores comments starting with a #
>> But I'm still trying to figure out what these fields should contain.
Justin Wetherell wrote:
> Im getting a error trying to run tvdev:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/freevo/bin# ./freevo-tvdev scan tv0
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./freevo-tvdev", line 102, in ?
> tvcards.detect(cfgfile)
> NameError: name 'tvcards' is not defined
Oops, I
Duncan Webb wrote:
> But when I press OK on one of the channels in the tv menu the log main-0:
> INFO [tv] xine.py 135: recordserver found
> INFO [record] tvserver.py 137: recordserver found
> ERROR xine(159): FIXME: no server found
>
> I've tried adding the route 224.255.222.240 to the
Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Duncan Webb wrote:
>> But when I press OK on one of the channels in the tv menu the log main-0:
>> INFO [tv] xine.py 135: recordserver found
>> INFO [record] tvserver.py 137: recordserver found
>> ERROR xine(159): FIXME: no server found
Duncan Webb wrote:
> But now from the tvserver I'm seeing this message:
> ERROR mbus_wrapper(127): Error in RPC handling
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/ipc/mbus_wrapper.py", line
> 113, in __call__
> result = super(RPC, self).__call__(*args)
Duncan Webb wrote:
> Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> I guess we should move to the vdr channels.conf in the future to have
>> one channels.conf for dvb and analog.
>>
>>
> Still figuring this out, but there is certainly more information that
> is associated with
Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>
>> I see your example something more like:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> def select_menu_item(menu, item):
>> menu.animate(right = 0, duration = 0.3)
>> menu.animate(opacity = 0, duration = 0.3,
>> end_callback = Callback(
Hi,
again a config file change. Please delete webserver.conf and
tvserver.conf in /etc/freevo and ~/.freevo since they now use
kaa.config.
Dischi
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Threads are for people who can't program state machines."
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Duncan Webb wrote:
>>The mapping in tvserver.conf
>>
>>
> So the tvserver.conf under the section [epg mapping] contains the
> mappings, remains empty after starting the tvserver and freevo2.
>
> What is the syntax to manually add the mappings?
Please make a fresh check out, delete the config fil
Duncan Webb wrote:
> I've tried this but the [epg mapping] section is still empty. Would
> you post a few example lines of this section then I may be able figure
> out what I'm doing wrong. My kaa.epg.channels=[] indicates the
> problem.
Please update svn again and you will find a README in tvdev
Duncan Webb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Made some progress, thanks for the READMEs.
Great.
> Now the program bombs out looking for config.LIVETV_URL on the line:
> url = 'udp://%s:%s' % (config.LIVETV_URL, channel.port)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/usr/local/freevo2/lib/python2.3/si
Duncan Webb wrote:
> Now got two other errors:
> ERROR mbus_wrapper(181): RPC Return handling home-theatre.watch.start.return([1, u'udp://224.224.224.10:6002'])>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/usr/local/freevo2/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/ipc/mbus_wrapper.py",
> line
Karl Lattimer wrote:
> OK, we have a large amount of crossover with HTML/DOM in what we're
> thinking of, maybe this is something that can be improved upon and
> implemented properly AFTER 2.0 is released.
Maybe. I guess I will start from the beginning again. First rewrite
all the gui stuff and ha
Hi,
I better start a new thread for this and don't put it below the
animation thread. The current situation is that I don't think it will
be possible to define the whole gui in xml. The animations and how to
handle them is the main problem. How could I define that the selection
bar moves and not t
Karl Lattimer wrote:
>> For beginners, let us start with the screen itself. We have some
>> resolution we don't care about. It should not matter if we use 720x480
>> for NTSC or 720x576 for PAL, _both_ is 4:3 on your tv, no matter what
>> the resolution is. Or even worse, 4:3 is the resolution minu
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>> |
>>
>> Everything in this container is visible and _this_ is 4:3, independed
>> of the real resolution left. So when defining
>
> But this is no longer 4:3. Consider a margin (overscan) of 10 pixels.
> (640-20)/(480-20) = 1.347.
Yes and no. Yes, the width x height
Karl Lattimer wrote:
>> > or possibly ing conditions like so
>> >
>> >
>> > ...
>> >
>> >