Re: [Freevo-users] freevo with 2 channels? (HDHomeRun)

[John Molohan]

On 27/09/2011 01:13, Ross Boylan wrote:

I just go a SiliconDust HDHomeRun, and am wondering if freevo will work
well with it.

In particular, the box can provide two streams at once.  Is there a way
to record both?

Also, any tips or pointers on getting HDHomeRun and freevo working would
be great.  I saw some earlier posts from someone trying to set it up,
but it wasn't clear to me how successful that was.

I'm on Debian, running lenny (aka oldstable), which has freevo 1.8.1-3.
I can get 1.9.0-10.1 from unstable in a pinch, and that's the same
version in stable aka squeeze.

Thanks.
Ross Boylan

[Previous post was from a non-subscribed edress and didn't show up.]


I've mentioned in my reply to your other post that I don't know this 
plugin but does this wiki page help?


   
http://doc.freevo.org/ExternalTunerConfig#head-6cf388ccd64df7c836eef9d669a94fbee89af169


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Re: [Freevo-users] first steps

[John Molohan]

On 27/09/2011 02:26, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I've installed freevo 1.8.1-3 on Debian Lenny and am trying to set it up
> with HDHomeRun.  hdhomerun_config seems to work.
I'm afraid I don't have any experience with the hdhomerun plugin so 
can't help here but that's quite an old release. I'd suggest grabbing 
something more recent, either 1.9.0 or if you're comfortable with it 
check out the Freevo-rel-1.9 branch from SVN. It has a lot of bug fixes 
from 1.9.0 and is heading towards another beta release so should be 
reasonably stable. See http://freevo.sourceforge.net/download/freevo.php 
download details for both.
>
> I've customized with
> CONFIG_VERSION = 5.24
> plugin.remove('tv.mplayer')
> plugin.activate('tv.livepause')
> TV_VIDEO_GROUPS = [
>  VideoGroup(vdev='103289A9:0',
> group_type='hdhomerun',
> desc='Watching Video Group')]
> TV_CHANNELS = [('5.1 KPIX-DT', 'CBS', '5.1')]
>
> When I try to start I get
> $ freevo
> You are not part of the group 'freevo', you cannot exploit shared resources 
> (such as the cache). Your data will be saved in /home/ross/.freevo
> Error: VIDEO_SHOW_DATA_DIR not found
> ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added "('/media/cdrom0', '/dev/hda', 'CD-1')"
> WARNING: PyLirc not found, lirc remote control disabled!
> WARNING: PyLirc not found, lirc remote control disabled!
> failed to load plugin tv.livepause
> start 'freevo plugins -l' to get a list of plugins
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/plugin.py", line 557, in __load_plugin__
>  p = eval(object)()
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/tv/plugins/livepause/__init__.py", line 
> 148, in __init__
>  self.livepause = LivePauseController(path, size, players.get_player())
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/tv/plugins/livepause/__init__.py", line 
> 194, in __init__
>  self.buffer = ChunkBuffer(path, max_size * (1024*1024))
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/tv/plugins/livepause/chunk_buffer.py", 
> line 64, in __init__
>  self.buffer = RingBuffer(path, (size / RB_CHUNK_SIZE) * RB_CHUNK_SIZE)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/tv/plugins/livepause/ring_buffer.py", 
> line 55, in __init__
>  self.buffer_fd = open(path, 'w+b', 0)
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/freevo/livepause'
> Freevo 1.8.1 ready
> ERROR: could not open 
> http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=46652
> ERROR: could not open 
> http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projfiles.php?group_id=46652
> ERROR: could not open 
> http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projsummary.php?group_id=46652
>
> The last few errors were the result of attempting to get some freevo
> news.
>
> BTW, an excerpt from hdhomerun_config scan looks like this:
> PROGRAM 1: 9.1 KQED-HD
> PROGRAM 2: 9.2 KQEH-DT
> PROGRAM 3: 9.3 WORLD
> PROGRAM 8: 0 (control)
> PROGRAM 9: 0 (control)
> SCANNING: 56300 (us-bcast:29)
> LOCK: 8vsb (ss=94 snq=71 seq=100)
> TSID: 0x017B
> PROGRAM 1: 5.1 KPIX-DT
> SCANNING: 55700 (us-bcast:28)
> LOCK: 8vsb (ss=78 snq=55 seq=100)
> TSID: 0x0FE5
>
> Should I be using the TSID in my TV_CHANNELS specification?
>
> Any ideas?  For example, if I want to debug where the Errors are coming
> from, how do I do that?  I know python.
>
Check out the troubleshooting page, it should get you going in the right 
direction, http://doc.freevo.org/TroubleShooting. You might also find 
the developers checking the devel list a bit more often so if it's a bug 
or patch you might be better off using that list.

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Re: [Freevo-users] How should Freevo 2.0 look like?

[John Molohan]

On 18/09/2011 16:11, Dan Schmidt wrote:
> Apologies, I can't design either!  However, you could steal some ideas
> from Hulu or Boxee.  Boxee has a pretty interface, if not terribly
> usable, and Hulu has an easy interface, if not terribly pretty.
>
> Ease of installation is paramount - if it isn't easy, people won't use
> it, they'll instead try to install the a convoluted, sql based program
> called "MythTV" which has a much larger following.
I think that's a fair point and one where Freevo could potentially steal 
a march on others. If there was a lower barrier to entry to getting a 
Freevo based setup up and running we would attract a wider user base and 
hopefully in turn more developers.

I know there was some movement on this in the past and a very rough 
config editor was built into the web server but if someone could take up 
that challenge it would be a big plus.

You wouldn't need detailed knowledge of Freevo's code. Just enough 
python to parse and write the config file, maybe split it into multiple 
smaller configs each focusing on one area for e.g. TV config, audio, 
games etc. I'm sure the other developers would have some pointers on how 
best to approach this.

Any takers?

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Re: [Freevo-users] Openbrick freevo

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On 26/09/2011 21:36, tomloh...@gmail.com wrote:
> Le 26/09/2011 22:13, Evan Hisey a écrit :
>> Hey Thomas-
>
> Hi Evan
>>  I split this off the other thread to make it easier to track. I am
>> having some issues with just building openbrick, and The site
>> documentation is not really helping.
> What is your problem exactly ?
> But you should post to the openbricks' mailing list.
> I'm not an "expert". Others can help you too
>> What are the requirements to
>> build it? I am suspecting there is going to be a version issue with
>> building it on Centos 5.7 or Slackware 13.0.
> No specific requirement, just had the good packages from your distro
>
>> I like the idea and think
>> it would make a great promo tool for freevo.
> Agree with that
> :)
>> Evan
>>
>>
>>
> Tom
>
I would really, really love to see someone take on a live distro for 
Freevo. It's one of the more popular pages with visitors on 
www.freevo.org, there's obviously interest there from those who want an 
easy way to try it out. With the promise of new beta releases of Freevo 
1 and 2 now would be a great time to get something in place.

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Re: [Freevo-users] youtube-dl

[John Molohan]

On 02/09/2011 16:10, Adam Charrett wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, tomloh...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Youtube_dl provided by freevo r11870 doesn't work
>>
>> after downloading from http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/download.html
>> It works
>> youtube-dl -v
>> 2011.08.04
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
> Thanks for the report, I'd forgotten it was even included in the repo. I 
> think this should probably be deleted and made an external dependency on 
> Freevo otherwise its likely to be always out of date
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
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Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo 2.0

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On 18/08/2011 08:00, Thomas Genty wrote:

Le 17/08/2011 05:33, Dan Schmidt a écrit :

Truly would be a shame to see Freevo die.  I know I've said a couple
times before, but I really will get around to helping on the Wiki where
I can.  As I have said before, if Freevo were distributed as a live
distro that was easier to install (Maybe like piren was aiming to
be?), and didn't have to deal with lirc bugs (Ubuntu), I think more
people would use it.
I think this is true and unfortunately the two previous attempts 
(including piren) have not been kept up to date.



You can look at openbricks.org
There is already a package with freevo 1.9.0 , dvbstreamer
and a (very) small script to configure it.
I can provide a config file to build it.
You can have a small live usb with freevo and it's easy to test

Cheers,

T.G

Are you active in the openbricks community? I see from the post below 
they added support for XBMC and MythTV back in December, it would be 
great if you could get Freevo added.


   
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Re: [Freevo-users] don't work youtube plugin

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On 28/02/2011 21:48, sheevaplug...@arcor.de wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I read the last post from Dan (2011-01-21 00:29).
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2699
>
> "But plugin don't work. I see list of results videos, but if I click on video 
> I see string "Connection to server" and it's all. How to enable debug for 
> detect error?"
>
> I have the same problem. I see the string "Connection to server" and that's 
> all.
>
> Has anybody a solution?
>
> Bye
> Paul
>
>
>
> here my youtube section:
>
> plugin.activate('video.youtube')
> YOUTUBE_DIR = "/home/freevo/.freevo/tmp/"
> YOUTUBE_DL = "/usr/bin/youtube-dl"
> YOUTUBE_FORMAT = '34'
> YOUTUBE_VIDEOS = [
> ("tmp", "tmp"),
> ]
>
> Freevo is runing in version 1.9.0 on ARCHLINUX.
I'm pretty sure the youtube plugin was broken in 1.9.0. Try out a copy 
of the latest beta 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freevo/files/Freevo%20releases/1.9.2b1/freevo-1.9.2b1.tar.bz2/download
 
or try svn. You might need to update kaa too for that.

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Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] RFC, patch to add html5 and flash players

[John Molohan]

On 07/01/2011 14:57, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's an rfc patch which adds basic html5 and flash player support. It's
> modeled after the Video for Everybody page
> http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody. Even though that page
> indicates that fallback to flash should happen automatically if the browser
> doesn't support html5, my firefox fails to do that. To work around this I made
> the selection explicit to the user.
>
> The flashplayer needs to be configured with the full URL of the file to play. 
> I
> failed to find a good way to find that info in the code (nb. I run freewo
> behind a forwarding https->http proxy, so it would have to take some client
> side scripting to get at this info.) I solved this by adding a new config
> parameter:
>
> WEBSERVER_URLROOT = "https://WHATEVER.net";
>
> The code could do with some cleaning up if we want to add it, but right now it
> at least works as intended. Comments welcome. My python skills are close to
> nil, so improvements in that area are welcome too.
>
> An improvement I want to do is to use the right poster image for the movies. I
> guess that means either using the cover info from the fxd, or the thumbnail if
> available. Any pointer to code showing how to do that would be appreciated.
>
> A futher improvement is to use the right width and height info. How do I get 
> at
> that info? I guess I can get it from the file (using kaa.metadata, I guess),
> but I have a fair amount of fxd's which points at mp4 files on the net and I
> suspect there's support funtions in freevo for this already. Can an fxd host
> that info? (I could pre-populate the fxd's with that info out of band if need
> be).
>
>   Anders
Hi Anders,

This sounds great. Unfortunately at the moment I haven't even got a 
stable freevo box up let alone a devel box I could test it on. I would 
be a great addition to the upcoming release though, could you submit a 
feature request in the tracker [1] so that Adam doesn't miss this and we 
make sure it gets committed?

Thanks,

John

[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652&atid=446898

P.S. I've cross-posted this to the users list as I'm sure there'll be 
quite a few people there who'll be interested to see it.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Shell-fm Plugin

[John Molohan]

On 03/01/2011 23:00, Jim Duda wrote:
> I have attached a new plugin for LAST FM play.  This plugin uses the 
> shell-fm command line program to interface with the LAST FM servers.
>
> I have tested this plugin against the new 1.9.2beta1 release.
>
> I hope others find this useful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
Brilliant. Many thanks for that.  Would you mind submitting it to the 
tracker to make sure it's included in the next release and doesn't get 
forgotten on the list?

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652&atid=446898

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Re: [Freevo-users] Upgraded machine

[John Molohan]

On 04/01/2011 09:07, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:36:57 +1100
> Elizabeth Dodd  wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:17:19 +1100
>> Elizabeth Dodd  wrote:
>>
>>> I upgraded packages on my freevo box to Debian testing. I didn't
>>> upgrade the python or the freevo. From about then, with changes in
>>> hal and udev, I've had weird things happen with my drive space,
>>> like it filling at a fast rate.
>>> To make sure that the tv would record for the next show we were
>>> unplugging the tv stick and then plugging it back in
>>>
>>> Today I managed to get closer to the trouble, as one of the half
>>> hour tv shows which ran to 102GB turned out to have about 14 hours
>>> of SD video recorded, 1.6M frames.
>>> A bit of work with a video editor and I can have this show on the
>>> drive without filling the whole drive, but I'm not sure why the
>>> recordserver isn't shutting off the record. I did have logging
>>> enabled earlier, and it didn't help me sort out this trouble.
>>> I was making a new kernel because something hangs - and it might be
>>> the tv card driver.
>>>
>>>
>> getting somewhere
>> 1. check firmware for card is latest Y
>> 2. latest driver from v4l installed  Y
>> 3. analyse problem further
>> 4. freevo opens a shell which spawns mplayer to record (VCR_CMD)
>> 4a this shell exits but mplayer does not
>> 5 the mplayer update must have broken the system
>>
> so we had two problems
> a driver for the tv card was not good
> and the dash shell problem
> http://doc.freevo.org/FAQ#head-0bad19ecee9b4a9d8680e8102751c2112309432a
Interesting. Thanks for posting the update.

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Re: [Freevo-users] howto get resume playback as default action on video item play?

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On 21/11/2010 17:56, Paul Sijben wrote:
A little niggle is starting to annoy me enough to do something about 
it: how do I configure the order of video item actions in such a way 
that "resume playback" (when available) is the default action when I 
select a video item in the UI?


Is this possible or does it require hacking the code?

Paul

Hi Paul,

A recent patch from Adam has enabled that. You'll need to update to the 
latest 1.9 svn or wait for the upcoming release.


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[Freevo-users] Removal of skins from freevo-1, call for help for final default skin

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Hi,

With the upcoming final release of freevo-1.x I'm wondering whether it 
would be be a good idea to remove some of the skins. I think it's better 
to have a smaller selection of higher quality skins than a larger 
selection with some of the extras included of questionable worth. I've 
just had a look over those included and Atlantice, Bluestar, Crystal and 
Noia strike me as 4 that could be removed without offending anyone.

There is also great potential for a much improved UI with the 
(relatively) new OSD code. We badly need someone to step forward and 
really add some polish to what will be the final release before Adam and 
others move on to work on Freevo 2. A good looking Freevo 1 release will 
be used by a large number of people as freevo 2 is still some way off so 
this work would be important for attracting more users and in turn 
developers to help get momentum behind a freevo 2 release. If you think 
you might be able to help, either in coding or in graphic design please 
shout and maybe we can make the last release look as good as it functions.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Neo Geo support

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On 30/08/2010 09:30, Alan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to share my experience on adding support for Neo Geo games to
> Freevo 1.9 in case anybody is interested.
> I've found that the procedure a bit complicated, but the results are
> worth it.  The quality of the games is impressive.
>
> Here is what has to be done:
>
> 1. Install gngeo 0.7 from http://gngeo.berlios.de/
> If you want an assembler optimized build you should first install
> nasm, and then configure gngeo with:
> --enable-i386asm --enable-star --enable-raze
>
> 2. Download the BIOS rom files for neogeo.  This is the hard part,
> because there are so many versions, and not all of them work with all
> games.  The one I'm using allows me to run most games, but I'm still
> missing KoF, and other interesting games.  I found the BIOS rom files
> in a torrent website, its called neogeo.zip, and its a 2.1Mb file.
> If anybody can point me to where to find valid bios rom files for KoF
> I would appreciate it.
>
> 3. Configure gngeo for your freevo user.  You can copy a sample
> configuration file from the gngeo tarball, but you have to configure
> two important options:
> "rompath" should point to where you store your games rom files.  Game
> rom files must be kept inside their zip archives.
> "biospath" should point to where you store your bios rom files (this
> is missing in the sample configuration).  I keep my bios rom files in
> a separated directory from games, uncompressed.
>
> You might want to enable fullscreen and configure the joysticks as well.
>
> I'm using these gamepads:
> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/super-nes-nintendo-controller-usb,9809.html
>
> The website says they cost 2700 yen, but I only paid 1000 yen for each.
> With these gamepads I used this button configuration:
>
> p1joy 3,1,0,2,7,6,0,1,1,1
> p2joy 3,1,0,2,7,6,0,1,1,1
>
>
> 4. Configure Freevo for gngeo.  You have to add a new item to the
> GAMES_ITEMS configuration option.
> It should be possible to just use the GENERIC type, but I implemented
> a new type called NEOGEO.
> I'm attaching a patch to this message that enables you to use the
> NEOGEO type as well.
> I'm no python programmer, so my patch is very simple: I just copied
> the classes used for MAME and changed a few things to make them work
> with gngeo.
> I would be very happy if this is integrated into the official Freevo
> distribution.
>
> To apply the patch just save the attachment to /tmp and then run:
> patch -p 2 -d /usr/lib/python/site-packages/freevo/games -i
> /tmp/freevo-neogeo.patch
>
> Then configure freevo like this:
>
> In /etc/freevo/local_conf.py:
>
> GAMES_ITEMS = [
>   ('Super Nintendo', '/data/roms/snes', ('SNES',
> '/var/lib/freevo/bin/zsnes', '-m', '', None )),
>   ('Neo Geo','/data/roms/neogeo', ('NEOGEO',
> '/var/lib/freevo/bin/gngeo', '-f', '', [ 'zip' ])),
> ]
>
> In /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py:
> GAMES_NEOGEO_CACHE = '%s/romlist-%s.pickled' % (FREEVO_CACHEDIR, os.getuid())
>
> Note: you can make this second change in /etc/freevo/local_conf.py
> instead of /usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py, because files in /usr
> will be overwritten when you upgrade Freevo.
>
> That's all.
>
> I would be glad to get any comments or suggestions.  I'm willing to
> post this information to the Wiki if anybody considers it useful, but
> first I would like to know if the developers are willing to include my
> trivial patch in the official distribution.
>
> Alan
Hi Alan,

I'm afraid you posted when the previous maintainer was stepping down and 
the new maintainer hadn't really taken over things yet. Adam is working 
away on freevo-1.x with a view to a release around Christmas. Best bet 
is for you to submit this to the tracker and look for some feedback 
there. If it is included it would be great if you can then update the wiki.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Web server - 'Fetching program information' problem

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On 02/10/2010 21:28, mclu...@wp.pl wrote:
> I recently installed Freevo 1.9.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 directly from
> repository (command line install + x11 + ratpoison).
> Generally I use webserver to schedule recordings.
> In previous version of Freevo everything worked fine, but after initial
> configuration webserver complained about missing woven module in
> web_types.rpy and guide.rpy.
> I applied patch to web_types from:
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-freevo/packages/freevo/trunk/debian/patches/twisted-eb-9.diff?rev=178&sc=0&isdir=0
> and comment one line with woven import in guide.rpy.
> Now webserver seems to work fine with one exception:
> whenever I click on any EPG program - the box 'Fetching program
> information ...' appears (instead od program info and action buttons).
> I tried to do some modification to proginfo.rpy according to:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08471.html
> - but fix worked for Freevo 1.5, and didn't work for me.
>
> I hope someone can help me to fix this.
>
> Thanks
> Maciej
Hi Maciej,

You'll probably need to open a bug report for this. If you can test the 
latest version from svn before hand then use the bug tracker if it still 
exists.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=446895&group_id=46652

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Re: [Freevo-users] youtube unreferenced variable

[John Molohan]

On 12/10/2010 00:36, Dan Schmidt wrote:
> Anybody seen this one?  I haven't had time to look into it.  If not,
> I'll look into it.  There's no "if not mess:"
>
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'stream' referenced before assignment
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/freevo/main.py", line 306, in
> eventhandler
>  app.eventhandler(event)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/menu.py", line 842, in eventhandler
>  self._handle_play_item(menu, event)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/menu.py", line 654, in _handle_play_item
>  action(arg=arg, menuw=self)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/menu.py", line 106, in select
>  self.function(arg=self.arg, menuw=menuw)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/video/plugins/youtube.py", line 226,
> in watchvideo
>  playvideo2 = YoutubeVideoItem(_('bla'), stream, self)
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'stream' referenced before assignment
>
> 221 while proceso.poll() == None:
> 222 mess = follow.readline()
> 223 if mess:
> 224 stream =  mess.strip()
> 225 # Create a fake VideoItem
> 226 playvideo2 = YoutubeVideoItem(_('bla'), stream, self)
>
Hi Dan,

Can't say I've seen that but I know Adam has checked in some changes 
recently to the youtube plugin. Can you test from svn and report if you 
still see this?

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Re: [Freevo-users] freevo password protect directory not working

[John Molohan]

  On 04/10/2010 08:33, Senufo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have write a small patch. You can found it on the bugs traker.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3079625&group_id=46652&atid=446895
>
> Regards
>
> Senufo
>
>   >[Freevo-users] freevo password protect directory not working
>   >From: Dana E Hoffman Jr  - 2010-09-26 18:50
>
>   >hello all, I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64.
>   >I am trying to password protect a directory.
>   >for example
>   >/mnt/movies
>   >I put a .password file their like this:
>   >/mnt/movies/.password
>   >inside the password file I have my password set with numbers.
>   >Freevo does not prompt for the password when going into the
>   >/mnt/movies directory?
>
>   >any suggestions or ideas would be great.
>   >thanks
>   >Dana E Hoffman Jr
>
>
Thanks for the patch Senufo.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Saving video from youtube

[John Molohan]

  On 04/10/2010 06:03, Leandro sullo sgorbio wrote:
> Ciao a tutti,
>
> does anybody knows a method to save a video from youtube using remote
> within freevo?
>
> Somebody tried something like this?
>
No but I like the idea, something like map your Record button to a 'save 
to library' feature. It might be an idea to have a 'show in library' 
function too which doesn't actually download the file (most users have 
permanent net access) but instead just links to it using a fxd included 
in your library.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Restarting from an MCE remote when mplayer freezes

[John Molohan]

  On 11/09/2010 15:20, Bill Burroughs wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm hoping this is an easy one - some FLV files downloaded from youpube make
> mplayer freeze on me.  The only way to fix it is a reboot (i.e. pressing the
> power button on the front of the machine to get xubuntu to shut down, then 
> after
> 20-30 secs, press it again to start up).
Ouch.
> I'm hoping I can do the same thing
> from my remote, which is a standard MCE remote - i.e. it just sends keyboards
> signals.  I've tried getting it to send Ctrl-Alt-Del (and tried the same from 
> a
> proper keyboard) and that didn't work.  I'm guessing its an OS thing I need to
> work on, but any guidance greatly appreciated. :)
>
>
> Cheers
> Ronan
Can you map the magic Sysreq keys? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

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[Freevo-users] A warm welcome and a fond farewell - Freevo-1 gets a new maintainer

[John Molohan]

  Hi,

After nearly 5 years as the maintainer of Freevo-1.x Duncan Webb is now 
stepping aside. Duncan stepped in and took the rains at a time when 
Freevo-1.x was struggling to maintain momentum and looked like it might 
disappear into the abyss as the original developers moved on, some with 
other external responsibilities, others to begin work on a complete 
rewrite of Freevo from the ground up (what is now the exciting Freevo 2 
branch).

Duncan's contribution over those 5 years has brought many advancements 
to Freevo and ensured a great project continued, much to the delight of 
its loyal user-base. Through his own patches, plugins, advice and 
patient user support on the mailing lists and his management of the bug 
trackers he has ensured the long-term survival of Freevo and taken the 
pressure off the Freevo 2 developers to work in their own time without 
the distraction of supporting the existing code base. Without Duncan's 
contribution the Freevo project would certainly not be where it is today 
and for that we all own him a debt of gratitude. Thank you Duncan.

On an upbeat note I am glad to announce that the Freevo-1.x branch is in 
safe hands. Adam Charrett has taken over the reins from Duncan and will 
continue his hard work. Some of you may know Adam from his other media 
related project DVBStreamer. Adam brings a great skill set to the 
project and we're lucky to have someone like him step in. Adam will be 
accepting patches for Freevo-1.x through the bug tracker and like Duncan 
helping out on the mailing lists.

Of course change begets change and this is not the whole story. There 
have been lots of other developments behind the scenes for Freevo 
recently. Stay tuned for some news on the long anticipated Freevo 2 (or 
check out the devel list and home page for announcements). It promises 
to be worth the wait. :)

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Re: [Freevo-users] Do I have to install complete freevo on remote machine?

[John Molohan]

  On 03/09/2010 17:47, mclu...@wp.pl wrote:
> I decided to separate fileserver with recordserver from freevo front-end
> (on two different machines).
> So my question is: Do I have to install complete freevo on remote
> machine to have remote recordserver?
> I guess I have to, but maybe ...
>
> Regards
> Maciej
Hi Maciej,

For freevo-1.x yes, you have to install the full version however freevo 
doesn't need to run. You can just start the recordserver standalone. 
 From my understanding this won't be the case with freevo-2.x, you will 
be able to install just the recordserver if you want.

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Re: [Freevo-users] What happened to tvcentric.com?

[John Molohan]

  On 31/08/2010 9:21, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>
> On 31.08.2010 11:42, Adam Charrett wrote:
>> No idea what has happened to tvcentric but if you are interested in
>> browsing the svn repo for freevo you should use http://svn.freevo.org/ as
>> this has freevo-1, 2 and the kaa repos available for browsing.
> Cool. I did not know we have an SVN HTTP view. Thanks Jason. :)
>
> Dischi
Now linked from freevo.org.

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Re: [Freevo-users] What happened to tvcentric.com?

[John Molohan]

  On 31/08/2010 14:06, Rob Shortt wrote:
> Hi guys, I had some problems with my server and not much time to fix
> it.  I see there's another view into the repository, so that is good.
>
> -Rob


Good to see you're still around Rob :) I'll change the link on the site 
as soon as I get a chance.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo article in Ubuntu-User magazine

[John Molohan]

  On 24/08/2010 12:00, Phil Raymond wrote:
> I was going by the Freevo wiki, which apparently is in need of updating. 
> Sorry I missed that in the 5.27 config release notes. I'll try it, even 
> though I'm use to using the keyboard.
Hi Phil,

Any chance you could update the wiki where you saw the out of date info 
on the mouse? You also mention in your article that the wiki is missing 
details which you cover about running a setup with an external STB. It 
would be great to have the info in the wiki as well as the article if 
you could update that?

Thanks,

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Re: [Freevo-users] size of images?

[John Molohan]

On 01/08/2010 04:37, Alberto Hernando wrote:





But, actually, in cache.log:

2010-07-30 00:17:13,373 INFO config.py (523): LOGDIR:
/var/log /var/log/freevo
2010-07-30 00:17:13,374 INFO config.py (524): STATICDIR:
/var/lib /var/lib/freevo
2010-07-30 00:17:13,374 INFO config.py (525): CACHEDIR: /tmp
/mnt/cache
2010-07-30 00:17:13,425 INFO config.py (544): Loading freevo
configuration file "/home/freevo/.freevo/freevo.conf"
2010-07-30 00:17:13,461 INFO config.py (618): Loading freevo
configuration file: "/usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py"
2010-07-30 00:17:14,942 INFO config.py (624): Loaded freevo
configuration file: "/usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py"
2010-07-30 00:17:14,942 INFO config.py (639): Loading local
configuration file: "/home/freevo/.freevo/local_conf.py"
WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:


WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:


WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:


WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:


WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:Traceback (most
recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/config.py", line
642, in 
execfile(overridefile, globals(), our_locals)
  File "/home/freevo/.freevo/local_conf.py", line 430, in 
plugin.activate('idlebar.volume')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/plugin.py", line
239, in activate
print 'WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:'
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/config.py", line
122, in write
sys.__stdout__.write(msg)
IOError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable

Could it be a problem with the cache?


Alberto

Where are your logs writing to?


Hi.

Hi Alberto,


My logs are writing to /tmp, which is ramfs.

tmpfs 220M  124K  220M   1% /tmp

When it's full, freevo crashes, all right. But this usually doesn't 
happen. Only when I set DEBUG=2 and have a lot of output.
Could it be that big images need a lot of memory to load, and there ir 
no ram for /tmp? But then I'd have crashes watching movies, I think. 
Well, when I have time, I'll try to write logs to another place.


Alberto
It might be that you have some bad RAM. I'd run a memcheck on it. Also 
as you point out it could be that you're running out of space. Changing 
the logs to write to another location might give a clue.


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Re: [Freevo-users] size of images?

[John Molohan]

 On 29/07/2010 11:24, Alberto Hernando wrote:

Hi.

I set

DEBUG = 2
DEBUG_CHILDAPP = 1

LOGGING = logging.DEBUG
LOGGING_RECORDSERVER = logging.DEBUG

and I get this in main-1001.log

2010-07-30 00:18:29,742 DEBUGbase.py (188): poll(current_time=73555)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,743 DEBUGbase.py (188): poll(current_time=73555)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,743 DEBUGbase.py (188): poll(current_time=73555)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,743 DEBUGbase.py (188): poll(current_time=73556)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,744 DEBUGtransition.py (126): draw()
2010-07-30 00:18:29,744 DEBUGtransition.py (134): draw_blend_alpha()
2010-07-30 00:18:29,749 DEBUGosd.py (1015): 
putsurface(surface=, x=0, y=0)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,752 DEBUGosd.py (1572): update(rect=[0, 800, 600)>], blend_surface=None, blend_speed=0, blend_steps=0, 
blend_time=None, stop_busyicon=True)

2010-07-30 00:18:29,767 DEBUGbase.py (153): remove()
2010-07-30 00:18:29,767 DEBUGosd.py (1572): update(rect=None, 
blend_surface=None, blend_speed=0, blend_steps=0, blend_time=None, 
stop_busyicon=True)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,782 DEBUGrc.py (629): 
EventHandler.register(function=of >, repeat=False, 
timer=300, arg=())
2010-07-30 00:18:29,783 DEBUGrc.py (72): 
rc.post_event(event='IMAGE_VIEW_INFO')
2010-07-30 00:18:29,783 DEBUGrc.py (595): 
EventHandler.post_event(event='IMAGE_VIEW_INFO')

2010-07-30 00:18:29,785 DEBUGimageitem.py (109): cache(self)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,785 DEBUGviewer.py (51): get_singleton()
2010-07-30 00:18:29,785 DEBUGviewer.py (343): 
cache(fileitem.filename=/mnt/imagenes/2009-06-27, 
GR92/gr92_2009-06-27T12_17_06.JPG)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,786 DEBUGosd.py (848): 
loadbitmap(url='/mnt/imagenes/2009-06-27, 
GR92/gr92_2009-06-27T12_17_06.JPG', 
cache=)
2010-07-30 00:18:29,786 DEBUGosd.py (776): 
_load_image_filename(url='/mnt/imagenes/2009-06-27, 
GR92/gr92_2009-06-27T12_17_06.JPG')


I don't see anything here.

But, actually, in cache.log:

2010-07-30 00:17:13,373 INFO config.py (523): LOGDIR: /var/log 
/var/log/freevo
2010-07-30 00:17:13,374 INFO config.py (524): STATICDIR: /var/lib 
/var/lib/freevo
2010-07-30 00:17:13,374 INFO config.py (525): CACHEDIR: /tmp 
/mnt/cache
2010-07-30 00:17:13,425 INFO config.py (544): Loading freevo 
configuration file "/home/freevo/.freevo/freevo.conf"
2010-07-30 00:17:13,461 INFO config.py (618): Loading freevo 
configuration file: "/usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py"
2010-07-30 00:17:14,942 INFO config.py (624): Loaded freevo 
configuration file: "/usr/share/freevo/freevo_config.py"
2010-07-30 00:17:14,942 INFO config.py (639): Loading local 
configuration file: "/home/freevo/.freevo/local_conf.py"

WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:


WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:


WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:


WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:


WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:Traceback (most recent 
call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/config.py", line 642, 
in 

execfile(overridefile, globals(), our_locals)
  File "/home/freevo/.freevo/local_conf.py", line 430, in 
plugin.activate('idlebar.volume')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/plugin.py", line 239, 
in activate

print 'WARNING: duplicate plugin activation, ignoring:'
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/config.py", line 122, 
in write

sys.__stdout__.write(msg)
IOError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable

Could it be a problem with the cache?


Alberto

Where are your logs writing to?

John




2010/7/28 John Molohan mailto:john.molo...@gcd.ie>>

 On 25/07/2010 21:49, Alberto Hernando wrote:

Hi.

I'm using freevo-1.9.0 and I have a problem seeing photoes. I
think it is related to the size of the images.
I have folders with lots of files not very big, and I can see
all of them. No problem. But I have other folders with bigger
files, and freevo crashes when I try to see them. It doesn't
happen always. I've tried putting a few big files in a new
folder, and sometimes I can see the images. Some of them, even
around 7 MB. But, usually, with files bigger than 2 MB I have
problems. I'd post some log, but there is no error in the
logs. It just crashes.

Have you turned up the debug levels? See
http://doc.freevo.org/TroubleShooting

I know that freevo uses pygame to display the images, but I
don't know if it uses some external program to actually show
the image. In this case, I could try one on one. BTW, all
files are jpg. Anybody has had the same problem?

thanks

I haven't noticed this and I've got probably close to a thousand
  

Re: [Freevo-users] size of images?

[John Molohan]

  On 25/07/2010 21:49, Alberto Hernando wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using freevo-1.9.0 and I have a problem seeing photoes. I think it 
> is related to the size of the images.
> I have folders with lots of files not very big, and I can see all of 
> them. No problem. But I have other folders with bigger files, and 
> freevo crashes when I try to see them. It doesn't happen always. I've 
> tried putting a few big files in a new folder, and sometimes I can see 
> the images. Some of them, even around 7 MB. But, usually, with files 
> bigger than 2 MB I have problems. I'd post some log, but there is no 
> error in the logs. It just crashes.
Have you turned up the debug levels? See 
http://doc.freevo.org/TroubleShooting
> I know that freevo uses pygame to display the images, but I don't know 
> if it uses some external program to actually show the image. In this 
> case, I could try one on one. BTW, all files are jpg. Anybody has had 
> the same problem?
>
> thanks
>
I haven't noticed this and I've got probably close to a thousand photos, 
maybe more, all varying in size up to several megabytes.

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Re: [Freevo-users] pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file

[John Molohan]

  On 09/07/2010 11:34, Johan Lans wrote:
> Hi
>   I just updated my gentoo system for the first time in a while. Before,
> freevo was running fine, now it won't start at all. The log says:
>
>
> 
> Freevo 1.7.6.1 r10340 started at Sat Jul 10 00:21:52 2010
> 
> 2010-07-10 00:21:52,991 INFO config.py (481):
> logdir: /var/log /var/log/freevo
> 2010-07-10 00:21:52,991 INFO config.py (482):
> staticdir: /var/lib /var/lib/freevo
> 2010-07-10 00:21:52,992 INFO config.py (483):
> cachedir: /var/cache /var/cache/freevo
> 2010-07-10 00:21:53,033 INFO config.py (502): Loading freevo
> configuration file "/home/hadoque/.freevo/freevo.conf"
> 2010-07-10 00:21:53,172 INFO config.py (589): Loading local
> configuration file "/etc/freevo/local_conf.py"
> Error: VIDEO_SHOW_DATA_DIR not found
> ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added "('/mnt/dvd', '/dev/hdc', 'DVD-1')"
> 2010-07-10 00:21:53,215 INFO config.py (987):
> overlaydir: /var/cache/freevo/vfs
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/main.py", line 106, in
> 
>  import menu# The menu widget class
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/menu.py", line 37, in
> 
>  import skin
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/skin/__init__.py", line
> 134, in
>  get_singleton()
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/skin/__init__.py", line
> 77, in get_singleton
>  ' as skinimpl')
>File "", line 1, in
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/skins/main/main.py",
> line 40, in
>  from area import Skin_Area
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/skins/main/area.py",
> line 60, in
>  from skin_utils import *
>File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/skins/main/skin_utils.py", line
> 41, in
>  osd = osd.get_singleton()
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/osd.py", line 122, in
> get_singleton
>  _singleton = OSD()
>File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/osd.py", line 397, in
> __init__
>  'misc/freevo_app.png')).convert()
> pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file
>
> The only significant error i can see is the last pygame error. Does
> anyone know what this comes from and if this could be the cause of
> freevo not starting?
>
> /Johan
 From a quick google that might be caused by a corrupt / incomplete 
freevo install. Can you reinstall from packages or try installing from 
source? The freevo-1.x branch is stable, 
http://doc.freevo.org/SourceSVNInstallation

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Re: [Freevo-users] "broken mplayer"

[John Molohan]

  On 18/07/2010 9:07, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> I was trying to sort out putting my machine onto another monitor with
> different resolution and in the process of making a new xorg.conf i broke
> mplayer
>
> so video can be played with xine
>
> but tv is no-go as mplayer remains broken
>
> I can play recorded tv satisfactorily with
> mplayer -vo x11 -framedrop /path/to/the/file.ts
>
> but attempts to force x11 through local_conf.py result in an error that the
> video output is not suited to the card
>
>
> #
> ==
> # MPlayer settings:
> #
> ==
>
> MPLAYER_AO_DEV  = 'alsa'  # e.g.: oss,sdl,alsa, see mplayer docs
>
> MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS = 'x11'  # e.g.: ':some_var=vcal'
>
>
> MPLAYER_ARGS['dvd'] = '-cache 8192'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['dvb'] = '-framedrop -vf pp=de/fd -cache 4096'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['vcd'] = '-cache 4096'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['cd']  = '-cache 1024 -cdda speed=2'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['tv']  = '-nocache'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['ivtv']= '-cache 8192'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['avi'] = '-cache 5000 -idx'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['flv'] = '-nocache -forceidx'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['mp4'] = '-nocache -forceidx'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['rm']  = '-cache 5000 -forceidx'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['rmvb']= '-cache 5000 -forceidx'
> MPLAYER_ARGS['webcam']  = 'tv:// -tv
> driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:outfmt=yuy2:device=$
> MPLAYER_ARGS['default'] = '-framedrop -cache 5000'
>
> #
> ==
> # Xine settings:
> #
> ==
>
> XINE_VO_DEV  = 'x11'
> XINE_COMMAND = '%s --auto-play=fq --hide-gui --borderless --geometry %sx%s+0+0
> --no-spla$
>  (CONF.xine, CONF.width, CONF.height)
> XINE_ARGS_DEF = "--no-lirc --post='pp:quality=10;expand'"
>
> XINE_AO_DEV = 'alsa' # alsa or oss
>
>
> I tried this
> #
> TV_OPTS = '-vo=x11 -framedrop '
>
> but this doesn't work either
Can you post the logs for mplayer when it's failing?

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Re: [Freevo-users] Wiki: Use halevt to automount removable media

[John Molohan]

On 02/07/2010 16:21, Toan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've added an entry at Freevo-1.x wiki on how to use halevt to
> automount (read-only) remove media and hot swap SATA harddrives
>
> http://doc.freevo.org/TipsAndTricks_MediaSources#head-b85352c6aba66bb1c98c92104cbb767c5f784d04
>
> The solution to SATA harddrive swap is not optimal, but I couldn't
> think of a better way. Any improvement is appreciated.
>
> Best
Good stuff, thanks Toan.

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Re: [Freevo-users] multiple audio outputs using mplayer? (HDMI + SPDIF)

[John Molohan]

On 17/06/2010 8:36, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> On 16/06/2010 22:55, John Molohan wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> Glad to hear you got it all running in the end. Can you return the
>> favour and help the community by posting this up to the wiki?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>  
> Very good point! I always forget the wiki :(
>
> There is now an extra section in the "TipsAndTricks" section to deal
> with audio output to 2 devices:
>
> http://doc.freevo.org/TipsAndTricks#head-4ca196866b6ae120b2c0ce473c0e5c181ae88ca2
>
>
Perfect, thanks.

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Re: [Freevo-users] SATA harddrive swap ?

[John Molohan]

On 18/06/2010 6:25, Toan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Toan  wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I use halevt to mount (read-only) all my usb/SD Card/Cdrom (removable media)
>> automatically upon insert.
>>
>> Recently I bought an internal SATA dock where you can just hot swap
>> your harddrive.
>> The trouble is linux doesn't treat SATA drive as removable media. So I had to
>> login to my Freevo machine to mount/unmount them manually. Does anybody has
>> suggestions on how to mount SATA harddrive automatically upon insert ?
>>  
> I found the solution within halevt. I add the following lines to
> /etc/halevt/halevt.xml (the default location on ubuntu 10.04):
>
> 
>  
> 
> 
>  
> 
>
>
> Now the SATA harddrive will be mounted read-only automatically when
> it's inserted. Of course
> you need to modify /etc/sudoers to let halevt-mount sudo without password:
>
> halevt ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/halevt-mount
I hate to sound repetitive but it would be nice to have this in the wiki :)

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Re: [Freevo-users] patch to add ASPECT event

[John Molohan]

On 17/06/2010 3:05, Toan wrote:
> FYI, this is a patch to freevo-1.x source to add an "ASPECT" event to cycle
> through 4/3, 16/9, 2:35, 0 (original) aspect ratios. It works for
> mplayer video player
> only.
>
> To assign it to a remote button, define something like this in your lircrc 
> file:
>
> begin
>  prog   = freevo
>  button = Aspect
>  repeat = 0
>  config = ASPECT
> end
>
> Best regards
> Toan
>
Hi Toan,

Thanks for the patch. Can you submit it to the tracker? 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652&atid=446898

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Re: [Freevo-users] multiple audio outputs using mplayer? (HDMI + SPDIF)

[John Molohan]

On 16/06/2010 10:24, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> Thanks for the tip in the right direction. Following lots more searching
> / experiments I finally have a .asoundrc that works.
>
> I now play music and tv using mplayer -ao alsa:device=both
>
> The following is the config I use in case it helps someone else.
>
> pcm.both {
>   type route
>   slave {
>   pcm multi
>   channels 4
>   }
>   ttable.0.0 1.0
>   ttable.1.1 1.0
>   ttable.0.2 1.0
>   ttable.1.3 1.0
> }
>
> pcm.multi {
>   type multi
>   slaves.a {
>   pcm "tv"
>   channels 2
>
>   }
>   slaves.b {
>   pcm "receiver"
>   channels 2
>   }
>   bindings.0.slave a
>   bindings.0.channel 0
>   bindings.1.slave a
>   bindings.1.channel 1
>   bindings.2.slave b
>   bindings.2.channel 0
>   bindings.3.slave b
>   bindings.3.channel 1
> }
>
> pcm.tv {
>   type hw
>   card 0
>   device 3
>   channels 2
> }
>
> pcm.receiver {
>   type hw
>   card 0
>   device 1
>   channels 2
> }
>
Hi Stephen,

Glad to hear you got it all running in the end. Can you return the 
favour and help the community by posting this up to the wiki?

Thanks,

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo shuts down immediately after coming up

[John Molohan]

On 02/06/2010 5:04, James Trietsch wrote:
> (Figured I'd start a new mail to detach myself from that other thread)
>
> Back on May 31st somewhere past 00:30, the frontend GUI on my Freevo decided 
> to shut down. It didn't crash, it shut down in a clean and orderly manner 
> like it should.
>
> (I just noticed I can't pin down the exact time of shutdown, because it looks 
> like the header in the log that tells the time of shutdown actually tells the 
> time of startup. The last stamp is 2010-05-31 00:29 but the shutdown says it 
> successfully shut down on May 20th. Is this still the case?)
>
> Now when I start the GUI, it starts up until it gets to the main menu, then 
> it immediately shuts down. It shuts down just the GUI as if I had stopped the 
> process (I have the shutdown plugin configured to shut down the entire box 
> because it is a stand-alone install). I bumped up the debug level and it 
> looks like the the system loops through checking 
> events/LIRC/keyboard/UDPnetwork about four times before shutdown() is called 
> and the system shuts down. See the attached log file. I trimmed it to what I 
> think is the relevant part, but I can send over the whole thing if desired.
>
> I also ran a trace on the shutdown plugin... but I don't understand the 
> results. I've attached that too.
>
> John: I'm not using autoshutdown and have it disabled. On a whim, I tried 
> disabling the shutdown plugin as well, but it still behaves the same way.
>
> Fabrizio: I don't have an auto-update, but I did manually run an update a few 
> days before (conveniently forgot to mention that, didn't I? Sorry...) I'm 
> using Debian Lenny and didn't think anything of it at the time because 
> nothing crashed immediately after the update. Are there any packages I should 
> be concerned about?
>
> In the meantime I can log in and call up shows manually and watch them... but 
> that's just a stop-gap. ^_^
>
> Thanks for all your help guys.
>
> James
Hi James,

Can you try the latest version of svn and see if this still exists?

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] multiple audio outputs using mplayer? (HDMI + SPDIF)

[John Molohan]

On 13/06/2010 7:43, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've finally cleared enough room to get my AC3 capable amp and speakers
> set up in the house :). I've changed my xine config to output ac3 when
> viewing DVD's and it's all funky, spdif output via optical into the amp
> and it all works grand.
>
> However music and stereo sound still go to the TV (for normal TV
> viewing). What I would really like would be able to send the audio to
> both the telly via HDMI and to the amp via SPDIF. So that I could listen
> to music with the telly off, but without always needing the amp on to
> hear anything.
>
> Currently to get mplayer to output the sound via my HDMI calbe I use the
> following options:
>
> -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3
>
> I can change this to be:
>
> -ao alsa:device=hw=0.1
>
> Which will then output to the amp instead, is there anyway of specifying
> 2 output devices??
>
> I found this on the alsa wiki:
>
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/.asoundrc#Dupe_output_to_multiple_cards
>
> about configuring duplicate output to multiple cards.. but it looks
> seriously scary and I didn't really know where to start
>
> Is there an easier way I can do this with some simple parameters to
> mplayer??
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve.
Hi Steve,

Something very similar is discusses here, 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2007-May/067148.html, 
at a glance it seems a more straight foward example, might be easier to 
follow.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Spontainious crash and collateral damage during attempted repair...

[John Molohan]

On 02/06/2010 08:10, Fabrizio Ferraro wrote:
> James Trietsch wrote:
>
>> Izio, it worked perfectly.
>>
>>  
> Nice!
> At least, you'll not miss your favorite show the next weekend ;)
>
>
>> Could it be something it ingested on Monday that is giving it a tummyache? 
>> ^_^
>>
>>  
> This is the only thing I can think of... do you have some sort of
> automatic system update? Which distro are you using?
>
>
>> Any help with that problem would be greatly appriciated. I'll see what I can 
>> do after making the logs more verbose.
>>
>>  
> I guess this is the way to go... the main log you posted does not reveal
> anything strange, so I'm really clueless atm.
>
This sounds like the problem with the autoshutdown plugin. It got broken 
at some stage and I don't think it's fixed in svn. I'm pretty sure I 
posted to the list about it but maybe I didn't post a bug report.

Do you have it enabled? If so try removing it and see if it helps.
>
>> Oh, and sorry about stealing threads... I didn't realize it still kept a 
>> record of where the message belonged even if I changed the subject line to 
>> something new. I'll create new messages from now on. Thanks for pointing 
>> that out!
>>
>>
>>  
> Yes, messages IDs and references are kept in specific headers and the
> subject actually doesn't matter in this case.
>
>
> Cheers,
> izio
Yes, don't steal threads, most annoying :)

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Re: [Freevo-users] how to (re) enable the recording time & date in directorylisting?

[John Molohan]

On 30/05/2010 15:38, Matthias Reichl wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:44:50AM +0100, John Molohan wrote:
>
>> On 22/05/2010 12:54, Matthias Reichl wrote:
>>  
>>> I modified the Panorama skin so that it displays the userdate (if
>>> available), otherwise it displays the year (if available). This
>>> works with IMDB fxds, old recordserver fxds (which set "year") and
>>> new recordserver fxds (setting "userdate").
>>>
>>> Here's a patch (just Panorama skin for now), what do you think
>>> about it?
>>>
>>> so long,
>>>
>>> Hias
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry for the delay in replying. The patch seems reasonable to me if you
>> want to submit it to the bug tracker?
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=446895&group_id=46652
>>  
> I cleaned up the patch a little bit and also fixed the other skins:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3009193&group_id=46652&atid=446895
>
> so long,
>
> Hias
>
Excellent, thanks Hias.

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Re: [Freevo-users] how to (re) enable the recording time & date in directorylisting?

[John Molohan]

On 22/05/2010 12:54, Matthias Reichl wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:45:55AM +0000, John Molohan wrote:
>
>> On 08/02/2010 10:40, Paul Sijben wrote:
>>  
>>> I (re) inserted the line
>>>
>>>   fxd.info['year'] = time.strftime('%m-%d ' + config.TV_TIME_FORMAT,
>>> time.localtime(rec_prog.start))
>>>
>>> in recordserver create_fxd (around line 1395) (I am imprecise because of
>>> my own changes to the file for multiple concurrent recording.)
>>>
>>> It looks as if this line was removed because the info goes into
>>> userdate. But that is not shown in the listings.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for the update. If you have time it would probably be better to
>> change the skin to use the userdate instead and submit a patch if you could.
>>  
> I just had a look at this issue (I'm using freevo 1.9.0 here), but
> I'm not sure what would be the best approach to fix it:
>
> The IMDB fxd files contain a "year" entry, but not a "userdate".
> fxd files created by the recordserver contain the "userdate" entry
> plus an empty "year" entry.
>
> I modified the Panorama skin so that it displays the userdate (if
> available), otherwise it displays the year (if available). This
> works with IMDB fxds, old recordserver fxds (which set "year") and
> new recordserver fxds (setting "userdate").
>
> Here's a patch (just Panorama skin for now), what do you think
> about it?
>
> so long,
>
> Hias
>
Sorry for the delay in replying. The patch seems reasonable to me if you 
want to submit it to the bug tracker? 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=446895&group_id=46652

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Re: [Freevo-users] Multi card reader

[John Molohan]

On 18/05/2010 9:21, Leandro sullo sgorbio wrote:
> Leandro sullo sgorbio  writes:
>
>
>> on my freevo box I have a multi card reader usb connected as from the
>> subject: which would be the best way to use it?
>>
>> I don't think autofs would be a good choice? Something else?
>>  
> On another debian list someone suggested me usbmount: I think it is for
> debian only and I have to try this but I think it would be a good
> choice.
>
>
Hi,

I don't have first hand experience of this plugin but it looks like it 
might help:

freevo plugins -i usbstorage

Name: usbstorage
Type: MainMenuPlugin
File: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/plugins/usbstorage.py

Description:

Plugin for usb storage devices.

Parameter: name and mountpoint..
You should also activate the usb plugin so that the menu will change
when you plugin in or remove the usb storage device.

Example:
| plugin.activate('usb')
| plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='video', args=('USB Key', '/mnt/hd'))
| plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='audio', args=('USB Key', '/mnt/hd'))
| plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='image', args=('USB Key', '/mnt/hd'))

The plugin is not activated in the current setting


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Re: [Freevo-users] [Debian Lenny] Youtube plugin crashes

[John Molohan]

On 14/05/2010 10:16, Leandro sullo sgorbio wrote:
> John Molohan  writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>
>>>> The problem is clear, you need MPLAYER_ARGS['video'] defined.
>>>>
>>>>  
>>> Could you give me some example for this configuration or a pointer?
>>>
>>>
> [...]
>
>
>>   'default': '-cache 5000'
>>  
> I was missing this line!
>
> I don't why but the problem was here, thanks very much!
>
>
:) glad to help.

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Re: [Freevo-users] [Debian Lenny] Youtube plugin crashes

[John Molohan]

On 14/05/2010 2:06, Leandro sullo sgorbio wrote:
> Duncan Webb  writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>
>>> 2010-02-13 23:51:38,785 INFO mplayer.py (164): MPLAYER_ARGS not defined 
>>> for 'video', using default
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>
>> [snip]
>>  
>>> File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/video/plugins/mplayer.py", line 167, 
>>> in play
>>>   _debug_('mode=%s args=%s'% (mode, config.MPLAYER_ARGS[mode]))
>>>
>>>
>> Very late reply, sorry.
>>  
> Don't worry, I have much time to wait!
>
> :-)
>
>
>> The problem is clear, you need MPLAYER_ARGS['video'] defined.
>>  
> Could you give me some example for this configuration or a pointer?
>
You need to define it in your local_conf.py. Mine currently looks like 
this. Note there's no 'video' setting, it looks like you need to add one 
for the youtube plugin, it could possibly be set to blank i.e. ''.

MPLAYER_ARGS = { 'dvd': '-cache 8192',
  'vcd': '-cache 4096',
  'cd' : '-cache 1024 -cdda speed=2',
  'tv' : '-nocache',
  'ivtv'   : '-cache 8192',
  'avi': '-cache 5000 -idx',
  'rm' : '-cache 5000 -forceidx',
  'rmvb'   : '-cache 5000 -forceidx',
  'webcam' : 'tv:// -tv 
driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:outfmt=yuy2:device=/dev/video2',
  'default': '-cache 5000'
  }

>
>> Or remove the _debug_ line.
>>  
> I can't understand: removing the debug statement what should I obtain?
>
>
I think Duncan is saying the crash is actually called by the debug 
statement which tries to read the setting from MPLAYER_ARGS which in 
your case is missing. If you removed the debug statement then the crash 
wouldn't occur.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Change TV Audio Language Settings for mencoder and mplayer

[John Molohan]

John Molohan wrote:
> On 14/04/2010 16:10, markus frei wrote:
>   
>> But the problem with this would be that I'd have to edit that setting 
>> whenever I need the other audio channel. A menu Item should pop up whenever 
>> I want to start a recording that asks me which audio channel I would like. 
>> As I know nothing about scripting or programming I was hoping freevo had 
>> this built-in.
>>
>> 
> Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. Freevo doesn't have this feature at the 
> moment for recording.
>
> John


Hi Markus,

I've just come across this plugin, I haven't tried it but it looks like 
it could be what you're looking for:

[j...@localhost ~]$ freevo plugins -i video.bilingual

Name: video.bilingual
Type: ItemPlugin
File: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/video/plugins/bilingual.py

Description:

Plug-in to play tv recordings which have bilingual audio

To activate, put the following line in local_conf.py:
| plugin.activate('video.bilingual')

The plugin is not activated in the current setting


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Re: [Freevo-users] livepause external turner

[John Molohan]

I know the feeling, my only involvement with freevo at he moment is the 
odd catch up with the mailing lists but someday soon I'll find some time 
again :)

Dan Schmidt wrote:
> No, thkx 4 asking.  Unfortunately,  I have had NO time to play with 
> the Freevo, but I hope to soon as the xine ivtv plugin is not stable.  
> Also, I have not forgotten that I need to update the wiki with the 
> other information. 
>
> John Molohan wrote:
>> On 29/03/2010 15:43, Adam Charrett wrote:
>>   
>>> On Sat, March 27, 2010 11:31 pm, Dan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>> I was less than successful, has anybody seen this?  Suggestions
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>  
>>>>   
>>> Try adding DEBUG_CHILDAPP=1 to your local_conf.py, but at a guess I would
>>> say that freevo hasn't found the livepause executable.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
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>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Did you get livepause working with IVTV? If so could you put a quick 
>> entry in the wiki on it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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Re: [Freevo-users] livepause external turner

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On 29/03/2010 15:43, Adam Charrett wrote:
> On Sat, March 27, 2010 11:31 pm, Dan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I was less than successful, has anybody seen this?  Suggestions
>> appreciated.
>>  
> Try adding DEBUG_CHILDAPP=1 to your local_conf.py, but at a guess I would
> say that freevo hasn't found the livepause executable.
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
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Hi Dan,

Did you get livepause working with IVTV? If so could you put a quick 
entry in the wiki on it?

Thanks,

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Re: [Freevo-users] Anyone used Tvheadend?

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Adam Charrett wrote:
> On Tue, April 27, 2010 12:38 pm, John Molohan wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just came across Tvheadend,
>> http://www.lonelycoder.com/hts/tvheadend_overview.html. I'm wondering if
>> anyone here has used it and has any feedback?
>>
>>  From their overview:
>>
>> 'Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2,
>> DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, IPTV, and Analog video (V4L) as input sources.
>>
>> It also comes with a powerful and easy to use web interface both used
>> for configuration and day-to-day operations, such as searching the EPG
>> and scheduling recordings.
>>
>> Even so, the most notable feature of Tvheadend is how easy it is to set
>> up: Install it, navigate to the web user interface, drill into the TV
>> adapters tab, select your current location and Tvheadend will start
>> scanning channels and present them to you in just a few minutes'
>> 
>
> I've not used it but I understand that there is a plugin for XBMC that
> uses it to display TV in XBMC. It does look very well down, just the sort
> of thing Freevo 2 should be :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
>   
Yes it looks like a lot of the hard work for the whole tv handling for 
freevo 2 might be there in tvheadend. I hope someone has the time and 
motivation to write a plugin :)

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Re: [Freevo-users] How I converted a old laptop into Freevo Media Center

[John Molohan]

On 21/04/2010 21:12, KaruppuSwamy T wrote:
> Thanks to the light weight, Powerful, highly configurable Freevo, I
> have converted my 10 years old DELL laptop into a high performing
> Media Center cum Digital Photo Frame. I installed Debian (Lenny) with
> Freevo as media center with MCE2 remote support. It is awesome
> performance. The load time of video is amazing. Fore more info:
> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/04/18/diy-freevo-media-center-or-digital-photo-frame-using-old-laptop/
That's a cool little project. I'll try put it up on the home page when I 
get a chance. Thanks for the post and write up.

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[Freevo-users] Anyone used Tvheadend?

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Hi,

I just came across Tvheadend, 
http://www.lonelycoder.com/hts/tvheadend_overview.html. I'm wondering if 
anyone here has used it and has any feedback?

 From their overview:

'Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, 
DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, IPTV, and Analog video (V4L) as input sources.

It also comes with a powerful and easy to use web interface both used 
for configuration and day-to-day operations, such as searching the EPG 
and scheduling recordings.

Even so, the most notable feature of Tvheadend is how easy it is to set 
up: Install it, navigate to the web user interface, drill into the TV 
adapters tab, select your current location and Tvheadend will start 
scanning channels and present them to you in just a few minutes'

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Re: [Freevo-users] multirecording patches

[John Molohan]

Hi Paul,

Did you end up submitting this to the tracker? If it's ready it would be 
fantastic to have in freevo.

John

Paul Sijben wrote:
> I think I have a solution for the thumbnails (used a with statement
> around the code that creates the thumbnails) I will test it for a bit
> before sending the code.
>
> The TV viewing works now I have configured tv.ivtv-xine, however there
> is currently no conflict resolution!
>
> Is it correct that there is no conflict resolution currently in Freevo
> anyway? Or did I simply miss that bit in the code?
>
> Paul
>
> On 11-03-10 0:33, John Molohan wrote:
>   
>> Paul Sijben wrote:
>>   
>> 
>>> Remus,
>>>
>>> sorry for the delay in reponding, must have overlooked this email before.
>>>
>>> Remus Koos wrote:
>>>   
>>> 
>>>   
>>>> Hi Paul !
>>>>
>>>> I can test your changes. I have a dual Hauppauge ivtv card.
>>>>
>>>> How do I do it ? Just copy over the three files and restart freevo ?
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>> 
>>>>   
>>>> 
>>> yes and change the local conf in the way indicated in my mail. However
>>> as with all these things backup your old files first!!!
>>>
>>>   
>>> 
>>>   
>>>> How do you determine which device to use for recording ? Are you locking 
>>>> the devices that are recording and just go to the next one in the list 
>>>> when is time to record a new program ?
>>>>   
>>>> 
>>>>   
>>>> 
>>> the way I am using the record group simply lists all the devices used
>>> for recording.
>>>
>>>   
>>> 
>>>   
>>>> Also, as far as VIDEO_GROUPS go, don't you have to have two entries for 
>>>> each device, one for viewing and one for recording with the 'record_group' 
>>>> of the first entry pointing to the next one if you want to use it for both 
>>>> viewing and recording ?
>>>>   
>>>> 
>>>>   
>>>> 
>>> I may have destroyed the viewing but, have not tested that since this change
>>> 
>>>   
>> Unless live TV works then the patch won't be accepted. It'll be a few 
>> more weeks before I can test this but if anyone else can please provide 
>> feedback for Paul.
>>
>> John
>> 


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Re: [Freevo-users] Black screen

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Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I have found the issue. When I upgraded my OS I lost hardware 
> accelerated video. In my freevo.conf I had set XV output, when I 
> changed that to the slower X11 it worked fine.
>
> I have since got my hardware accelerated video working again, so 
> changing back to XV also works now.
>
> Thanks,
> Bernie
Cool, good to know.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Change TV Audio Language Settings for mencoder and mplayer

[John Molohan]

On 14/04/2010 16:10, markus frei wrote:
> But the problem with this would be that I'd have to edit that setting 
> whenever I need the other audio channel. A menu Item should pop up whenever I 
> want to start a recording that asks me which audio channel I would like. As I 
> know nothing about scripting or programming I was hoping freevo had this 
> built-in.
>
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. Freevo doesn't have this feature at the 
moment for recording.

John
>  Original-Nachricht 
>
>> Datum: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:16:38 +0100
>> Von: John Molohan
>> An: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> CC: markus frei
>> Betreff: Re: [Freevo-users] Change TV Audio Language Settings for mencoder 
>> and   mplayer
>>  
>
>> On 29/03/2010 15:58, markus frei wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm using freevo 1.9.0 using mint's repositories on mint 8 (KDE).
>>>
>>> Here in the german speaking part of switzerland our local TV stations
>>>
>> often send out movies in Dual Language mode, where english is the secondary
>> language. As I prefer watching such movies in english, I'd like to be able
>> to watch and record such movies in that language, and not in the syncronized
>> german version. I haven't been able to find where in freevo I can change
>> that setting for recording and watching TV using the secondary language.
>> Using TvTime I have no problem watching the program using the secondary
>> language.
>>  
>>>
>>>
>> As you point out it's mencoder and mplayer that you want to get to play
>> nice with this. I'd search for their settings for how to do this then
>> you can simply add them to your MPLAYER_ARGS and VCR_CMD.
>>
>> John
>>  
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Re: [Freevo-users] Recording Internet radio/tv with Freevo

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On 05/04/2010 16:25, mclu...@wp.pl wrote:
> Why can't we use Freevo's excellent record server to schedule recording
> of different brodcast types - e.g. internet streaming?
>
Cause no one has written support for it yet :)
> This is how I'm planning to achieve this (I based my idea on this
> article: http://doc.freevo.org/MultiRecordingCard)
>
Cool.
> 1) I fed xmltv file with program of my favorite radio station
> 2) I patched generic_record plugin to add a new field to VCR_CMD, called
> `group-type'
> 3) I created additional instance of VideoGroup inside my local_conf.py
> just to introduce a different group type ('stream'):
> TV_VIDEO_GROUPS = [VideoGroup(vdev='/dev/video0',
>   adev=None,
>   input_type='Tuner 1',
>   input_num=0,
>   tuner_norm='pal',
>   tuner_chanlist='europe-east',
>   desc='Regular Cable',
>   group_type='ivtv',
>   record_group = None),
>VideoGroup(vdev=None,
>  adev=None,
>  input_type='default',
>  desc='Internet recording',
>  group_type='stream',
>   record_group = 1),
> ]
>
> 4) I created a script /etc/freevo/record-stream.sh to perform audio
> stream recording with mplayer:
> #!/bin/sh
> # arguments : channel_name_or_number frequency_in_MHz seconds_to_record
> output_filename
> exec mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:file="$4" -endpos "$3" "$1"
>
> 5) and command to call the script from within Freevo's generic_record
> plugin:
> VCR_CMD = '/etc/freevo/record-%(group-type)s.sh "%(channel)s"
> "%(frequencyMHz)s" "%(seconds)s" "%(filename)s"'
>
Is point 6 missing?
> 7) and finally I created additional entry to channel list in
> local_conf.py containing internet radio channel with stream address as
> channel data and referencing to proper video group:
> ('429', 'PR3','mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/program3','','1')
>
Apart from that it seems reasonable up to here.
> At this point I am able to schedule recording from Internet radio, but
> 'channel' parameter passing by generic_record plugin to recording script
> is wrong!
> The program data: ('429',
> 'PR3','mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/program3','','1')
> is stored inside Freevo as: channel=
> As you can see stream address 'mms://...' was replaced with string:
> 'http://'
> We can see it in main log file:
> epg_types.py (348): add(channel_id='429', channel= 'http://'>)
>
> I would like to write patch against that, but I cannot find the piece of
> python code that stores channel data.
>
I don't know where that might be off the top of my head. Duncan might 
though.
> I would also like to know what determines recording file suffix, because
> Freevo tries to store my audio data into file with avi suffix. I need to
> know how to change that behavior and associate video group with
> particuar suffix.
>
I'm pretty sure there's an option in local_conf.py for the record file 
suffix no?
> Any ideas on how to improve Internet stream recording are welcome.
>
> Maciej
Does it support watching as well as recording?

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Re: [Freevo-users] webradio display content info (current played piece) and strange elapsed time display

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On 30/03/2010 09:40, ilan barak wrote:


Greetings.
I need help:

1. is there any method to enable the display of the current piece 
being played?
2. sometimes the "elapsed time" begins with a large number rather than 
0, see attached snapshot. why?


I am attaching my webradio.fxd as well

Ilan


Are you certain that the station is broadcasting metadata? I'm sure I 
noticed while playing web radio recently that freevo was displaying the 
song. This could be affected by a number of factors, the stream itself, 
the skin used, maybe even the version of player used. Can you provide a 
link to the stream and we can test it?


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Re: [Freevo-users] use of an other lirc socket then /dev/lircd

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On 15/03/2010 21:27, Thomas Fritzsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible that freevo use an other socket for the lircd? Is it a
> freevo or a pylirc "problem", that /dev/lircd is choosen?
>
> Background:
>
> I've a ltsp diskless system in the kitchen, on which runs freevo from my
> server.
> The lircd on the ltsp runs with "/usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0 -l"
> and on the server with "/usr/sbin/lircd --pidfile=/var/run/lircd_big.pid
> --driver=null --connect="
> This works fine, but I've connected to the server a video projector,
> which I'll cotrol with lirc an an other remote. Now the kitchen remote
> control both instances of freevo... :/
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
It might help if you detail exactly what commands you run on each 
machine. It's possible there may be a bug or maybe it's just a 
configuration thing, the lirc list might be helpful too.

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] Change TV Audio Language Settings for mencoder and mplayer

[John Molohan]

On 29/03/2010 15:58, markus frei wrote:
> I'm using freevo 1.9.0 using mint's repositories on mint 8 (KDE).
>
> Here in the german speaking part of switzerland our local TV stations often 
> send out movies in Dual Language mode, where english is the secondary 
> language. As I prefer watching such movies in english, I'd like to be able to 
> watch and record such movies in that language, and not in the syncronized 
> german version. I haven't been able to find where in freevo I can change that 
> setting for recording and watching TV using the secondary language. Using 
> TvTime I have no problem watching the program using the secondary language.
>
As you point out it's mencoder and mplayer that you want to get to play 
nice with this. I'd search for their settings for how to do this then 
you can simply add them to your MPLAYER_ARGS and VCR_CMD.

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] Black screen

[John Molohan]

On 13/04/2010 08:36, Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have just upgraded my Archlinux box (includes 2.6.33 kernel) and now 
> Freevo doesn't work.
>
> When I run freevo and try to watch a recorded video or liveTV I only 
> get sound and a black screen.
>
> I see no clues in the logs as to what is going on. It happens if I run 
> freevo from a KDE session or as "freevo -fs" from a tty console.
>
> I am running cvs version of Freevo 1.x branch, and have tried a recent 
> update in both Freevo and Kaa.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Thanks.
Have you tried copying the command freevo is running for xine or mplayer 
into a terminal and launching it from there? It might shed some light.

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo publicity

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John Molohan wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 04:33, MPhil Raymond wrote:
>   
>> Just some shameless, self promotion. The current issue of Ubuntu User 
>> magazine has an article I wrote on using Freevo to record and watch HDTV. If 
>> you can't find or buy it where you are, they do post past issues online for 
>> free downloading, but not until 6 months later. Anyway, hope you like it.
>> 
> This is great, any publicity we can get helps, thanks MPhil. I'll put a 
> note up on the site over the weekend.
>
> John
>   
That's up and linked in now.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo publicity

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On 02/04/2010 04:33, MPhil Raymond wrote:
> Just some shameless, self promotion. The current issue of Ubuntu User 
> magazine has an article I wrote on using Freevo to record and watch HDTV. If 
> you can't find or buy it where you are, they do post past issues online for 
> free downloading, but not until 6 months later. Anyway, hope you like it.
This is great, any publicity we can get helps, thanks MPhil. I'll put a 
note up on the site over the weekend.

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Re: [Freevo-users] TvTime not working with freevo 1.9.0

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On 30/03/2010 16:46, markus frei wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
No problem.
> Mint is a Distro based on Ubuntu, the current version uses Ubuntu Karmic as 
> base.
>
Good to know, thanks.
> I don't know how the Link you posted would help though, there's talk about 
> "python-zsi" and "sonata", neither of which are installed on my system. Also, 
> Debian's package manager should take care of dependency issues. I also tried 
> freevo with Debian Testing, and had the same issue there.
>
Towards the bottom of the page I linked this bit caught my eye:

In short, one could edit /usr/share/pyshared/sonata.py and add a line 
sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/oldxml') just after 
the first import statement. The ext.reader module is a part of PyExpat, 
which could be found under that path.

 From a glance it looked like a similar fix might work for you with the 
tvtime plugin but like I said this was from a 5 second search :)

John

>  Original-Nachricht ----
>
>> Datum: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:22:23 +0100
>> Von: John Molohan
>> An: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> CC: markus frei
>> Betreff: Re: [Freevo-users] TvTime not working with freevo 1.9.0
>>  
>
>> On 29/03/2010 16:00, markus frei wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm having problems with freevo 1.9.0 (installed via the mint
>>>
>> repositories) and mint 8 (KDE Version). I have configured the local_conf.py 
>> to remove
>> the tv.mplayer plugin, and activated the tv.tvtime plugin. When I try to
>> view TV, I get an error:
>>  
>>> "Cannot get TV plugin"
>>>
>>>
>>> The log file shows this:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010-03-19 10:33:42,806 DEBUGplugin.py (567): loading
>>>
>> tv.plugins.tvtime as plugin tv.plugins.tvtime.PluginInterface
>>  
>>> failed to load plugin tv.tvtime
>>> start 'freevo plugins -l' to get a list of plugins
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/plugin.py", line 569, in
>>>
>> __load_plugin__
>>  
>>>   exec('import %s' % module)
>>> File "", line 1, in
>>> File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/tv/plugins/tvtime.py", line 41,
>>>
>> in
>>  
>>>   from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2
>>> ImportError: No module named ext.reader
>>>
>>>
>>> mplayer works, but I prefer tvtime because of the better picture
>>>
>> quality.
>>  
>>>
>>>
>> I don't know what mint is but it sounds like a package/dependancy
>> problem. A 5 second search led me to this page, might be of interest
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsi/+bug/208855
>>
>> John
>>  
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Re: [Freevo-users] TvTime not working with freevo 1.9.0

[John Molohan]

On 29/03/2010 16:00, markus frei wrote:
> I'm having problems with freevo 1.9.0 (installed via the mint repositories) 
> and mint 8 (KDE Version). I have configured the local_conf.py to remove the 
> tv.mplayer plugin, and activated the tv.tvtime plugin. When I try to view TV, 
> I get an error:
>
> "Cannot get TV plugin"
>
>
> The log file shows this:
>
>
> 2010-03-19 10:33:42,806 DEBUGplugin.py (567): loading tv.plugins.tvtime 
> as plugin tv.plugins.tvtime.PluginInterface
> failed to load plugin tv.tvtime
> start 'freevo plugins -l' to get a list of plugins
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/plugin.py", line 569, in __load_plugin__
>  exec('import %s' % module)
>File "", line 1, in
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/tv/plugins/tvtime.py", line 41, in
>  from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2
> ImportError: No module named ext.reader
>
>
> mplayer works, but I prefer tvtime because of the better picture quality.
>
I don't know what mint is but it sounds like a package/dependancy 
problem. A 5 second search led me to this page, might be of interest 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsi/+bug/208855

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Re: [Freevo-users] Files missing for freevo 2 on svn

[John Molohan]

On 29/03/2010 19:59, Evan Hisey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:56 AM, markus frei  wrote:
>
>> I wanted to install freevo 2 via svn and using the wiki instructions on your 
>> site, the kaa part can get installed, but not the freevo part. It looks like 
>> at least the setup.py file is missing in the src/freevo folder...?
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> Freevo 2 is still not exactly up for general usage. It is getting
> there and the dev's would luv the guinea pig, but if you are looking
> for full usable stick with 1.9.x for now.
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They freevo 2 devels are quite active on the irc channel too if you want 
to ask any questions there, details on www.freevo.org.

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Re: [Freevo-users] commdetectserver

[John Molohan]

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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: [Freevo-users] commdetectserver

[John Molohan]

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
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Freevo-users] AppleTrailer Plugin

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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 

Re: [Freevo-users] AppleTrailer Plugin

[John Molohan]

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

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Re: [Freevo-users] AppleTrailer Plugin

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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,

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Re: [Freevo-users] multirecording patches

[John Molohan]

Paul Sijben wrote:
> Remus,
>
> sorry for the delay in reponding, must have overlooked this email before.
>
> Remus Koos wrote:
>   
>> Hi Paul !
>>
>> I can test your changes. I have a dual Hauppauge ivtv card.
>>
>> How do I do it ? Just copy over the three files and restart freevo ?
>>
>>   
>> 
> yes and change the local conf in the way indicated in my mail. However
> as with all these things backup your old files first!!!
>
>   
>> How do you determine which device to use for recording ? Are you locking the 
>> devices that are recording and just go to the next one in the list when is 
>> time to record a new program ?
>>   
>> 
> the way I am using the record group simply lists all the devices used
> for recording.
>
>   
>> Also, as far as VIDEO_GROUPS go, don't you have to have two entries for each 
>> device, one for viewing and one for recording with the 'record_group' of the 
>> first entry pointing to the next one if you want to use it for both viewing 
>> and recording ?
>>   
>> 
>
> I may have destroyed the viewing but, have not tested that since this change
Unless live TV works then the patch won't be accepted. It'll be a few 
more weeks before I can test this but if anyone else can please provide 
feedback for Paul.

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Re: [Freevo-users] XINE_BOOKMARK not working?

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Dan Schmidt wrote:
> :-\  I did not realize that if you hit the "info" button and a menu
> comes up where you can resume.  Thank you for your response!  An option
> to set "resume" to be the default action might be nice.
>   
Ah. I'd agree with you there, a choice when the file is played again to 
resume or play from start like xbmc would be better. It's not very 
intuitive at the moment.
> A scheduled recording while you are watching TV live with
> tv.ivtv_xine_tv seemed to crash the recording server last time I tried it. 
>   
I haven't noticed that I have to say and I was using it regularly up to 
Christmas. I'm just getting a new freevo box up and running now so I'll 
try test it out as soon as I can.
> Also, if somehow the xine temp file does not get deleted , xine
> crashes.  It would be easy to assure that these are deleted before
> trying to launch xine.
>   
Can't say I've noticed that either. Let me know what version of freevo 
this is though.

John

> John Molohan wrote:
>   
>> On 28/02/2010 10:24, Dan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>>> Please forgive me for asking so many questions.
>>>
>>> XINE_BOOKMARK does not seem to work.  Enabling debug, I see no evidence
>>> of get_time.  Has anybody else had any luck with this?  I don't quite
>>> get the events (STOP&  USER_END), so I'm having trouble debugging it.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> -Dan
>>>   
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> What version are you testing with? I haven't used this in a while but
>> it certainly used to work in earlier releases, I'll test as soon as I
>> can with current svn.
>>
>> John
>>
>> 
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Re: [Freevo-users] XINE_BOOKMARK not working?

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On 28/02/2010 10:24, Dan Schmidt wrote:
> Please forgive me for asking so many questions.
>
> XINE_BOOKMARK does not seem to work.  Enabling debug, I see no evidence
> of get_time.  Has anybody else had any luck with this?  I don't quite
> get the events (STOP&  USER_END), so I'm having trouble debugging it.
>
> Many thanks,
> -Dan
Hi Dan,

What version are you testing with? I haven't used this in a while but it 
certainly used to work in earlier releases, I'll test as soon as I can 
with current svn.

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Re: [Freevo-users] tv.ivtv_xine_tv increase TV buffer

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On 05/03/2010 3:55, Dan Schmidt wrote:
> I hope this was not mentioned before; I could not find it anywhere
> else.  Hopefully, a bit of googling will lead others here who wish to
> change the small buffer size for tv.ivtv_xine_tv.
>
> In the xine source code (input_pvr.c), we read:
>
> xine pvr:/\!\!
>
> What's this mean?  We care about max_page_age which can increase the
> short buffer.  Xine has this hard set to 3 in input_pvr.c.  Each file it
> creates is 200 meg, so that's 600 meg total.  In short, it doesn't
> amount to much pause time.
>
> If we want to change that number to 2 gig, some simple math would say
> that number should be 10.  This is very easy to do, the change in
> local_conf.py would be:
>
> XINE_TV_TIMESHIFT_FILEMASK = "var/tmp/livepause\!\!10"
>
> Instead of 600 meg, we now have 2 gig of disk space devoted to pausing
> live television.  Obviously, that 10 can be changed to anything you
> want.  (However, last time I left live TV on, it seemed to crash my
> recording server when it tried to record.  I'll look into that more
> before calling it a bug.)
>
> Also, as a side note, if your video device is not /dev/video0, I am told
> the solution is to edit the ~/.xine/config file and add a line as such :
>
> media.wintv_pvr.device:/dev/video2
Hi Dan,

Thanks for the post, very handy info to know. If you could add it to the 
wiki page that would be great. http://doc.freevo.org/Analogueivtv

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[Freevo-users] Lirc responsiveness [Solved]

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Hi,

I've been using a MCE (Microsoft) media remote for a few years now with 
freevo and have always found input sluggish compared to using the 
keyboard. Turns out simply changing the priority lircd process solves 
this for me (using lirc-0.8.3):

sudo renice -19 `echo \`pgrep lircd\` | sed -e 's/ /,/g'`

Hope this helps others. Some more tips and tricks for that remote can be 
found at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MCE_Remote

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Re: [Freevo-users] webserver vlc streaming bug

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On 12/02/2010 11:18, Paul Sijben wrote:
> I had to remove all the lines referring to vlc.log in vlc_funcs.js to
> make the vlc streaming work. There probably is a better way of getting
> it to work, what would that be?
>
> Paul
>
>
Hi Paul,

What version are you using? Can you post the traceback you were getting 
before you removed those lines?

Thanks,

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Re: [Freevo-users] Changing the sort order for a specific directory

[John Molohan]

On 18/02/2010 5:50, Manfred Schmitt wrote:
> John Molohan wrote:
>
>
>> On 13/02/2010 10:29, Bill Burroughs wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is probably an easy one; all I want to do is change the sort ordering 
>>> of a single directory to being in date order instead of filename - 
>>> basically it's my "incoming" or "dump them in there and deal with them 
>>> later" directory.  I'm hoping it's as simple as dropping a FXD file in the 
>>> directory or the main conf file.  If it ain't easy, if you could point me 
>>> in the direction of which python file I need to hack, that would be great.
>>>
>>>
>> There are config options for sorting available through the UI by
>> pressing d (or the remote key you have mapped) on the specific
>> directory. I'm not if you can set these in an fxd, maybe that's what the
>> UI setting actually does, you'd have to test.
>>
>>  
> Exactly, it drops an FXD into the directory or in the equivalent path
> in cache if the real directory is read only.
> At least that's what happened in 1.8.x, I hadn't time to test the newer
> Freevo-Versions.
>
> Bye,
> Manne
It would be _really_ great if someone could test these various settings 
and from the resulting fxd update http://doc.freevo.org/FXDFiles with 
information on what can be customised and how with an fxd for those 
who'd prefer not to use the GUI.

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] Ubuntu 9.10 tv.ivtv_xine_tv

[John Molohan]

Hi Dan,

Have you followed the steps for troubleshooting in the wiki? 
http://doc.freevo.org/TroubleShooting


Can you post the output from your logs when you launch xine? Also copy 
and paste the command freevo uses to launch xine into a terminal and see 
if you can get it working there.


John

On 21/02/2010 11:32, Dan Schmidt wrote:

Yes, thanks, PVR 350.  Launches xine, but it's just black.

I just want to be able to pause/rewind liveTV.  dvbstreamer says it 
doesn't support satellite boxes.


/FYI,  to get that installed on ubuntu 9.10:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=891767#5
(& 6)
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fno-strict-aliasing" ./configure --prefix=/usr/

Any help greatly appreciated, I'm starting to think I will NEVER get 
freevo to work.


Evan Hisey wrote:

To ask the obvious, but you are using an IVTV card correct?

Evan

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Dan Schmidt  wrote:
   

Hum... mplayer works, but tv.ivtv_xine_tv does not.  Is there some magic
required to make it work?  I have the correct xine version.

Many thanks,
-Dan

d...@dan-desktop:~$ xine -v
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.6cvs.
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
d...@dan-desktop:~$


d...@dan-desktop:~$ cat local_conf_stripped.py

CONFIG_VERSION = 5.27

AUDIO_DEVICE   = '/dev/dsp'  # e.g.: /dev/dsp0, /dev/audio,
/dev/alsa/?

SYS_SHUTDOWN_ENABLE = 1
SYS_SHUTDOWN_CMD = "sudo shutdown -h now"

EVENT_DEVS = []

UMASK = 002

CACHE_IMAGES = 1

plugin.remove('tv.generic_record')
plugin_record = plugin.activate('tv.ivtv_record')
plugin.remove('tv.mplayer')
plugin.activate('tv.ivtv_xine_tv')

LIRCRC = '/etc/freevo/lircrc'

XINE_HAS_NO_LIRC = False

TV_SETTINGS = 'ntsc television us-cable /dev/video0'

TV_DRIVER = 'v4l2'
TV_DEVICE = '/dev/video0'
TV_INPUT = 1

TV_VIDEO_GROUPS = [
VideoGroup(vdev=TV_DEVICE,
   adev=None,
   input_type='s-video 1',
   input_num=1,
   tuner_type='external',
   group_type = 'ivtv',
   desc='PVR-350 Video Group'),
]

TV_IVTV_OPTIONS = {
'input' : 1,
'resolution': '720x480',
'aspect': 2,
'audio_bitmask' : 233,
'bframes'   : 3,
'bitrate_mode'  : 1,
'bitrate'   : 400,
'bitrate_peak'  : 400,
'dnr_mode'  : 0,
'dnr_spatial'   : 0,
'dnr_temporal'  : 0,
'dnr_type'  : 0,
'framerate' : 0,
'framespergop'  : 15,
'gop_closure'   : 1,
'pulldown'  : 0,
'stream_type'   : 10,
}

XMLTV_SORT = '/usr/bin/tv_sort'

XMLTV_FILE = '/home/dan/test_zap/xmltv.xml'


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Re: [Freevo-users] multirecording patches

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On 18/02/2010 11:53, Paul Sijben wrote:



On 18-02-10 12:46, John Molohan wrote:

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your work on this. I haven't got my freevo box up and 
running at the moment but as soon as it's back in action I'll apply 
your patches and test them.


Just to be clear you're saying these patches haven't been tested with 
the generic record plugin, they may or may not work, they need to be 
tested? Should they currently work with ivtv or dvb or both?




I have only changed ivtv_record not the generic recoder as I do not 
use it and hence cannot test it.  Basically what I did in the ivtv 
plugin was make an array of recodring cards in stead of the one 
object. That needs to happen to the generic plugin too.


Paul

Grand, I'll test as soon as I can but that could still be a few weeks away.

Maybe Adam or one of the guys using DVB could take a look at making it 
work with DVB/livepause.


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Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] childapp.py's subprocess.popen can't open dynamically linked binaries under openbsd 4.6/python 2.5.4

[John Molohan]

On 17/02/2010 3:15, alis...@phrostbyte.dhis.org wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> I'm trying to port freevo svn install to openbsd 4.6 and I think I'm
> nearly there and ready to capture and blog the changes I had to make :)
>
> However I face hopefully one last issue:
>
> childapp.py uses the python subprocess popen call which executes
> mplayer gives a quick screen blank or redraw and the OS tries to load
> mplayer I see if I watch 'ps ax' while trying to watch a movie.  But
> nothing actually plays and the mplayer-stderr* log file reads:
>
> /usr/local/bin/mplayer: can't load library ''
>
> I see if I make /usr/lib/mplayer a simple /bin/sh script I can run any
> statically compiled binary in here from freevo with no errors.
>
> However if place a dynamically compiled binary in my script to be
> called it fails and logs to the mplayer-stderr*:
>
> $BINARY_PATH/$BINARY: Can't load library ''
>
> Currently my shell script looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/libexec:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib
> /usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer.real>/tmp/output
>
> This results in log lines of the following:
>
> /usr/bin/ldd: can't load library ''
>
> I think this is probably OpenBSD specific but on my googles can't find
> a way to allow python to call dynamically linked binaries and be able
> to find/load the libraries it needs :(
>
> Anyone know a way around this or a good place to start digging?
>
> Alistar =)
>
>
> Quoting Alistar Burrell:
>
>
>> Good Evening,
>>
>> I'm trying to port freevo svn install to openbsd 4.6 and I think I'm
>> nearly there and ready to capture and blog the changes I had to make :)
>>
>> However I face hopefully one last issue:
>>
>> childapp.py uses the python subprocess popen call which executes with
>> a lib path of just /usr/lib (probably a compiled in default of openbsd
>> somewhere) however mplayer and other things need access to libs in /
>> usr/local/lib and I don't wan to copy them there!
>>
>> Can any of you python/freevo heads offer up a fix? My python is almost
>> non existent but I have a feeling there is a way of passing it these
>> as an environment before calling anything with popen the first time.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alistar =)
>>  
Hi Alistar,

Sounds like you're getting close. You might be better off asking these 
questions on the devel list though.

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] Changing the sort order for a specific directory

[John Molohan]

On 13/02/2010 10:29, Bill Burroughs wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is probably an easy one; all I want to do is change the sort ordering of 
> a single directory to being in date order instead of filename - basically 
> it's my "incoming" or "dump them in there and deal with them later" 
> directory.  I'm hoping it's as simple as dropping a FXD file in the directory 
> or the main conf file.  If it ain't easy, if you could point me in the 
> direction of which python file I need to hack, that would be great.
>
> :)
> DJM23
There are config options for sorting available through the UI by 
pressing d (or the remote key you have mapped) on the specific 
directory. I'm not if you can set these in an fxd, maybe that's what the 
UI setting actually does, you'd have to test.

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Re: [Freevo-users] multirecording patches

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On 13/02/2010 12:19, Paul Sijben wrote:
I have attached my patched freevo 1.9 files to enable recording 
multiple channels  in parallel. The code has been tested for a while 
and seems to be running fine. Could other people please test it before 
I suggest these patches for inclusion in the next version of Freevo?


the changed files are:

* helpers/recordserver.py
* tv/channels.py
* tv/plugins/ivtv_record.py

Similar changes need to be made to generic record but I guess that is 
better to be done by someone who actually uses that plugin.
The VIDEO_GROUP I use as follows (slightly different from the standard 
use!)


VIDEO_GROUPS = [
  VideoGroup(vdev="/dev/video1",
  adev=None,
  input_type='tuner 1',
#  input_num=0,
  tuner_norm=CONF.tv,
  tuner_chanlist=CONF.chanlist,
  desc='Cable',
  group_type='ivtv',
record_group=None),
 VideoGroup(vdev="/dev/video0",
  adev=None,
  input_type='tuner 1',
#  input_num=0,
  tuner_norm=CONF.tv,
  tuner_chanlist=CONF.chanlist,
  desc='Cable',
  group_type='ivtv',
record_group=None)
   ]

Please provide feedback!

Paul

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your work on this. I haven't got my freevo box up and running 
at the moment but as soon as it's back in action I'll apply your patches 
and test them.


Just to be clear you're saying these patches haven't been tested with 
the generic record plugin, they may or may not work, they need to be 
tested? Should they currently work with ivtv or dvb or both?


Thanks,

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Re: [Freevo-users] DVD Playing issues

[John Molohan]

On 04/02/2010 4:22, Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using the latest svn of freevo 1.x and am having issues with not 
> being able to play DVD's from Freevo.
>
> I see the DVD ok, but when it plays I get a blank screen with jerky 
> sound, or some times I get the video, but it is jerky.
>
> Both mplayer and vlc play the DVD's just fine on that box.
>
> Any idea's anyone?
>
> Cheers,
> Bernie
Check your logs and copy and paste the command freevo is using to play 
the DVD into a terminal and see if it plays correctly there. If not post 
the logs.

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Re: [Freevo-users] SOLVED Re: how to (re) enable the recording time & date in directorylisting?

[John Molohan]

On 08/02/2010 10:40, Paul Sijben wrote:
> I (re) inserted the line
>
>  fxd.info['year'] = time.strftime('%m-%d ' + config.TV_TIME_FORMAT,
> time.localtime(rec_prog.start))
>
> in recordserver create_fxd (around line 1395) (I am imprecise because of
> my own changes to the file for multiple concurrent recording.)
>
> It looks as if this line was removed because the info goes into
> userdate. But that is not shown in the listings.
>
Thanks for the update. If you have time it would probably be better to 
change the skin to use the userdate instead and submit a patch if you could.

John
> On 07-02-10 20:46, Paul Sijben wrote:
>
>> In moving to freevo 1.9 from 1.6 I seem to have lost the date and time
>> in the fxd files for the recorded shows.
>>
>> What should I do to get that back, is there some setting I forgot to set?
>>
>> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>  
>


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Re: [Freevo-users] Appletrailer plugin

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On 07/02/2010 10:41, Jean-Michel Sizun wrote:
> Hello all,
> We had a similar problem with the coherence UpnP framework one or two
> months ago (where we also sport an appletrailer plugin). The apple
> server only serves video if the HTTP request for the video includes a
> QuickTime User-agent value. we forced the value 'QuickTime/7.6.2
> (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)' back here.
> I did not look at the freevo code, so i do not know if this is the same
> problem.
> Regards,
> Jean-Michel
>


Thanks Jean-Michel, I'll have a look at that when my freevo box finally 
gets relocated to our new home.

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Re: [Freevo-users] command fxd example that works with freevo -f?

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On 10/02/2010 6:14, Paul Sijben wrote:
> OK I have given up on this.As soon as you start up a window manager it
> changes the DPI of the screen to (a) something that is wrong for firefox
> &  thunderbird and (b) does not set it back so the video playback is
> shrunken.
>
> Since one needs a keyboard to enter urls and emails, I opted to run the
> apps on a different virtual terminal.
Hi Paul,

I've always run freevo -fs and when I did finally get around to setting 
this up I ended up doing something similar, launching a new X session 
and switching between the two.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Appletrailer plugin

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Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone used this successfully? I get all the trailers showing ok, 
> but when I goto play them the video returns to the 
> menu almost immediately.
>
> I thought that maybe it was because I had not installed the 
> libquicktime library, but that has not made any difference.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts? I do not see any error in either the plugin 
> or main logs.
>
> Cheers,
> Bernie
I'm afraid a change to the apple site broke the plugin a while back. I 
suggested previously the best way might be to reuse the apple trailer 
plugin from one of the other python based media centre's that was up to 
date and just adapt it for freevo. I can't remember which one it was but 
if you search the archives you should find it. It shouldn't take too 
much effort to rewrite it for freevo.

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Re: [Freevo-users] how to (re) enable the recording time & date in directorylisting?

[John Molohan]

Paul Sijben wrote:
> In moving to freevo 1.9 from 1.6 I seem to have lost the date and time
> in the fxd files for the recorded shows.
>
> What should I do to get that back, is there some setting I forgot to set?
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Paul
>   
Have you checked the fxd's to see if the info is still there? If so it 
could be a change to the skin, 1.6 to 1.9 has seen a lot change. If the 
info is still in the files try a couple of other skins to see if they 
display the info, if so you can probably add the code back to the skin 
of your choice.

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Re: [Freevo-users] [Debian Lenny] Youtube plugin crashes

[John Molohan]

On 03/02/2010 9:46, leandro noferini wrote:
> John Molohan ha scritto:
>
>
> [...]
>
>
>> I have a small patch waiting in the tracker that fixes this. It hasn't
>> been applied yet so you'll need to download it and patch yourself for now.
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=446898&aid=2887544&group_id=46652
>>  
> :-(
>
> I applied the patch but the error remains the same.
Hmm, the intention of the patch wasn't to fix that but I thought I 
remembered suffering from it before the patch then not seeing it since. 
I'm living between two houses at the moment with my freevo box still in 
the old house so I don't have much time or opportunities to check it but 
I will next time I can and let you know if I changed anything else.

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Re: [Freevo-users] [Debian Lenny] Youtube plugin crashes

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On 03/02/2010 3:06, leandro noferini wrote:
> Ciao a tutti,
>
> I am  trying to activate youtube  plugin in my  freevo (1.9.0-3.1 debian
> package from lenny) but I get this error and then a crash
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/main.py", line 306, in 
> eventhandler
>  app.eventhandler(event)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/menu.py", line 842, in eventhandler
>  self._handle_play_item(menu, event)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/menu.py", line 654, in _handle_play_item
>  action(arg=arg, menuw=self)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/menu.py", line 106, in select
>  self.function(arg=self.arg, menuw=menuw)
>File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/video/plugins/youtube.py", line 226, in 
> watchvideo
>  playvideo2 = YoutubeVideoItem(_('bla'), stream, self)
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'stream' referenced before assignment
>
Hi Leandro,

I have a small patch waiting in the tracker that fixes this. It hasn't 
been applied yet so you'll need to download it and patch yourself for now.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=446898&aid=2887544&group_id=46652

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Re: [Freevo-users] LinuxTag 2010 CVP

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On 29/01/2010 12:56, Hendrik Vogelsang wrote:
> Hey,
>
> i don't know if you are aware but the LinuxTag is closing its call for
> papers today. While i was putting in our submissions for openSUSE
> i was thinking that i might want to push the freevo 1.x talk I
> repeatedly held in the openSUSE room the last couple of years to the big
> main track. They are specifically asking for Video talks in the CVP
> and the text mentions media centers. So there is a good chance it goes
> in. The talk would be a user oriented talk explaining the goals/vision
> (reusing tools, modular, hackable etc.) for freevo while showing
> off the features of 1.x. Are you guys okay with this? Would anyone be
> interested in joining me?
>
> Henne
>
Hi Henne,

It sounds great. I won't be there but best of luck if you do go ahead. I 
embedded your video and a demo of the new skype integration on the 
homepage of freevo.org a couple of days ago so at least there's 
something there now if you're directing people to have a look.

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Re: [Freevo-users] multiple concurrent recording how to?

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On 24/01/2010 11:05, John Molohan wrote:
> Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Paul Sijben wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> When I installed my old freevo setup with 3 ivtv adapters I published
>>> some patches on this list against 1.6.x to allow for multiple concurrent
>>> recordings.
>>>
>>> Looking at the documentation I am led to believe that this did not make
>>> it into the tree. Is that correct?
>>>
>>>
> Yes.
>
>>> If so, when I patch my current 1.9 setup how do I publish the resulting
>>> patch so others can benefit from it?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> perhaps on the feature request tracker?
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652&atid=446898
>>
>>  
> That should do it. A(nother) patch for this would be very welcome :)
>
> John
While on the topic, I don't suppose you could add support to the record 
server to allow a frontend freevo instance to use another recordserver 
on the network to record? This along with multiple tuner support would rock.

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Re: [Freevo-users] how to configure 16:9 screen and crop tv recordings?

[John Molohan]

Interesting, thanks for the update.

John

On 25/01/2010 6:11, Paul Sijben wrote:
OK found it. The problem was that the detetection performed did not 
play well with the not-so-black bars in the recording. However giving 
a limit value to cropdetect does not always yield the desired result. 
So I am preparing a patch for video/plugins/mplayer.py that will yield 
the correct result.




On 24-01-10 11:52, Paul Sijben wrote:
I am in the process of converting my freevo setup to new hardware and 
a new 16:9 screen (1360x768)


I tried to set it up correctly but apparently I have forgotten 
something as recorded wide screen broadcasts now have black bars all 
around. So I turned on debugging and found this in the mplayer log:


CommandLine: '-slave' '-v' '-vo' 'xv,sdl,x11,' '-ao' 'oss:/dev/dsp' 
'-autosync' '100' '-nolirc' '-nojoystick' '-autoq' '100' *'-screenw' 
'1360' '-screenh' '768'* '-fs' '-cache' '5000' '*-monitoraspect' 
'16:9*' '-af' 'volnorm=1' '-vf' 'pp=de*,crop=720:576:0:0*' 
'//home/freevo/tvrecordings/12-26_1430_Bridge_to_Terabithia.mpeg'


so it is told of the screen size and aspect but then does not crop 
the video to the correct part.


What should I do to have recorded TV cropped correctly?

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Re: [Freevo-users] multiple concurrent recording how to?

[John Molohan]

Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Paul Sijben wrote:
>   
>> When I installed my old freevo setup with 3 ivtv adapters I published
>> some patches on this list against 1.6.x to allow for multiple concurrent
>> recordings.
>>
>> Looking at the documentation I am led to believe that this did not make
>> it into the tree. Is that correct?
>> 
Yes.
>> If so, when I patch my current 1.9 setup how do I publish the resulting
>> patch so others can benefit from it?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> 
> perhaps on the feature request tracker?
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652&atid=446898
>   
That should do it. A(nother) patch for this would be very welcome :)

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Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv working for italy

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Fabrizio Ferraro wrote:
> John Molohan wrote:
>   
>> I'd argue a full detailing of the settings and instructions would be 
>> useful, especially if you remember to keep them up to date. Even if you 
>> don't new users often don't have a clue about configuring or installing 
>> xmltv let alone freevo so the more detail that can be given in step by 
>> step instructions the better. A note can be put on the page to encourage 
>> the user to check with xmltv --configure to make sure their using an up 
>> to date version if they want.
>>
>>   
>> 
>
> Well, I guess you're right ;)
> Since it seems that Carlo didn't do it, I just had some time to add a 
> new page on the wiki with instructions on how to get italian listings 
> with xmltv.
>
> Cheers,
> izio
Cool. Thanks.

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Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv working for italy

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Fabrizio Ferraro wrote:
> Carlo Rossi Bordone wrote:
>   
>> Ok, I will try new version: I see 0.5.56, is it good?
>>   
>> 
>
> Sorry for the late answer, but I've been very busy in the last few days...
> Yes, it's good. As far as I know, tv_grab_it hasn't changed till 0.5.55
>
>
>   
>> So it will be useful adding a section in wiki explaining this: for
>> Italy you need at least the 0.5.55 version for wmltv to work.
>>
>>   
>> 
>
> Sure it will be ;)
>
> Cheers,
> izio
I'd argue a full detailing of the settings and instructions would be 
useful, especially if you remember to keep them up to date. Even if you 
don't new users often don't have a clue about configuring or installing 
xmltv let alone freevo so the more detail that can be given in step by 
step instructions the better. A note can be put on the page to encourage 
the user to check with xmltv --configure to make sure their using an up 
to date version if they want.

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Re: [Freevo-users] [PATCH] LCDd requires escaped backslashes

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Anders Eriksson wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> john.molo...@gcd.ie said:
>   
>> Thanks for the patch, can you submit it to the bug tracker to make sure  it
>> gets included? 
>> 
>
> I don't want to be rude, but is there any reason it cannot be applied right
> now? I'm not sure who has commit rights. Do you?
>
> -Anders
>   
Don't worry, it's a fair question.

I can't commit no, Duncan is the maintainer of the 1.x branch and would 
be the one committing it. He asked a long time ago that people use the 
tracker for a number of reasons including crediting the user, tracking 
the bugs and feature requests and to make sure that patches don't get 
lost in the list archives if he doesn't get around to applying them 
quickly. There were probably a few others too, sourceforge statistics at 
a guess.

As it happens he's been pretty busy lately and is only getting back to 
spending some time on the 1.x branch now after a long break. It's handy 
for him to be able to browse the trackers and know exactly what's 
outstanding rather than having to trawl through every single post to the 
users and devel lists to get up to speed.

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Re: [Freevo-users] [PATCH] LCDd requires escaped backslashes

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Anders Eriksson wrote:
> Current lcd.py emits unescaped backslashed for the audio progress 
> indications. 
> Resulting in the following error in LCDd:  
>
> select(1024, [3 5 6 7], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 2 (in [6 7], left {0, 0})
> read(6, "widget_set P cpu0_bar 6 1 4\n", 8192) = 28
> read(6, 0xbfe0c33c, 8192)   = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
> unavailable)
> read(7, "widget_set audio_player animation_v 1 2 \"\\\"\n", 8192) = 44
>  | 0  77 69 64 67 65 74 5f 73  65 74 20 61 75 64 69 6f  widget_s et audio 
> |
>  | 00010  5f 70 6c 61 79 65 72 20  61 6e 69 6d 61 74 69 6f  _player  animatio 
> |
>  | 00020  6e 5f 76 20 31 20 32 20  22 5c 22 0a  n_v 1 2  "\". 
> |
> read(7, 0xbfe0c33c, 8192)   = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
> unavailable)
> write(6, "success\n", 8)= 8
> time(NULL)  = 1263892954
> send(8, "<11>Jan 19 10:22:34 LCDd: error: huh? Could not parse command\n\0", 
> 63, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 63
> write(7, "huh? Could not parse command\n", 29) = 29
> nanosleep({0, 3125}, NULL)  = 0
> gettimeofday({1263892954, 428432}, NULL) = 0
> select(1024, [3 5 6 7], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 0})
> read(6, "widget_set P cpu1_bar 6 2 50\n", 8192) = 29
> read(6, 0xbfe0c33c, 8192)   = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
> unavailable)
>
>
> This patch fixes it:
>
> --- /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/plugins/lcd_old.py  2010-01-19 
> 11:00:59.0 +0100
> +++ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/plugins/lcd.py  2010-01-19 
> 11:00:32.0 +0100
> @@ -598,9 +598,9 @@
>  # Animaton-Sequence used in audio playback
>  # Some displays (like the CrytstalFontz) do display the \ as a /
>  if self.version.startswith('0.5'):
> -self.animation_audioplayer_chars = ['-', '\\', '|', '/']
> +self.animation_audioplayer_chars = ['-', '', '|', '/']
>  elif self.version.startswith('0.4'):
> -self.animation_audioplayer_chars = ['-', '\\', '|', '/']
> +self.animation_audioplayer_chars = ['-', '', '|', '/']
>  else:
>  self.disable = 1
>  self.reason = 'Unsupported LCDd version: %s' % (self.version,)
>
>
>   
Hi Anders,

Thanks for the patch, can you submit it to the bug tracker to make sure 
it gets included? 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=446895&group_id=46652 


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Re: [Freevo-users] freevo -fs not working any more

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Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just put a HD4650 ATI graphics board in my media box (I had 
> previously used the onboard intel graphics).
> Freevo works fine from a window, but as it's own window manager, I now 
> have issues. When I start freevo with the -fs option from
> console F2, I get sound briefly then nothing and a black screen .. it 
> used to work fine with the intel graphics.
>
> The new graphics adapter works fine, I am using the latest drivers and 
> mesa libs and get a glxgears rate of 2400fps.
> OpenGL works fine.
>
> Does anyone know what the issue is, I have searched the logs and can 
> find nothing ..
>
> Thanks,
Did the logs for X show anything?

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Re: [Freevo-users] Generating thumbnails

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Duncan Webb wrote:
> On 13/01/2010 18:39, John Molohan said the following:
>   
>> Duncan Webb wrote:
>> 
>>> Ruben wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>   
>>>> Thanks Evan, I could finally put the right command line arguments 
>>>> checking the source.
>>>>  
>>>> I'll try to use what you say.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Did you mean the following?
>>> freevo cache --video-thumbs --recursive /home/freevo/video
>>>
>>> All helpers have help but getting it is not that obvious the trick is to 
>>> tell freevo not to process the --help option but to pass it on; This is 
>>> archived by using a double-dash so:
>>> # freevo cache -- --help
>>>
>>> You will see similar command line options with X.
>>>
>>> Duncan
>>>   
>>>   
>> This seems like really bizarre behaviour and I doubt anyone would work 
>> that out. Is there no easy way around it?
>> 
>
>
> No. The --help option is taken by the optparse modules in the freevo 
> script and cannot be passed on. The -- option tells optparse to stop 
> processing arguments, this allows the --help option to be passed on.
>
> So:
> freevo --help gives the help from the freevo script
> freevo cache -- --help gives the help from the help script.
>
> Duncan
Fair enough, thanks for the explanation.

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Re: [Freevo-users] Generating thumbnails

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Duncan Webb wrote:
> On 13/01/2010 18:39, John Molohan said the following:
>   
>> Duncan Webb wrote:
>> 
>>> Ruben wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>   
>>>> Thanks Evan, I could finally put the right command line arguments 
>>>> checking the source.
>>>>  
>>>> I'll try to use what you say.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Did you mean the following?
>>> freevo cache --video-thumbs --recursive /home/freevo/video
>>>
>>> All helpers have help but getting it is not that obvious the trick is to 
>>> tell freevo not to process the --help option but to pass it on; This is 
>>> archived by using a double-dash so:
>>> # freevo cache -- --help
>>>
>>> You will see similar command line options with X.
>>>
>>> Duncan
>>>   
>>>   
>> This seems like really bizarre behaviour and I doubt anyone would work 
>> that out. Is there no easy way around it?
>> 
>
> No
>
> Duncan
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Re: [Freevo-users] OVERLAY_DIR and freevo cache --www-thumbs

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Anders Eriksson wrote:
> Using freevo 1.9.0, I can't get cached www-thumbnails to be in the 
> OVERLAY_DIR.
>  
>
>
>
> fre...@tv ~ $ freevo cache -- --help
> Usage: 
>
> Freevo Cache helper to delete unused cache entries and to cache all files in
> your data directories.
>
> If the --rebuild option is given, Freevo will delete the cache first to 
> rebuild
> the cache from start. Caches from discs won't be affected
>
> --www-thumbs [ --recursive ] [ --directory=DIR ] will generate image 
> thumbnails
>
> --video-thumbs [ --recursive ] [ --directory=DIR ] will generate video 
> thumbnails
>
> --cropdetect [ --recursive ] [ --directory=DIR ] will generate mplayer crop 
> options
>
> The directory option can be specified more than once, one per directory of 
> file.
>
> WARNING:
>
> Caching needs a lot free space in OVERLAY_DIR. The space is also needed when
> Freevo generates the files during run time. Image caching is the worst. So 
> make
> sure you have several hundred MB free!
> OVERLAY_DIR is set to /home/freevo/cache/vfs
>
> ^^They should go to /home/frevo/cache/vfs !!!
>
>
> fre...@tv ~ $ freevo cache --www-thumbs  --rebuild   --recursive
> checking web-server thumbnails..
> 403 files
>  1/403  /media/images/foo/keb15.png
> Made image '/media/images/foo/.thumbs/keb15.png' @ 256 -> (256, 182)
>
> ... but end up as in-tree subdirectories.
>
>
> Looking at the source, it seems to boil down to this function:
>
>
> def www_image_path(filename, subdir='.thumbs'):
> """
> returns the path to the thumbnail image for a given filename
> """
> dirname = os.path.dirname(filename)
> file_base, file_extn = os.path.splitext(filename)
> file_extn = file_extn.lower()
> if file_extn == ".gif":
> file_extn = ".jpg"
> # the filename extension needs to be lowercase for imlib2 but we need to
> # keep the original filename for cache to be able to clean the files
> imagename = os.path.basename(file_base).lower() + file_extn
> #imagepath = vfs.getwwwoverlay(imagename)
> imagepath = os.path.join(dirname, subdir, imagename)
> return imagepath
>
>
> which has the overlay related stuff commented out. Is this a typo, or 
> made deliberately because it's known to be broken somehow?
>
> /Anders
>
>   
Did you resolve this?

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] Possible that my childrens can configure from freevo itself without editing local_conf.py?

[John Molohan]

yellow protoss wrote:
> Hello,
Hi
>
> Freevo is really nice and simple compared to mythtv. I never made it 
> working mythtv. I get used to freevo since 4-5 years.
> It's great.
:)
> Now the question is how to satisfy everyone with the lounge home 
> cinema. I havent much time to admin this machine, and well users can 
> do it themself. Like adding rss to headlines, e.g. firefox first, 
> wihtout  a mouse  remains kind of challenging, well.
>
> So since freevo gets daily more and more famous, it might be great 
> that editing  or configuring the menu could be done from freevo 
> itself. Would be great?
>
> the question is how?
>
> Long life to freevo
> Greeings
> Y.
There is now support for configuring freevo through the web interface. 
I'd take a backup of your local_conf.py as a matter of habit. It's not 
the prettiest interface in the world but your kids should be able to use 
it to add headline locations etc. One thing that's missing now that I 
think about it is a way to stop and start freevo from the web interface 
so that changes can be applied. I'll add that at some stage if I remember.

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] Password dialog doesn't work

[John Molohan]

Matthias Lübben wrote:
> Hello freevo-user list,
>
> Since an upgrade to 1.9.0 a password protected directory is accessible
> without the password dialog. Inside the directory is a file called
> .password. The expected dialog doesn't show up like in previous freevo
> versions. Maybe something changed in this version?
>
> Matthias Lübben
I don't use this feature so I can't say I've noticed. Have you reverted 
to a previous freevo version and confirmed it works with that? If so you 
can narrow down the changes and have a look at the changelog and the 
source to see what changed. Normally I'd say turn on debugging and 
report back what you see in the logs but I'm guessing that there's not 
much there on this.

John

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Re: [Freevo-users] xmltv working for italy

[John Molohan]

Carlo Rossi Bordone wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a xmltv configuration file working for italy 
> television: could anybody help me?
>
> Carlo Rossi Bordone
> crbord...@gamil.com 
There might be one in the wiki (maybe not) but if you don't get an 
answer here the xmltv mailing list should definitely provide the answer.

John

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