Re: [Freevo-users] Television Problem: No show, but mplayer command fine

2006-03-26 Thread Michele Ravani
Hi If I set DEBUG=1 I can see the tv output, the only difference in the command call below is poll=-1 instead of poll=256. However, it displays mplayer in a separate window and essentially ignores the full screen mode, as the rest of the screen goes black but the image size stays the same.

[Freevo-users] CPU 100% hang by folder with broken images

2006-03-26 Thread Michele Ravani
Hi opening a folder which contains broken jpg files sends freevo in a 100% CPU hang. Is this known? Michele --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile

[Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Rick Seiden
Hello everyone. Before I ask this question, I want to say that I've searched linuxtv.org, the archives for this mailing list, google, and a few other digital cable related websites, and I couldn't find an answer. Doesn't mean it's not out there, just that I couldn't find it. So, here's the

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Justin Wetherell
Let me start out by saying; I know bits and pieces of info, so I might not be 100% correct (or even 10%). You can receive a digital signal with alot of the available cards but I believe that the US cable companies haven't opened up the system to allow them actually decode the signal. So you will

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Mlists
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 19:12 +, Justin Wetherell wrote: Let me start out by saying; I know bits and pieces of info, so I might not be 100% correct (or even 10%). You can receive a digital signal with alot of the available cards but I believe that the US cable companies haven't opened

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Ruelle
The only cards i have found that work in the USA only receive non encrypted over the air HDTV. To get it to work with cable in the USA you have to go thru the digital tv box. Unfortuneately all the standards for digital TV in the USA are not open. Story maybe different in Canada, might want to

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Rob Shortt
Michael Ruelle wrote: The only cards i have found that work in the USA only receive non encrypted over the air HDTV. To get it to work with cable in the USA you have to go thru the digital tv box. Unfortuneately all the standards for digital TV in the USA are not open. Story maybe different in

Re: [Freevo-users] Television Problem: No show, but mplayer command fine

2006-03-26 Thread Evan Hisey
Michele- This sounds like a scaling issue. For some reason mplayer is not scaling up the image to full screen. This could be becuase it is not getting the scale command or mabe the X server does not know how to adjsut teh display resolution to fit. That black box is mplayer attempting to display

Re: [Freevo-users] Television Problem: No show, but mplayer command fine

2006-03-26 Thread Michele Ravani
It went away when I put the geometry to my full screen (1280x1024) in freevo.conf I am not sure this is the way it is supposed to be. M Evan Hisey wrote: Michele- This sounds like a scaling issue. For some reason mplayer is not scaling up the image to full screen. This could be becuase it

[Freevo-users] Problems with mplayer and analog tv

2006-03-26 Thread Michele Ravani
Hi When I want to watch tv, freevo uses this command app= /usr/bin/mplayer -vo xv,sdl,x11, -fs -slave -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 1280 -screenh 1024 -fs -slave -cache 8192 /dev/video0, poll=256 The screen goes black and then after a few secs I am back to the guide The command