Re: [Freevo-users] Recording not starting and problem with channel management

2009-01-19 Thread markus frei
OK, I didn't get anywhere, so I tried this on another PC with a similar config. Again I used the mint repositories to install freevo 1.8.1 through synaptic and had similar porblems. I then used standard channels and not frequencies, again similar problems. Then I uninstalled freevo via synaptic

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Duncan Webb
Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 19:52 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote: There is an etch package for python 2.5, so this would not be a huge deal. This seems to be the general sentiment so far. Duncan, you're so far kaa.base's biggest customer (by means of Freevo 1.x) so I'd

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 20:18 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: Personally, I don't mind making Python-2.5 a requirement. I wonder how many people are still using Python-2.4 as it can be a biggish task to migrate all the packages. Biggish, although I think most recent distros take care of that without

Re: [Freevo-users] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: I'm prepared now to begin using Python 2.5 features inside kaa.base and make it a formal requirement unless there are no further arguments. This new requirement will apply to svn shortly, and to the next release. We could remove the 2.4 yield support with the

Re: [Freevo-users] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Meyer
Duncan Webb wrote: I've just started the jump from Python-2.4 to Python-2.6 on my DirectFB machine. So far it has been easy enough and been fairly trouble free. Stupid question from the 2.0 development point of view: you use DFB in Freevo? What card to you have? For 2.0 we are going we are

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:50 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: kaa.rpc and we want to rename one function there. I guess you also use kaa.Process which will be updated with a new API soon (that API requires 2.5). Not just a new API, but semantic changes that might mean a not-so-straightforward porting.

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:53 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: So after the 2.4 question, here a new one: anyone not using X11 and why? I'm also interested in answers especially that don't involve old hardware. This may be a controversial statement, but we're not considering older hardware at all for

Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread John Molohan
Dirk Meyer wrote: Duncan Webb wrote: I've just started the jump from Python-2.4 to Python-2.6 on my DirectFB machine. So far it has been easy enough and been fairly trouble free. Stupid question from the 2.0 development point of view: you use DFB in Freevo? What card to you have?

Re: [Freevo-users] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Meyer
John Molohan wrote: Dirk Meyer wrote: Duncan Webb wrote: I've just started the jump from Python-2.4 to Python-2.6 on my DirectFB machine. So far it has been easy enough and been fairly trouble free. Stupid question from the 2.0 development point of view: you use DFB in Freevo?

[Freevo-users] Patch for mplayer to handle

2009-01-19 Thread John Molohan
Hi, While trying to build a scraper for rte.ie for their archived video which they make available in through smil links I found that mplayer didn't support a particular smil format they use. One of the guys I work with kindly patched it. It seems that mplayer didn't support the SMIL 3.0 Tiny

Re: [Freevo-users] Patch for mplayer to handle smil files using 3.0 Tiny Profile e.g. www.rte.ie

2009-01-19 Thread John Molohan
Sorry, hit send last time before completing the subject line. John Molohan wrote: Hi, While trying to build a scraper for rte.ie for their archived video which they make available in through smil links I found that mplayer didn't support a particular smil format they use. One of the guys I

Re: [Freevo-users] Please Read: Making Python 2.5 a requirement

2009-01-19 Thread Duncan Webb
Dirk Meyer wrote: Jason Tackaberry wrote: I'm prepared now to begin using Python 2.5 features inside kaa.base and make it a formal requirement unless there are no further arguments. This new requirement will apply to svn shortly, and to the next release. We could remove the 2.4 yield