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

2009-01-26 Thread Dirk Meyer
liz dodd wrote: the old celeron did not have enough power to record and run the tuner, so the s-presso case is out of service. DVB or analog? A DVB recorder does not need much CPU power. I use an AMD Geode with 500 MHz and that is enough. If you want to record analog TV with mpeg an-the-fly you

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

2009-01-26 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Dirk Meyer wrote: iz dodd wrote: the old celeron did not have enough power to record and run the tuner, so the s-presso case is out of service. DVB or analog? A DVB recorder does not need much CPU power. I use an AMD Geode with 500 MHz and that is enough. If you want

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

2009-01-26 Thread Dirk Meyer
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Dirk Meyer wrote: iz dodd wrote: the old celeron did not have enough power to record and run the tuner, so the s-presso case is out of service. DVB or analog? A DVB recorder does not need much CPU power. I use an AMD Geode with 500 MHz and that

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:00 +, Andrew Flegg wrote: A $40 PCI card, which'll fit a low (CPU-)power Mini-ITX machine in a small case with room for only one or two PCI cards? PCI? No. If you have no free PCI-express slot, then clearly you can't upgrade easily.

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Stephen Rowles wrote: I was thinking about one of the new Atom 330 (dual core) motherboards as these are supposed to be able to handle 720p and some 1080p content with the latest playback drivers, but the graphics card is a very old GMA 950, would you expect that sort of system to cope with

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Morten Lied Johansen wrote: Dirk Meyer wrote: Morten Lied Johansen wrote: I'm running Freevo using FB (uvesafb I think, been a while since I checked the actual config), simply because I couldn't figure out how to configure it any other way (and get it to work). :) What gfx card to you

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
liz dodd wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009 8:05:09 pm Stephen Rowles wrote: Now I have a VERY low profile case (40mm hight clearance internally) and only space for 1 card... now as that slot will probably be a 2 tuner tv card, my new tv tuner is just an oversized usb stick in size and is no

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

2009-01-25 Thread Morten Lied Johansen
Dirk Meyer wrote: Morten Lied Johansen wrote: Dirk Meyer wrote: Morten Lied Johansen wrote: I'm running Freevo using FB (uvesafb I think, been a while since I checked the actual config), simply because I couldn't figure out how to configure it any other way (and get it to work). :) What gfx

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

2009-01-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:52 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: I guess so. There are four choices: Only three. 2. You have a gfx card that does not support hardware colorspace conversion and has no shader support in the GPU. That means we have to do the colorspace conversion in the CPU.

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

2009-01-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:52 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: I guess so. There are four choices: Only three. 2. You have a gfx card that does not support hardware colorspace conversion and has no shader support in the GPU. That means we have to do the colorspace

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

2009-01-25 Thread liz dodd
On Monday 26 January 2009 8:54:08 am Stephen Rowles wrote: Or should I be looking for a more modern intel graphics chipset? Or possible a bigger case so I can fit a cheap nvidia card in there? Or as other people suggested, USB attached TV reception? tbh I'm not sure a bigger case in the lounge

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

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:55 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: When comparing the picture quality of TV broadcasts from CRT TVs and TFT TVs the picture quality was simply much better with the CRTs. I'm rather tempted to say the reason is, paradoxically, because of the added

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

2009-01-20 Thread Duncan Webb
Dirk Meyer wrote: 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

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

2009-01-20 Thread Dirk Meyer
Morten Lied Johansen wrote: I'm running Freevo using FB (uvesafb I think, been a while since I checked the actual config), simply because I couldn't figure out how to configure it any other way (and get it to work). :) What gfx card to you have? As to the 4:3 vs 16:9 debate, I am of the

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] 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?

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

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

2009-01-15 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hi, we are wondering if we can make Python 2.5 a requirement for Freevo 1.8? It would make things a lot easier in kaa.base (signal handler) and kaa.metadata (relative imports). So how many users still use Python 2.4 and why? Dischi -- It's not Area 51 I'm worried about- it's Areas 1 through

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

2009-01-15 Thread alhaz
Quoting Dirk Meyer dis...@freevo.org: Hi, we are wondering if we can make Python 2.5 a requirement for Freevo 1.8? It would make things a lot easier in kaa.base (signal handler) and kaa.metadata (relative imports). So how many users still use Python 2.4 and why? Python 2.4.4 is the