Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-29 Thread Rob Shortt
Jortan H wrote: However, when I started Freevo, it stopped with the followin error: pygame.error: No available video device I'm using the following freevo.conf: chanlist = us-cable display = dfbmga geometry = 720x576 jpegtran = ./runtime/apps/jpegtran mplayer = /usr/local/bin/mplayer tv = pal tvt

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-29 Thread Rob Shortt
Aubin Paul wrote: Rob, How do you have your PVR250 setup? I tried using Freevo/DirectFB/mplayer with the PVR250 and while normal movies looked good, anything from the PVR looked awful. Hmm. When I got directfb setup last night the first thing I noticed was that files from the pvr250 were _aweso

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-29 Thread Rob Shortt
Rob Shortt wrote: that files from the pvr250 were _awesome_. However upon further examination there is an extremely noticable and annoying choppy effect. Do you get that? BTW I notice that mostly in scenes with high motion. --- This SF.Net

Re: [Freevo-users] rshortt: VCR_CMD with IVTV question.

2003-07-29 Thread Rob Shortt
Rich C wrote: Hello Rob, When using IVTV card, what should the VCR_CMD parameter be set to. In the example I saw, it points to the command '/var/media/bin/tvrecord' or something like that. You can safely ignore VCR_CMD when using record_server with the pvr card. I will update the comments in

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-30 Thread Rob Shortt
Rob Shortt wrote: Rob Shortt wrote: that files from the pvr250 were _awesome_. However upon further examination there is an extremely noticable and annoying choppy effect. Do you get that? BTW I notice that mostly in scenes with high motion. I also forgot to mention that I see this on DVDs

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-out on G450

2003-07-30 Thread Rob Shortt
Aubin Paul wrote: Isn't the TV out interlaced? Shouldn't mplayer leave it alone? Yes and yes. "should" But it might have something to do with the buffering - single/double/triple. Hopefully I will be able to figure something out when I get home after work today. -Rob --

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Legal issues

2003-07-30 Thread Rob Shortt
Dirk Meyer wrote: I don't think it's too much to ask for the user to get the mplayer somewhere else. There are many sites where you can get a fully working mplayer or xine -- but not at USA, German, France, ... server. I don't like the law, but I think we should respect it (the same we we want othe

Re: [Freevo-users] rominfo...

2003-07-30 Thread Rob Shortt
Alec wrote: Hum...then it's not the reason why i do not see my roms in the directory. By any chance does these lines in the log tells you something? MameRomList version number 1 is stale (new is 2), must be reloaded MameRomList has 0 items. Find your romlist (/var/cache/freevo/romlist-0.pickled, or

Re: [Freevo-users] rominfo...

2003-07-30 Thread Rob Shortt
Alec wrote: That worked. Nowow it's freevo that's crashing when trying to play, but i can see the list of the roms. Is there any doc on how to use xmame? Specificly for Freevo? No. For xmame in general check their site. Can you send the traceback from when Freevo crashes? -Rob -

Re: [Freevo-users] rominfo...

2003-07-31 Thread Rob Shortt
Alec wrote: That was specificaly for freevo of course. For the crash it was because xmame-gl could not find libGL.so. I works with standard xmame (i had to remove -modenumber 6 it's not suported ). In case you're still interested, here it is : Game.play(): Starting thread, cmd=--prio=-20 /usr/gam

Re: [Freevo-users] Framebuffer vs. X

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Shortt
den_RDC wrote: If you use a Nvidia card u pretty much have no choice but using X (afaik accelerated output + tvout in fb is impossible with nvidia cards, maybe directfb will do this in the future but i doubt it). I disagree! Before I got my G400 I was using a geforce4 MX440 for my tv-out. When

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording

2003-08-02 Thread Rob Shortt
Joe Stump wrote: I'm trying to get the PVR for Freevo working and I'm having some problems. The cron job is all set up and running without any DLL problems and the logs don't show anything of any interest, but I'm not getting any recorded shows and I think I know why. In record_config.py my RECORD_

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording Scheduler

2003-08-03 Thread Rob Shortt
Joe Stump wrote: My recent trials with the recording aspect of Freevo has led me to the conclusion that in order to do *serious* recording within Freevo a better backend will be needed. I know one of the goals of Freevo is to build an out-of-box application, but for those of us yearning for reoccur

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording TV and docs..

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Shortt
Joakim Berglund wrote: Hi there! First thanks for the great improvment you have done on the documentation lately! The only thing I haven't up and running 100% right now due to that is the TV recording. I can't see the record_server beeing mention at all in there... So my question regarding this i

Re: [Freevo-users] lirc usage in "sir" mode

2003-08-15 Thread Rob Shortt
Deon Stoltz wrote: Hi all Hi. We are trying to use freevo with a remote control device (IR). However, our platform (allwell Set Top Box) encodes the Infra Red as commands on the command line. This it seems bypasses the lirc interface. Sounds like a fun project! Can you send some links on the box

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo Installation HOWTO v0.50 Released

2003-08-18 Thread Rob Shortt
Joe Stump wrote: TODO: - Remote control information (I get my streamzap soon ...) - Xine information - CD ripping plugin info - WebVCR+ section (coming very soon) How about documenting Freevo's own web interface instead? :) I can provide you with any information you may need. - Web radio informa

Re: [Freevo-users] Dxr3 and 1.3.4 No available video device

2003-08-26 Thread Rob Shortt
Mark Benson wrote: I've downloaded the binary relase 1.3.4 and when I run it with dxr3 as the output I get the following error pygame.error: No available video device [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo-1.3.4]# I have 1.3.2 binary running fine with the dxr3, but 1.3.4 does not want to play. Any ideas?

Re: [Freevo-users] PyLCD?

2003-08-26 Thread Rob Shortt
Google... pylcd, first hit. http://unattached.i-no.de/software-pylcd.shtml -Rob Berni wrote: Hi there, I wanted to use the LCD-Plugin of freevo 1.3.4 but I can't use it use it due to the same error as posted here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5737460 I compiled freevo th

Re: [Freevo-users] recording server connection to freevo?

2003-09-02 Thread Rob Shortt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi. I started messing around with freevo last week, and I am really impressed with where it's at! I'd like to help out with the effort if I can find a spot to apply myself. I have a question, but first - some info on my setup: Freevo version: 3.5 That's interesting bec

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo 1.3.4 weather, amazon and rom drives

2003-09-03 Thread Rob Shortt
John Molohan wrote: Tried out the weather plugin earlier and got 'WEATHER: error reading cache. Using fake weather.' I tried two different stations and got the same results. Also with this enabled the menu system then takes between 2 to 20 seconds to switch items, if I disable the weather plugin al

Re: [Freevo-users] Icons vs. Lists in 1.3.4

2003-09-04 Thread Rob Shortt
Jim Duda wrote: I just upgraded from version 1.3.2 from 1.3.4. The new look and feel is slick, however, I have one complaint. When I view my MP3 file directory now, I get icons instead of text names. When i select the icon, the text name appears above the icon. The files in the Movies directory

[Freevo-users] Re: [Freevo-devel] record_client/server

2003-09-04 Thread Rob Shortt
). I am sure there are some other things like that but now that this stuff is on the main branch people will work on it. ;) -Rob Rob Shortt wrote: Hi all, The record_client/server interface is at a point now where I think Freevo main should be using it. The server has been rock solid for me

Re: [Freevo-users] What I want from freevo, and Tuning into Freevo

2003-09-23 Thread Rob Shortt
Paul Cowper wrote: Will I have to download that app (iirc tvtime) or is that usualy included in a distro? You will need to download tht one seperately. I think it even has a nice rpm for you. - http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/ You see all I need to do is tune my tv card in, also even if I cant

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Developers, can I help? Please read

2003-09-24 Thread Rob Shortt
Paul Cowper wrote: Well Using a web based interface would be a great idea. But I am then sure it would not have to be python. It could just as easily be perl. Plus the graphical element can be done using html. Freevo has a builtin webserver, in python, and uses special python 'resource scripts' as

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Developers, can I help? Please read

2003-09-24 Thread Rob Shortt
IMO xml files aren't terribly user friendly and shouldn't be used for user facing configuration. I am not suggesting python files are any better. ;) I guess my point is that using python for the main configuration source we wouldn't need to parse the file, just load or import it. -Rob Rafael

Re: [Freevo-users] Embedded TV or webcam screen

2003-10-01 Thread Rob Shortt
Robert Rozman wrote: Hello, Hi! I wonder what are possibilities and starting points to embed TV or webcam screen into Freevo menus. With this we could leave TV on ,when doing some other things (like PIP) or browse channels with live output, or take a look at frontdoor webcam who is at the door ...

Re: [Freevo-users] ivtv-fb and freevo

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Shortt
On a side note I would really love to create some freevo plugins to take advantage of the pvr-350's hardware decoder but unfortunately I don't have one. Anyone out there feel like making a donation? ;) Actually this could also be taken care of by xine or mplayer if they had output plugins fo

Re: [Freevo-users] Status of DVB cards in Freevo

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Shortt
Is sourceforge dropping anyone else's emails? This is my 3rd try sending this although I did notice that one of my other attempts landed in the archive.... Rob Shortt wrote: Graeme Christie wrote: Hi. I was just wondering whether anyone was currently using a DVB card with Freevo.

Re: [Freevo-users] Hardware Encoding

2003-10-04 Thread Rob Shortt
Shane Crosby wrote: I posted earlier asking what an ideal hardware configuration would be. One person suggested that I purchase the Hauppauge PVR 350 because it has hardware encoding. However, in the freevo FAQ it says that hardware encoding is not supported under linux. "There is currently n

Re: [Freevo-users] Status of DVB cards in Freevo

2003-10-05 Thread Rob Shortt
Graeme Christie wrote: Hi. I was just wondering whether anyone was currently using a DVB card with Freevo. I've just installed a new Avervmedia DVB-T card in my freevo Box (It's a budget kind with no MPEG2-decoder) and have the latest cvs of mplayer playing tv from it with no problems (eg wit

Re: [Freevo-users] Status of DVB cards in Freevo

2003-10-05 Thread Rob Shortt
Matt McLeod wrote: DVB cards don't encode anything -- programmes are broadcast already MPEG-2 encoded. Oh yeah, I forgot. This might be pretty easy. Can you tell me how the DVB device works? Can you simply read a stream from the device and save it to a file? Pretty much, yes. You have to tu

Re: [Freevo-users] ivtv-fb and freevo

2003-10-05 Thread Rob Shortt
Ryan Novosielski wrote: Next problem -- it claims that there is no screen available for 720x480. However, that is exactly the resolution that the ivtv-fb module is using. Are you using X? If so then you must have a modeline and screen section for 720x480, I think. I saw your email to the ivtv li

Re: [Freevo-users] ivtv-fb and freevo

2003-10-05 Thread Rob Shortt
Ryan Novosielski wrote: Nope, not using X. Here is basically what happens. I insert the required modules for the TV out. If I have no fb modules inserted for the regular video card of the system (I ordinarily use vesafb for my console), the console moves over to the TV, however, the cursor is the o

Re: [Freevo-users] recordserver problems

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Shortt
Bart Heremans wrote: recordings 'record_client: connection error' Is your recordserver running? The client can't connect to it. -Rob --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _

Re: [Freevo-users] recordserver problems

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Shortt
Bart Heremans wrote: I start the webserver en recordserver outside freevo with the /etc/init.d/freevo script that is installed with the gentoo ebuilds. The recordserver starts correct : 2003/10/06 15:44 CEST [-] Log opened. 2003/10/06 15:44 CEST [*RecordServer*] twisted.web.server.Site starting on

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.4rc1 is out

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: Is the new record server hardcoded for recording or can I still customize the record command. You sure can. The generic_record plugin (the deault) uses VCR_CMD in the same way as before. I.E. I flip a bit on my parallel port to turn on/off an LED on the front of my tivo box to

Re: [Freevo-users] recordserver problems

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Shortt
John M Cooper wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:39, Bart Heremans wrote: Hi, I tried yesterdays snapshot and freevo-1.4-rc1 and I have problems with the recordserver. When I try to view sheduled records or try a manual record via the webpage I get an error page, here is the last part of the traceba

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.4rc1 is out

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: very cool Rob... thanks for the updated info. I have been pretty much dubbed the freevo-guy here at work and at the LUG (Linux users Group) I've built 7 freevo machines so far (and getting tired of having different hardware to mess with each time.) I know the number one feature pe

Re: [Freevo-users] wierd mplayer - freevo playback

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: In my never ending struggle to make thing difficult.. I'm messing with another freevo configuration. This time using the fbdev for output and an ATI all in wonder for the TV out. using mplayer from the command line. it play's fullscreen nicely. same file played from inside freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo spins out of control when loading progr am guide

2003-10-09 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: Until they integrate video in switching and IR blasting to control a cable box/directtv box there is no use in having them in there to slow everything down. Incidently I now have IR blasting working with my sat box and Freevo. There are a few things I need to pluginify and tweak b

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo spins out of control when loading program guide

2003-10-09 Thread Rob Shortt
Jason Tackaberry wrote: Another problem I'm having is that the guide data from Zap2it isn't completely inaccurate for ExpressVu. It's never been right since I first checked out xmltv, back in April or May some time. Maybe I'll fire off an email and let them know. I have ExpressVu also, and have r

epia info WAS: Re: [Freevo-users] screen out of sync and other probs

2003-10-09 Thread Rob Shortt
Michael Juarez wrote: Hi, I currently have a VIA M-1000 installing with Debian, and recently installed the Freevo debian packages from the site. Freevo works fine to load up, but whenever I select shutdown, my resolution is put out of sync (the computer is hooked up to a tv with onboard video o

Re: [Freevo-users] stupid question

2003-10-10 Thread Rob Shortt
Check the syntax of the last line before that one. Sometimes if there is a problem the syntax error will be reported on the next line. Aubin Paul wrote: Hard to say; check your indentation. There's something wrong with that line, but if it's not indented in a weird way, you may want to send the

Re: [Freevo-users] XMLTV Guide Problem (nz)

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Shortt
Matt Camp wrote: I've actually struck another problem... it seems that the channel list that mencoder uses is somewhat different from tvtime... I am currently working on centralizing all of the channel changing for Freevo. This will let us use Freevo's channel list, frequency tables, and any cus

IR blasting WAS: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo spins out of control when loading progr am guide

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Shortt
realmagic) receiver with an acitsys ir200l blaster. Is your python code in the freevo tree? --Jeff * Rob Shortt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-10 23:26:17 -0300]: Jeff Beley wrote: Rob, How did you the blaster working with your satellite setup? I've had issues getting the remote to ir

Re: [Freevo-users] Other recordserver problems

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Peter Howell wrote: I recently upgraded to 1.4 and immediately ran into problems. I started record_server.py from the command line, then started freevo, and tried to record a couple test programs, one which was already running, and on that was about to start. This is the results I obtained from m

Re: [Freevo-users] Other recordserver problems

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Rob Shortt wrote: Peter Howell wrote: File "/usr/local/freevo/src/helpers/recordserver.py", line 598, in xmlrpc_findMatches (status, response) = self.findMatches(find) exceptions.ValueError: unpack list of wrong size Are you doing a search here? That method sho

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: http://www.gctglobal.com/Products/Set_Top_Box/STB6086N2/stb6086n2.html These are about $350.00 for the 800mhz version... no ram or hard drive installed. I have looked into these as well. I think they are way overpriced, all you get is a STB case and a mainboard with some onboard

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Rob Shortt wrote: 1) V8000A(no tv-out) BTW, for those who don't know, that's a VIA mini-tx 800Mhz. -Rob --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Bart Heremans wrote: Hi, Just for info, you can't add a cdrom and a pvr-350 card at same time in a via seriniti case. Also they are noisy. You certainly can, I just finished building one last week. I read a few reports about this beforehand but decided to try it and ended up with over a centim

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: your $630.00 mark ready to go. USD. So now your total is up to ~$630, and that is without a rom drive. OOPS! I typoed... I meant $530. :P --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo STB design

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: Anyways, a mini-itx setup woth a case that looks like a piece of video equipment would be more in cost. although I'm pretty sure your assessment on not having enough power ot encode video is wrong. I record from a ATI tv wonder VE with mp1e on a 500mhz P-III here and get good res

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording server

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Shortt
Tim Walter wrote: First to get it out the way.. Can the record server run without XMLTV installed? Yes. You must still have TV_CHANNELS configured in your local_conf.py. Assuming it can, how can I start the Record Server manually as a check? Whatever I try and organise the web interface resolu

Re: [Freevo-users] Legal issue for plugins

2003-10-16 Thread Rob Shortt
Dirk Meyer wrote: So back to apple. We have three choices now: 1. Ignore the terms of use and include it (I don't like this at all) I don't like that one either, it could bring an unwanted kind of attention and trouble. 2. Ask Apple for permission. We could agree to add a special copyright no

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.3.4 / mencoder / Windows Media Player...

2003-10-17 Thread Rob Shortt
StormeRider wrote: VCR_CMD = ('/usr/bin/mencoder ' + '-tv driver=v4l:input=0' + ':norm=NTSC' + ':channel=%(channel)s' + ':chanlist=us-cable' + ':width=320:height=240' + ':ou

Re: [Freevo-users] TV-card -- advice needed

2003-10-17 Thread Rob Shortt
Richard van Paasen wrote: Now I want to add TV recording (and maybe playing/time-shifting) to Freevo, so I need to buy a TV card for it. It must have h/w MPEG encoding since the VIA board is only 1GHz, but I'm not sure about the decoding part. Do I need to get an expensive Hauppage WinTV PVR-350

Re: [Freevo-users] More Recording Woes

2003-10-18 Thread Rob Shortt
Mike LeVan wrote: from pygame.locals import * ImportError: No module named pygame.locals Freevo depends on pygame, if you are not using a binary dist of Freevo which includes a runtime you need to have pygame (and other things) installed. How are you able to run Freevo (main) at all? -Rob

Re: [Freevo-users] More Recording Woes

2003-10-18 Thread Rob Shortt
Mike LeVan wrote: You got me. I am not using a binary version, but an RPM version. I'll try to install pygame and see how that goes Everything else works fine. I can watch TV, a DVD, and the webserver runs. Music plays, and I can view images. If you can do those things and have no pygame installed

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Recording problems, almost there!

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Shortt
Tim Walter wrote: Freevo setup and working for TV and playing DVDs, also web interface works fine. Can set up recordings via web and all appears to work, channel choice, timing (out by an hour but can sort that later!), save The out by one hour problem has to do with manualrecord.rpy and pytho

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Recording problems, almost there!

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Shortt
Rob Shortt wrote: Tim Walter wrote: Freevo setup and working for TV and playing DVDs, also web interface works fine. Can set up recordings via web and all appears to work, channel choice, timing (out by an hour but can sort that later!), save The out by one hour problem has to do with

Re: [Freevo-users] timeshift

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Shortt
Richard van Paasen wrote: A short question: is timeshifting supposed to work with ivtv/PVR-250 ? Not yet. I have plans on adding a xine tv viewing plugin to use xine's pvr timeshifting capabilities. This is a short-mid term thing on my TODO list. -Rob ---

Re: [Freevo-users] Manual Record error

2003-10-26 Thread Rob Shortt
Paul Kimberley wrote: Hi, I'm having the following problem with the webserver/recordserver. When ever i press the manual record button i get an error, but everything else works. value="'+ch.id+'">'+ch.tunerid+"\n" exceptions.TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects Check your TV_C

Re: [Freevo-users] Manual Record error

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Shortt
Paul Kimberley wrote: Thanks, that was it!! Although that's weird because I tried 'TV_CHANNELS = None' and it gave me a similar unicode error, and i tried the 'freevo tv_grab -query' and it gave me the third arg with out the quotes. I guess it's a bug in the tv_grab plugin. Exactly. It was fi

Re: [Freevo-users] AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute '__dict__' at record_client.py

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Shortt
Diddie wrote: I use the snapshot version (20.Oct.2003) of freevo. I'd like to do recordings with freevo. But everytime I choose to record, I get this error: File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/twisted/persisted/marmalade.py", line 363, in jellyToNode state = obj.__dict__ AttributeError: '

Re: [Freevo-users] video / music menu

2003-11-03 Thread Rob Shortt
Richard van Paasen wrote: I have music albums in subdirs of "/video/" and video files in "/video/". In local_config.py I can set e.g: DIR_IMAGES = [ ('Images', '/images') ] But how do tell freevo that it should display the subdirectories in /images/ when I select Images from the main menu? Sa

Re: [Freevo-users] Recording server

2003-11-03 Thread Rob Shortt
David Willis wrote: I tried freevo recordserver start - I get a list of warnings about duplicate plugins (all ignored), and then nothing. No process listed as running, and when I try to record something, the error about the failed connection to "record_client". I'm puzzled! Please post the startu

Re: [Freevo-users] Composite, S-Video input & Freevo!

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Shortt
Mattias Ackers wrote: I wonder if it is possible to use the Composite & S-video input of a standard BT8X8 TV-card with Freevo? In mplayer, or tvtime, you should be able to change the input source for watching tv, and mencoder will have the same for capturing. After we release 1.4 I will be makin

Re: [Freevo-users] recorod server and webserver troubles

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: First both the recordserver and webserver will NOT start unless I run them from within the /usr/local/freevo directory and by usingthe ./freevo recordserver & command. they both will not run from the inittab or anywhere else. This is working fine for me, my inittab: FV1:2345:respaw

[Freevo-users] new runtime available for testing

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Shortt
Hi, I have put together a new binary runtime and if there are no problems reported with it I will post it on the downloads page. It contains many updated libraries, python modules, and python 2.3.2. If you are running anon cvs or a snapshot, and Freevo from a single directory (as opposed to

Re: [Freevo-users] new runtime available for testing

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Shortt
Well, lucky me. I just tested this on a new machine (fresh freevo install, old python, no deps) and I'm getting GLIBC errors. I'll try to sort this out in a bit. -Rob Rob Shortt wrote: Hi, I have put together a new binary runtime and if there are no problems reported with it I wi

Re: [Freevo-users] new runtime available for testing

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Shortt
I have made a few fixes and a new version is up for testing: wget http://freevo.sourceforge.net/runtime/freevo-runtime-0.3.tar.gz Rob Shortt wrote: Well, lucky me. I just tested this on a new machine (fresh freevo install, old python, no deps) and I'm getting GLIBC errors. I'll tr

Re: [Freevo-users] ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.7 - freevo-1.4rc4

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Shortt
Hi, please try the new runtime. You may get it at: wget http://freevo.sf.net/runtime/freevo-runtime-0.3.tar.gz And install it: ./freevo install freevo-runtime-0.3.tar.gz I hope that fixes your problem, please report back. -Rob Philip Collins wrote: Hello I just installed freevo-1.4rc4 and no

Re: [Freevo-users] request features

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Shortt
Aubin Paul wrote: -Rename files in freevo? Another thing that would require some way of inputting text, which is difficult with the remote. It would be nice if someone would write an input widget similar to how cell phones work with 1 = ABC and 2 = DEF, 3 = GHI, etc. Such a beast exists. :) I m

Re: [Freevo-users] request features

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Shortt
Eirik Meland sent in a patch for padding the start and end times of recordings. I have been working on integrating it but I'm in the middle of working it into some conflict resolution code. So, it will show up soon. :) -Rob Gray, Tim wrote: how about a variable in local_conf.py that allows me

Re: [Freevo-users] request features

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Shortt
Travis wrote: You can set passwords? Yep. In a media directory you have setup in Freevo place a file called ".password" and in it have a single line with a numeric password. I forget the maximum character length... maybe 6. When you enter this directory in Freevo it will prompt you for the pa

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: new runtime available for testing

2003-11-18 Thread Rob Shortt
Dirk Meyer wrote: Maybe you could upload it to the download page. But please don't delete the file on the webpage, it's needed for the installer right now (will be changed) Done. -Rob --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Prog

Re: [Freevo-users] OT: Does deinterlacing (noticably) degrade quality?

2003-11-19 Thread Rob Shortt
Niklas Brunlid wrote: I run Freevo on an Asus Pundit (exclusively on TV-out) with no support for anything like interlaced output (not that any cards seem to have it, Are you saying that the tv-out on the pundit doesn't support interlacing?? Can someone else comment on this? I am interested in

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo MAME ponderings

2003-11-20 Thread Rob Shortt
Peter Svensson wrote: Hi! Hi! I've finally gotten my hybrid cvs/sourceforge download freevo 1.4rc? to work properly, and it's a real beauty. So maybe I haven't to find the station logos yeat, but anyway. Almost everything works nice and feels stable. Glad to hear it. I have one small question con

Re: [Freevo-users] pre-record amount? re-attempts?

2003-11-22 Thread Rob Shortt
All this stuff has been talked about before. Now that 1.4 is out you will soon see the pre/post recording buffer feature. For the recording notification the recordserver would have to notify the TV frontend that it wants to start recording. I would like to have the TV side listen for xml-rpc

Re: [Freevo-users] Standalone Freevo, no internet

2003-11-23 Thread Rob Shortt
Tim Walter wrote: I want to run it unconnected to the internet so XMLTV won't work. How do I make recording work satisfactorily as it seems it depends on XMLTV to obtain the TV programme times. Without it freevo defaults to 1st Jan for 3 months recording (Well, more or less!) I would like to s

Re: [Freevo-users] priority

2003-11-24 Thread Rob Shortt
Joe Stump wrote: Am I correct in saying this is not a working feature in the record server or webserver? I have Seinfeld set the the highest priority, but it's not being recorded *at all* because of other conflicts with favorites that were added after Seinfeld became a favorite. Correct, priorities

Re: [Freevo-users] Startup problems

2003-11-25 Thread Rob Shortt
rozman wrote: The strange one is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] freevo]# ./runtime/dll/freevo_loader ./runtime/apps/freevo_python -OO ./src/main.py and I get this: ./runtime/apps/freevo_python: relocation error: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: symbol __libc_stack_end, version GLIBC_2.1 not defined in file ld-lin

Re: [Freevo-users] Big runtime problem

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Shortt
Sorry for the late response. :) Dirk Meyer wrote: OK, I can now reproduce it. Rob, you won't like it. You are correct! The libdvdread in the runtime detects a libdecss in the system (good). But they are compiled on different systems and are _not_ compatible. We need your css lib on your system to

Re: [Freevo-users] Favorites now showing up in recording schedule

2003-12-01 Thread Rob Shortt
Joe Stump wrote: My favorites have mysteriously disappeard from the recording schedule. Does Freevo not show them because they are favorites? No, if they are scheduled to record they will show up. How are you updating your listings? If you use the tv_grab helper then it should schedule your fav

Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo

2003-12-03 Thread Rob Shortt
Hi, Dave Graham wrote: Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put I have an epia-m 10k as well, but it isn't in a system yet. However, I have set up two itentical Freevo systems with this board and they a working really well. Their owners are quite pleased with them

Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo

2003-12-03 Thread Rob Shortt
Benjamin Zeiss wrote: hi rob, --On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:38:50 -0400 Rob Shortt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched & built kernel, and XFree86 CVS snaps

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Via's EPIA-M and Freevo

2003-12-03 Thread Rob Shortt
Dave Graham wrote: "Bart Heremans" wrote: I have a epia M and a PVR350. I have been able to run X over the framebuffer driver for the pvr350 and load freevo. But If try loading a divx or other file and output it with mplayer ont the pvr350 it is very very slow. So you use the pvr350 aus tv out? Th

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Via's EPIA-M and Freevo

2003-12-04 Thread Rob Shortt
Robert Winder wrote: Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 11:39:10 PM, Rob wrote: It would be a fun project to wite a player for the PVR-350. This could be done in python an integrated right into Freevo. It should be trivial to create a basic player but I don't have the hardware to work on (not that I ha

Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo

2003-12-04 Thread Rob Shortt
Gray, Tim wrote: I'm betting it's like the dxr3 No, its quite different, it needs a mpeg video stream not a multiplexed mpeg video and audio stream. and takes a stream with video and audio. -Rob will mplayer strip the audio and send only the video to the device? -Original Message- From:

Re: [Freevo-users] can't start recordserver, cvs Dec 5 16:00 PST

2003-12-06 Thread Rob Shortt
Darrell wrote: Just installed cvs and I can't get the recordserver up, following is the error message. Anyone with ideas ? There was a problem with helpers using skin / osd functions but Dischi just fixed it. A fix should be available for you in the next CVS snapshot. -Rob --

Re: [Freevo-users] record_server.py / record_daemon.py help

2003-12-14 Thread Rob Shortt
Dan Salmon wrote: Are these files deprecated? Is there a more current recording setup for Freevo-1.4? Did I miss a step during installation and these files were not created? Yes, record_daemon.py is depricated. record_server.py is now src/helpers/recordserver.py and it doesn't require cron. My

Re: [Freevo-users] record_server.py / record_daemon.py help

2003-12-15 Thread Rob Shortt
Dan Salmon wrote: Rob: I had another look and found the log files under /tmp. The record server appears to try to start but the error " Record_Thread::run: past wait()!!" appears to bring things to a halt. Any ideas with this particular problem? Text below from /tmp/recordserver-0.log for a

Re: [Freevo-users] Telling freevo to use DXR3

2003-12-19 Thread Rob Shortt
Barnowl wrote: hey- I got dxr3 in SDL and mplayer and xine playing nice with my dxr3 board but I can't get freevo to use it. I have set display = dxr3 in freevo.conf. I get no errors, it runs on the moniotr with no chan it just ignores the dxr3 setting. Have you tried export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dxr3

Re: [Freevo-users] positive feedback ;)

2003-12-22 Thread Rob Shortt
Mick wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 18:44, Juha Pahkala wrote: - Has anybody looked into having dvb support in freevo? I only have a digital tv-card in my box, and it'd be great if freevo would support that too. I have absolutely no idea what this would involve, just dreaming. Yes. I purchased myse

Re: "Voicemail client" was:[Freevo-users] positive feedback ;)

2003-12-22 Thread Rob Shortt
Robert Rozman wrote: I still remember feature that me and my wife particularly liked on 3com Audrey (touchscreen qnx computer that was aimed at our kitchen). It had simple mail client that was able to deal with ordinary wav files as email attachments. And when sending mail, you could simply record

Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with runtime 0.3

2003-12-22 Thread Rob Shortt
Justin T Wetherell wrote: I have found that I can run dxr3 with the current runtime. All you have to do is follow the instructions in the wiki then copy the libs to the runtime directory and tit works fine. I even updated the wiki about a week ago when retrying it. That only works for you becaus

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: screensaver idea

2003-12-31 Thread Rob Shortt
SDL isn't really an output method in itself but can be configured to use various output drivers. The SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable will let you specify which to use, see: http://sdldoc.csn.ul.ie/sdlenvvars.php If you don't have X available it might be easier to setup the vesa framebuffe

Re: [Freevo-users] Re: screensaver idea

2003-12-31 Thread Rob Shortt
SDL_VIDEO_YUV_DIRECT=0. -Rob Rob Shortt wrote: SDL isn't really an output method in itself but can be configured to use various output drivers. The SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable will let you specify which to use, see: http://sdldoc.csn.ul.ie/sdlenvvars.php If you don't have X available i

Re: [Freevo-users] gxine-mediamarks

2003-12-31 Thread Rob Shortt
You can tell Freevo where to look for your mediamarks file (upon plugin activation I think) so if you modify the one that comes with Freevo it might be a good idea to copy it to a new location. On a related note I believe the webradio plugin and gxine-mediamarks are depricated in Freevo CVS, in

Re: [Freevo-users] Shutdown freevo with a lirc command

2004-01-01 Thread Rob Shortt
stephan wezel wrote: Hi, Hi. can I shutdown freevo through one lirc event/command without selecting the shutdown menu point ? Yes! and if how ?? Well, I am not sure if you can bind a Freevo event to shutdown but the way I do it is with irexec. Irexec is a command that comes with lirc that you

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