Freevo - Media Centre Platform

Hello,

Can anybody explain me how to use Freevo 1.9.0 with MPD?
I know there are 2 plugins, adn I have tried them both.
The old one shows a separate MPD menu entry.  Apparently it runs mpc
and shows exactly the same output as mpc in the screen, which is the
volume level.
The new one doesn't even show up anywhere, and if I try to play my
music apparently it tries to play it directly (without MPD).

Alan

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

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   3. Re: Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
      (James Trietsch)
   4. Re: Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:44:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Dana E Hoffman Jr <dana@...>
Subject: [Freevo-users] freevo remote volume does not work
To: freevo-users@...
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Hello all,
I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64 with a microsoft mceusb remote, with mplayer.
For some reason I can not get the remote volume up/down or mute when watching a movie in freevo.

When I play a movie with just mplayer my remote volume up/down mute works.
for some reason I can not get it working in freevo.

Any ideas or suggestions would be great
thanks
 



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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:08:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Trietsch <kerosel@...>
Subject: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting
	Recordserver
To: Freevo Users List <freevo-users@...>
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Did some recent upgrades to Debian and I seem to have broken the recordserver. 
It throws an exception trying to load the previouslyRecorded.pickle:

2010-09-23 21:49:47,517 INFO     recordserver.py (275): Got ScheduledRecordings
(version 3).
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 1612, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 1578, in main
    recordserver = RecordServer()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 142, in __init__
    self.updateFavoritesSchedule()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 1449, in updateFavoritesSchedule
    self.removeScheduledRecording(prog)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 782, in removeScheduledRecording
    self.removeRecordingFromSchedule(prog)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 474, in removeRecordingFromSchedule
    self.removeDuplicate(prog)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 421, in removeDuplicate
    self.loadPreviouslyRecordedShows()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 322, in loadPreviouslyRecordedShows
    self.previouslyRecordedShows = pickle.load(open(cacheFile, 'rb'))
ValueError: insecure string pickle
2010-09-23 21:49:47,563 WARNING  recordserver.py (1620): insecure string pickle

I'm researching the error as we speak, but I thought I'd throw it to the list 
and see if anyone had a quick fix. Obviously this isn't a killer error; I can 
dump the existing .pickle and Freevo will start a new one. But I've done this 
kind of lobotomy at least once before and it's always a hassle for it to start 
recording all the shows it recorded before and was skipping the re-runs.

Any help resurrecting the existing previouslyRecorded.pickle would be greatly 
appreciated. But if it can't be done, then it can't be done.

Thanks guys.

James
Springfield, OR  USA



      



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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Trietsch <kerosel@...>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting
	Recordserver
To: freevo-users@...
Message-ID: <173321.66377.qm@...>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I think I solved it on my own, after a bit of hammering and research. The 
.pickle may have gotten truncated somehow, possibly when I did a hard-reset one 
time during some recent tinkering.

I trimmed up the end of the file (as best I could tell), then spent way too long 
battling an EOFerror. Turns out Pickle was looking for the 's.' at the end of 
the file. Once I added that, it re-loaded into the recordserver without throwing 
an exception.

Nothing has complained yet... so we'll see if it has its memory back.

James



----- Original Message ----
> From: James Trietsch <kerosel@...>
> To: Freevo Users List <freevo-users@...>
> Sent: Thu, September 23, 2010 10:08:14 PM
> Subject: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
> 
> Did some recent upgrades to Debian and I seem to have broken the recordserver. 

> It throws an exception trying to load the  previouslyRecorded.pickle:
> 
> 2010-09-23 21:49:47,517 INFO    recordserver.py (275): Got  
ScheduledRecordings
> (version 3).
> Traceback (most recent call  last):
>   File  
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
> line  1612, in <module>
>     main()
>   File  
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
>
> line 1578, in main
>     recordserver = RecordServer()
>    File 
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
>
> line 142, in __init__
>      self.updateFavoritesSchedule()
>   File  
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
>
> line 1449, in updateFavoritesSchedule
>      self.removeScheduledRecording(prog)
>   File  
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
>
> line 782, in removeScheduledRecording
>      self.removeRecordingFromSchedule(prog)
>   File  
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
>
> line 474, in removeRecordingFromSchedule
>      self.removeDuplicate(prog)
>   File  
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
>
> line 421, in removeDuplicate
>      self.loadPreviouslyRecordedShows()
>   File  
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
>
> line 322, in loadPreviouslyRecordedShows
>      self.previouslyRecordedShows = pickle.load(open(cacheFile, 'rb'))
> ValueError:  insecure string pickle
> 2010-09-23 21:49:47,563 WARNING  recordserver.py  (1620): insecure string 
>pickle
> 
> I'm researching the error as we speak, but  I thought I'd throw it to the list 

> and see if anyone had a quick fix.  Obviously this isn't a killer error; I can 

> dump the existing .pickle and  Freevo will start a new one. But I've done this 

> kind of lobotomy at least  once before and it's always a hassle for it to start 
>
> recording all the shows  it recorded before and was skipping the re-runs.
> 
> Any help resurrecting  the existing previouslyRecorded.pickle would be greatly 

> appreciated. But if  it can't be done, then it can't be done.
> 
> Thanks  guys.
> 
> James
> Springfield, OR  USA


      



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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:04:52 +1000
From: Elizabeth Dodd <edodd@...>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting
	Recordserver
To: freevo-users@...
Message-ID: <20100924190452.49c4900d@...>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
James Trietsch <kerosel@...> wrote:

> I think I solved it on my own, after a bit of hammering and research.
> The .pickle may have gotten truncated somehow, possibly when I did a
> hard-reset one time during some recent tinkering.
> 
> I trimmed up the end of the file (as best I could tell), then spent
> way too long battling an EOFerror. Turns out Pickle was looking for
> the 's.' at the end of the file. Once I added that, it re-loaded into
> the recordserver without throwing an exception.
> 
> Nothing has complained yet... so we'll see if it has its memory back.
> 
> James
> 

could you summarise this gem for the wiki?



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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:50:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Trietsch <kerosel@...>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting
	Recordserver
To: freevo-users@...
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----- Original Message ----

> From: Elizabeth Dodd <edodd@...>
> To: freevo-users@...
> Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 2:04:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Insecure String Pickle when starting Recordserver
> 
> could you summarise this gem for the  wiki?

Sure. I'm suspecting that when I did a hard reset not too long after starting 
the Freevo, it may have caused an incomplete write to the 
previouslyRecorded.pickle file. Either way, the recordserver would not start, 
throwing an exception: Insecure String Pickle.

(By the way, that's got to be the most awesome exception message I've run into. 
I've been amusing my friends with it all day long.)

It appears in an attempt to keep harmful tampering to a minimum, (c)Pickle does 
basic checks before loading a pickle file. Judging from the posts on the web, 
things like Windows-style EOL characters (\n\r) instead of Linux (\n) will cause 
problems. In this case, the last line of the file was truncated mid-line and I 
think that was setting off alarm bells. I neatened up the end of the 
previouslyRecorded.pickle file, trying to end it at a proper boundry, but I 
think I didn't hit it exactly. It doesn't seem to cause too much trouble, but 
that last object is probably missing bits. Hopefully nothing important.

Trying to start recordserver now yeilded an EOFerror exception when trying to 
load the pickle file. I did way too much searching and trying small Python 
scripts to read in the file and write it back out and properly close it and 
doing tests in the freevo prompt shell... all no good. My research turned up 
that pickle files end with a '.', and that gave me a clue. It wasn't until I 
started up recordserver and let it create a new pickle file I found that the 
file ends with 's.' on the final line. I added that (taking steps to eliminate 
the final EOL character that vim adds by default) and the 
previouslyRecorded.pickle would then load properly into the recordserver.

I haven't had a chance to see if it's really working, or if nothing that I've 
already recorded is in the schedule right now. But that's just laziness on my 
part. Suffice to say, recordserver is reading the file without throwing an 
exception, so I'm happy again.

If you let me know where you think this should be put in the Wiki, I can give it 
a go myself...

James



      



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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:23:52 -0600
From: Dan Schmidt <helpdeskdan@...>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] freevo remote volume does not work
To: freevo-users@...
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Are you using mplayer in Freevo or xine?

On 09/23/2010 12:44 PM, Dana E Hoffman Jr wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64 with a microsoft mceusb remote, with mplayer.
> For some reason I can not get the remote volume up/down or mute when watching a movie in freevo.
>
> When I play a movie with just mplayer my remote volume up/down mute works.
> for some reason I can not get it working in freevo.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions would be great
> thanks
>  
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:11:11 +0900
From: Alan <lameventanas@...>
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] freevo remote volume does not work
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Dana E Hoffman Jr <dana@...> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64 with a microsoft mceusb remote, with mplayer.
> For some reason I can not get the remote volume up/down or mute when watching a movie in freevo.
>
> When I play a movie with just mplayer my remote volume up/down mute works.
> for some reason I can not get it working in freevo.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions would be great
> thanks

I wrote a program that allows you to change the volume and mute your
soundcard with a nice OSD display.
The advantage is that it will work while watching moviesing, listening
to music, etc. and the volume setting / mute state is not forgotten
like when you use the standard installation.

http://www.mizrahi.com.ve/projects/airmix/

Project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/airmix/

All you have to do is install it and run it in your freevo init
script, I run it like this:
airmix --daemon --color white

Unfortunately I don't have any 64-bit RPM built yet, but the source is
there and its really easy to build.  If you need any help with that
please let me know.

Alan







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Dan Schmidt thanks for your reply, I am using mplayer.


Alan thanks for your reply, I would need some help with fedora 13 x86_64, if you could with AirMix, if this is the only way to use my remote volume in freevo?

thanks
Dana E Hoffman Jr

Hello all,
I am using freevo-1.9.0 on fedora 13 x86_64 with a microsoft mceusb remote, with mplayer.
For some reason I can not get the remote volume up/down or mute when watching a movie in freevo.

When I play a movie with just mplayer my remote volume up/down mute works.
for some reason I can not get it working in freevo.

Any ideas or suggestions would be great
thanks

Did some recent upgrades to Debian and I seem to have broken the recordserver. 
It throws an exception trying to load the previouslyRecorded.pickle:

2010-09-23 21:49:47,517 INFO     recordserver.py (275): Got ScheduledRecordings
(version 3).
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py",
line 1612, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 1578, in main
    recordserver = RecordServer()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 142, in __init__
    self.updateFavoritesSchedule()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 1449, in updateFavoritesSchedule
    self.removeScheduledRecording(prog)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 782, in removeScheduledRecording
    self.removeRecordingFromSchedule(prog)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 474, in removeRecordingFromSchedule
    self.removeDuplicate(prog)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 421, in removeDuplicate
    self.loadPreviouslyRecordedShows()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/recordserver.py", 
line 322, in loadPreviouslyRecordedShows
    self.previouslyRecordedShows = pickle.load(open(cacheFile, 'rb'))
ValueError: insecure string pickle
2010-09-23 21:49:47,563 WARNING  recordserver.py (1620): insecure string pickle

I'm researching the error as we speak, but I thought I'd throw it to the list 
and see if anyone had a quick fix. Obviously this isn't a killer error; I can 
dump the existing .pickle and Freevo will start a new one. But I've done this 
kind of lobotomy at least once before and it's always a hassle for it to start 
recording all the shows it recorded before and was skipping the re-runs.

Any help resurrecting the existing previouslyRecorded.pickle would be greatly 
appreciated. But if it can't be done, then it can't be done.

Thanks guys.

James
Springfield, OR  USA

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).  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

Nothing is true; Everything is permissible...

Ciao a tutti,

I have a quite fully functional freevo machine on debian stable and epia
computer.

But I can not watch dvd from the cdrom reader: I can see the chapters
but when I choose one the screen becomes black for a few seconds and
then go back to menu.

I can not see anything on the log and also in the documentation.

I am using mplayer.

These are the relevat lines in local_conf.py:

MPLAYER_ARGS = { 'dvd'    : '-cache 8192 -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc -afm hwac3',

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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. :)

John

On 03/09/2010 17:47, mclusky@... 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.

John