Re: [Freevo-devel] My little freevo2 review

[Dirk M. <di...@fr...>]

Hi,

On 27.12.2014 12:45, Pablo Casas wrote:
> I would like to run "freevo2 --help" to get a little help from the
> terminal. Maybe there is nothing to say, or maybe you can point to the
> config directory, or perform some utilities from command line.

There is nothing to say. Freevo just starts.

> Config file, well I have seen "freevo2.conf" and how it works. It's well
> explained, it has some examples, good, real good. I like how you advise
> at the end of the file if there has been some wrong line at
> configuration, awesome!. It has default values and even if you have
> changed it, it remains visible as a comment.

Thanks.

> Launching freevo:
> It's fast,

:)

> Main menu:
> Good layout,
> I changed resolution to 1440x900 and freevo logo looks pixelated. that's
> not good.

The logo is kind of old ... older than high resolution TV sets. If
someone can provide a better image I will take it.

> Window container system:
> I activated full screen, but freevo continues into a window and don't
> fit my screen, I can move this window. The worst thing is that this
> screen is over anything on my system, it's always up. I think it could
> be VirtualBox.

Freevo is designed to be full screen. You can set the resolution in the
config file. But for me I can also switch Freevo in the background.

> Issue: Flashes on the main window:
> When browsing up and down on menus, sometimes the main window disappears
> an instant, and recovers itself showing on another position at the
> screen. When this occurs my terminal get this:
> 
> libGL error: core dri or dri2 extension not found
> libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
> OpenGL Warning: crPixelCopy3D:  simply crMemcpy'ing from srcPtr to dstPtr

This looks like a restart. The GUI is an extra process to prevent a
whole Freevo crash if a video crashes the GUI. Freevo detects the crash
and restarts the GUI process. The question is why? Maybe it is related
to OpenGL running in a virtual machine.

> The efects navigating when you enter on a menu, or go back, are cool. I
> like them.

Thanks.

> Sometimes it crashes when moving on items: my terminal says:
> 
> #####
> ERROR io(770): some error
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kaa/base/io.py", line
> 756, in _handle_read
>     data = self._read(self._chunk_size)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kaa/base/sockets.py",
> line 708, in _read
>     return self._channel.recv(size)
> error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
> ERROR stage(162): two backend errors in 5 seconds, giving up
> pablo@pablo-freevo2:~$
> #####

Like above. The GUI crashes an Freevo restarts it. But is crashes again
and Freevo gives up to avoid restarting over and over again.

Please set debug = True in the config file, maybe we can find out why.
And if it happens, please send me the last 20-30 lines in
~/.freevo/log/freevo.log and ~/.freevo/log/candy

> I usually save one good cover next to album's song, or only inside the
> first song of the album, and do not save thumbnails into others mp3.
> With freevo2 I only can view this cover on the first song.

Freevo (or better kaa.beacon) should detect (folder|cover).(png|jpg) in
a directory.

> Remote control:
> 
> I activated as you suggested httpserver, jsonrpc,  and downloaded
> Android-Yatse. Well, I couldn't find multimedia server with yatse (yes,
> both of them are in the same net). On the other hand, I could test
> httpserver (:8080), and it's great.
> Do I need all kaa-packages installed on the system in order to get working?

I just tested it. The latest version of Yatse uses mute/unmute to test
the eventserver setup. This command was not supported. Please update
freevo git master and try again. It would work now.

> Well, I would like to help to the project, but I'm not a developer, my
> python knowledge are really poor. I only can test, say my user opinion.

This is a lot. I'm not sure anyone but me uses 2.0

> I think I can help on graphics, layouts, making user manuals.

I need a higher resolution logo (see above) and a much better directory
icon for the photo menu.


Regards,

Dischi

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