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Users / Dell CX071 remote (made by Gyration)
« on: September 13, 2010, 10:05:01 am »
Hi all,

Has anyone successfully used this remote in Linuxmce 0810?

Device template 1812 claims to support it, but the main bits (green button, vol/lights, ff/rew/chapter) don't work.

I tried debugging by removing the device, removing the USB ID from the device template (so the device wouldn't be regenerated), and then watching the orbiter logs for input events.

And the green button (for example) didn't generate any events.  Whereas other buttons that do currently work (like stop) do create events.

Thing is: I know the hardware works, because I recently had an 0710 installation where I did the old Xmodmap trick for the standard Gyration remote.  And it worked just fine.

Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong, or how I could further debug this?

Thanks,

Stuart

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Users / Play-back jerky after a while
« on: September 24, 2007, 05:22:18 am »
Hi,

I have a 2GHz AMD Athlon, and an Nvidia GeForce FX-5200.  I run LinuxMCE using UI2 (medium).

When I start LinuxMCE, it works fine.  Play-back is smooth.  Xine uses around 10% of my CPU.  After I watch a few movies or TV episodes, however, playback becomes noticeably jerky, at which point Xine is using > 30% of my CPU.  The same problem presents itself for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

Anyone know why this is happening?  Would it be solved if I moved to UI1, or bought a new Nvidia card, and moved to alpha-blended UI2?

Thanks,

Stuart

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Users / Transcoding
« on: September 22, 2007, 07:47:15 am »
Hi,

I like to copy DVDs to my hard drive.  They take up a whole lotta space, however.  When copying a DVD to my hard drive, I would like to transcode to MPEG-4.  Does LinuxMCE contain a mechanism for doing this (automatically, or through manual prompting)?

Thanks,

Stuart

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Users / Linear media list
« on: September 22, 2007, 05:02:28 am »
I have a bunch of media on my hard drive.  I have every single available episode of the following TV programs: The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Scrubs,  The Sopranos, etc.  I have a bunch of other media files besides.

When I import these media into LinuxMCE, they get shown as one gigantic linear list.  What's more, their names in that list are simply their base file names (xxxx.avi), not taking into account their on-disk directory structure.

This arrangement doesn't work very well.  Most of the files start with the letter S, or with a number.  And they become impossible to navigate.

Does LinuxMCE support multi-leveled media lists?  If not, how does everyone else get around this problem?

Thanks,

Stuart

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Users / Automatic thumbnails
« on: September 22, 2007, 04:47:19 am »
Say I install LinuxMCE, and I import a bunt-load of previously-acquired video files.  I want thumbnails for those files, so my media list can look pretty.  Is there a mechanism for automatically generating these thumbnails?

Thanks,

Stuart

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Users / Importing media
« on: September 22, 2007, 04:40:15 am »
Say I have two hard drives in a machine.  I install LinuxMCE on one of them.  On the other, I have a whole bunch of previously-collected media, distributed across a number of directories.

How should I import this media?  I can manually create a soft link from the existing media location to one of LinuxMCE's media dirs.  And then ask it to re-sync, via the admin interface.

But is there a better (more elegant) way?  What happens when I add more media to that hard drive?

Thanks,

Stuart

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