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Developers / Sending Messages to DCERouter's port
« on: October 14, 2007, 03:08:21 am »
I'm trying to find information on DCERouter's telnet port, so that I can put together some asterisk code to pause the media directors in a room where an IP phone is located when the phone goes off hook.

anyone have experience doing this?

-Thom

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Installation issues / Re: MD image creation broke orbiter on Hybrid...
« on: October 14, 2007, 03:04:59 am »
looks like your nvidia kernel modules got blasticated in the process of creating the media director images... the MDs use the same directories for kernel modules for all the media directors, and the media director installation may have overwritten the vendor driver install you applied....

re-apply the vendor nvidia drivers, and that should fix the issue...
(please please please let's get a newer nvidia driver in the next release!!!)

-Thom

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Users / Re: How do I update firmware on Sony DVD changer?
« on: October 14, 2007, 02:40:37 am »
dude, just plug it in, and go. :)

-Thom

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Users / Re: Automatic thumbnails
« on: October 13, 2007, 04:30:45 pm »
guys, stop thinking like geeks.

The system that Pluto came up with, is a bit rough around the edges, yes. But it is the right direction to go in. As such, what needs to happen now, is basically a better user interface to work with it.

-Thom

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Users / Re: Automatic thumbnails
« on: October 13, 2007, 07:22:34 am »
try the Cover Art Scan under Media in the Web Admin to try and get some of them at least.

-Thom


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Users / Re: Keeping folder structure in video lists?
« on: October 13, 2007, 07:21:32 am »
you might want to check out Cover Art Scan, under Media in the Web Admin.... also the other menu items underneath that section. Please, look around.

-Thom

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Users / Re: can i use Fiire Chief Remote Control with other Media Center
« on: October 12, 2007, 10:41:36 pm »
the Fiire Chief remote was designed specifically for LinuxMCE.

-Thom

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Users / Re: Keeping folder structure in video lists?
« on: October 12, 2007, 10:37:29 pm »
why don't you guys actually fill out the metadata and use cover art scan?

-Thom

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Users / intel-hda, i need to change which mixer control.
« on: October 12, 2007, 01:49:57 pm »
Is there a way to tell the xine component (or the rest of LinuxMCE for that matter) which mixer control to use? I need to tell it to control PCM, not Master. I can do this with mythtv-setup, but it only works for the player inside MythTV.

any ideas?

-Thom

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Users / Re: Finally getting there (was "Unsure, still, what's wrong)
« on: October 12, 2007, 03:01:56 am »
I'm very glad you were able to get it running. I do hope that this system becomes easier to install, with time. If the evolution of Linux is any indication, this WILL happen.

As for testing media director functionality, I have not tried doing vmware, but I would imagine using a bridged-ethernet type setup would be most optimal.

-Thom

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holding down shift during boot is the best way to get to the AV wizard if you do not have a Fiire Chief remote.

-Thom

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should not be a problem. However, when LinuxMCE is installed, you should not use APT beyond that point, because there might be a situation where you will cause package conflicts with the kubuntu repository, and the LinuxMCE update packages that get automatically downloaded. This can happen for example, if you install slimserver via apt to upgrade it.

this software is still very much in transition, and things like this have popped up, and a workaround will no doubt be done..but in the mean-time, watch what you install.

as for expandability... you can set up linux-md RAID arrays, and the web-admin site has a facility for this. Do keep in mind that with LinuxMCE, it automatically switches to your least-filled drive anyway when you add new storage, so the whole issue of needing to do LVM becomes somewhat moot and the resulting disks can be removed easier. You've also got the option of using NAS as well.

-Thom

p.s. are you sure the nvidia driver is being loaded?? check your xorg.conf to make sure vesa isn't being incorrectly loaded... As for me, I put in an 8600GT, and had to install the vendor drivers (basically, install, go through AV wizard, let it roll through the LMCE launcher, DO NOT LET IT PASS THROUGH THE BOOT PROCESS WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE AV WIZARD AFTER INSTALLING THE DRIVERS AND REBOOTING BECAUSE THE X WRAPPER WILL UNDO YOUR CHANGES!)

the next version of LinuxMCE (due VERY SOON NOW) should have much newer drivers that support the current crop of cards in the retail shops.

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dude, don't do lvm with linuxMCE. it will not recognise the LVM slices.. I figured this out too late, and the only solution for me was to mount the LVM slice via the fstab as /home...and now it always thinks my lvm slice has 500 megs free, it doesn't get the disk free bytes correctly because it can't grep for the partition correctly and update the database.. if I can track it down, I will try to fix at least that problem, if not adding support for LVM slices to LinuxMCE's automatic discovery process.

-Thom

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Users / Re: Mock up: Blue Bar theme
« on: October 11, 2007, 02:14:49 am »
I would like to point out too, that these UIs were designed to be used from 10' away, on a TV.... have you tested these UIs like that?

-Thom

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Developers / Re: Reorganizing development for scalability
« on: October 11, 2007, 01:39:08 am »
okay...so...you...tested and glanced at a smattering of version control systems....

I can understand the familiarity with svn, with cvs..

however, given the sheer size of the code, the number of individual sub-systems within this code, and the potential for so many people to be working on these subsystems independently, it is much easier to test individual ideas within git, or darcs, or bzr, than it is to deal with svn.

I know i'm pressing hard on this issue, but i want you all to seriously consider and weigh the pros and cons. SVN and CVS are badly suited for this project in the long run.

-Thom

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