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Developers / Re: Reorganizing development for scalability

« on: October 15, 2007, 04:08:59 pm »

If I said, I'd love to, I guess it would be a lie...
But besides that, I'm working on my thesis and must not get enganged with any further work... Hoping that the svn will not screw the thesis up for me...

So will the bugtracking be trac only or is trac going to be the tracker for "real" bugs ?

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Developers / Re: Reorganizing development for scalability

« on: October 15, 2007, 11:24:49 am »

Awesome !!! Great to hear that...
I'm really looking forward to getting things to work...

So now the question arrises; who will be maintainer of the repository and who will receive commit-rights ?
Will you, chriss, be the liaison in matters of maintaining the source within the svn ?
Will you also move the bugs from the mantis-bug-tracking to your trac or will the bug- and wiki-stuff be deactivated or will we start over with ne bug-tracking in trac or is there someone who will judge the bugs from mantis and dublicate the "real" bugs to the trac-system ?

best regards, Chewi

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Users / Solution found: Issues with the forum and its language-options. (Admin plz read)

« on: October 12, 2007, 11:17:31 am »

After several days of wondering, if i was the only person for whom forum does not work correcty anymore, if finally found the problem...

I must have chosen german as the prefered language some days ago...

What happened was, that all the button-texts were gone and there was a note about some copyright-problems...

To the Forum-Admin, please check the languages and either deactivate German or install it properly... I guess, some people might be irritated and not come back, if they're only looking for tech-support and not even the forum works...
By the way, who is the forum-admin and is there one at all ?

Best regards,

 Chewi

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Developers / Re: All Developers, please read.

« on: October 11, 2007, 10:44:50 am »

Awesome, that you got a repository...
But do you think that 50GB will be enough ? I would guess, that if only the people writing on the wiki and forum wil do an initial checkout, those 50gb will not be enough. Or do the extra gb not generate additional cost but "only" limit the bandwidth ? 25kBit will make a checkout take

My suggestion is, that for now a few svn-maintainers should be voted. Definately not too many, maybe 1 or 2. The rest could upload their patches as diffs to some php-skript on a website as a tar.gz with a discription.
Alternatively, we could add the status "pending for repository" when there is a solution to a bug in the mantis-system...

Best regards, Chewi

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Users / Re: Can flikr be disabled on an MD?

« on: October 01, 2007, 10:26:50 am »

I don't know, how to shut down the service itself, but you could block the laptop from connecting to the internet, which might be a work around, by either blocking it's access at your router, using iptables or by giving the media-director a static ip-adress and not setting the default gateway.

I don't know if the media-directors to get updates from the internet directly. if that is the case, this would of course not work anymore...

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Developers / Re: Wiki-discussions

« on: October 01, 2007, 10:05:46 am »

The vote:
I vote for "1. Comments allowed":
But not in a sense, where they replace the discussions-section or act as forum or chat, but in a way to encourage people who do not have the time, or not the will to actually rewrite the whole article. Or to address people who are not sure, if their solution and/or knowledge is sophisticated enough to replace the article itself. Or to add corrections, that people are not sure about yet. See this for an example.
Those comments should or course be content, not discussions, oppinions or commendation. The latter belong on the discussions page.

The rest:
I do appreciate the work, of Zaerc, Sammy and Trout !
Zaerc for forwarding this knowledge to the world and adding contents. Sammy for taking the responsability for the wiki, a job nobody else wanted as it is always unthankful and Trout for his support to Sammy in (re-)organizing the wiki.
There cannot be a wiki without content, but all the content in the world is useless if it is not structured. Both are problems within the wiki, as I see it.

My suggestion is, that it might be a good idea to first address those problems large-scale, meaning that:
- (for now) any content (in the meaning of knowledge) is good content. Whatever changes are made, they should always have the goal to not reduce the content within the wiki. We may restructure it, split page, unite pages with redudant knowledge, but never diminish, what is in the wiki.
- Re-organization of the global structure is a number 1 priority. The current way to add cathegories, form new and better contentlists, cross-reference article is just as important as the content itself, but it should honor the first point.
- Reformatting the pages to use the full capacity of the wiki is also as important. It makes additions way easier. But my oppinion is, that the previous 2 points have a higher weight, when being in conflict.

I thank all three of you for your devotion and for everything you're doing, which is propably more, than I will ever contribute, but I wanted to give you my impression on the topic.

I am sorry for the length of this posting and open for comments...

Best regards, Chewi

Edit: Typo-nonsense...

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Developers / Re: Wiki-discussions

« on: September 27, 2007, 02:38:30 pm »

I don't want to talk about who started and who continued or who missbehaved and I also think it does not really matter... What matters is the outcome...
I would suggest, that the two of you stay out of each others way for a while to cool down and maybe you will both realize if or what in your behavior might have been imperfect. And in case, you want to discuss it with each other, or with me, please contact by private message or in the guestbook-part of my wiki-home or lets meet in IRC...

Hoping for a good cooperation in the future and to read a lot more from both of you...

Best regards, Chewi

Crosspost from the Wiki-Discussion-Page:

Hi, i took the liberty to add a new page to the wiki Editing_Text where I put the tricks the two of you offered.
And I linked to the new page from the appropriate passage within the article...
I hope, this will end the fight... And I hope I will read a lot from both of you on this wiki in the future.
Best Regards, Chewi

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Installation issues / Re: Diskless setup fails - diskless_setup.sh

« on: September 26, 2007, 11:00:39 am »

Try detatching the internet-router from your local network and set it up again.
If that works, you know if the router was the problem.

If it is, that's propably, because there are 2 dhcp-servers. one on the core and one on the router. for diskless md's you definately need the core to be dhcp-server. So you should deactivate dhcp on the router and use the core instead. Assign a second static address on the core that can connect to the router (e.g. 192.168.0.5 if the router is 192.168.0.1) (linux can use multiple ip-addresses on a single nic). If the core has internet connection, every other pc will have as well, because it acts as a forwarder and firewall.

good luck...

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Developers / Re: All Developers, please read.

« on: September 25, 2007, 10:46:48 am »

I was wandering, if you could just make the diffs from 0704-source-tar-ball public, as long as there is no svn accessible.

That way, the main load for checking out source would be on Bittorrent (for the tar.bz2) and only the diffs would have to be downloaded from a centralized point. And for this, sourceforge should be sufficient for the moment... And developers interessted in working on linuxmce (like myself) could at least checkout the current source-base for their running linuxmce with the updates you made since the major release...

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Users / Re: MythTV behaving weird...

« on: September 24, 2007, 11:13:19 pm »

The 0704-Sources are there as torrent, yes...

But what about the updates that have been released ? Where can I find them ?

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Users / Re: Suggestion to improve MythTV reliability maybe easy to implement in Linuxmce

« on: September 21, 2007, 09:34:01 am »

As far as I understand Linux, all the free RAM, it has is actually used to buffer the harddisk. So what you are proposing is allready implemented by 80%.
And what are you going to do if someone hits Pause during live-tv for a toilet-breake ? you would have to move the file from ramdisk to harddisk on the fly whilst it is still open; that won't work.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Add-To-Playlist Option

« on: September 21, 2007, 09:30:06 am »

My guess is, that the Playlists work just the same was "Play All" works. It calls CMD_Play_Media (which does enqueue&play) for every single file.
In the xine-wrapper there is no CMD defined for an enqueue-Action and the xine.h which is used to cummunicate to the libxine also does not implement an enqueue-method, but only the xine_open-method...

If i'm wrong, please point me to the missed methods...

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Users / Re: MythTV behaving weird...

« on: September 20, 2007, 02:26:28 pm »

I did have a look into the code on svn.pluto and svn@sourceforge.
If found the code responsible it's MythTV_Player/MythTV_Player.cpp -> void MythTV_Player::pollMythStatus() with m_mythStatus_get() == MYTHSTATUS_STARTUP within the do {...} while Timeout(NULL) < timeout;

But the versions of the code from pluto and sourceforge do not match, and I don't know, what version is current 0704 and what version is svn-head-development...

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Add-To-Playlist Option

« on: September 20, 2007, 12:05:32 pm »

I actually had a look into the Code I could find... If there haven't been any changes, the Xine_Player does not implement such a command... It only seems to support Play_Media, Stop_Media and Pause_Media...

So we will not only have to change something within the orbiter but also within the Xine_Player...

I'll keep diggin, but first I will have to setup a build-environment... Is the sourceforge-svn the actual code used in the current (updated) version of 0704 ? or is that code provided elsewhere ?

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Users / Re: Ripping of dvds

« on: September 19, 2007, 02:48:06 pm »

LinuxMCE does not really rip a dvd, but copies it...
The major difference is, that the .dvd-Files are an image of the complete dvd, including the menu and all the movie-clips on the dvd. That way you do not only get 1 movie-file, but all the extras, all the subtitles, audio-tracks, ...

What you could do, is rip the dvd with compression, etc on another pc and copy it to the core. or take the .dvd-images, mount them loop-back (mount -o loop movie.dvd /mnt) and rip the movies from there...
If you are looking for a tool under linux to rip/convert movies from a dvd have a look at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html...