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Users / RS-232 Interfaces - What do you use?
« on: January 08, 2008, 10:41:03 pm »
Hello,

I am investigating the best way to control external devices. Lets assume most of them are controlled via RS-232 and there is always a MD or Core/Hybrid nearby.

Do you use PCIe RS-232 cards with couple of ports, like the EX-44092 (2-port) or EX-44094 (4-port), or are you mainly using a GC-100?

The living room will just have the sound processor and the display, both in reach by RS-232 cable. I will take the PCIe card, but would like to hear other thoughts.

rgds
Oliver

3632
Users / Re: HD / Blu-ray Drive
« on: January 08, 2008, 09:58:40 pm »
Quote from: posde on January 08, 2008, 06:42:22 pm
is it true, that this tool is called ripBDHD.sh and is currently 0 bytes, or is there another tool. I am at the brink of buying a Pioneer BD-202 for 150€ and a test Blu-Ray Disk just to try  ;)

I hereby certify that I shall never post again, without first checking my health  :-X

Sorry, you can download the high-def stuff from the addon software page within LMCE. Me = Stupid.

rgds
Oliver

PS: I will go out and get the Pioneer to test this.

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Users / Re: dvd copy not pending
« on: January 08, 2008, 08:33:44 pm »
Sorry, out of ideas  :(

3634
Users / Re: dvd copy not pending
« on: January 08, 2008, 07:12:22 pm »
Are you using the Pluto Disk_Copy or another diskcopy?

3635
Users / Re: HD / Blu-ray Drive
« on: January 08, 2008, 06:42:22 pm »
Hello Andrew,

Quote from: totallymaxed on January 08, 2008, 01:05:28 pm
A special HD tool is provided to allow you to copy the discs to the Core.

is it true, that this tool is called ripBDHD.sh and is currently 0 bytes, or is there another tool. I am at the brink of buying a Pioneer BD-202 for 150€ and a test Blu-Ray Disk just to try  ;)

rgds
Oliver

3636
Users / Re: dvd copy not pending
« on: January 08, 2008, 06:39:51 pm »
How long does it take for you between the message telling to look and you actually clicking there? Is it possible that an error occured inbetween?

Try manually execute

Code: [Select]
/usr/pluto/bin/Disk_Copy /dev/xxxx t.iso
and see if that gives out any kind of information. (/dev/xxxx should be replaced with your DVD drives device.

rgds
Oliver

3637
Users / Re: Squeezebox Duet - Looks interesting
« on: January 08, 2008, 12:50:29 am »
and connects via WiFi

3638
Users / Re: Input/output error file during RipTask
« on: January 08, 2008, 12:48:57 am »
Hello,

some additional information regarding the problem. I have found more DVDs with a problem. There seem to be a fairly new copy protection scheme in place, used by some of the german DVD producers. Details can be found here http://www.x-protect.com/, and search on http://forum.doom9.org for "Das Parfum" or x-protect reveals some more information.

Don't you just love it, if you buy a generic standardized inexpensive product, like a DVD for around 10€, take it home, just to find out, it will not play on your Linux system, nor on your Windows systems with older versions of WinDVD. NOT! >:(

rgds
Oliver

3639
Users / Re: HD / Blu-ray Drive
« on: January 07, 2008, 09:21:21 pm »
Quote from: Matthew on January 07, 2008, 09:00:00 pm
Is the upshot of that status that while MPlayer can play, say, Blu-Ray discs mounted in an LMCE Blu-Ray drive on a display connected locally to that LMCE drive's host, that is the full extent of HD support?
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It is my understanding, you can not play any encrypted BluRay or HD-DVD on LMCE. Period.

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Ie. the BD cannot be copied to an image file on a harddrive  (even remaining encrypted) and played from there, and neither BD nor an image can be played across the network?

I do not know, if you can COPY the encrypted media to the PC, as I do not have a BlueRay drive in my PC.

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Or does that status actually mean that while MPlayer can in theory play a BD (disc or maybe image file), until someone delivers a BD decrypter (a la DeCSS for SD DVDs), there is no way to watch a BD movie with LMCE?

This is my understanding. As long as there is encryption, you can not play BD or HD-DVD under Linux. A better place to look for information might be the doom9.org forum.

rgds
Oliver

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Users / Re: Media Storage Idea
« on: January 07, 2008, 08:07:53 pm »
Quote from: dgirard on January 07, 2008, 06:55:17 pm
What's the best platform for the storage?...NFS?...Jbod (local disk)?...or Samba/Cifs?

For a comparison, look here http://www.javvin.com/NFSdoc/nfsperformance.html, and to broaden your choice even more, look at iSCSI, which might be an even better choice, if you want to have network connected storage http://www.technomagesinc.com/papers/ip_paper.html

Apart from that, local storage is ALWAYS fastest.

rgds
Oliver

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Users / Re: HD / Blu-ray Drive
« on: January 07, 2008, 07:30:05 pm »
gazlang,

I assume you want to view BluRay and/or HD-DVD movies on your LMCE, right?

As far as I understand the current situation, LMCE is utilizing MPlayer as the engine to play the HD contents. However, I do not know of ANY system right now, capable of directly decrypting the copy protection scheme of BluRay and/or HD-DVD available under Linux.

The MPlayer homepage (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) has some small note on this

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Support for VC-1 in MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS will make many HDTV streams work. Blu-ray or HD-DVD playback is not possible yet, but MPlayer can play the EVO files after they have been decrypted.

This might change in the future, but I would not hold my breath (I have small lung capacity :-))

rgds
Oliver

3642
Users / Re: Input/output error file during RipTask
« on: January 07, 2008, 11:15:24 am »
Some more information.

I have tried numerous DVDs. All of them play just fine. BUT, a lot have problems when I try to copy them to the Core.  I have tried various tools available and all exhibit the same kind of problem. After 7-8% of the DVD I get read errors.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I will try another drive, but doubt that it will help.

Any and help is greatly appreciated

rgds
Oliver

3643
Users / Re: Bug with ignore command OFF in GSD interface
« on: January 07, 2008, 10:40:03 am »
Hello,

I think, the command should be sent, no matter what the computer think its internal state is. Especially with X-10 it is not guaranteed that a command is executed correct. Also, with external interaction the light can have any setting, and the computer does not know. So, if the user is executing "Light Off" the computer should send that command.

Any thoughts?

rgds
Oliver

3644
Users / Re: Configuring Xine Player in LMCE
« on: January 07, 2008, 09:08:48 am »
Hello Thom,

Quote from: tschak909 on January 07, 2008, 05:58:44 am
edit /root/.xine/config ... the Xine_Player (and any libxine based app for that matter) will use this config file.

are you sure about this? The xine from within Pluto used that file, but the information from the /etc/pluto/xine.conf seems to at least overwrite those settings.

rgds
Oliver

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Users / Re: Configuring Xine Player in LMCE
« on: January 06, 2008, 05:46:32 pm »
They use different configuration files. The KDE version uses the /root/.xine/config.conf (i think) and the LMCE uses the configuration file /etc/pluto/xine.conf

Search for XINE on the Wiki and you might some helpful information regarding the audio issue.

rgds
Oliver

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