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Users / Re: Top 5 reasons why I like the webpad orbiter best out of all LinuxMCE remote controls

« on: December 31, 2008, 03:34:15 pm »

powerbits,

check out tschak's demonstration what his mastermind has created ;O)
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6688.0

The WebDT 3xx you can grab from ebay... or just buy one already flashed with the proper image from tkmedia.

P.

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Users / Re: Top 5 reasons why I like the webpad orbiter best out of all LinuxMCE remote controls

« on: December 30, 2008, 10:20:33 pm »

JUST AWESOME! this freakin' system is getting better and even FAR better ;O)
*yyeaaahhh*

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Users / Re: Top 5 reasons why I like the webpad orbiter best out of all LinuxMCE remote controls

« on: December 30, 2008, 06:32:06 pm »

Bringing back the web dt to germany, I'm really looking forward to be part of the "web dt experience" ;O)
I was wondering... does the Web DT Image comes with an browser like firefox?
Watching movies/shows in the evening, i like to browse the web (forum.linuxmce.org ! ) and to my mail...
Is this possible with the existing image?

Pat

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Users / Re: Sharp Aquous with Asus eee b202

« on: December 17, 2008, 12:29:04 pm »

Dale_K,

to get a proper modeline runnning, i installed a "little xp" setup and let the new Nvidia driver do the setup.
Afterwards i copied the setting in the Advanced setup and put that into my xorg.conf.

mybe this is of help: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6353.msg38613#msg38613

Yours,

Patrick

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Users / Re: Anybody using NVidia Geforce TI 4200

« on: November 25, 2008, 09:30:56 pm »

here is my xorg.conf ...

Code: [Select]

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen  0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "v4l"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "basic"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Unknown Monitor Model"
Modeline "1024x768" 60.80 1024 1056 1128 1272 768 768 770 796
HorizSync 20-500
VertRefresh 59-61
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor Name"
BoardName "Unknown Board Name"
Option "LinearAlloc" "16384"
#BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
# Option "NoDDC" "true"
Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "true"
Option "renderAccel" "true"
Option "NoDDCValue"
Option "UseEDID" "false"
Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "NoBandWidthTest" "true"
Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck, NoMaxPClkCheck, AllowInterlacedModes, AllowNon60HzDFPModes"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
Option "UseEvents" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1024x768"
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "true"
Option "renderAccel" "true"
Option "NoDDCValue"
Option "UseEDID" "false"
Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "NoBandWidthTest" "true"
Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck, NoMaxPClkCheck, AllowInterlacedModes, AllowNon60HzDFPModes"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
Option "UseEvents" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "TVStandard" "1024x768"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
Option "AIGLX" "Off"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "false"
Option "RENDER" "true"
EndSection
Patrick

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Users / Re: New Media Tagging System

« on: November 25, 2008, 02:57:22 am »

Thanks Glasswalker.... as i am a series junkie myself ... it was a pain to tag the media properly.
Still fiddeling with your baby and still hoping i figure it out ;O)
Thanks Dude!

Patrick

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Users / Re: Anybody using NVidia Geforce TI 4200

« on: November 25, 2008, 02:52:21 am »

Valent,

which driver did you install?
I have a Geforce 4200TI running on my MD. Thats good enough for UI1, video & Co.

I had to edit the xorg.conf and use nv as a driver.
After the avwizard and sara showed up, i could ssh into my MD without a password. Then i copied the Nvdia driver tp my MD, and follow the how To to install a video driver on a MD with telinit 1 in the ssh shell and install the driver locally.
Nvidias 96.43.07 worked out for me and i can run my MD @ 1600x1200.

Patrick

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Users / Re: Setting up a Pinnacle 310i Digital Freeview PCI card

« on: November 05, 2008, 02:48:45 pm »

Well, this "get-the-f...-ing-DVB-Firmware" script does not always workout. For the td00146 for example, the zip file from the website was moved... or ist not reachable anymore. But maybe that's just me ;O)

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Users / Re: Setting up a Pinnacle 310i Digital Freeview PCI card

« on: November 04, 2008, 01:13:57 pm »

As its quite tricky to get hands on these files somehow... wouldn't it be cool, to have some kind of central space to store these kind of data like firmwares, conf-files etc?

Solidsquare: could you provide a the informations, provided by lspci and dmesg from the shell?

Patrick

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Users / Re: need help with tv card pick:)

« on: November 04, 2008, 11:59:33 am »

compaqpresario ,

remember we are no sales guys eager to attract "new customers" / users insisting on support.
Sometimes your lucky, and someone picks up your request, sometimes you're not.
Get over it... and search the wiki / forum.

For Hardware Support, anything runs, that is supported by v4l-dvb or the kernel directly + the right firmware. Most cool Windows-Features like, multiple tuners etc are quite tricky with linux, and usually it takes a little while, before an ambitious hacker codes some stuff.
So, ebay is your friend to pick up older stable hardware ;O)

Try the wiki for hardware, check if there's some info available.

http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Category:TV_Cards

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Hardware

For your setup, i wonder why you don't want to plug the TV-Cards into the core, where they "belong". Remember that the Core/Hybrid/MD architecture is set up to deliver streams to the cores. There are some interesting setups on the user wikis, read and try...
You won't succeed with LMCE without spending some evil amount of money, as it's quite picky with the hardware.

Hope that helps...

Cheers Patrick

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Users / Re: Setting up a Pinnacle 310i Digital Freeview PCI card

« on: November 04, 2008, 11:44:01 am »

John,

i own a Terratec 1200 DVB-T PCI card, which has the same Chip as you do.
I ran into Problems, as the Chip was recognized as a soundcard somehow ;O)

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5422.msg31652#msg31652

But you said, you could already get some channels, so the card setting should be fine, right?
Or do you just receive analog channels (in Germany they don't have them anymore ;O) )

Cheers,

Patrick

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Users / Multi-language Video Playback with mkv / Matroska files

« on: November 04, 2008, 12:39:12 am »

Hi all!

I just got hands on some mkv files with several language sound tracks.
I was really sad, as could not figure out how to convince Xine / LMCE to play both tracks ;O)
Are there any news on that case...? I just found a several request from march this year.

Thanks for feedback....

Patrick

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Compatible Products & Services / Re: Help to buy a msi ms-7329

« on: October 28, 2008, 12:36:57 pm »

nite_man,

in Germany a bunch of webshops have them in stock: http://geizhals.at/deutschland/?cat=barepc&asuch=media%20live.
I just own the board & the Video-out bracket. I kind of like the "all-integrated" pat, but suffer from some issues with video etc. and did'nt figured out yet, how to solve them. But i suggest the price vs. Hardware fits ;O)
Hopefully your not planning 1080 resolutions, do you?

Pat

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Users / Re: Screencast: Using LinuxMCE's Media System, part 1 of 2

« on: October 23, 2008, 12:10:53 pm »

Thom!

i really liked your video. I showed me, that the UI of LMCE is not as bad as i though it is ;O)
Now i wonder whats the most efficient way to  tag all the media data i have in store.
I started to play around... but somehow its a pain.
So... coming from you, i think there will be an easier way to tag...

In my case i would like to tag a couple auf tv shows , season and episode wise.
For now it makes most sense to go for sort by filename, as the data are stored in folders...

hope to get enlighted soon... ;O))

Patrick

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Core Redundancy:What if?

« on: October 15, 2008, 06:46:09 pm »

Well,

high availability with Open Source should be quite common. There are several Projects and papers about this issue.
I wrote my diploma thesis about that *siiggh*, where i compared three Solutions for a HA-framework.
Redundancy in mind, it should be determined first, what's important to keep alive. The core? The DB? The Filesystem?both? How about the TV Cards (keep in mind THE week w/o TV!)?. The easiest way to increase HA is to go for RAID 1, hoping Murphy won't grill both HDs, so you just can keep a second "standby" Core and switch HD, rebuild RAID1.

Things like heartbeat etc could do the trick as well.
The "winner" of the conclusion was http://www.openais.org, an opensource implementation of the Service Availability Forum, as the idea was to keep several independant Software Moduls online.
The company i worked for never implemented anything based on my thesis .... i wonder why ;O)

Havin' this in mind... HA is pure pain!

Some literature:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/geeks/archives/2007/02/achieve_more_re.html

http://www.linux-ha.org/

and a presentation:
http://www.linux-ha.org/_cache/HeartbeatTutorials__LWCE08-ha-tutorial.pdf