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Installation issues / Re: Xine, x264, VC1 (mkv), and VDPAU

« on: September 27, 2010, 07:22:32 am »

OK, so it seems the problem lies in my local cache having a priority of 9999, whereas yours is only 500.

I look in /etc/apt/preferences, and find:

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Package: *
Pin: origin
Pin-Priority: 9999

Package: *
Pin: release v=8.10,o=Ubuntu,a=hardy,l=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 9998
I assume yours is different?  Why does mine look like that?

Also, my core has the following preferences:

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# We take MythTV from our repo always
Package: mythtv mythtv-frontend mythtv-backend mythtv-common mythtv-database mythtv-transcode-utils mythweb libmythtv-perl libmyth python-myth mythtv-themes mythplugins mytharchive mytharchive-data mythbrowser mythgallery mythgame mythmovies mythmusic mythnetvison mythnetvision-data mythnews mythvideo mythweather mythzoneminder myth-doc
Pin: origin deb.linuxmce.org
Pin-Priority: 1001

# If our local package uses the same version as elsewhere, we take the one we have locally.
Package: *
Pin: origin
Pin-Priority: 600
It has the latest libxine1

So the problem is isolated to my MD.  Should I simply change the preferences?  I don't want to break anything that might depend on those preferences.

Thanks,

Stuart

EDIT: of further interest is that the core has the latest libxine1 installed, but it's not in the cache directory.  Hmm....

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Installation issues / Re: Xine, x264, VC1 (mkv), and VDPAU

« on: September 27, 2010, 06:43:16 am »

root@moon97:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@moon97:~#

root@moon97:~# apt-cache policy libxine1
libxine1:
  Installed: 1.1.16.3-0ubuntu2~xine-vdpau~intrepid~ppa2
  Candidate: 1.1.16.3-0ubuntu2~xine-vdpau~intrepid~ppa2
  Version table:
     1.1.16.4-0ubuntu6-lmce-1 0
        500 http://deb.linuxmce.org intrepid/beta2 Packages
 *** 1.1.16.3-0ubuntu2~xine-vdpau~intrepid~ppa2 0
       9999 file: ./ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.1.15-0ubuntu3.3 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
     1.1.15-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
root@moon97:~#

Hmmm... I wonder why it's being kept back.

Note that when I remove this line from my sources.list:

deb file:/usr/pluto/deb-cache/ ./

I get this:

root@moon97:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libxine1-bin libxine1-console libxine1-ffmpeg libxine1-misc-plugins
  libxine1-x
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-2.6.27-15-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libxine1 libxine1-xvdr linux-image-diskless lmce-launch-manager
  lmce-mythtv-scripts lmce-update-system pluto-add-software pluto-app-server
  pluto-avwizard pluto-boot-scripts pluto-capture-card-scripts pluto-dcecommon
  pluto-disk-drive pluto-libresolution pluto-messagesend pluto-mplayer-player
  pluto-orbiter pluto-photo-screen-saver pluto-pluto-main-db pluto-plutoutils
  pluto-pnp-detection pluto-serializeclass pluto-shiftstate pluto-simplephone
  pluto-storage-devices pluto-x-scripts pluto-xine-player xineliboutput-sxfe
28 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 102MB of archives.
After this operation, 97.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

But I assume that sources.list line should be there?

I have always had issues with package management with this LMCE installation (not just this MD, but the core also).  When I go into "Software Packages" in the Setup Wizard, I get a blank list.  I think it somehow ties into the fact that my internet connection wasn't working when I did my initial core install.

Stuart

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Installation issues / Re: Xine, x264, VC1 (mkv), and VDPAU

« on: September 27, 2010, 02:42:35 am »

I just want to follow up on this, and say that I have the latest xine packages (1.1.16.3-0ubuntu2~xine-vdpau~intrepid~ppa2) and none of my newer mkv files work.

Is anyone else still experiencing problems?  I will try to get some meaningful logs from my system tonight.

Thanks,

Stuart

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Users / Re: Media browser and title attribute problem

« on: September 21, 2010, 03:05:07 am »

hmm

that feature does not tag episodes properly. Please do not use it.

I still need to slap the guy who wrote it silly.

Please listen!

You need to tag each file, with the same title as the main title of the show
and create an episode tag for each file which has at least the title of the episode.

-Thom

I have submitted a patch to Trac which causes the TV episode tagging mode to behave as recommended above.

http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/ticket/818

The feature is now very usable with the patch applied.  I can't wait for the collapsing feature, based on a common title.

I would even be willing to implement this myself.  Thom: are you working on it actively?  I wouldn't want to step on your toes.

Also, should we do a two-level hierarchy, based on common Title, then common Program (for season number)?  When you have 26 seasons of a given TV show, a flat episode list is difficult to wade through.

Stuart

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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 / Re: Automatic thumbnails

« on: September 22, 2007, 07:44:41 am »

Then I shall implement the feature.

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