Re: Freevo-1.7.4 has been released

Hi friends,

after the enthusiastic comments (esp. by Evan Hisey), I also
updated from 
1.7.1svn to current rel-1-7 and the latest kaa svn.   The
recordserver 
required me updating twisted and twisted-web, but now I have
some grave 
problems with TV:

- Anyways, there are two other major problems (which might
as well be 
responsible for the above):
* the guide is empty (no program data for any channel)
* I get "no scheduled recordings"
* similarly, "no favorites"
* watching TV gives a blank screen only

/var/cache/freevo/record_schedule.xml is not small and at
least still contains 
the favorites (since it is completely unformatted and I do
not know a good 
XML formatter, it is hard to check though).

Ah, the commandline for watching TV (using tv.ivtv_xine_tv)
is
> /usr/bin/xine --auto-play=fq --hide-gui --borderless
--geometry
> 1024x768+0+0 --no-splash --no-lirc
--post=pp:quality=10;expand -V None -A
> None --stdctl pvr:///home/user/Timeshift/buf"
-- now "-V None -A None" looks suspicious!

I already did convert_config, but something changed.  Since
I did never 
configure XINE_TV_AO_DEV, I would assume that it defaults to
XINE_AO_DEV, no?  
The code suggests that, but it uses hasattr(), while
freevo_conf.py now 
contains ... = None.  That does not work together.  Attached
is a possible 
fix.

Now I have TV, but it shows great flickering, and the guide,
scheduled 
recordings, and favorites are still empty. :-(

-- 
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On Samstag 24 November 2007, Hans Meine wrote:
> /var/cache/freevo/record_schedule.xml is not small and
at least still
> contains the favorites
..in the meantime, it became empty.  Luckily, I made a copy
just in time, and 
after stopping the recordserver and copying that back, I see
my recordings 
again.  Don't know how why it was emptied, but now it works.
 Ah - maybe it's 
because the updated recordserver crashed with missing
modules etc. at first?!  
It really shouldn't write back an empty file in such cases
though.

My patch fixed watching TV, and the grave flickering was due
to /me having 
started "nxtvepg --daemon ..." in the background
(in order to fix the missing 
guide data problem), which I already knew that it harms the
ivtv stream.

So the only remaining problem is that I have nxtvepg telling
me that it has 
loads of current data, but despite an obviously up-to-date
/tmp/TV.xml, the 
guide is empty.  Writing this, I recall that it finally got
moved out of this 
stupid /tmp location... IIRC I even voted for that. 
However, 
local_conf.py.example still contains "# XMLTV_FILE =
'/tmp/TV.xml'" - should 
this be changed / become commented for the user?

Argh - this was a lengthy update process - it took me more
than two hours to 
fix all problems.  I hope that other users have more luck /
follow some 
update docs I did not know of (or - to be honest - look for
more than some 
minutes).

At least the kaa update I started with led to a previously
unrecognized DVD 
becoming playable, so there's at least *something* on the
plus side. 

The images are wrongly rotated now, I seem to need the new
config option. And 
the main menu lookgs different, as if it is shifted upwards
by about the 
height of one menu entry (using the "blurr"
theme).  Oh - I can 
choose "blurr_BB" (whatever that means) to get the
old layout.  Again - this 
comes as a suprise to the upgrading user.

In summary, I would hope that more of the necessary changes
would be made 
automatically or backwards compatible.

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Hans Meine wrote:
> Hi friends,
> 
> after the enthusiastic comments (esp. by Evan Hisey), I
also updated from 
> 1.7.1svn to current rel-1-7 and the latest kaa svn.  
The recordserver 
> required me updating twisted and twisted-web, but now I
have some grave 
> problems with TV:
> 
> - Anyways, there are two other major problems (which
might as well be 
> responsible for the above):
> * the guide is empty (no program data for any channel)
> * I get "no scheduled recordings"
> * similarly, "no favorites"
> * watching TV gives a blank screen only
> 
> /var/cache/freevo/record_schedule.xml is not small and
at least still contains 
> the favorites (since it is completely unformatted and I
do not know a good 
> XML formatter, it is hard to check though).
> 
> Ah, the commandline for watching TV (using
tv.ivtv_xine_tv) is
>> /usr/bin/xine --auto-play=fq --hide-gui
--borderless --geometry
>> 1024x768+0+0 --no-splash --no-lirc
--post=pp:quality=10;expand -V None -A
>> None --stdctl pvr:///home/user/Timeshift/buf"
> -- now "-V None -A None" looks suspicious!

More than suspicious, clearly not set.

It would be better if Richard moved all the config stuff
into a config
function then they can have sensible defaults and the freevo
plugins -i
can report the options.

> I already did convert_config, but something changed. 
Since I did never 
> configure XINE_TV_AO_DEV, I would assume that it
defaults to XINE_AO_DEV, no?  

It does use to the XINE_AO_DEV when XINE_TV_AO_DEV is not
set.

> The code suggests that, but it uses hasattr(), while
freevo_conf.py now 
> contains ... = None.  That does not work together. 
Attached is a possible 
> fix.
> 
> Now I have TV, but it shows great flickering, and the
guide, scheduled 
> recordings, and favorites are still empty. :-(

I don't know what the problem is with the flickering, have
you tried to
run the xine command from the command line? Always the first
thing to do
when something is a it suspect. More than likely it is a
problem with
the XINE_TV_VO_DEV setting.

TV_RECORD_SCHEDULE setting points to the record_schedule.xml
and by
default it is:
TV_RECORD_SCHEDULE = FREEVO_STATICDIR +
'/record_schedule.xml'
staticdir should be logging something like:
config.py (512): staticdir: /var/lib /var/lib/freevo
so
TV_RECORD_SCHEDULE = '/var/lib/freevo/record_schedule.xml'

Duncan


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