freevo port

[Lars Eggert]

Stacy,

glad to hear that you it is at least mildly useful. I should have my 
freevo hardware back in a week or so, and will then resume hacking on 
the port (1.5 is around the corner).

Would you mind sending this information as an update to the PR log? The 
committer looking into the port (linimon@) had some issues installing 
it, but I have gotten reports from several people that installed if with 
no problems. (Mark: Maybe this is a -current vs. -stable issue?)

Lars

Stacy Millions wrote:

> I took a shot at the freevo port to see if I could get it to work
> my pvr350. This is on STABLE. I had two issues building the port:
> 
> 1) I had to install xmltv by hand, x11-toolkits/p5-Tk-TableMatrix
> doesn't build any more. It is optional for xmltv, but a dependancy
> for the port version.
> 
> 2) sysutils/stat should be a dependancy, freevo won't run without it.
> 
> The TV/VCR features don't work with new PVR[23]50 driver. The problem is
> some unsupported ioctl's that mplayer/mencoder -tv use. I'm not sure
> that you would want to use mencoder any way since the pvr[23]50 gives
> you an mpeg2 stream native...
> 
> the web interface does not work either. This is an abridged version
> of what I get on the browser:
> web.Server Traceback (most recent call last):
> exceptions.AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'statvfs'
> 
> I don't know how many of freevo's features are actually supposed
> to work, the web interface is documented (in the config file) as
> being experimental.
> 
> So far, freevo will play existing media files and play from
> the dvd-rom. I can browse the TV listings and schedule recordings
> and I hope with a bit of creative hacking to actually get it
> to record from my pvr350.
> 
> -stacy
> 


-- 
Lars Eggert                                     NEC Network Laboratories
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