Archive for Freevo

01.16.07

Getting Filmtrailers from FilmWeb into FreeVo

Posted in Freevo at 12:18 am by are

FilmWeb is a Norwegian movie site. They have a lot of movie trailers there, along with the premiere date here in Norway.
I have created a php-script that crawls the FilmWeb site and creates FXD-files with url’s, summary and picture. In FreeVo you can then browse all the new trailers and watch then streamed from Web.

Set this script up in your crontab to download every night. (fxd files will be created in the current directory)

trailers2fxd.php.gz

04.06.06

My new HTPC

Posted in Linux, Freevo, HTPC at 1:17 pm by are

My caseThe hot thing these days is HTPC. A pc in your livingroom that looks like a stereo hifi component, and you use it for playing music and movies etc.
The advanced users also use it to record tv-programmes.

My HTPC is not the kind that looks like a stereo component. This is because they are usually very small, and usually very noicy.

I sold the old MSI Mega 865 because it was noicy and it was so small I could not extend it (and the remote and FM radio did not work in linux). Now I got the “Arctic cooling Silentium 2″. I cannot hear it, and my livingroom is once again quiet.

Inside my HTPC i got:
*Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (it’s cheap)
*400Gb Hdd
*450Gb external Hdd (usb)
*Plextor ConvertX TV402 external USB tv-tuner (works in linux)
*Zalman CNPS7700-Cu cpu fan (the biggest fan I have ever seen)

I use mythtv to capture tv-shows with the convertX, and Freevo for playing music and movies etc. Mythtv is only running the mythtvbackend that does the recording, while I use mythweb to schedule recordings.

My old HTPC

Posted in Linux, Freevo, HTPC at 1:02 pm by are

My old HTPC was a MSI Mega 865 but the support for Linux was crap. I eventually got the linux kernel to control the fans.

For those of you who has the MSI Mega 865 and uses Linux, here is how I got the fans to work:
The 865 uses the Super I/O smbusSMSC47M15x chipset. This is not supported by Linux. (at least not when I had it on 2.6.9 kernel)
Replace the /usr/src/linux/drivers/i2c/chips/smsc47m1.c with this file.

Then do:
echo 8 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0800/fan1_div
echo 8 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0800/fan2_div
echo 180 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0800/fan2_pwm
echo 210 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0800/fan1_pwm

and the fans will go really slow.

Do “cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature” to see the core temperature rise… ;-)

Music database for freevo

Posted in Programming, Freevo at 11:48 am by are

I’m useing freevo on my HTPC. It’s working great. But I have thousands of mp3, and finding a song is difficult, or impossible. Therefore I created this plugin that reads from a database of mp3 files. You can browse by title, album, genre and artist. It also supports recursive play.

The database is updated by the getid3 php program.

I’ll update the files when I have cleaned them up, so until then don’t bother complaining about ugly code.
Download musicmenu plugin here