Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-10-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/09/2014 01:52 PM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 07:31 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I have had an issue with a wall double power point that has a power board plugged into each socket, where when there was a power blackout the red led on one power board went out but the red led on the 2nd

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-10-08 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 07:31 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I have had an issue with a wall double power point that has a power > board plugged into each socket, where when there was a power blackout > the red led on one power board went out but the red led on the 2nd > power board remain lit the

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-10-08 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/03/2014 07:13 PM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 07:46 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: I'm in Australia too. The electronic store I bought the powerboard from tells me that a 2000W room heater, which draws 8.3 amps, if plugged in to a powerboard will weaken the surge protector and destroy t

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-10-03 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 07:46 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > I'm in Australia too. The electronic store I bought the powerboard > from tells me that a 2000W room heater, which draws 8.3 amps, if > plugged in to a powerboard will weaken the surge protector and destroy > the circuits, which probably ex

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-10-02 Thread Stephen Morris
when the heater had been in use for some time. Using XBMC on my media player to stream movies from my NAS over wireless seems to have all sorts of lag issues, both with buffering every 30 seconds or so and sound being out of sync with the video, but streaming movies from the net over wireless se

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-24 Thread Tim
Tim: >> But how is that any different from the wall socket? Any powerboard >> that cannot handle the full load that could be plugged into a wall >> socket shouldn't be sold. Rick Stevens: > Completely different certifications, construction and materials. Wall > sockets have to be certified by UL

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 14:28 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> I agree they're supposed to watch, but > >> minidlnad won't unless you enable inotify and event then only on > >> filesystems that support inotify. > > > I don't recall having to enable inotify (i.e. I think it was the > > default), but

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-23 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/23/2014 01:12 AM, Tim issued this missive: Stephen Morris: My main concern with using a powerboard, because I don't have any choice, was using the homeplug device with other devices overloading the powerboard having had issues with a 2000W heater destroying powerboards, and having the elec

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-23 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/23/2014 02:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 17:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: I agree they're supposed to watch, but minidlnad won't unless you enable inotify and event then only on filesystems that support inotify. I don't recall having to enable inotify (i.e. I

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 17:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Simply adding new content doesn't usually require an explicit rescan > > because the server is watching a given set of directories. Changing > the > > structure typically does mean a rescan because the set of > directories to > > be watched

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-23 Thread Tim
Stephen Morris: >> My main concern with using a powerboard, because I don't have any >> choice, was using the homeplug device with other devices overloading the >> powerboard having had issues with a 2000W heater destroying powerboards, >> and having the electronic store that provided the powerboar

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/22/2014 04:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan issued this missive: On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 16:05 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: I don't have a separate directory per format, but use directories for TV, Movies, Home Video etc. I have similar directory structures, but I have now resolved my issue wit

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 16:05 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> I don't have a separate directory per format, but use directories > for > >> TV, Movies, Home Video etc. > > I have similar directory structures, but I have now resolved my > issue > > with dlna not being able to see the top level director

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/22/2014 02:50 PM, Stephen Morris issued this missive: On 09/17/2014 10:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 08:01 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: Keeping the neighbours out is just standard network practice: use a decent WPA password on the router, and keep a tight control

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 09/17/2014 10:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 08:01 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: Keeping the neighbours out is just standard network practice: use a decent WPA password on the router, and keep a tight control on incoming connections via the server firewall. IIRC the

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 00:53 +0930, Tim wrote: > Dunno how well people cope with non-polarised two-pin mains plugs that > can be plugged in either way. Some people realise to try plugging it > in > the opposite way, many probably would not. That's a problem we don't > have in my country, the plugs

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> I can't see see why an ordinary powerboard would be a problem, it's >> just >> a series of sockets wired in parallel, just like your wall sockets >> are. >> >> However, if you have a filtered powerboard, of the type that remove >> electrical noise (usually with a core wound around ferrite)

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 13:48 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 08:01 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > > One of my collegues that I work with uses a homeplug type device > and > > tells me it works very well, so I could look at that although I'm > not > > sure how well it would work in a powe

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-17 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 08:01 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > One of my collegues that I work with uses a homeplug type device and > tells me it works very well, so I could look at that although I'm not > sure how well it would work in a powerboard as I don't have any spare > wall power points. I

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 08:01 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Keeping the neighbours out is just standard network practice: use a > > decent WPA password on the router, and keep a tight control on > incoming > > connections via the server firewall. IIRC the server config can also > > restrict client

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-16 Thread Stephen Morris
On 09/14/2014 11:47 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 11:09 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: Note that my comments were on using DLNA. Miracast is different (and pretty much as you describe it) since it's focussed on screen mirroring which is not the same concept. My TV supports

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 11:09 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Note that my comments were on using DLNA. Miracast is different (and > > pretty much as you describe it) since it's focussed on screen > mirroring > > which is not the same concept. My TV supports Miracast and I can > mirror > > my phone

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 09/12/2014 08:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 07:15 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: Also, I suspect you may be labouring under a misconception: you don't stream media to your remote device, the device streams media *from* the server (using the DLNA protocol). You don'

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 07:15 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Also, I suspect you may be labouring under a misconception: you > don't > > stream media to your remote device, the device streams media *from* > the > > server (using the DLNA protocol). You don't have to tell the server > what > > the d

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 09/10/2014 07:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 06:56 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: Thankyou for your responses. I probably need some more assistance on these. I have minidlna installed already but haven't been able to figure out how to use it. I have al

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-09 Thread poma
On 08.09.2014 22:43, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > I was given a Smart Media Player for fathers day, which I have > connected to my TV via HDMI. When I power it on and it establishes its > wireless connection to my router, ... What actual device "Smart Media Player"

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 06:56 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thankyou for your responses. I probably need some more > assistance > on these. > I have minidlna installed already but haven't been able to > figure > out how to use it. > I have also been told that XBMC to XBMC streaming

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-09 Thread Rick Stevens
XBMC streaming is not a godd idea, how valid is that? Also, like Miracast under Windows, doesn't Linux have to be able to see the device before any of the mentioned package can stream to it? regards, Steve On 09/09/2014 06:43 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I was given a Smart Media

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-09 Thread Stephen Morris
like Miracast under Windows, doesn't Linux have to be able to see the device before any of the mentioned package can stream to it? regards, Steve On 09/09/2014 06:43 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I was given a Smart Media Player for fathers day, which I have connected to my TV via HD

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 15:05 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 09/08/2014 01:43 PM, Stephen Morris issued this missive: > > Hi, > > I was given a Smart Media Player for fathers day, which I have > > connected to my TV via HDMI. When I power it on and it establishes its >

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/08/2014 01:43 PM, Stephen Morris issued this missive: Hi, I was given a Smart Media Player for fathers day, which I have connected to my TV via HDMI. When I power it on and it establishes its wireless connection to my router, Windows 8 automatically detects it and adds it as a device

Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-08 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, I was given a Smart Media Player for fathers day, which I have connected to my TV via HDMI. When I power it on and it establishes its wireless connection to my router, Windows 8 automatically detects it and adds it as a device it can stream to. Under Fedora 20 none of the network

Re: VLC Media Player for F20?

2014-03-17 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/18/14 08:24, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > > I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC website is > very outdated and only has instructions up to F14, and they don't work for > me. > > VLC is available in the rp

Re: VLC Media Player for F20?

2014-03-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/18/14 08:24, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC website is very > outdated and only has instructions up to F14, and they don't work for me. VLC is available in the rpmfusion repos http://rpmfusion.org/ has the info for a

re: VLC Media Player for F20?

2014-03-17 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
- Original Message - From: Oliver Ruebenacker To: Community support for Fedora users Date sent: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:24:08 -0400 Subject: VLC Media Player for F20? Hello, I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC website is very outdated and only has

VLC Media Player for F20?

2014-03-17 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC website is very outdated and only has instructions up to F14, and they don't work for me. Any advice? Thanks! Best, Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics

Re: media player

2013-11-19 Thread David Beveridge
There is this... https://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_shut_down_computer/ On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Rafnews wrote: > Hi, > > i'm looking for a media player (DVD and divx) for my son's computer using > Fedora 19. > > i need a particular feature as he's only

media player

2013-11-19 Thread Rafnews
Hi, i'm looking for a media player (DVD and divx) for my son's computer using Fedora 19. i need a particular feature as he's only 3 years old... i need to have the same feature as under GOM Player... to tell the media player to shutdown computer after the DVD/divx movie e

F18 xfce 'parole' media player cant even play back MPEG1 vids... (fixed)

2013-04-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
The Parole media player in F18/XFCE is utterly broken. First I downloaded a .mpg file (mpeg1). Tried to open it with Parole 0.3.0 as delivered on the F18 livecd. it failed. The message was a generic "Missing plugins to play this file" message. Then I updated it with yum, it installed Pa

Re: Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a featureto download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-13 Thread fernando
ozano > Original Message >From: Steven Stern >To: "Community support for Fedora users" >Sent: Qua, Abr 13, 2011, 10:25 AM >Subject: Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a >featureto download youtube videos in Fedora? > >On 04/12/2011 03:46

Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/12/2011 03:46 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/12/2011 01:25 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> But the Firefox plugin is so easy... >> >> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105 >> > > Thank you; I'd installed a program that downloaded flash files and > converted them to mp3 format, but it's been fai

Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/12/2011 01:25 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > But the Firefox plugin is so easy... > > http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105 > Thank you; I'd installed a program that downloaded flash files and converted them to mp3 format, but it's been failing lately. Checking the url you gave me shows th

Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/12/2011 02:40 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:29:33 -0700, JZ wrote: > >> On 04/12/2011 10:45 AM, JD wrote: >>> There is also the Fedora package called >>> youtube-dl-2011.01.30-1.fc14.noarch >> >> And, of course, you can always use wget. > > Not directly with the youtu

Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:29:33 -0700, JZ wrote: > On 04/12/2011 10:45 AM, JD wrote: > > There is also the Fedora package called > > youtube-dl-2011.01.30-1.fc14.noarch > > And, of course, you can always use wget. Not directly with the youtube video URLs. Where a simple "youtube-dl http://..."; wor

Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/12/2011 10:45 AM, JD wrote: > There is also the Fedora package called > youtube-dl-2011.01.30-1.fc14.noarch And, of course, you can always use wget. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-12 Thread JD
On 04/12/2011 09:36 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 04/12/2011 11:34 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: >> Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to >> download youtube videos in Fedora? > There's a nice Firefox extension that enables downloads of videos

Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/12/2011 11:34 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to > download youtube videos in Fedora? There's a nice Firefox extension that enables downloads of videos from youtube. -- -- Steve -- users mailing

Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-12 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org