Freevo and DVD crash

[Net Llama!]

On 11/28/03 15:01, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience with Freevo (a OSS Tivo-like app)?
> 
> If so, I'm having a few difficulties getting everything to work as planned.
> 
> The one I'll ask about right now is a crash I get when starting Freevo with a DVD in the drive?  It doesn't happen without a DVD in the drive.  Movies play correctly etc... but once I stick a DVD in the drive it crashes
> 
> Here is the output from it:
> 
> aiu1411 at gandalf:~> freevo
> ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added "('/media/cdrecorder', '/dev/cdrecorder', 'CDREC-1')"
> ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected that /dev/cdrom is the same device as /dev/cdrecorder, skipping
> ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added "('/media/dvd', '/dev/dvd', 'DVD-2')"
> XMTV: Auto-detected channel list
> WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found!
> Pygame Parachute Traceback:
> Thread-0x80255540
>   File "/usr/local/freevo/runtime/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 204, in wait
> Thread-0x8026f9a8
>   File "/usr/local/freevo/runtime/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 204, in wait
> Thread-0x802539c0
>   File "/usr/local/freevo/runtime/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 204, in wait
> Thread-0x802e4af0
>   File "/usr/local/freevo/runtime/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 204, in wait
> Thread-0x80279738
>   File "/usr/local/freevo/runtime/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mmpython/disc/dvdinfo.py", line 88, in isDisc
> Thread-0x80015200
>   File "/usr/local/freevo/src/osd.py", line 1139, in _getbitmap
> Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
> aiu1411 at gandalf:~>
> 
> 
> This is a DVD drive which is /dev/hdd aka /dev/dvd
> There is also a CDRW drive on this system as well.
> It appears there is a problem with the dvdinfo.py file but Python is beyond me...

You might want to search on Google.  I found this (and much more) rather 
quickly:
http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02239.html

Seems that the wrong version of SDL you're using is what causes that 
segfault.


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