Thread: Knots 2 - easy media streaming for most operating systems
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ukki is offline ukki
2010-02-15 , 07:25
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Originally Posted by shapeshifter View Post
I'm guessing you're running KDE in SuSe? If I remember correctly, KDEs 'systemsettings' has a submenu for autostarting. You should be able to just make a new entry and stick /your/path/to/knots.rb in there. This should make it autostart. If this doesn't work - I noticed that knots needs the parent shell to be in the directory where knots.rb is located - you can try to stick this into the autostart entry instead:
Code:
cd /your/path/to/the/dir/that/contains/knots.rb/; ./knots.rb
I just commited a fix to git that allows you to start it from anywhere. So run 'git pull' in knots directory.

Originally Posted by shapeshifter View Post
Yeah, I made a PKGBUILD for Arch. Seems to work well. By the way, the server frontend is very slick and nice. Good Job! I don't really like the client frontend though. It looks a bit rough and bold and the icons are very large. It would be nice if the look and feel was just like any of the official apps; more hildonized so to speak.
Well you can't please everyone. I could use more Maemo 5 widgets, but not sure it's worth the effort, since it's currently easier to stay even somewhat compatible with the diablo version.

Originally Posted by shapeshifter View Post
I'm also noticing that the backend seems to be very slow on indexing the music. :| It's been running for almost an hour now and has managed to index only 4000 files. For larger collections this is taking half an eternety. And during all this time it's using 10% CPU. What the heck is it doing? ^^
Well sometimes it may hit a video (usually mkv) that freezes ffmpeg until it's killed by a timeout. But with music it scans the directories recursively, reads tags, stores them to database and uses ffmpeg to identify the file, so it takes some time. I could add automatic cover fetching to make it even slower though. Luckily you only have to do it once. Using ffmpeg to identify the file isn't ideal, but it works on all operating systems.
 

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