About:
OST-Box is a set-top box user interface. It provides an integrated way to access to all kinds of media, with only a remote command (lirc). The current features include TV and Web radio support, TV program guide, record scheduler, browsing and editing of photo and MP3 collections, playing of video, and starting external programs (for watching DVDs, TV, etc.). Differents looks are available through a skin system. The interface is entirely written in XML and JavaScript (using Mozilla Spidermonkey). The xine engine is also embedded for playing music and viewing TV.

Author:
ludovic p [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://perso.nnx.com/pludov/homepage/index-ostbox.html
Tar/BZ2:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ost-box/ostbox-0.3.7.tar.bz2?download
RPM package:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/[..]box/ostbox-0.3.7-1.FC5.i386.rpm?download

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		C++, JavaScript
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players, Multimedia :: Video :: Display

Dependencies: [change]
libxml2 (Default branch) (required)
SDL_gfx (Default branch) (required)
SDL_image (Default branch) (required)
SDL_ttf (required)
Simple DirectMedia Layer (Default branch) (required)
SQLite (Default branch) (required)
xine (xine-lib branch) (required)
lirc (Default branch) (recommended)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.3.7	16-Apr-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Build OST-Box on Fedora Core 8
by Nguyen Ba Tu - Aug 27th 2008 09:19:15

Hi all,
After build and run OSTBox 0.3.7.1 on FC8, I open a video file clock.avi (any other also the same problem) then show debug information:

Started Child Process ....

and program is hang until press Ctrl + C.

Pls help me to resolve this problem.

Thanks.

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Nguyen Ba Tu

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[»] FC7 and MP3
by bubbaloo - Sep 13th 2007 12:58:50

I recompiled the SRPM for FC7.
I installed it and all dependancies are satisfied.
Playing videos works, playing MP3s does not.
I ran: ostbox with "-v -d"
I populated the playlist with 5 MP3 files.
Here's what I got after hitting Play:
startplaying : 0
startplaying : 1
startplaying : 2
startplaying : 3
startplaying : 4
startplaying : undefined

Any ideas why this happens ?

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[»] Re: FC7 and MP3
by ludovic p - Sep 15th 2007 01:39:41

Probably the xine engine is configured to use an inexistant sound system or sound card. Please check the following config entries in ~/.ostbox/xine.cfg :

    audio.driver:oss
    audio.oss_device_number:-1
    audio.oss_device_name:/dev/dsp

You can try with alsa as well....

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[»] error while "make"
by mavka - Mar 16th 2006 13:36:43

I ran ./configure, then "make", and saw the next:
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Metadata.h:17: error: ‘MetaUser’ has not been declared
Metadata.h:18: error: ‘MetaUser’ has not been declared
make[2]: *** [Application.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mavka/Download/chip_03/ostbox/ostbox-0.2.4/src/hid'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mavka/Download/chip_03/ostbox/ostbox-0.2.4/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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So, I don't know, wether I do something wrong, or it is a bug?

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[»] Re: error while "make"
by ludovic p - Mar 17th 2006 01:00:33

I think yo use a different version of gcc than I, and it must make a difference somewhere... which version of gcc are you using ? (gcc --version) To fix, can you try to add this on line 10 of Metadata.h : class MetaUser; Please tell me if it fix the problem !

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[»] Re: error while "make"
by ludovic p - Mar 21st 2006 07:01:52

It's fixed in 0.2.5. A crash with new installation has been corrected as well...

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