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RaspberryPi: Revision 5




Hints from forum

CEC - turn TV on off

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=15749

screen saver

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=84831#p84831

# prevent screensaver from powering down display
setterm -blank 0 -powerdown 0 > /dev/tty0

# clear the display and turn off the flashing cursor
clear > /dev/tty0
setterm -cursor 0 > /dev/tty0

# turn the cursor back on when done with omxplayer
setterm -cursor 1 > /dev/tty0

YouTube transcoding in VLC

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=163658#p163658

cvlc 'youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXX' :sout='#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=0,fps=0,scale=0,height=720,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:http{mux=ffmpeg{mux=flv},dst=:8080/youtube}' :sout-keep