Hi,
There is another test runtime available and I would be happy if people could give it a try and raise any issues with it.
Most of what is below is still important:
Rob Shortt wrote:
There is a new runtime version available and the sooner we can test it out the sooner we can go ahead and release 1.3.2-pre5. :)
For those of you that are feeling adventurous and are using Freevo from CVS you may cvs update and then install this new runtime version. You may find the runtime here:
http://freevo.sf.net/runtime/runtime-pre5-test4.tar.bz2
Before you unpack this runtime you should probably backup your existing runtime directory just in case.
cd /path/to/freevo mv runtime runtime.orig cvs update -d runtime
tar jxvf runtime-pre5-test4.tar.bz2
This runtime package has runtime/apps,lib,dll,preloads inside and will compliment the runtime directory out of CVS.
Be warned that this runtime weighs in at a hefty 18 megs but I think that is a fair price to pay for less problems in the field. Also please note that you must update and recompile runapp because I had to modify it to handle staticly compiled apps.
Things to test:
-dxr3 support -directfb support
You may need directfb installed under /usr/local an you may need kernel patches.
-alsa support (mplayer) -play dvd, cd, mp3, ogg
I have seen problems with one DVD where there was a flickering effect on the right (~15-20%) side of the screen.
-test images
All my images are labeled as 'unknown' although I don't think that is a runtime issue.
-test different video file formats. I had mplayer freeze on some of my mpeg1 files but not others for instance. mplayer should also play nuv files from mythtv, and hopefully normal nuv files... if not then I will remove that patch.
-someone who already uses it should test timeshifting
-test mp1e in runtime/apps. This is compiled with a btaudio patch and
also supports v4l2.
-test mencoder
PLEASE test mencoder if you can. :) If it doesn't work in the next release we will have many unhappy campers!
I don't have a regular v4l or v4l2 device in my Freevo box anymore (using ivtv, woo hoo!!) so testing mencoder is especially important.
Also there was a mysterious audio crash in -pre4 and CVS that happened while skipping to the next song which seems to have gone away, please test this also (ok so that would be pretty obvious).
This audio bug seems to have been eradicated. *yay* :)
The runtime contains: mplayer mencoder mpe1 jpegtran cdparanoia fceu aumix
python 2.2.3 with modules:
CDDB DiscID Numeric PIL xmlplus xmms aomodule cdrom fchksum mmpython mx ogg pygame pygphoto pylirc pyshift twisted
I have been entertaining thoughs of including xmame but I think it is a bit large and most people who use it usually find their own package anyways.
I don't think that I have forgotten to mention anything but I may followup later.
Again, I may followup.
Thanks, -Rob
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