Re: [Freevo-devel] Future ideas post 1.5.0

Jiri Kulhan Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:44:53 -0700

Hi,

some comments as I see it:

Robert Rozman wrote:

Hi,

I'll ad my 2 cents what features I miss most:
- video conference plugin, maybe Gnomemeeting integration (chatting over
video or audio only will be sooner or later feature that will be "must to
have"...)

Sure it's a nifty feature, but it's probably a very hard to implement. First - when you use existing product, you'll probable end up tied to x11 screen device, which is not very desirable. Second - it's very hard and expensive to develop and test, but at the end you may be stuck with some specific hardware... It's definitely something I'd like, but I don't see it too close. Same with IP telephony etc.

- touchscreen support (my wife likes Freevo GUI very much and is kind of
disapointment when I tell her that Freevo for touch screen is not an
option) - I know that this is a lot of work, but will tell anyway.

I think it's not so hard to implement, most of touchscreens emulates mouse, but I don't know about anyone who has the hardware to test it :-(

- voice emails - it's simple idea (I saw this first time on 3Com Audrey)
that my wife liked from the start. It's only wav attachment of normal
email - we just need a simple code that will offer wav playback on receive
and wav record on sending - this would be much more practical than dealing
with text input plugins for user to type emails and other things ...

I already thought about this, I forgot to mention it before. I think it's easy to do, it'll be very nice. I'll try to dig out some spare voice modem...

- preview of video source on screen - when I browse videos, little preview
window could show selected video - same will apply for security web cameras
- possibility to do some configuration through GUI (particularly plugin
control and also chance to update/add/remove plugins through GUI)

- I don't have recent version of Freevo (so maybe this is already in) - but
would:
    - like to display some messages from PBX and Home automation system on
screen when watching videos/DVDs with Mplayer...

I dont know if it's possible to pass an external message to mplayer to display it... if it's there, it could be simple.

    - like to separate data retrieving and data showing plugins - so one can
customize more easily and user's won't have to wait for data retrieval when
they would only like to display data.... Also Python based serialization for
objects is kind of limitation, cause there is no easy way to provide data
for GUI display from other languages (perl has great repository for all
kinds of data grabbers )...

Also one question:
- is it possible to write plugins in some other languages (Perl, shell) ?

Don't get me wrong, but I still use combination of Freevo and Mythtv - each
has some strong and some weak points...

I will also thank all contributors and whole Freevo community for great time
talking about and running Freevo ...

Regards,

Robert.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jiri Kulhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [Freevo-devel] Future ideas post 1.5.0

Hans Meine wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2004 14:36, Jiri Kulhan wrote:
>> 1. simplifying of keyboard and IR control of freevo. Now it uses too
>> many keys, some of them I don't feel as necessary and it's impossible

to

>> map it to some simpler IR controllers. [...]
>>
>> I know that the feeling differs from user to user, so could this be

made

>> as user configurable thing? Any ideas?
>
> Hehe, feelings do indeed differ.. ;-) I think it uses too few keys. :-)
> Basically, I think your approach is right, it should be manageable with

only a

> minimum amount of keys (and those should be explicitly decided on and

used

> throughout freevo), however I think too many of my IR's keys are unused

most

> of the time. Especially the playback control keys should work for the
> detached audio player, and it should be possible to associate
> "screens" (Freevo modules/navigation positions) with user-defined

buttons, so

> that a simple press of a key labelled "TV" jumps to the TV guide (or

possibly

> the last watched channel). (I hate pressing up/down/enter and exit many

times

> just for navigating between often used menu destinations like audio

player

> vs. video collection vs. TV, especially since many of the keys are

unused in

> the menu.)

Well, let's split it : I was taking about main menu navigation, which
uses a bit too many keys.
The application control is different, I think it would be nice to allow
create menu shortcuts, which may then be mapped to a specific IR button.
It is not to difficult, I guess.
Controlling detached player, that's tricky. I don't see an easy way how
to controll application from within a menu with menu navigation keys.
Possible ways are - either you can have specific set of keys to control
detached application, but different than usual navigation keys, or you
need to be able to attach back to the detached application and then you
can use any keys you like. BTW, is this possible with detached music

player?

>
>> 5. text input plugin. If we want to give users the ability to change
>> config directly from freevo, we need to make a text input plugin. It is
>> no problem with keyboard, but it may be problem with IR controllers. Is
>> it possible to implement similar control as with cell phones, i.e.
>> several presses of button changes the entered value.
>
> This is one possibility, another would be to have "letter-wheels" as in

those

> public game automatons, which can be navigated with only up/down keys.

These

> plugins could be both implemented with a common API, so that one can be

chose

> depending on the IR at hand.

Agreed.

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